Josh Woolley MD/PhD
@trpr-ucsf.bsky.social
Associate Prof and psychiatrist. Studying psychopharmacology including psychedelics and oxytocin. Director of Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program @UCSF
The UCSF/VA Translational Psychedelic Research Program seeks postdoctoral fellows to advance rigorous psychedelic-therapy trials investigating neural, cognitive, & behavioral mechanisms in depression, neurodegenerative & eating disorders, chronic pain, and Veterans. 2 years guaranteed, 3rd possible.
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The UCSF/VA Translational Psychedelic Research Program seeks postdoctoral fellows to advance rigorous psychedelic-therapy trials investigating neural, cognitive, & behavioral mechanisms in depression, neurodegenerative & eating disorders, chronic pain, and Veterans. 2 years guaranteed, 3rd possible.
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🚨Publication alert! 🚨
Why does stress drive psychopathology & transdiagnostic disease?
We present the Allostatic Triage Model of Psychopathology (ATP Model), which explains stress-induced transdiagnostic disease pathogenesis through a bioenergetic lens.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why does stress drive psychopathology & transdiagnostic disease?
We present the Allostatic Triage Model of Psychopathology (ATP Model), which explains stress-induced transdiagnostic disease pathogenesis through a bioenergetic lens.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🚨Publication alert! 🚨
Why does stress drive psychopathology & transdiagnostic disease?
We present the Allostatic Triage Model of Psychopathology (ATP Model), which explains stress-induced transdiagnostic disease pathogenesis through a bioenergetic lens.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why does stress drive psychopathology & transdiagnostic disease?
We present the Allostatic Triage Model of Psychopathology (ATP Model), which explains stress-induced transdiagnostic disease pathogenesis through a bioenergetic lens.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Out: vaccines
Hot: virus and bacterial micro dosing
Hot: virus and bacterial micro dosing
September 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Out: vaccines
Hot: virus and bacterial micro dosing
Hot: virus and bacterial micro dosing
Found this guy on my front porch. His beady eye freaks me out.
September 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Found this guy on my front porch. His beady eye freaks me out.
New CDC guidelines say correlation is causation.
August 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New CDC guidelines say correlation is causation.
TrPR recently came together for a half-day retreat. We began with a living timeline: everyone arranged themselves by order of joining, from newest to oldest. I jogged along the line, camera in hand, past the smiling faces on the sunlit terrace of the Pritzker Building—and ended where it all began
May 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
TrPR recently came together for a half-day retreat. We began with a living timeline: everyone arranged themselves by order of joining, from newest to oldest. I jogged along the line, camera in hand, past the smiling faces on the sunlit terrace of the Pritzker Building—and ended where it all began
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Just spoke with CNN about Casey Means, psilocybin, and the future of psychedelic therapy. These compounds hold real promise—but we need science, structure, and safeguards.
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#psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials
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#psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials
CNN News Central - Dr. Josh Woolley
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May 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Just spoke with CNN about Casey Means, psilocybin, and the future of psychedelic therapy. These compounds hold real promise—but we need science, structure, and safeguards.
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#psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials
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#psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials
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Due to the whites of the eye, humans have a uniquely communicative gaze. Other primates have dark eyes, hiding their gaze from conspecifics. We cooperate, they compete. Common knowledge – right? Yes, but it’s incorrect, as we argue in our new paper 🧵🧪1/11
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May 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Due to the whites of the eye, humans have a uniquely communicative gaze. Other primates have dark eyes, hiding their gaze from conspecifics. We cooperate, they compete. Common knowledge – right? Yes, but it’s incorrect, as we argue in our new paper 🧵🧪1/11
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Just spoke with CNN about Casey Means, psilocybin, and the future of psychedelic therapy. These compounds hold real promise—but we need science, structure, and safeguards.
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
#psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
#psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials
CNN News Central - Dr. Josh Woolley
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May 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Just spoke with CNN about Casey Means, psilocybin, and the future of psychedelic therapy. These compounds hold real promise—but we need science, structure, and safeguards.
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
#psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
#psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials
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Last year, @jacobsaday.bsky.social and @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social asked: "Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy: where is the psychotherapy research?"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How soon can we say "here it comes"?
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How soon can we say "here it comes"?
May 14, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Last year, @jacobsaday.bsky.social and @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social asked: "Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy: where is the psychotherapy research?"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How soon can we say "here it comes"?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How soon can we say "here it comes"?
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New research on physical touch in psychedelic therapy reveals fascinating tensions in the field - a thread #psychedelicscience
May 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
New research on physical touch in psychedelic therapy reveals fascinating tensions in the field - a thread #psychedelicscience
Influencing the youth
May 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Influencing the youth
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So glad to see this work coming from the @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social lab. This paper highlights the lack of diversity and demographic reporting in clinical trials.
A systematic review of participant diversity in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy trials
A lack of diverse and representative participant samples in mental health intervention research perpetuates mental health disparities. This issue has …
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April 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So glad to see this work coming from the @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social lab. This paper highlights the lack of diversity and demographic reporting in clinical trials.
Are these psilocybe? Mainstreaming!
April 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Are these psilocybe? Mainstreaming!
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Just published: 7 years of routine outcomes monitoring from UC Berkeley Psych Clinic 📊 Clients from minoritized groups started with more severe symptoms, but improved just as much as majority clients. Culturally sensitive therapy works!
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Psychotherapy is not just for Rich White People: Outcomes for Clients from Minoritized Backgrounds and in a Community Training Clinic
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April 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Just published: 7 years of routine outcomes monitoring from UC Berkeley Psych Clinic 📊 Clients from minoritized groups started with more severe symptoms, but improved just as much as majority clients. Culturally sensitive therapy works!
rdcu.be/ei49c
rdcu.be/ei49c
I am enduring with integrity
April 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I am enduring with integrity
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I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?
April 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?
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Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
Big Pharma Needs to Get Off the Sidelines
The industry can’t continue to sit idly by while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the nation’s public health agencies.
www.bloomberg.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
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“She was required, under a new return-to-office policy, to conduct virtual psychotherapy with her patients from one of 13 cubicles in a large open office space, the kind of setup used for call centers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u... via @NYTimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u... via @NYTimes
Inside the Turmoil at the V.A. Mental Health System Under Trump (Gift Article)
A chaotic restructuring ordered threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“She was required, under a new return-to-office policy, to conduct virtual psychotherapy with her patients from one of 13 cubicles in a large open office space, the kind of setup used for call centers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u... via @NYTimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u... via @NYTimes
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HEY DORKS IN AMERICA!!
If we don’t get into the streets and fight this, there will be no science left here. We don’t have time for luke warm, diplomatic takes and accusations of “taking this clown too seriously.”
Put your big girl pants on and LFG.
If we don’t get into the streets and fight this, there will be no science left here. We don’t have time for luke warm, diplomatic takes and accusations of “taking this clown too seriously.”
Put your big girl pants on and LFG.
With a heavy heart, I've decided to suspend all academic travel to the USA for me and my lab. Given the escalation of tensions and uncertainties, it seems to be the wisest move. To our US colleagues, please be certain that we will continue to do what we can to support you. Science is global.
March 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
HEY DORKS IN AMERICA!!
If we don’t get into the streets and fight this, there will be no science left here. We don’t have time for luke warm, diplomatic takes and accusations of “taking this clown too seriously.”
Put your big girl pants on and LFG.
If we don’t get into the streets and fight this, there will be no science left here. We don’t have time for luke warm, diplomatic takes and accusations of “taking this clown too seriously.”
Put your big girl pants on and LFG.
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Women Resisters!
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Women Resisters!
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lol I did this yesterdays and my local barista loved it ❤️
Canadians fed up with tariff threats and suggestions of Canada becoming the 51st state are now calling Americano coffee drinks "Canadianos." NPR's Scott Simon explains.
Opinion: Don't call this coffee an Americano!
Canadians fed up with tariff threats and suggestions of Canada becoming the 51st state are now calling Americano coffee drinks "Canadianos." NPR's Scott Simon explains.
www.npr.org
March 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
lol I did this yesterdays and my local barista loved it ❤️
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@msmacb.bsky.social on NYT's cringey smear of @psymposia.bsky.social: “When vague accusations of ‘DEI’ and ‘wokeness’ are already being used to gut government programs, it might not be a bad time to blame the FDA’s decision on ‘a small band of anticapitalist activists.’”
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
This NYT Story Blasting Leftists Is Wildly Misleading and Dangerous. Why Did They Publish It?
Painting the FDA as easily corruptible may serve the MAHA agenda of eliminating oversight that keeps us all safe.
slate.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
@msmacb.bsky.social on NYT's cringey smear of @psymposia.bsky.social: “When vague accusations of ‘DEI’ and ‘wokeness’ are already being used to gut government programs, it might not be a bad time to blame the FDA’s decision on ‘a small band of anticapitalist activists.’”
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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An NYT Story Blamed Leftists for Obstructing Psychedelic Therapy. The Truth Is Much More Infuriating.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
This NYT Story Blasting Leftists Is Wildly Misleading and Dangerous. Why Did They Publish It?
Painting the FDA as easily corruptible may serve the MAHA agenda of eliminating oversight that keeps us all safe.
slate.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
An NYT Story Blamed Leftists for Obstructing Psychedelic Therapy. The Truth Is Much More Infuriating.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...