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@peterdkramer.bsky.social recent novel is worth your attention www.peterdkramer.com/death-of-the...

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If you work in women's health, or you're a woman, or you're a doctor to women, please read the new World Economic Forum report, Prescription for Change, which lays out the problem of women's exclusion from research. Impressive suggestions. So much work to do! www.weforum.org/publications...

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Mixed Bag #22: Nils Wendel on Learning Psychopharmacology Wendel explores the topic using a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/mixed-bag-...

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Mixed Bag #22: Nils Wendel on Learning Psychopharmacology Wendel explores the topic using a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/mixed-bag-...

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Capping off a terrific-but-whirlwind of a week - an advanced review of Elusive Cures! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/this...

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“I don’t particularly like the term “ #MedicalModel.” It takes something diverse and dynamic—the theory & practice of #medicine —and turns it into something circumscribed, fixed, and static.”: buff.ly/7ZiAOjJ by @awaisaftab.bsky.social #psychology #psychiatry #MentalHealth

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@pessoabrain.bsky.social drops knowledge on us. Neuron spiking is highly coordinated. Waves of electric field influences are a great way to do that. The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings aeon.co/essays/how-t... #neuroscience

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Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse ( @randynesse.bsky.social ) Nesse provides a great introduction to evolutionary psychiatry and corrects important misconceptions about the discipline in this interview. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...

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@awaisaftab.bsky.social is doing so much to help make psychiatry sensible. The questions he posed about #EvolutionaryPsychiatry helped me to get a better grasp of my own field! See the full version on his substack www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...

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“our notion of health cannot be reduced to some notion of “evolutionary design” and just because a mechanism is doing what it has evolved to do doesn’t mean that it is good for our well-being, and we can have good clinical reasons to intervene on it”

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Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse ( @randynesse.bsky.social ) Nesse provides a great introduction to evolutionary psychiatry and corrects important misconceptions about the discipline in this interview. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...

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This is about NHANES, a great openly available study, the same dynamic is seen with Mendelian Randomization. I am reminded of the line: “Strange game, the only way to win is not to play”… the game being rigged is “peer reviewed publications” and we don’t have a consensus on abandoning those….

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The latest issue of Lancet Psychiatry contains a profile of me, in which they describe me as “one of the discipline’s foremost public intellectuals”!!! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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The latest issue of Lancet Psychiatry contains a profile of me, in which they describe me as “one of the discipline’s foremost public intellectuals”!!! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Flying under the radar, HHS announces it no longer intends to enforce mental health insurance parity rules. The inevitable result: markedly reduced access to treatment. www.statnews.com/2025/05/13/h... via @statnews

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Revisiting Madness from a 360 degree perspective. Join us for a FREE Connections & Conversations zoom event. When? SUN MAY 18 9am-1030am Pacific Standard Time. Register here: www.psychoanalyticinquiry @awaisaftab.bsky.social

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Why do beliefs not always correlate well with action? I share some thoughts in a commentary to another paper... TLDR: it's complicated. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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This essay by Dr. Kseniia Petrova is stunning. She’s in a federal lockup in Louisiana, threatened with deportation to Russia, where she will be targeted, and she’s writing so eloquently about beautiful science.

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New results! Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase MIT study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia picower.mit.edu/news/differe... #neuroscience

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The Evolutionary Genetics of Schizophrenia: Updates, clarifications, and corrections www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-evolut...

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Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

"The norm is not normal: it's a construction Designed to stifle the inner life and increase production" - Kae Tempest (2025) I wonder if he read my book?

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Fascinating book on Chemical Concepts of Psychosis from the Second International Congress of Psychiatry in 1957, complete with an interesting note from honorary president Carl G. Jung.

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🚨 I just released the alpha-version of my AI in Genomics textbook! It covers (so far!) sequence language models & deep learning for DNA/RNA/proteins. Check it out: biobook.michel.science

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I was on Rana Kalkan's podcast "Faces Behind Papers," ( @facesbehindpapers.bsky.social ) which aims to put a face and a story to the names behind scientific publications. open.spotify.com/episode/1fcr...

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Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff A post discussing @randynesse.bsky.social ‘s hypothesis of cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...

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The essay by @awaisaftab.bsky.social does a fine job of describing how cliff-edge fitness functions may explain vulnerability to some diseases. For an accessible Psychology Today article on the topic, see the link below. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Just look what was waiting for me when I came back from my run. Elusive Cures is now a REAL BOOK!! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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From @awaisaftab.bsky.social’s invaluable substack, a model of how the traits responsible for schizophrenia* may confer evolutionary advantages, until rather suddenly they don’t. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...

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Finally have my copy! Excited to dig in! Thank you for all the work you put in, @awaisaftab.bsky.social

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