The Global Consciousness Project

Yes! Talk about "dark academe". Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab. Sort of real-life inspiration for The Paragon Institute in The Fury (1979) ;)

A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close its Doors (2007)

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/science/10princeton.html

Inside the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab with Brenda Dunne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMb4j5tHIic