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beccakacanda.bsky.social
Art Therapy and counseling grad student. MDMA-AT trial participant . Milwaukee, WI
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Looking for good books( or articles, movies, podcasts) about the topic of creativity , what it is, and how it’s used. Any recommendations would be great !

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My first post will be the paper I co-authored with many fine people, and that I hope will help anyone crazy enough to think they want to do psychedelic research: "Practical considerations in the establishment of psychedelic research programs". It's open access. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Happy Black History Month

submitted 4 days ago • 533 comments

Great work for psychedelic research to overcome RCT-based epistemic authoritarianism, led by @sdmuthu.bsky.social and @tehseennoorani.bsky.social 👏👏👏. Thankful for the invite to to collaborate, together with @trpwolff.bsky.social, @mattbagg.bsky.social and others. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪🧠💊

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Love it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

These f**king idiots

submitted 10 days ago • 238 comments

“It is incumbent upon all stakeholders to find a balance between inadequate and excessive caution, which can be challenging in a complex media environment oriented towards simplistic narratives” Agreed- appreciate this article.

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For a quick sugar high to “own the libs,” the attempts to shutter USAID would do long term damage that couldn’t be reversed for a generation. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

submitted 15 days ago • 574 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 13 days ago • 423 comments

24 measles cases in 2 weeks in this small Texas town. That's a 140% increase. 9 cases required hospitalization- that is almost 40%. ALL cases occurred in unvaccinated children and adults (n=2). Please vaccinate your children. Measles is preventable. www-kcbd-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.kcbd...

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

@bachynski.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social On the ethical betrayal of clinical trial participants worldwide by the Trump-Musk-Vought administration. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I've met with many cabinet nominees across many admins, and my meeting with RFK Jr. was by far the most troubling. He rattled off debunked conspiracy theories & lied to my face—denying his own statements he'd made on record. We cannot confirm an anti-vaxxer as Secretary of Health.

submitted 13 days ago • 111 comments

This person was blocked not because I’m disinterested in preventing war but because I think intentionally withholding healthcare from soldiers is a wildly fucked up and irrational solution

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Really enjoyed being a part of this and the depth of information poured into this course is impressive. Deeply reflecting on ~ how do psychedelics catalyze individual transformation that can contribute to collective healing ?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A shout-out to my #Yale colleague Jason Stanley's new book. Want to know why #Trump/#Musk are going after universities, whitewashing federal agencies' histories, taking down photos, etc.? This is what fascists do.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Doug Mills is one of the greatest to ever do it.

submitted 15 days ago • 137 comments

An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

submitted 15 days ago • 182 comments

At least nine federal judges across the nation have halted aspects of Trump’s early-term blitz — from his effort to rewrite the Constitution’s birthright citizenship guarantee to his sweeping effort to freeze federal spending to his plans to break and remake the federal workforce.

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Last night Elon Musk moved to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His team is now inside, and he posted “CFPB RIP 🪦” on X. This agency has saved Americans billions. DOGE isn’t about cutting waste—it’s about dismantling the government so Musk and his billionaire friends can take control.

submitted 17 days ago • 406 comments

🚨🚨New pre-print!🚨🚨 Check out our latest work, where we focus on the effects of LSD and MDMA on a so-far somewhat neglected (but important) set of brain hubs - the striatum. Led by the very excellent Natalie Ertl and a couple of undergraduate students. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: A Houston man and Jan. 6 defendant has been arrested for a child sex crime -- two weeks after he was pardoned by Trump and released from a six-year prison stint for assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip.

submitted 18 days ago • 128 comments

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

submitted 18 days ago • 1710 comments

For those of you who think the NYT article was unfair: Nese Devenot and @psymposia.bsky.social did not listen to MAPS therapists & participants when they continually published papers, spoke in interviews and directly told them that they are misunderstanding & mischaracterizing the therapy model

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments