Mike Jay

Coming in October yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030027…

Published in the US today mikejay.net/books/free-rad…

New ep of People Just Do Something is out + in the bio This time Im w/ writer + drugs historian Mike Jay (@MikeJayNet) to explore the surprisingly revolutionary history of Nitrous Oxide/Laughing gas + the famous Bristolians who invented and prolifically self-experimented with it

Launching FREE RADICALS in Bath with a discussion ⁦@BRLSI⁩ on Thursday 26th brlsi.org/whatson/free-r…

In his essay “The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”, @MikeJayNet explores how consuming powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain: publicdomainreview.org/essay/ether-dr…

Join celebrated historian @MikeJayNet at Bristol's Bookhaus for the launch of his newest book Free Radicals—a thrilling new history of the poets, scientists & radicals who discovered laughing gas and changed how we think about the mind. June 25 🧠 ⚛️ 📖 #e125222" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bookhausbristol.com/events/#e125222

Ketamine might be Silicon Valley's favourite drug, but it is also the UK's. How Britain fell into the K-hole, by @MikeJayNet #Echobox=1749284713" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

Hot off the press: out 24 June (UK), 4 August (US)

@archaeologyart Have you considered posting on Bluesky too? There are other arch&art accounts there but not as good as yours :-)

Aztec Calendar Stone, carved basalt, Postclassic period of the Aztec civilization, c. 1502-1521 AD. Currently on display at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Photographed by William Henry Jackson in Mexico City, 1884.

After setting fire to York Minster #OnThisDay in 1829, Jonathan Martin was confined in the Criminal Lunatic Department at Bethlem from 1829-1838. There he produced remarkable artworks typically depicting his prophetic visions. bit.ly/2MyPCRO Image: "Hell's Gate"

Historian @MikeJayNet tracing the dawn of 'psychedelic psychiatry' back to 1845 in our 2020 annual conference This year's British Neuropsychiatry Association conference happens Mar 13-14 in London Early bird registration is open now bnpa.org.uk/agm/

Was the #FrenchRevolution the work of a covert Masonic cell known as the Illuminati? One man thought so. @MikeJayNet explores: bit.ly/PiXGTL

@BANDER295 🙏

@MikeJayNet Congratulations Mike!

Coming this summer: yalebooks.co.uk/book/978030028…

It’s a retitled and revised edition of this, originally published 2009 Thanks to @loosestish and @YaleBooks for resurrecting it mikejay.net/books/the-atmo…

@ajlees @yerwha *contains harmaline

Passiflora edulis a favourite Christmas gift. Its crown of thorns will be ready for the Passion ⁦@yerwha⁩

Today’s chaotic drug marketplace is blurring the lines between medicine, spirituality and getting high, @MikeJayNet writes. Read: nyti.ms/3Dr8dJT

Thoughts on a post-drug world for @NYTimesOpEd (gift link) nytimes.com/2024/12/23/opi…

@SteveTransform @PiersGibbon @Paracelsus1092 Not tobacco, and only speculation that this was a drug delivery spoon :-) Usual method then would be drinking (eg mugwort beer) or perhaps incense burning

@PiersGibbon @Paracelsus1092 Yeah - don't think itd be cannabis (you can snort THC powder - ppl have tried to sell that as a coke-like product, but not unprocessed herbal). Could be something else though - tobacco like rapē perhaps, but don't think that was in Europe then. @MikeJayNet ?

‘Ayahuasca now pervades an international genre of psychedelic art in which Indigenous Amazonian themes merge with tropes of Eastern mysticism, science fiction and computer generated fractal geometries.’ @MikeJayNet on ayahuasca and peyote: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…