Truly an honor to give the NIH Director’s WALS lecture today especially as the last speaker under the leadership of @NIHDirector Dr Monica Bertagnolli

Atlantic article discussing current & novel psychedelics, emphasizing parameters like expectancies, context, compound, dose, and beyond. There is SO MUCH scientific work to do in this area to improve on preliminary work & explore altering variables that have not yet been tested!

This tweet really says so much about how the outside world, & many of our neighboring Arabs, see us Iranians. They completely fail to understand that we are an independent people, with our own politics, our own divisions and that we, as a nation, are not a historic party to the Israeli-Arab conflict. Iranians make them angry, disgusted, confused, perturbed and they resort to easy categorizations (some are pro-Israel so they must simply hate themselves, some are the good ones) and ofc racist hate. Simply because they can't wrap their head around Iranians. This is also true about some Iranians who can't come to peace with their own nation (why are they not as anti-Israel as the Arab nations? Why are they not anti-American like you want them to be? Or, conversely, how did so many of them became anti-Western to lead an entire revolution with that politics?) and thus either display shame of being Iranian or invent fictions in their head in which any Iranian tendency they don't like is actually only from a few people in LA*; or only a few people in the regime who are 'occupiers'. They prefer to ignore the actually-existing diversity of Iranians. If my writings on Iran are to do anything, it's to show Iran as it actually is, in the context of its history and with the full richness of its diversity; and ofc with all our crazies in all extremes.

Former dean of Harvard Medical School and endocrinologist on what happened at the ADA Scientific Sessions this morning⬇️

Marjane Satrapi was a brilliant storyteller, she was her own woman, and spoke her mind truthfully and acutely. It’s definitely a confirmation of her legacy to see her attacked from fascist Right and cafe latte Left after her tragic death. I am proud of you girl. بدرود 🥲

Part of the hostility toward Marjane Satrapi is b/c she occupies an uncomfortable position for multiple audiences at once. For many Western readers she became a symbol of the Iranian woman who defies stereotypes, but in the process she was often turned into a different kind of stereotype: the secular liberal Iranian woman whose story could stand in for an entire society. People tend to struggle with that kind of complexity forgetting that one woman’s story is exactly that, one person’s account! There is also a gendered dimension. Iranian women who achieve extraordinary visibility (whether Marjane Satrapi, Golshifteh Farahani, or Iran Daroodi) have often attracted a particular kind of scrutiny and resentment that their male counterparts do not face. At the same time, some Western academics are uneasy with the way Satrapi’s work has been received. Her narratives have often been embraced by liberal audiences as evidence of women’s resistance to religious and political authority whereas scholars influenced by works such as Politics of Piety have challenged the assumption that Muslim women’s agency must take secular or liberal forms. The result is that Satrapi can become a flashpoint in larger debates about feminism, secularism, Islam, and representation. So the criticism comes from different directions: diaspora misogyny, discomfort with her symbolic status in the West, and genuine intellectual disagreements about how women’s agency and freedom should be understood.

RT @farnazfassihi: Marjan Satrapi wrote the story of our generation. A memoir and a history of Iran’s turbulent 20th-century politics, one…

RT @ntabrizy: For this month's issue of @BritishVogue, Beauty Editor Funmi Fetto kindly asked me to write about hair and its significance f…

RIP Marjane Satrapi, a brilliant mind and a wonderful soul, gone far too soon. Like many Iranians she remained dedicated to her homeland despite decades in exile: “I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word ‘home’ has only one meaning: Iran.” “No matter how much I am in love with Paris and its indescribable beauty, Tehran with all its ugliness will in my eyes forever be the ‘bride’ of all cities around the world.” nytimes.com/2026/06/04/world…

The honor was ours, @yjtorbati. Congrats on the book! And for those who want to hear the extended (26 min) version of our great interview, you can find it on #SourcesandMethods, wherever you get your podcasts... lnk.to/2KlKAa

We talked to over 70 people and examined thousands of pages of documents and emails to uncover how the Iranian state seized the tech sector from the entrepreneurs who made it. An excerpt of our new book, in @TheAtlantic today theatlantic.com/internationa…

@TheLancet announces "Commission on schizophrenia and psychotic disorders" with a primary aim of promoting a conceptual reformulation of these disorders Look forward to being on one of the teams involved in this timely effort thelancet.com/journals/lance…

اگر از حال مامان پرسیده بودید.

جريان زندگى غروب شيراز در خيابان زند خرداد ۱۴۰۵

Design for a new apartment building in Saman, Iran Love the combination of terracotta and turquoise! By Sahar Kamaluddin and Nima Safdari

I want to remind people of the irony of this. RFK Jr. came off heroin “over 100 times” and it’s easier to get off of than SSRIs? Can I say this? What a stupid thing to say. He went back to heroin over a hundred times. If only he had the sense of irony of Mark Twain. If only.

The attacks on Farnaz Fassihi, one of four bylined reporters on our ground-breaking story about the plan to place the former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power in Iran, are entirely baseless.

An independent female group showcased music from Southern Iran at the Tehran Museum for Contemporary Art, today May 21 2026

It's assumed that psychedelic therapy is unique as drug psychotherapy, but it's not! Here's some ritalin assisted psychotherapy ads from the 50s

Excited to share our paper published today in @NatureNeuro: nature.com/articles/s41593-0… Using spatial proteomics, we identified a plaque-associated microglial population that emerged only when morphology and spatial context were integrated with protein expression.

Monthly ketamine injections. What could go wrong?