Mike Jay

[Mike Jay @MikeJayNet]

Coming in October https://t.co/BcFviQ1UJG

[Mike Jay @MikeJayNet]

Published in the US today https://t.co/IRaiNbfHDn

[Isaac_kh @isaac_kh]

New ep of People Just Do Something is out + in the bio

This time Im w/ writer + drugs historian Mike Jay (@MikeJayNet) to explore the surprisingly revolutionary history of Nitrous Oxide/Laughing gas + the famous Bristolians who invented and prolifically self-experimented with it

[Mike Jay @MikeJayNet]

Launching FREE RADICALS in Bath with a discussion ⁦@BRLSI⁩ on Thursday 26th https://t.co/cWCcUWjMwO

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

In his essay “The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”, @MikeJayNet explores how consuming powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain: https://t.co/ZusxNPZpaj

[Drug Science @Drug_Science]

Join celebrated historian @MikeJayNet at Bristol's Bookhaus for the launch of his newest book Free Radicals—a thrilling new history of the poets, scientists & radicals who discovered laughing gas and changed how we think about the mind.

June 25 🧠 ⚛️ 📖
https://t.co/dFiZWvR6mg

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

Ketamine might be Silicon Valley's favourite drug, but it is also the UK's.

How Britain fell into the K-hole, by @MikeJayNet
https://t.co/WBpwZ5dCNw

[Mike Jay @MikeJayNet]

Hot off the press: out 24 June (UK), 4 August (US)

[Mike Jay @MikeJayNet]

@archaeologyart Have you considered posting on Bluesky too? There are other arch&art accounts there but not as good as yours :-)

[Bethlem Museum of the Mind @bethlemmuseum]

After setting fire to York Minster #OnThisDay in 1829, Jonathan Martin was confined in the Criminal Lunatic Department at Bethlem from 1829-1838. There he produced remarkable artworks typically depicting his prophetic visions. https://t.co/vF37uzd29R

Image: "Hell's Gate"

[British Neuropsychiatry Association @The_BNPA]

Historian @MikeJayNet tracing the dawn of 'psychedelic psychiatry' back to 1845 in our 2020 annual conference

This year's British Neuropsychiatry Association conference happens Mar 13-14 in London

Early bird registration is open now https://t.co/Y5unqVCl9p

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Was the #FrenchRevolution the work of a covert Masonic cell known as the Illuminati? One man thought so. @MikeJayNet explores: https://t.co/Uga3eEAh4k

[Mike Jay @MikeJayNet]

@BANDER295 🙏

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Coming this summer: https://t.co/mOguo1FTF7

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It’s a retitled and revised edition of this, originally published 2009
Thanks to @loosestish and @YaleBooks for resurrecting it

https://t.co/I44evsg6uV

[Mike Jay @MikeJayNet]

@ajlees @yerwha *contains harmaline

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

Today’s chaotic drug marketplace is blurring the lines between medicine, spirituality and getting high, @MikeJayNet writes.

Read: https://t.co/MEfoGJbj8e

[Mike Jay @MikeJayNet]

Thoughts on a post-drug world for @NYTimesOpEd (gift link)

https://t.co/SPY7fZJNN5

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@SteveTransform @PiersGibbon @Paracelsus1092 Not tobacco, and only speculation that this was a drug delivery spoon :-) Usual method then would be drinking (eg mugwort beer) or perhaps incense burning

[London Review of Books @LRB]

‘Ayahuasca now pervades an international genre of psychedelic art in which Indigenous Amazonian themes merge with tropes of Eastern mysticism, science fiction and computer generated fractal geometries.’

@MikeJayNet on ayahuasca and peyote:
https://t.co/MbcEOIsyxb