The new Zak! 'Reece Shearsmith writes a memoir of the macabre': www.chortle.co.uk/news/2026/05...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Tonight! (And note, there's an auction. Bring lots of cash) bsky.app/profile/edin...

Robert McLuhan, who has helped shape one of the field’s main public resources. Through blogging, publishing and editorial work, he became a prominent interpreter of parapsychology for general readers and the principal architect of the Psi Encyclopedia: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/rob...

Reminder - tomorrow, Monday 11th May, ZOOM SPR WEB EVENT at 8pm (BST): Implicit Psi - Deborah Patton. Registrations close two hours before the start: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

Here's my short video about the exhibition: youtu.be/Xy6Uv4o4KyM. Enjoy!

Tickets to the European Skeptics Congress 2026 are now on sale. Europe’s leading gathering for science, skepticism and critical thinking returns to the UK for the first time for over a decade. Visit escliverpool.org/tickets to secure yours now.

The Psi Encyclopedia (PE) presents entries that cover the full scope of scientific parapsychology. Founded in 2014, PE offers more than 750 entries written by more than 80 authors. We welcome suggestions for topics not included. Write us at [email protected].

Robert McLuhan founded and grew PE from 2014 to April 2026. James G Matlock has followed McLuhan as the General Editor, with a team of Associate Editors (Nemo Mörck, KM Wehrstein, Melvyn Willin and Nan Zingrone), software engineer Hugh Matlock. Start with the home page: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk

KPU's Jim Kennedy, @RichardWiseman and I have a Comment on the limitations of retrospective meta-analysis just out in Nature - read it here rdcu.be/fgqIE

Coming up on zoom 23rd Feb, @spr1882.bsky.social event. Details: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

The editorial in the latest issue of the SPR's magazine: www.spr.ac.uk/magazine-soc...

I love the treasures that @edinburghforteansociety.org.uk dig up!

Finished ‘Chasing the Dark' by Ben Machell - a fascinating biography of the life of rationalist and sceptic Tony Cornell of the Society for Psychical Research. He was as much a social worker, sensitive to the lives of the people he investigated. Utterly fascinating! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chas...

New Book Announcement! My latest releases this week- Full info on how to order here: www.curiouspublications.com/portfolio-1/...

Monday 15th December - ZOOM SPR WEB EVENT at 8pm (GMT): - Schizotypy and Anomalous Experiences: What is the link? - Matthew Hopkins: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

Psychical Research and Parapsychology with Bernard Carr (4K Reboot): www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBNc...

Followed by 2025 PA conference replay, incl opportunity to chat w/ delegates and speakers

Tomorrow, free online event celebrating IGPP's 75th anniversary www.airmeet.com/e/320fc120-a...

Jürgen Kornmeier is head of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany, with research interests in perception, altered states and consciousness: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/j%C...

A new Psi Encyclopedia entry on Jim Kennedy, who established the KPU Study Registry with me way back in 2012!

If you’re in Edinburgh come and join me for an exploration of the Dance of Death. Tomorrow night!

Check out my lovely colleague Prof Peter Lamont's Substack The Faculty of Wonder, here: peterlamont.substack.com

The Mild Mannered Englishman Who Was the World’s Most Prolific Ghost Hunter (Tony again, though he was far from mild): lithub.com/the-mild-man...

The latest issue of the Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research (issue 14) has been uploaded to the SPR website. SPR members need to log in to access the full issue. Editorial: www.spr.ac.uk/magazine-soc...

Book review: "The original ghostbuster - An entrancing biography of Tony Cornell, who displayed a scientist’s commitment to impartiality as he investigated the paranormal" (Taipei Times): www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Vol. 89 No. 3 (2025): Journal of the Society for Psychical Research: jspr.spr.ac.uk/index.php/js...

Oh look, the FH podcast is now also on Youtube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The SPR's Psi Open Data Project (an open repository for parapsychological and psychical research data) has been moved to Zenodo, which is operated by CERN. The links remain unchanged: www.spr.ac.uk/publications...

4 episodes (each in English & German) already available. Would be keen to hear what you lovely people think! 🥹

Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural. Ben Machell uncovers the archives of psychical researcher Tony Cornell and his investigations into ghosts, poltergeists and psychic powers. Conway Hall, London, 25 September: conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

King's College London study examining voice hearing in the general population: www.spr.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Reminder, SPR talk via Zoom TONIGHT. Monday 21st July at 8pm (BST): Embodied Liminality: Sensory isolation in floatation tanks as a method of promoting psi phenomena - Kirsty Allan. NB Registration closes 2 hours before talk is due to start: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

A Brief Analysis of Norway's Most Documented Poltergeist Investigation, by Lucas Cardholm: www.linkedin.com/pulse/prank-...

Next EdFortSoc : Wed 9th July Gavin Ritchie: The Unavoidable Subject An apple falls in gravity irrespective of the hand that drops it, so why are outcomes in parapsychology so dependent on the individuals involved? This presentation explores subjectivity within experiences of psi and the paranormal.

Many congratulations to Dr Abby Pooley, my final PhD student, who graduates tomorrow! @schoolofppls.bsky.social

The 2025 SPR conference will be held at Milton Hill House, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxford, 18/19 October. CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE is 31st August. Details: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

The John Björkhem Memorial foundation has announced that grants for parapsychological research are available. Deadline: 10 Nov, 2025. www.spr.ac.uk/node/19642

A New Approach to Psi: Re-Envisioning Paranormal Experience as Meaningful Coincidence, by Lance Storm, reviewed on the SPR website by Nemo C. Mörck: www.spr.ac.uk/ANewApproach...

The latest Journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration: journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/js...

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

I'm honoured to take on this new role - thanks so much to VPs and SPR Council for your support. Retired, but not inactive.

That is a lovely designed badge, but badges have been one of the clearer failures in science reform, so let's please not even joke about making more of them. Instead, let's follow Psychological Science and get rid of them all and replace them with clear meta-data (link to prereg, data, etc).

Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, Inc. presents 'Parapsychology Australia Online 2025', Saturday, July 26th, 2025. Time: 9:15am to 3:00pm AEST, via Zoom (scroll down): www.aiprinc.org

Tomorrow! @oneeyegrey.bsky.social has a lot to say on the lore of south London parks.

Next up at @GreenwichSitP: @KateCherrell on "Has Elvis Really Left the Building? A Short History of Celebrity Séances" at 7:30 pm on 9/7/25 at the Duke of Greenwich pub, 91 Colomb St, Greenwich, London SE10 9EZ. Free, open to all, no need to book. greenwichskeptics.org

I am doing my history of Fortean Times talk at The Holloway in Norwich on 12 July - tickets are here thehollowaynorwich.com/events/hsSW7...

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Reminder - SPR Zoom Web Event Monday 16th June at 8pm (BST):The Psychic Brain: Exploring the Neurobiology of Psychics and Mediums - Dr Jeff Tarrant: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...