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UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley 1d

"We’re constantly being sold a story of a crisis, but what history is missing from this story?"

UC Berkeley French Professor Debarati Sanyal explores how an upcoming performance brings the stories of African laborers forgotten in World War I to center stage.
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news.berkeley.edu African laborers were forgotten in stories of World War I. In this performance, they take center... UC Berkeley French Professor Debarati Sanyal discusses William Kentridge’s “The Head & the Load,” which brings the history of the African porters who carried supplies for European forces to Cal...

UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley 1d

UC Berkeley Journalism (@ucbsoj) Professor Emeritus Michael Pollan and renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch talk psychedelics and consciousness — exploring how altered states challenge our understanding of the mind and why consciousness is more than a problem to solve.
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news.berkeley.edu Berkeley Talks: Michael Pollan and Christof Koch talk psychedelics and consciousness - Berkeley News The author and neuroscientist explore how altered states challenge our understanding of the mind — and why consciousness is more than a problem to solve.

UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley 2d

UC Berkeley researchers have a long history of working alongside communities to make a difference in the world. Once a trailblazer, Berkeley is now a powerhouse tackling challenges ranging from workers' rights and housing insecurity to health care access and educational opportunity.
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UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley 3d

Neuroscientists from UC Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford ran parallel trials of psilocybin to see what behavioral effects were reproducible in mice. The findings challenge reported results and underscore the importance of reproducibility in psychedelic research and its potential therapeutic applications.
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news.berkeley.edu In parallel mouse studies, researchers fail to replicate many reported effects of psilocybin -... In a unique series of identical experiments, five labs dosed mice with the psychedelic drug psilocybin to see which behavioral effects are reproducible. The results were mixed, modest and temporary.

UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley 5d

They helped make history during the 1964 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. Now, decades later, former student activists Anita Medal and Lynne Hollander Savio are helping preserve its legacy in Moffitt Library’s Free Speech Movement Café.
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www.lib.berkeley.edu At UC Berkeley, they took part in the Free Speech Movement. Now they want to keep its memory alive. In the 1960s, Anita Medal and Lynne Hollander Savio fought for free speech as students at UC Berkeley. Now, they’re keeping the memory of the movement alive in the Carol T. Christ Center for Connec...