Robin Berghaus
@robinberghaus.bsky.social
Writer, Producer, and Editor
Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellow
NASW Mentor / Member @sciencewriters.org
www.robinberghaus.com | www.tpr.org/psychedelics | www.stumpedthemovie.com
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Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellow
NASW Mentor / Member @sciencewriters.org
www.robinberghaus.com | www.tpr.org/psychedelics | www.stumpedthemovie.com
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Psychedelics and the Texas Trip is live on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social. The three-part podcast series explores the complex history of psychedelics, their potential health benefits and risks, and why they’re mostly illegal in the U.S. and how that’s changing.
🔗 Links are in the comments.
🔗 Links are in the comments.
@axios.com says our "Psychedelics and the Texas Trip" podcast is "worthy of your time" and explains why Texas is investing in psychedelic therapy research.
📻 🎧 Listen on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social www.tpr.org/psychedelics
🔗 Apple and Spotify links are in the comments
📻 🎧 Listen on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social www.tpr.org/psychedelics
🔗 Apple and Spotify links are in the comments
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Freelancer journalists: FYI @indiejournalists.bsky.social has a two-day online conference March 5-6, 2026. They are currently offering a $49 early bird registration.
2026 Conference Sessions — The Institute for Independent Journalists
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November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Freelancer journalists: FYI @indiejournalists.bsky.social has a two-day online conference March 5-6, 2026. They are currently offering a $49 early bird registration.
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Need help evaluating whose expertise to trust? Our tip sheet for vetting and finding relevant scientific sources, written with @theopennotebook.bsky.social, can help reporters to determine if an expert is the right fit for their news story. bit.ly/46i1H4q
September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Need help evaluating whose expertise to trust? Our tip sheet for vetting and finding relevant scientific sources, written with @theopennotebook.bsky.social, can help reporters to determine if an expert is the right fit for their news story. bit.ly/46i1H4q
IDA is hiring a full-time assistant editor for Documentary Magazine. The role is based in Los Angeles.
Learn more and apply at documentary.org/assistant-ed...
September 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
IDA is hiring a full-time assistant editor for Documentary Magazine. The role is based in Los Angeles.
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Show your support for science news and reach hundreds of attendees by sponsoring ScienceWriters, the largest convening of science journalists and communicators in North America. Opportunities start at just $350!
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September 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Show your support for science news and reach hundreds of attendees by sponsoring ScienceWriters, the largest convening of science journalists and communicators in North America. Opportunities start at just $350!
View the sponsorship menu: sciencewriters2025.o...
View the sponsorship menu: sciencewriters2025.o...
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Nine former CDC directors: Americans should be alarmed. Their health and lives are in danger. Gift link 🎁
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nine former CDC directors: Americans should be alarmed. Their health and lives are in danger. Gift link 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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I'm a science journalist for @statnews.com looking to talk with folks who applied to biomedical Ph.D. programs and had offers rescinded earlier this year. What have you been up to since then? You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com or via Signal (username jwosen.27). #journorequest
August 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm a science journalist for @statnews.com looking to talk with folks who applied to biomedical Ph.D. programs and had offers rescinded earlier this year. What have you been up to since then? You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com or via Signal (username jwosen.27). #journorequest
Writers, bring your 1-minute pitches for live feedback from editors on November 9 @1:30pm in Chicago at Pitch Slam. @sciencewriters.org #NASW #SciWri25
🔗View the program 👇
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🖥️ Registration opens September 4.
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🔗View the program 👇
sciencewriters2025.org
🖥️ Registration opens September 4.
🧵1/3
August 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Writers, bring your 1-minute pitches for live feedback from editors on November 9 @1:30pm in Chicago at Pitch Slam. @sciencewriters.org #NASW #SciWri25
🔗View the program 👇
sciencewriters2025.org
🖥️ Registration opens September 4.
🧵1/3
🔗View the program 👇
sciencewriters2025.org
🖥️ Registration opens September 4.
🧵1/3
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NOW LIVE: the program for #SciWri25 which looks amazing. If you need financial assistance to travel to Chicago in November (or attend the virtual components in October), you MUST APPLY by August 28. sciencewriters2025.org/grants/
JUST AROUND THE BEND: #SciWri25 program launch! Together w/ @sciencewriting.bsky.social we're getting ready to debut a new conference website and a program that's full of events for science writers, by science writers.
Visit sciencewriters2025.org on Aug 12 for the reveal
Registration opens Sept 4
Visit sciencewriters2025.org on Aug 12 for the reveal
Registration opens Sept 4
August 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NOW LIVE: the program for #SciWri25 which looks amazing. If you need financial assistance to travel to Chicago in November (or attend the virtual components in October), you MUST APPLY by August 28. sciencewriters2025.org/grants/
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Scientists: what types of federal agency data collection, research reports, or analyses are not getting done due to funding cuts or layoffs?
Re-posts appreciated.
Re-posts appreciated.
July 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Scientists: what types of federal agency data collection, research reports, or analyses are not getting done due to funding cuts or layoffs?
Re-posts appreciated.
Re-posts appreciated.
@axios.com says our "Psychedelics and the Texas Trip" podcast is "worthy of your time" and explains why Texas is investing in psychedelic therapy research.
📻 🎧 Listen on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social www.tpr.org/psychedelics
🔗 Apple and Spotify links are in the comments
📻 🎧 Listen on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social www.tpr.org/psychedelics
🔗 Apple and Spotify links are in the comments
Psychedelics and the Texas Trip is live on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social. The three-part podcast series explores the complex history of psychedelics, their potential health benefits and risks, and why they’re mostly illegal in the U.S. and how that’s changing.
🔗 Links are in the comments.
🔗 Links are in the comments.
July 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@axios.com says our "Psychedelics and the Texas Trip" podcast is "worthy of your time" and explains why Texas is investing in psychedelic therapy research.
📻 🎧 Listen on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social www.tpr.org/psychedelics
🔗 Apple and Spotify links are in the comments
📻 🎧 Listen on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social www.tpr.org/psychedelics
🔗 Apple and Spotify links are in the comments
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running a non-profit is never easy and it’s only getting tougher — right when we need journalism the most, amidst the gutting of federal science funding and agencies. please donate to support the future of science journalism 👇🏽
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June 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
running a non-profit is never easy and it’s only getting tougher — right when we need journalism the most, amidst the gutting of federal science funding and agencies. please donate to support the future of science journalism 👇🏽
Psychedelics and the Texas Trip is live on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social. The three-part podcast series explores the complex history of psychedelics, their potential health benefits and risks, and why they’re mostly illegal in the U.S. and how that’s changing.
🔗 Links are in the comments.
🔗 Links are in the comments.
June 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Psychedelics and the Texas Trip is live on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social. The three-part podcast series explores the complex history of psychedelics, their potential health benefits and risks, and why they’re mostly illegal in the U.S. and how that’s changing.
🔗 Links are in the comments.
🔗 Links are in the comments.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
if you don’t have a tip, please consider sharing this post. (either here or elsewhere.) someone who may have a tip could see it.
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The final ep of Petrie Dish: Psychedelics & the Texas Trip from @texaspublicradio.bsky.social is up! From the legislature in Austin to a peyote ranch in Rio Grande City, this ep is full of great information. Reporter @robinberghaus.bsky.social joined us & did great work. www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...
Psychedelics and the Texas Trip Part 3: The Road Ahead
In the final installment of this three-part series, Bonnie Petrie and reporter Robin Berghaus go from an isolated stretch of desert along the Rio Grande, where wild peyote grows, to the exuberant room...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The final ep of Petrie Dish: Psychedelics & the Texas Trip from @texaspublicradio.bsky.social is up! From the legislature in Austin to a peyote ranch in Rio Grande City, this ep is full of great information. Reporter @robinberghaus.bsky.social joined us & did great work. www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...
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“If you want to study drugs that have been criminalized by our government, you must be fearless”
https://go.nature.com/42vvEvR
https://go.nature.com/42vvEvR
My fight to unlock cannabis and psychedelic drugs for use in medical research
Physician Sue Sisley battles to study cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms for pain, addiction and PTSD.
go.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“If you want to study drugs that have been criminalized by our government, you must be fearless”
https://go.nature.com/42vvEvR
https://go.nature.com/42vvEvR
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👇🏻 @nature.com profile on Sue Sisley dives into her legal & advocacy battles with federal agencies and state lawmakers and the successful struggle to move her science forward for PTSD, addiction and hospice patients.
Excellent reporting by @robinberghaus.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Excellent reporting by @robinberghaus.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My fight to unlock cannabis and psychedelic drugs for use in medical research
Physician Sue Sisley battles to study cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms for pain, addiction and PTSD.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
👇🏻 @nature.com profile on Sue Sisley dives into her legal & advocacy battles with federal agencies and state lawmakers and the successful struggle to move her science forward for PTSD, addiction and hospice patients.
Excellent reporting by @robinberghaus.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Excellent reporting by @robinberghaus.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dr. Sue Sisley shares with @nature.com her years-long fight to study banned #psychoactive drugs — #cannabis and #psilocybin — as treatments for #pain, #addiction, and #PTSD. Thank you @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My fight to unlock cannabis and psychedelic drugs for use in medical research
Physician Sue Sisley battles to study cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms for pain, addiction and PTSD.
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Dr. Sue Sisley shares with @nature.com her years-long fight to study banned #psychoactive drugs — #cannabis and #psilocybin — as treatments for #pain, #addiction, and #PTSD. Thank you @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Science journalists: Apply for the $20,000 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award! The prize recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career science journalist and includes a grant for a significant reporting project.
Apply by April 30: casw.org/awards-fello...
Apply by April 30: casw.org/awards-fello...
April 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Science journalists: Apply for the $20,000 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award! The prize recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career science journalist and includes a grant for a significant reporting project.
Apply by April 30: casw.org/awards-fello...
Apply by April 30: casw.org/awards-fello...
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This fellowship offers the support & resources to do a long-term, in-depth reporting project on health inequities nationwide. W my fellowship I reported 2 stories on the impacts of abortion bans, 1 of which was cited in an amicus brief in the SCOTUS EMTALA case-apply!
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Our National Fellowship provides journalists a chance to step away from breaking news to take a deep look together at pervasive social and economic inequities in the United States. Apply by April 9: bit.ly/Nationalfell... and arrange a conversation today: bit.ly/CHJ_Interest...
April 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This fellowship offers the support & resources to do a long-term, in-depth reporting project on health inequities nationwide. W my fellowship I reported 2 stories on the impacts of abortion bans, 1 of which was cited in an amicus brief in the SCOTUS EMTALA case-apply!
www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
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How to leak to a journalist
Planning to leak? Read these tips first.
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April 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Listen to the first episode at www.tpr.org/podcast/petr... 🍄
March 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Listen to the first episode at www.tpr.org/podcast/petr... 🍄
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The Altered States podcast from @prx.org & @scipsychedelics.bsky.social was one of five podcasts nominated for a Webby Award in the science & education category!! We're up for Webby & People's Voice award which requires your votes! Please! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Altered States podcast from @prx.org & @scipsychedelics.bsky.social was one of five podcasts nominated for a Webby Award in the science & education category!! We're up for Webby & People's Voice award which requires your votes! Please! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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Congratulations to the ten journalists awarded a 2025 Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship from @ucbsoj and @SciPsychedelics
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/2025-fe...
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/2025-fe...
2025 Fellows – The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship
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April 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Congratulations to the ten journalists awarded a 2025 Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship from @ucbsoj and @SciPsychedelics
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/2025-fe...
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/2025-fe...
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CPCR Associate Center Director Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu was interviewed on Texas Public Radio last week. He discusses how psychedelic research can be supported today. www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...
Psychedelics and the Texas Trip Part 2: The Science and History of the Medicine
Patients have been leaving the United States to try psychedelic therapies to treat their depression, PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, and substance use disorders. With so many patients finding relief, ...
www.tpr.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
CPCR Associate Center Director Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu was interviewed on Texas Public Radio last week. He discusses how psychedelic research can be supported today. www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...
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Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...