New article by Andrea Ford et al: "How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy and normality" mh.bmj.com/content/medhum…

I am very pleased to announce that the exhibition "Shamanic Visions. Arts of Ayahuasca in Peruvian Amazon", on which I have been working as a curator for the past two years, will be held at the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris) from 14th November for a period of 6 months !

This new paper, which argues that the AI hype & psychedelics hype are interconnected, is possibly my most ambitious work. It synthesizes all of my previous work, from right-wing psychedelia to psychedelic capitalism & suggestibility in clinical trials:  /1 akjournals.com/view/journals/…

For the Swiss: On Dec 5, there will be a panel on psychedelic science at the ETH Zurich in which I'm participating

Ok, I created a #reddit for science & technology studies people (#STS) as an attempt to create somewhere else to engage with others about STS. If you're interested then sign up! Please spread the word too! reddit.com/r/SciAndTechSt…

Christopher Bache goes so hard in the paint. When asked about the most important insight from his 73 high dose LSD sessions: "This is a hard question to answer. The most important? That the universe is the manifest body of a Divine Being of unimaginable intelligence,

We will be bringing the #MeTooSTS ##WeDoSTS movement to the EASST/4S conference next year! Join us in transforming STS!

I wrote a book review of Ido Ido Hartogsohn's excellent book American Trip. It became a mix between book review and me processing my own (horror) American trip. It was a therapeutic process and I thank Ido for inspiring it through his writing #WeDoSTS tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I resigned my professorship a few months ago. With my three-page resignation letter, I sent 3 books. Call it a resignation reading list for the LSE leadership, who could learn so much from Amia Srinivasan @SaraNAhmed and Kate Manne

The Special Issue on Critical Psychedelic Studies that I co-edited with Christine Hauskeller Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is out! The introduction, 5 articles and 4 book reviews complexify and diversify the contemporary hype around psychedelics tandfonline.com/toc/yisr20/cur…

Proud to announce that my book, Psychedelic Outlaws, is now available for pre-order! The remarkable story of people who, united only by pain & the internet, developed a treatment from magic mushrooms & brought their discovery to the aboveground world. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joanna-…

A "Critical Psychedelic Studies" symposium at Petrie-Flom Center's "Bill of Health" is the 1st major psychedelic humanities project to launch at Harvard University since it received a $16 million grant. I describe the field's "critical turn" in this introduction. blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/01/29/int…

›MDMA kann sich als Gefühl reiner Liebe vorstellen‹, sagt der ehemalige Raver Markus Harrer. Die Substanz steht in den 🇺🇸 kurz vor der Zulassung als Medikament gegen Traumata. Aber es gibt auch warnende Stimmen. GRATIS lesen! ››› datum.at/doktor-molly/ Von Aram Ghadimi

Excited to organize w/Franklin King MD eeschenberg.bsky.social & Christine Hauskeller our "Psychedelics in Context: Politics, Epistemics, and Ethics" series, thanks to funding from Harvard's Study of Psychedelics in Society & Culture Initiative psychedelics-study.harvard.edu/opportunities/

Looking forward to participating in this event tomorrow, and meeting names I'm only acquainted with via referencing.

Today a few courageous colleagues and I will be sharing and analyzing abuses of power in STS and academia more generally in our #WeDoSTS panel @EASST4S2024. The academic bullying we were submitted to leading up to the panel speaks volumes itself. We will also talk about it!

🚨POSTDOC OPP🚨 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow on FemTech project with the my amazing Centre for Biomed Self and Society colleague Andrea Ford! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

📢 Am 08. und 09.10.24 findet erstmals eine Tagung an der #TUBerlin statt, die sich kritisch mit dem Thema #Machtmissbrauch an Hochschulen beschäftigt. Anmeldung und weitere Informationen zum Program 👉tu.berlin/go266200 #IchBinTina #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan