Rosalind G McAlpine
@rosmcalpine
Followers
4K
Following
7K
Media
393
Statuses
2K
PhD Mental Health Science @UCL @wellcometrust - interested in altered states of consciousness 🧠
Croydon, London
Joined June 2019
Just finished our first 5-MeO-DMT EEG retreat in Tepotzlán…. What an absolute honour! 💙🐸🧠
26
8
246
I’ll be giving a ‘Pubtalk’ on 5-MeO-DMT on Thursday 26th June at 19:00 🐸🧠. Tickets here:
2
0
5
RT @joanna_kuc: Speech as a psychedelic 'biomarker'? 🧵.In our new preprint, we analysed voice journals before & after 5-MeO-DMT using NLP +….
0
6
0
🚨 We're recruiting for our UCL psilocybin study! 🚨. Looking for healthy adults:.• 25mg psilocybin dosing session.• 4 in-person visits over 5 weeks.• Daily online prep (21 days).• Little/no experience with meditation or psychedelics. More info 👉
0
5
12
This is going to be such a special addition to this year’s @mesec_ workshop! I’m SO thrilled we have @harrypackart1 on board as our resident artist. Can’t think of a better human to take on this role! 🎭🎨🖌️.
🎨We are so excited to welcome @harrypackart1 as our first-ever resident artist for this year’s workshop!🎨. Alongside the academic programme, Harry will guide a collective art-making process - capturing the ideas, moments, and shared experiences that unfold throughout the week.
1
2
8
RT @neurodelia: Our new paper - the first peer-reviewed brain and phenomenological examination of 5-MeO-DMT is out in @NeuroConsc . TLDR:….
0
153
0
Honoured to be invited as a speaker to present our research on psychedelic preparedness at the @ALPSconference 2025 Summer School. 📆 Dates: 17-22 August 2025.📍 Location: Le Camp, Vaumarcus, Switzerland. 👉 Apply online here:
0
0
2
RT @mesec_: Our scientific chair for this year’s workshop will be Prof. Morten Kringelbach, director of @UniofOxford’s Centre for Eudaimoni….
0
3
0
If you're an ECR interested in consciousness research / psychiatry, do consider applying for the next MESEC Workshop in Lago di Bolsena, Italy (30th August - 7th September 2025)!.
🚨 MESEC 2025 applications are now open!. "Centering Experience in Mental Health: Uniting Psychiatry and Consciousness Science". 📅 Aug 30–Sept 7.📍 Lago di Bolsena.💶 €750 (incl. food & accom).🎓 Bursaries available.🌍 20 spots only!. Apply now 👉
0
1
7
Congrats to the amazing @RomyBeaute on her first PhD project preprint, what a superstar ❤️❤️.
My first PhD paper is finally out as a preprint! . Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology. 🔗
0
0
4
RT @anilkseth: 2.5 years after the 'great debate' at @theASSC in Amsterdam, our reflections on state of theories of consciousness is now ou….
0
90
0
RT @MatthewSacchet: Psychedelics and meditation: can meditation training support improved outcomes for psychedelic-assisted mental health t….
0
19
0
Take part in @magdajaglinska’s cool new study!.
Do you have experience with #meditation or #psychedelics? 🍄🪷🌀. 🔬We’re researching how these practices shape experience of emotion in the body - help advance mental health science!. ✅ Take part in 20-min online experiment. 🔗 Click to participate:
0
0
6
RT @MatthiasMichel_: @MillerLabMIT and I are starting the MIT Consciousness Club—a series of conferences on consciousness science held at M….
0
6
0
These findings provide empirical groundwork for structured meditation-based preparation. Future research should examine how specific meditation practices shape psychedelic experiences across different populations and contexts.
0
0
0
Practitioners recommended about three weeks of preparation with daily 30-minute meditation sessions. They strongly endorsed online and asynchronous delivery, suggesting scalable ways to integrate meditation into psychedelic preparation.
1
0
0
… but for those with 10+ years of meditation with the same amount of psychedelic experience (<20 sessions), not following a tradition was associated with greater perceived benefits of meditation for psychedelic preparedness.
1
0
0
Those with less experience in both meditation (1-3 years) and psychedelics (<20 sessions) perceived greater benefits of meditation for psychedelic preparedness if they followed a meditation tradition….
1
0
0
Meditative approaches emphasising psychological flexibility and positive emotional states were consistently rated as more beneficial for psychedelic preparation than concentration-based techniques.
1
0
0
Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) stood out as the most highly rated preparatory practice, compared to other practices such as Focused Attention (FA) and Open Monitoring (OM).
1
0
1