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Truly an honor to give the NIH Director’s WALS lecture today especially as the last speaker under the leadership of @NIHDirector Dr Monica Bertagnolli
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Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience I Founder of @moghaddamlab | author of KETAMINE https://t.co/BsZbnAQLb6
Tehran/KU/Yale/Pitt/OHSU Katılım Aralık 2014
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What about the side effects of psychosis risk from psychedelics? This can be permanent. We’ve seen this so often in young people with “mushrooms”.
Daniel Cohrs, MD@DanielCohrsMD
This is great work! But I fear that the headlines will lose important parts of the plot (as the below headline suggests). As @RCarhartHarris points out in the below thread, psychedelics both avoid the side effects of standard antidepressants, and (1/n) x.com/RCarhartHarris…
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Zohran did Chaharshanbe Suri, so he’s been formally initiated into the culture. At this rate in a few weeks he’ll be haggling with Irani rug dealers in NYC over antique Persian rugs for the mayoral residence and setting up a proper Persian tea corner in his office.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Nowruz Mubarak to all the Iranian Americans who call New York City home! It was an honor to celebrate Charshanbeh Soori with so many of you in anticipation of spring, renewal, and - now especially - the enduring hope of a new day for the Iranian people. Nowruz is typically a time of good feeling, but this year is different. I continue to stand in opposition to this war, and I wish as many moments of joy as possible for all Iranians observing this special holiday.
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For 456 hours, our connection to the world is severed. While our skies roar with warplanes and explosions, our streets bustle for Nowruz. We are still here, preparing our Haft-Sin.
Because that which stands proud and eternal through the endless cycles of history... is IRAN, is IRAN, is IRAN.
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Informative NYT oped by a Navy veteran on the challenge and necessity of reopening the Strait of Hormuz: “Should the regime survive the war with the power to close Hormuz at will…any declarations of victory by the United States will ring hollow.” nytimes.com/2026/03/19/opi…
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Have not talked to my parents in weeks (only talked to mom for a few minutes last week). This is the saddest Norooz of them all! 💔
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@RCarhartHarris You are welcome and oh, there is also this writing to demonstrate my bias nature.com/articles/s4138…
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@bita137 Thanks for batting my ball back so beautifully. I'd love that. All best.
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Very silly headline to run based on a comparative analysis of apples vs oranges.
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@RCarhartHarris My scientific bias is carefully outlined in the paper below - enjoy the read 😇
and I invite you to visit me in beautiful Oregon where psilocybin therapy is legal and we have a genuine interest in understanding how it works
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…
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@bita137 I do note that you often pop up to take a shot at psychedelic medicine. A strong bias in that direction. So no financial dog but a systematic bias nonetheless, would you admit?
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@RCarhartHarris I am not here to judge others vulnerabilities and I for one, have no financial dog in this fight but am happy to see comparison studies come out. Datasets are never perfect but I did not think the title for a magazine "may be no better" was silly because it reflected the data
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@bita137 I often (but not always) see them as being vulnerable to the same bias they're willing to accuse others of. I see that here with this present work. Do you not see a deck-stack in the methods?
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@sanambna Iran has one of the highest women literacy rates (I believe only second to Denmark) and youth literacy rate is ~98%
Oil is not our greatest asset - our people are
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The literacy rate is likely higher given it’s a young educated population.
Thank you
VERYDARKMAN@vdmempire
SHOCKING 😳 🇮🇷 We just discovered that 80% of the population in Iran has Master's degrees and PhDs. Their President is an excellent heart surgeon, and The Foreign Minister and almost all members of Parliament holds a PhD. Irán also has a 94% literacy rate and one of the largest populations of women scientists in the world. They are an ancient empire that innovated mathematics and science. 94% literacy rate? ❤️
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The Islamic Republic's total internet blackout is actively putting Iranian civilians in danger while silencing their voices. The regime used this same tactic earlier this year when they brutally massacred tens of thousands.
That's why Congress must pass my two bipartisan bills - the IRAN Act and the Iran Human Rights, Internet Freedom, and Accountability Act - to restore and expand internet access for the Iranian people.
HRANA English@HRANA_English
NetBlocks, a global internet monitoring organization, announced that the internet shutdown in Iran has entered its eighteenth day, and after 408 hours, public access to the international internet still has not been restored. According to the organization, while general access to the global internet remains blocked, only limited groups of users have been selectively granted access to it. Meanwhile, other users are restricted to a limited domestic network (intranet), which has come under increasing control.
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@DavidCRowland I guess he had to go back to 400 BC to learn that Aristotle's main teaching was that introspection is the foundation of wisdom
lol this is like young scientists not reading/citing anything published before 2000
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"you go back 400 years ago and it would never have occurred to anybody to be introspective" What?
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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“No one knows what will happen,” he said. “And we are all somewhere on the edge between depression and hope.”
nytimes.com/2026/03/14/wor…
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@ayatr0llah I am old enough to remember when one could fly Trump Airlines there and have shots of cheap Trump Vodka
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In a happier time there’s a movie to be made about marines who accidentally land on Qeshm instead of Kharg and take molly with Iranian hippies
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Fuck You Mean We Left the Percs in the Persian Gulf
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@NickKristof @IAmAmnaNawaz What a gift to have had the opportunity to listen to his reporting on @NewsHour
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John Burns, a legendary colleague at the Times, a pal whom I deeply admired for his reporting from China, Bosnia, Yemen and more, is dead at 81. nytimes.com/2026/03/13/wor… I cited this piece in my last book as a masterpiece of war correspondence: nytimes.com/1992/06/08/wor… RIP, John.
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@termiziyy I hope it is a great week
And I hope one day I will visit Uzbekistan, especially Samarkand and Bukhara
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Just realized Nowruz (Persian New Year) and Eid Fitr (celebrating the end of Ramadan) fall on the same day next week!!
Last time this happened apparently was in 1991 - the year the Soviet Union dissolved
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Kharg Island isn't just a military target
It is home to a medieval Portuguese fort, religious tombs, and the ruins of one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world
It also is home to 8,000 people and flocks of wild gazelles
This is what Trump just bombed:
Ghoncheh Habibiazad | غنچه@GhonchehAzad
US President Donald Trump has said that they have “totally obliterated every military target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island”. Some quick facts about Kharg: The 5 mile (about 8km) strip of land hosts Iran’s most important oil facility…
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@Boba_is_back_on You are correct that it was not 1991. AI failed me! Also not 1993 as they were one day different
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