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...

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

Next EdfortSoc : Wed 11th June Gordon Rutter : You Cannot Be Serios! Thoughtography

Tonight, zoom!

Includes an important note on Wallace's conversion to spiritualism impacting his views on evolution. 👻

I have a new article in 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠: 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐸𝑠𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚 "The Spirits Meet the Sceptics: The London Dialectical Society's Inquiry into Spiritualism" brill.com/view/journal...

Interested in spiritualism or seances on film? I'm doing an online talk about Seances and the Female Medium in British Cinema on 28 May at 8 pm BST! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seances-an...

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick helped specify the Volt, Ampere & Ohm. She also represented Britain at the International Congresses of Psychology by investigating the occult. A brief sketch:

Ask Professor #Paranormal is back again tomorrow May 11 8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT. youtube.com/@askprofessorparanormal Live Q&A - #Parapsychology #ESP #RemoteViewing #ghosts #poltergeists #ghosthunting #psychic stuff and more!

William James once butted heads with Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-founder of modern evolutionary theory. Wallace was hoodwinked by a fraudulent medium, and James, who was also present at the seance, was not.

Never heard of Psychische Studien journal? Here's what you may want to know about it if you're interested in the history of psychology & its interfaces with the occult: www.forbiddenhistories.com/2013/12/psyc...