Professor of Psychiatry, Univ of Colorado School of Medicine. Director, Psychedelic Public Policy Partnership. Synaptic physiologist studying depression, antidepressant drug actions, and all things psychedelic in mice & people. Link: BaleThompsonLTP.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3mtwha2xfus2aHouston, we have a problem…. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwha2xfus2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3mtmpwdpcis2gRead all about it! Latest news on psilocybin services in the real workd! Well, Colorado and Oregon anyway! TL; DR the news is encouraging! https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-psilocybin-users-real-world-outcomes.html21 Aug 2026 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmpwdpcis2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3msyliesk5c2bSo much for the ‘heroic dose.’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyliesk5c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3msye3mxsuk2fMy hypothesis is that these findings reflect more of a threshold phenomenon in which you need to get a certain number of serotonin receptors activated and beyond that there’s no additional benefit. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msye3mxsuk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3mswdlput3k2yThanks to @nikoski.bsky.social and his fabulous team at Althea PBC for building the machine to collect this priceless data. See their dash board here: nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%... [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 00:00 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswdlput3k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3mswcpvtqkk2yPsilocybin is safe and effective, right? Actually almost everything we think we know comes from carefully screened subjects in clinical trials, but does that generalize? We published a preprint of the first results from CO and OR healing centers. See it here: https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2026.08.11.26360133v112 Aug 2026 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswcpvtqkk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3msit5dxrqk2gThere is still hope for science! [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Aug 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msit5dxrqk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3mraubsjl6k2dI’moo Y22 Jul 2026 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraubsjl6k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3mr45kgcvqs2rWhile we’re talking about The Odyssey, may I recommend Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey, an incredibly moving tale of fathers and sons through the lens of Homer. Reading it while sailing in Greece with my son, and also missing my father, was without question, my best experience with a book ever.20 Jul 2026 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr45kgcvqs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/sthom003.bsky.social/post/3mq6256yjus2xI’m pleased to report that I spoke with Senator McConnell. He said he saw Justice RBG alive on July 4th and that Justice Coney Barrett should therefore resign.08 Jul 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:ll6mil7bj64fpgdioqcsgksh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq6256yjus2x