I'm giving a talk at Quad at the end of the month for the UK Ghost Story Festival 2026. Come along. www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/invit...

From THE UNEXPLAINED magazine (1980): Presented without comment, save for the possessed woman giving off serious Madge Allsop vibes.

Asparamancer - there can be only one.

Slightly haunted www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

✨ The York Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2026! ✨ Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿 Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to [email protected] ☺️

Hip-hop godfathers the Last Poets: ‘In times of great chaos, there’s opportunity’

Fantastic Sunday afternoon spent listening to @dremilyvincent.bsky.social talk about her new book at Hestia Books

Looking forward to this event at my local bookshop www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summoned-t...

Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life, writes Alice Vernon. theconversation.com/after-the-fi...

Time for The Haunting 👻

I’m in the @ladbible.bsky.social talking about why people enjoy horror films www.ladbible.com/originals/wh... @derbyuni.bsky.social

This looks so cool.

I don’t remember ordering this book (I did order the other one) #magic #paranormal #acorah #medium

Looking forward to getting stuck into this @spr1882.bsky.social

Shit www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Can you help out with my PhD student's research into paranormal beliefs and experiences, please?

So pleased to have been included in this piece by the @timeshighered.bsky.social on critical thinking in teaching and research www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/criti...

Nice review by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social of Ben Machell's book on Tony Cornell @spr1882.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

The witch hunts of 1400-1780 and today's misinformation crisis have striking parallels. Both were fueled by new media technologies that allowed false information to spread rapidly and widely. buff.ly/6RFALyJ By Julie Walsh @wellesley.edu

Astronomers predict that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which begins surveying the night sky this year, could spot dozens more interstellar objects over the next decade, reports Marina Koren for National Geographic. archive.ph/VEsEQ www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Fantastic talk from @afwilson.bsky.social on Making Armageddon Great Again

Sad news www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Had a great time talking to Katie Tyler on BBC Radio Solent about horror films (around the 41-minute mark). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Some recent book purchases about spaces #gaston #uketsu #office, inspired by #houseofleaves

Grok has been designed to replicate Musk's own online radicalisation process, step by terrible step. First, you treat all mainstream information as biased. Then you gorge yourself on know-nothing crap online. And then you realise you've become a Nazi inews.co.uk/opinion/elon...

The Walkman was released this week in 1979, a few years later multiple US states tried to criminalize using a Walkman… newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgot...

The Council House Theory: Were Britain’s Poltergeists A Product Of Social Desperation? An in-depth look at the “council house theory” of paranormal activity: really-haunted.com/the-council-...

Really happy to have been involved in this paper on hoping and waiting for rescue with Prof Paul Gilbert and the Compassionate Mind Foundation bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Demonic Possession: SSE's "Anomalies 101" Webinar July 16, 2025 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM CDT Live Zoom Event with Álex Escolà-Gascón, Ph.D scientificexploration.org/2025-Demonic...

Given how much Wirksworth has grown over the past couple of decades, this is terrible news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welcome to our new President @kpunews.bsky.social 😄

'An undead god is the ultimate outsider, the ultimate other...' My review of @kjsoar.bsky.social's terrific collection of short stories about unquiet deities for British Library Tales of the Weird, 'Return of the Ancients': drfrancisyoung.com/2025/05/21/u...

Astrology has gone digital but has it gone legit? In my latest for The Skeptic I explore how algorithm-driven apps are reshaping astrology’s image, and what that means for science communication in the age of AI. Read it here: www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/05/algo...

My latest article for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social is a sad tale, "The Demise of the American Society for Psychical Research." skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th... cc: @spr1882.bsky.social

Interesting article in the @the-independent.com on a topic we are researching www.independent.co.uk/life-style/w...

Looking forward to the weirdness @kjsoar.bsky.social

A docuseries “Beyond the Brain” premieres on 12 May, with a new episode every Monday. It is a documentary series of 16 episodes, 30 minutes each, that presents the scientific research into the human mind and its multiple dimensions. Further info: www.fundacaobial.com/com/docuseri...

Our latest CPEP, led by @eirini-k-a.bsky.social exploring ontological shock & existential challenge as extended difficulties following a psychedelic experience - highlighting that grounding practices, integration support, & time were critical in helping participants cope. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Every account of this I’ve read makes some kind of claim about dude “coming back to life” or “appearing” and it’s emblematic of so much of what’s wrong about how people discuss and conceptualize the tech.

Great post from @stuartvyse.bsky.social that mentions his visit to the @spr1882.bsky.social offices

Great piece from @richardwiseman.bsky.social and Caroline Watt

David Thomas, anarchic Pere Ubu bandleader, dies aged 71

No time for love Dr Jones www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

So sad, great artist and so good live.

Goodbye Richard Chamberlain, underrated, fine actor and everyone’s hunk, and safe passage. I was basically raised on one of his less respected movies, J. Lee Thompson’s cheesy and fun Indiana Jones ripoff King Solomon’s Mines. Still love it! #moviesky #filmskya

Over on X-Twitter, a number of accounts including Russell Brand fell for a hoax page from the JFK Files which identified Penelope Keith as the shooter in 1963. Far too many people have taken this seriously.

The US government has released the final batch of documents on the assassination of President John F Kennedy (JFK), a case that still inspires conspiracy theories more than 60 years later, reports Max Matza for BBC News.