Evan Lewis-Healey

I have the pleasure of speaking at ESI-SyNC this year about the neurophenomenology of breathwork and DMT 🧠✨

Do come if you can!

Unfortunately I can't make it, but there in academic spirit at @assc28.bsky.social.

If you're there, do check out our poster on the dose-dependent neurophenomenology of the psychedelic DMT 👇

@trisbek.bsky.social will be there to answer any q's 🧠
P165 Tuesday @12:30-13:30

Hey Maria, thanks for this! I was actually at a workshop with Jeremy and Chris last week! Unfortunately they don't have any funding for postdocs at the moment, but they might do in the future, so will keep my eyes peeled. Funding databases are a good shout though - thanks!

If you know of anything you can get in touch on:

evan (dot) lhealey (at) gmail (dot) com

Thanks in advance for sharing!

I have strong data analysis and coding skills (MATLAB & python), project management skills, and love technical and non-technical writing (evan-lhealey.medium.com).

I would love to stay in the field of psychedelics, but am happy to look at a variety of options, in both academia and industry.

Yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis! 🥂

I'm now awaiting on the viva (17th June) to finalise everything, but am looking for job opportunities following this. If you could share this post far and wide, I'd really appreciate it.

Below is a (very) brief about me.

Our latest paper on DMT phenomenology, led by Pascal Michael, exploring the mis/matches with near-death experiences, showing that while 95% on DMT had at least one NDE feature, many classic NDE features were absent & only a very few had NDE-like trips in any way.

doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

I was invited to join as Editorial Board Member of a new @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal

Here's why I #declined an uncompensated role in #AcademicPublishing 🧵🧪🧠📈

Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!

We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How I freed my mind: A quest for meaning and expansion | BPS Michiel van Elk, Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University, on a journey taking in religion and psychedelics.

How I freed my mind: A quest for meaning and expansion.

Michiel van Elk, Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University, on a journey taking in religion and psychedelics.

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Our new paper - the first peer-reviewed brain and phenomenological examination of 5-MeO-DMT is out in Neuro of Consciousness.

TLDR: We tested whether ‘the mount Everest’ of psychedelics could induce a complete state of consciousness deconstruction while preserving awareness. 1/n

#neuroskyence

Hey Martha, not to worry - on reflection I would have thought that it might have been due to funny timings with our preprints. You can probably tell that I'm in frustrated thesis writing mode atm 😅 Glad to see it out after all this time and looking forward to seeing much more cool work from you :)

Reposting for later but multi-lab studies are certainly the way forward

Breaking: Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Clergy Study Found to Have Multiple Counts of "Serious Non-Compliance" with Federal Human Subject Protections Unauthorized donor involvement and unauthorized study team members "significantly compromised" human research protection program, per JHU, citing other concerns for participants' rights and welfare.

After blowing the whistle on a psychedelic clergy study over 18 months ago, I recently received this letter from
Johns Hopkins' Office of Human Subjects Research finding multiple counts of "serious non-compliance" with federal human subject protections.

www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/breaking-j...

The 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced.

The 2025 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced.

mpe-project.info/the-mpe-proj...

Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!

Hey Matt, the positions look very cool! Would you be open to remote applicants? I am based in Brighton and intend to settle here for the foreseeable future.

Thanks in advance!

Psilocybin alters visual contextual computations Psilocybin alters perception and brain dynamics. Contextual computations are ubiquitous in the brain. Here, we investigate the effects of psilocybin using psychophysics, ultra-high field functional MR...

Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I recently talked for @aliusresearch.org about our neurophenomenological study of the psychedelic DMT.

Check it out below if you're interested in the neuroscience of consciousness and psychedelics!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFk...

Psychedelic-mediated Reversal of General Anesthesia and Restoration of Brain Dynamics in Rat

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Time-resolved neural and experience dynamics of medium and high-dose DMT N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent and fast-acting psychedelic drug that induces a radical reorganisation of the contents of consciousness, comprising the dissolution of time and space and perce...

Check out our preprint on the neural and experience dynamics induced by the psychedelic DMT on @researchhubf.bsky.social
#DeSci #OpenScience

tinyurl.com/2mrspzrc

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

YouTube video by Gabbsby AI discusses document that just says “Poopoo Peepee”

OK, this surprised me and I thought I was keeping on top of AI... I would 100% believe this was a real podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr4...

Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.

my first paper's VOR is out now in eLife ! thrilled to share how we linked experiential reports to brain activity during movie-watching, revealing distinctive cognitive and neural dynamics 🎥💭🧠

elifesciences.org/articles/97731
@themindwanders.bsky.social @leechbrain.bsky.social

I'm doing a talk for @aliusresearch.org about our recent study on the dose-dependent effects of DMT on the brain and the mind🧠

Tomorrow!
10:00am Eastern/NY
15:00pm GMT/London
16:00pm CET/Berlin

RSVP here: rb.gy/630099

Join tomorrow!

New paper from the Lab led by @evanlhealey.bsky.social in collaboration with coculab Argentina where we track brain dynamics as DMT psychedelic experiences unfolds. We show diverse and complex brain signatures intimately related to intensity, anxiety, temporarily, imagery, bliss.

ALIUS Lecture - Bridging the gap: Mapping neural dynamics to experience dynamics in a dose-response study of DMT — Invitation via Google Calendar

I'm also doing a public talk on this for
@aliusresearch.org in January, so do come along and RSVP if you're interested: rb.gy/630099 [20/20]

Also thanks goes to the brave participants, and to @trisbek.bsky.social for spearheading the initiative and being a great supervisor as always [19/20]

I'm super grateful to Enzo Tagliazucchi, Carla Pallavicini and the rest of the CoCuCo lab for hosting me over in Buenos Aires to help conduct this work last year - it was an immensely gratifying experience 🙏 [18/20]