Down to my last 10 boxes of mince pies.
18.01.2026 16:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@gothwin.bsky.social
Saganist, lapsed mathematician/theoretical physicist and lapsed goth. PhD in time travel. Mostly post about science, sci-fi and 'alternative' music. Favourite bands: New Model Army, Heilung, Wardruna, ACTORS, The Sisters of Mercy, Paradise Lost…
Down to my last 10 boxes of mince pies.
18.01.2026 16:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0First read of 2026 is Slow Gods by Claire North
01.01.2026 10:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This year Wardruna topped my personal 'most played album' (Birna), 'most played song' (Hertan), 'most played band' and 'most seen live' charts. This was my most played song of 2025. What was yours? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfiZ...
01.01.2026 07:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Perfect song for this time of year from Kalandra - playing this EP a lot at the moment #solstice #wintersolstice #winter #kalandra www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrcN...
21.12.2025 07:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fancy that @scifiscavenger.bsky.social
06.12.2025 17:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Book haul feat. @tomgauld.bsky.social @jamesbluecat.bsky.social @dennisetaylor.bsky.social
28.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Do I even bother trying to sleep tonight? #fireworks
05.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That was fun. Forgot the flour though IYKYK. #fieldsofthenephilim #goth
02.11.2025 06:49 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Building the Adam Nevill collection. Becoming one of my favourite modern horror authors.
30.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New books this week. @foliosociety.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social @brianclegg.bsky.social @alekskrotoski.bsky.social @jimbaggott.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social @jayforeman.bsky.social
28.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Excellent, and yes it will be great to finally meet in person 🙂
16.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you. At least I’ll get to catch them both in Bradford in December! You going to that one?
16.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Missing @newmodelarmy.bsky.social and Paradise Lost gigs this week due to COVID so I’ll have to listen to these instead and party like it’s 2020
16.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Loved Cunning Folk, The Ritual and All of Fiends of Hell by Nevill.
04.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This week’s new books. Definitely getting read for #spooktober #spookyseason #halloween @davidmbarnett.bsky.social @caimhmc.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social
04.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Finished (and enjoyed) Scuttler’s Cove this morning and purchased Withered Hill yesterday.
03.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0New books!📚
22.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I must get round to reading some Baxter. Got The Thousand Earths on the shelf.
06.09.2025 18:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0New books from @johnlangan.bsky.social and others
06.09.2025 10:16 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Most of my new favourite bands seem to be Scandinavian. Today's earworm is from Kalandra. Gorgeous track #MusicMonday www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OrR...
25.08.2025 09:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Modest bank holiday weekend book haul @weirdwalk.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social
@andysaunders-1.bsky.social
First big book haul in a while. Nice selection I think @karenhao.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social
15.08.2025 12:19 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0RIP Ozzy 🙁 Black Sabbath were certainly a formative band for me. One of my favourites in my early teens. I remember being blown away by this when I saw it late at night on BBC2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2I...
22.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to watching this later...esp as it features some of the work done by the very excellent @elliescerri.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
How deep are humanity’s roots in African rainforests? Eleanor Scerri details her team’s research published in Nature about the discovery of tools in Côte d’Ivoire dating back to 150,000 years ago, which places ecosystem diversity at the roots of our species. #Academicsky 🏺 🧪
08.06.2025 01:21 — 👍 57 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1How odd. My copy is thankfully romantasy free!
28.06.2025 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was, but very good.
28.06.2025 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My favourite read of 2025 so far #stonelands @stonelands.bsky.social
28.06.2025 15:38 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 01/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gift article about our work that also mentions our recently published paper in @nature.com on rainforests as well! Thank you @carlzimmer.com!
18.06.2025 15:24 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0