When I was 21, I met Matt Power and read his piece Mississippi Drift (first of many I would love). His work demonstrated how fun, weird, grounded, and meaningful journalism could be and I'm so honored to receive the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

Tonight — Shayla Love & I will moderate a convo between a historian, sociologist, & anthropologist discussing how their work weaves together on the social construction of psychedelic knowledge & medicine.

Hosted at the cozy The Psychedelic Assembly. Tickets:
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This series on psychedelic humanities was born from a desire to have intimate talks about other fields—not just psychiatry—that are interacting with psychedelics. If you're in New York, join us this Thursday for a sociological perspective!
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Is 'Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents' all over your TikTok? It's 100% true that parents can behave badly and *also*—the popularity of the book reveals how the psychological ways we're understanding ourselves are playing out in the family theguardian.com/wellness/2024/…

I wrote about how some people have a higher intolerance of uncertainty, and how being uncomfortable with the unknown is connected to anxiety

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Next in our series on the psychedelic humanities, we'll wade through the social construction of psychedelic medicine — from the Clusterbusters to limbic capitalism.

April 25th w/ Shayla Love, Nicolas Langlitz, Joanna Kempner, & Nancy Campbell.

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I wrote about the very common experience of seeing a loved one after they have died: on a crowded street, at the grocery store, turning a corner up ahead.
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Are you experiencing time the same way as your partner? For Guardian US I wrote about how differences in subjective time could impact your love life
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For Psyche Magazine I wrote about super-recognizers: people who are remarkably good at remembering and recognizing faces psyche.co/ideas/what-is-…

This study of beliefs shaped by psychedelic came from an awesome collaborative team - Huge thanks to Audrey Evers Chris Kelly Shayla Love Tehseen Noorani for developing it, and many others for valuable input. Please share the survey below, looking fwd to posting results

People often learn about psychedelics from a growing number of articles, podcasts & documentaries. I have long wondered how media might influence research participants, and this scale will measure that! Honored to play a small role in its creation, please help us to validate it:

For Guardian US I wrote about *akrasia*— the ancient Greek word for when you act in ways that go against your better judgements.

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I wrote about the research that suggests it's not a bad thing—and could even be supremely helpful—to suppress your unwanted thoughts
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'Walking down the long hallways, I took deep, greedy breaths. There was a complete absence of odor, yet somehow the air felt bright, abundant—the opposite of stuffy, the inverse of stale.'

Shayla Love The New Republic #longreads newrepublic.com/article/178452…

Over the last several months, I toured high-end buildings in NYC to see their air filtration systems. From pandemics to wildfires, indoor air has never been more important. It's clear that if you have money, your air will simply be better. For The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/178452…

We talk a lot about the subjective effects of drugs like psilocybin. Yet for ketamine, dissociation can be viewed as just a side effect. For Psyche Magazine I wrote about a broader consideration of what dissociation feels like and what it means to people.
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