It gives me great joy to announce that Beautiful Shells is available to preorder via Bodleian Libraries bringing George Perry's (overlooked & maligned) 1811 Conchology to the 21st Century. Introduction & plate comments by me! Out 26th September Bodleian Publishing bodleianshop.co.uk/products/beaut…

Listening to a New Age audiobook about how to awaken my third eye. Turns out I have to keep my pineal gland healthy by avoiding vaccines and looking directly into the sun for as long as possible.

The cover of George McCready Price's young-earth book Common-Sense Geology (1946)—one of his later ones—features some kind of dragon, or Victorian-era dinosaur.

Ruadhrí Brennan and myself are proud to present our life-sized bust of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. His name is Bruce and he will be going on display at Wollaton Hall very soon.

A wee explainer video about our work on #Krusatodon from the #IsleofSkye. Features amazing 3D reconstructions created by Matt Humpage, 3D printed at 3x life size, including the complete model of the adult skeleton 🤩 #ScottishFossils

An insect friend at University Station.

Looking forward to the International Gothic Association conference in Nova Scotia next week where I’ll be talking about Algernon Blackwood and the trans-incorporeal. Before it all gets going, here’s a brief🧵on the nine short story anthologies published during his lifetime #Weirdfiction #publishing

The 1975 Tandem edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs's The People That Time Forgot, part of the 1918 Caspak trilogy. Gory (and dinosaury) cover image uncredited. My copy includes tear-out advert for the Co-Operative Insurance Society Ltd.

Missed our exhibition 'In the Company of Monsters: New Visions, Ancient Myths'? Here's a film version just for you. youtube.com/watch?v=w_VaDm… Eleanor Crook Sculpt Paul Reid Reading Museum Connecting Research

I thought this 70s cover for The Third Eye by 'Lobsang Rampa' was based on Donald Pleasence. Turns out Rampa actually just looked like that. Photo of Pleasance by Allan Warren (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Continuing with my collection of "Public Palaeoart in Poland"

Suggested next step: build Waterhouse Hawkins's planned moa, mammoth, Deinotherium, etc. Complete the vision!

A 1902 print of Arthur Drummond's painting The Assumption of Queen Victoria (Wellcome Images). Look closely and you'll see that the dead queen is joined in heaven by Darwin, Huxley, and Richard Owen. Not sure any of them would have enjoyed this awkward situation.

Would you like to enjoy a range of free family-friendly activities in London on Sunday 1 September? Come along to Conway Hall to get creative, have fun, and learn about the freethinking people and the big ideas that have shaped our society. conwayhall.org.uk/freethoughthis…

Basaltic playground design.

I wrote a short piece for The Conversation on John Tyndall's infamous Belfast Address, delivered 150 years ago this coming Monday. A different angle perhaps: theconversation.com/john-tyndall-h…

‘There is still an appetite for the fantastical, as this excellent, accessible book demonstrates’ — Roger Lewis First review of ENCHANTED CREATURES out with The Mail on Sunday Arts and Culture 🐉

Hi! I'm Sofia, a Museum Studies student University of Leicester I'm thrilled to help curate the Museum #Bryozoa collection. I hope to dedicate my career to advancing and preserving the invaluable treasures that #NaturalHistoryCollections hold. NHM_Students nhm.ac.uk/our-science/st…

'These hypotheses are based not on scientific positivism, but are drawn from empirical perceptions of the soul'. Kandinsky's footnote here very close that 'this source came to me in a dream' academic footnote meme.

Don't forget, many academic journals will be happy to hear from you if you'd like to offer to review our Middleton collection 🙂 And if any PhDs/ECRs are interested, but new to book reviewing and don't know where to get started, my DMs are open! routledge.com/The-Theatrical…