UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

Attention all social media storytellers! ? The BCSP is offering three $5,000 grants to support innovative, compelling stories for social platforms that spark conversation and provide deeper understanding of the science, policy, business, and culture of psychedelics. This fellowship is designed to foster a diverse pool of storytellers who can capture and produce content that not only educates and informs but also connects the public with the important role of equity and reciprocity in the evolving psychedelic landscape. The Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Social Media Fellowship aims to empower a new generation of social media journalists engaging with the rapidly expanding field of psychedelics. Applications are due December 6th! Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/gs6nAgww

VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW! Register at our website below! Applications for the 2025-2026 Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program will open in December. See?our website?for details or attend one of our upcoming online Open House events! Virtual Open House – Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program Join us on one of the following dates to learn more about the 2025-2026 Certificate Program, meet the instructional staff, and participate in a Q&A. See our website for details and registration: https://lnkd.in/g3nrSD-n November 14, 12-1pm PST General Open House (All Welcome!) December 19, 5-6pm PST Focus on Veterans and Spiritual Care Providers (All Welcome!) January 10,11am-12pm PST Focus on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (All Welcome!)

If you’re on or near the UC Berkeley campus this Friday and Saturday stop by this fascinating conference! Free and open to the public and ADA accessible! This week, Nov 1 and 2, UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology will host Psychedelic Reckonings, a conference at that will investigate the increasing salience of multiple figures of ancestry, inheritance and transmission – across bodies, generations, humans and more-than-human-others, the living and the dead – to psychedelic and plant medicine culture in the contemporary United States and beyond. The event will feature activists, artists, educators, healing practitioners, scholars and writers whose lives and work explore these themes. Speakers’ topics will include encounters with ancestral presences and the dead; the use of plant medicines by Indigenous, Black, and Asian communities in the U.S. to heal intergenerational trauma; Bay Area psychedelic counterculture and its legacies; ancestral lineage repair work across traditions; and addressing the problem of cultural appropriation within White psychedelic culture. The event is sponsored by Flourish Trust and is part of the Psychedelics in Society and Culture?program, a collaborative initiative between UC Berkeley and Harvard to foster psychedelic research across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Additional co-sponsors include the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, and Townsend Center for the Humanities. Applications open December 2024 for Psychedelics in Society and Culture program for UC Berkeley affiliated applicants. Keep an eye out on our website for more application updates! More info on the conference:?psychedelicreckonings.com

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The Silver Lab, part of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the UCB School of Optometry, is recruiting for a pre-screening study that will select participants for a clinical trial involving psilocybin (see clinical trials study page for more information: https://lnkd.in/gWNsSHtD). This pre-screening study is intended to collect additional data for participants who go on to participate in the psilocybin clinical trial study. What we are looking for: * Healthy volunteers ≥ 21 years of age with normal or corrected-to-normal vision * The study consists of a health screen, one behavioral task session, and MRI headcase creation and comfort testing (up to 4 hours total, 2 in-person visits) * Experiment tasks include watching visual stimuli and making judgments about your visual experience * Compensation is $15 per hour Preferred:? Experience being scanned in an MRI scanner? Experience participating in MRI research We are specifically looking for individuals who are motivated to participate in the psilocybin clinical trial experiment, which will involve an additional 30-35 hours over 11 visits: 4 in-person and 7 remote. It will involve 6 hours of MRI scanning. If you are not interested in participating in the psilocybin clinical trial, you should not participate in this pre-screening study. Note that the clinical trial experiment is a separate study, and involves separate consent, screening, and compensation. If you are interested, please contact the lead researcher Jen Holmberg at [email protected].

"The study found that only one psychedelic research center (0.02%) had top leadership that was Native/Indigenous while 20% to 25% of centers or public health programs/schools referenced indigeneity in their psychedelic pursuits, such as a land acknowledgment, scholarship, or research."

Applications for funding are now OPEN for our exciting new Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship!?Two $25k fellowships for short or feature length doc projects by early- to mid-career filmmakers, three $10k fellowships for short form docs by student filmmakers.?We're looking for groundbreaking narratives fit for cinematic storytelling – untold stories that captivate audiences and shed light on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics. UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Apply by October 15!?https://lnkd.in/gCDjTABE #fellowship #documentary #psychedelics #journalism

"While psilocybin mushrooms are currently in the spotlight,?Amanita muscaria ?? ?is perhaps the?most quintessential mushroom. Its iconic red cap with white dots appears in children’s books, Hieronymous Bosch paintings, and Super Mario Brothers. The mushroom has psychoactive effects and is thought to be the inspiration behind the magic potion in?Alice in Wonderland." Checkout the latest 5 Questions from The Microdose about Vikings, Super Mario Brothers, Santa and Gummies: 5 Questions for Amanita muscaria expert Kevin Feeney #psychedelics #amanitamuscaria UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Want to hear from seasoned journalists about the state of psychedelics in Oregon? Join us for a virtual round table event, The New Psychedelic Beat: Unraveling Oregon’s Drug Policy Story, as we dive deep into Oregon’s fast-moving drug policy reforms with the journalists reporting from the ground. An event from UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics September 25 from 1 to 2 p.m. PDT Register below ?? #psychedelics #journalism #mentalhealthjournalism #oregon

Applications for funding are now OPEN for our exciting new Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship!?Two $25k fellowships for short or feature length doc projects by early- to mid-career filmmakers, three $10k fellowships for short form docs by student filmmakers.?We're looking for groundbreaking narratives fit for cinematic storytelling – untold stories that captivate audiences and shed light on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics. UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Apply by October 15!?https://lnkd.in/gCDjTABE #fellowship #documentary #psychedelics #journalism