Imran Khan Profile picture
Not that one. Exec Director at @SciPsychedelics - @UCBerkeley's Center for the Science of Psychedelics. 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. Immigrant-cubed.
Dec 8, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
Some news...

I'm leaving @wellcometrust in the new year, and handing over public engagement to the amazing @inbetweendays

From January, Lara will lead our PE work under Wellcome's new strategy!

As for me? I'll be looking for work in San Francisco... to be with my new wife 😮 In fact - do you want to hear a crazy love story that involves a transatlantic romance during a global pandemic, a last-minute wedding, and the strangest year of my life?

Amy and I met by chance in August 2019, when I was in the Bay Area for work...
Feb 19, 2020 16 tweets 3 min read
I tend to be cynical about the idea of Late Capitalism, but an Uber driver last night told me a story which made my jaw hit the floor.

He picked me up, and apologised for the congestion.

"You see all these cars, though? They're owned by the same person". (1/9) Me: "What do you mean? Aren't they all ubers and lyfts?"

Him: "Yeah, but the drivers lease the cars off the same guy. I met him." (2/9)