🏠 Home, home on Lagrange! We successfully completed our burn to start #NASAWebb on its orbit of the 2nd Lagrange point (L2), about a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. It will orbit the Sun, in line with Earth, as it orbits L2. blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/2… #UnfoldTheUniverse

Is The Drovers Inn as spooky and as haunted as media reports and internet rumours would have you believe? Brian Eggo spent a night in the hotel, to find out

From the archives: A year(ish) ago today we hosted the marvellous Dr Dean Burnett aka @garwboy to talk about the Science of Mental Health: youtube.com/watch?v=pYST3J…

At a loose end this afternoon? The recording of Thursday's talk by Imran Ahmed is now available on our YouTube channel. Go check it out here, and don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe! youtube.com/watch?v=6DG9uJ…

A large amount of mis- and disinformation has circulated on social media in multiple languages over the past few days regarding #Ukraine. Trustworthy information is as important as ever in times of crisis, so here are our top tips and tools 👇

Creators of online disinformation thrive in times of crisis. They've done it in the past and they're doing it again with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. snopes.com/collections/ru…

Next week our buddies up the road are starting back with f2f talks @ The Arc (formerly Discovery Ctr), Winchester w/ a familiar face - previous Pompey Sitp speaker Keith Kahn-Harris #sitp

Interesting piece on things that go bang in the night - with comments from yours truly: Spooky Britain: how ghosts became a national obsession theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

If you missed the chat between cognitive dissonance and Michael Marshall @mrmmarsh.bsk.social you can watch the entire thing on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=_8vlJm… or if you prefer not to see faces (we get it!) you can listen on the podcast instead. Check out all the ways to subscribe at sitp.online/podcast/

A quick heads up that this wonderful event is returning, at long last, in October #qedcon

We want to help get people who might not otherwise be able to afford it to QED this year. You can find out more, donate, and apply here: sitp.online/qed Spread the word as well if you can please. Thanks!

📢 The SitPO team are going IRL on Fri 28th Oct to host the traditional pre QED SkeptiCamp! Entry is free, and we are looking for speakers to deliver ten minute talks (and field a few questions afterwards). Find out more and apply here: sitp.online/skepticamp

This year our friends at Skeptics in the Pub Online (Skeptics in the Pub) will be running SkeptiCamp! SkeptiCamp is a one day event of lightning talks and anyone can apply to give a talk. Find out more: qedcon.org/news/2022/skep…

Our fringe lineup is complete. Please can you share... Glasgow Skeptics Merseyside Skeptics The European Skeptics Podcast The Skeptic Skeptics in the Pub Birmingham Skeptics Newcastle Skeptics Manchester Skeptics London Skeptics ⚓Portsmouth SitP now on Twitch ⚓ Barnsley Skeptics EssexSITP Newcastle Skeptics Teesside SitP

Great QED talk from 2013. If you want to see more like this, you can buy tickets for QED in October. If you're struggling to be able to afford to attend, then Skeptics in the Pub Online can help! Head to sitp.online/qed and apply for your ticket and/or travel to be paid for.

Get your nominations in for this year's coveted Ockham Award (and the not-so-coveted Rusty Razor!) Who do you think deserves a mention? 🤔

Turkish conspiracies, moral panics, placebo myths and ancient aliens: Skepticamp line-up out now! Skepticamp is a free one-day conference, taking place in the QED hotel on Friday 28th October, managed by our friends at Skeptics in the Pub Online Skeptics in the Pub. qedcon.org/news/2022/turk…

Well, QED & Skeptics in the Pub Online - what a great weekend! Talks from #skepticamp Friday still available on Twitch twitch.tv/videos/1636600…

We've been a tad quiet recently, was something going on last weekend? Hm, oh yes, we were all at QED! Well we're back with a really exciting talk on Thursday with Emma Curtis Lake who will be talking about her work with the James Webb telescope! Can't wait to see you all again!

Hesitant evil 😅🧟🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️