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Jamie Lewis

@drjamielewis.bsky.social
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Sociologist of Science and Mystery. Reader at Cardiff University. Enjoy talking sports and politics too.

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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nice to top this list of one of the best ‘cryptozoology’ books of last year www.cryptozoonews.com/topczbks2025/
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Lana J. Pratt @lanajpratt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New review of Jamie Lewis & Andrew Bartlett's "Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry" by Justin Mullis - "This book is a tremendous work of scholarship, rich in both data and ideas, destined to become one of the most important academic works on cryptozoology ever written" aiptcomics.com/2026/09/18/b...
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‘Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry’ looks at those who search for the beast
Whether the animal is real or not, the culture persists.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This paper we wrote about Bigfoot testimony encounters should now be available to read for free journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
With all that is going on, this was really lovely to come across this evening
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Final touches to an edited book on Monsters as Motifs. This first one considers the environment, the Anthropocene and the unruly Earth. Please share.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Andy and I speak about our book in this podcast
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Some Other Sphere Podcast @sphericalpod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Podcast Wednesday! Episode 155 - Jamie Lewis and Andrew Bartlett - Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry @drjamielewis.bsky.social #Podcast #Science #Bigfoot #Sasquatch #Cryptozoology #Paranormal #WyrdWednesday podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
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Episode 155 - Jamie Lewis and Andrew Bartlett - Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry
Podcast Episode · Some Other Sphere · 19 August · 1hr 27min
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is out Wednesday 19/8. A podcast with Andy and me discussing our book and the broader research project #STS #Bigfooting
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Some Other Sphere Podcast @sphericalpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Episode 155 is out next week and is Bigfoot related! @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett joined me to discuss their book 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate Science'. You can enjoy listening to our conversation from next Wednesday. #Podcast #Bigfoot #science
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 09/08/2026
The hunt for Bigfoot sounds like the opposite of good science, but those pursuing the creature are often serious empiricists. An Essay by Andrew Bartlett & @drjamielewis.bsky.social
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The surprisingly scientific methods of Bigfooters | Aeon Essays
The hunt for Bigfoot sounds like the opposite of good science, but those pursuing the creature are often serious empiricists
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Got 20 minutes spare to listen to an essay? This is our piece maintaining that Bigfooters are far from anti-science and their activities are empirical but ultimately Bigfooting is not science - aeon.co/essays/the-s... #STS #Bigfoot #Bigfooting #Aeon
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 07/08/2026
In today’s Essay the sociologists Andrew Bartlett and Jamie Lewis draw on over 160 interviews with Bigfooters to explore the thinking behind the hunt for this elusive creature and what it says about the boundaries of science
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The surprisingly scientific methods of Bigfooters | Aeon Essays
The hunt for Bigfoot sounds like the opposite of good science, but those pursuing the creature are often serious empiricists
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A piece we write for @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/the-s...
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
1/3 Earlier this year we did an interview for The Conversation UK. Our English language version has now had over 510,000 reads lnkd.in/eXm-rfaS whilst the French language version has had just shy of 130,000 reads.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We have a piece shortly coming out with @aeon.co that draws from our #STS book on #Bigfooting. You can get 30% off the book by using the code ADC26 here: www.routledge.com/Bigfooters-a.... The piece also discusses our Open Access paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #Bigfoot
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Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate Science
Bigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organise their lives, analysing evidence, and making knowledge. This book exami...
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Our interview is now available in French theconversation.com/en-tout-cas-...
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« En tout cas, ce n’était pas une licorne… » Des sociologues ont interrogé 130 chasseurs de Bigfoot
Ils passent leurs week-ends dans les forêts, analysent des sons mystérieux et débattent de la validité des empreintes. Une enquête sociologique explore de l’intérieur l’univers méconnu des chasseurs d...
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Congratulations @thierryaaron.bsky.social on becoming a doctor (for the second time). A well deserved result for what is an excellent thesis written by a very good person. I’m sure you’ll build on this in your future endeavours.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@sphericalpod.bsky.social got a podcast coming out in August with Some Other Sphere where Andy and I talk about the sociology of Bigfooting
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If anyone is interested in a 30% code, give me a shout.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... this is awful. Infantino completely silent of course
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World Cup 2026: Does referee case show Fifa has lost control of its tournament?
With referee Omar Artan denied entry to the United States and worries over staff and supporters being turned back, what does this tell us about the World Cup?
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Catching the Bigfoot Hunters
Podcast Episode · Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast · 30 May · 19min
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... interview with ABC on. Bigfooting
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Catching the Bigfoot Hunters
Podcast Episode · Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast · 30 May · 19min
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I will be on Sunday Extra on ABC radio at 08:05 (AEST) this coming Sunday discussing our Bigfooting book www.abc.net.au/listen
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The story of a quiz show final 25 years ago in three photos:
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"The key questions we faced when writing this book - and which you will face when reading it - concern issues of credibility and credulity" - @drjamielewis.bsky.social & Andrew Bartlett Questions we'd all do well to ponder in these times of epistemic confusion! This books a great place to start.
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Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate Science
Bigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organise their lives, analysing evidence, and making knowledge. This book exami...
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Amazing. Well done Aaron.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The walk a stone’s throw from our house
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A piece in @iflscience.com about our work: www.iflscience.com/how-do-bigfo...
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A piece discussing our work in @iflscience.com
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Some snaps from the @forteanlondon.bsky.social event this afternoon including @tetzoo.bsky.social up on stage talking about sea creatures and Andy and me on Bigfooting @forteantimes.bsky.social
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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Post-lunch at #StrangeCentral for @forteanlondon.bsky.social has us hit the forests: sociologists of science @drjamielewis.bsky.social & Andrew Bartlett say “Bigfooter” communities are moving from hunting to citizen scientists as the problem of habeus corpus keeps the skeptics loud.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
London bound
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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tomorrow
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 14/04/2026
Bigfooting is a specific activity within the Bigfoot believer communities. Rather than being antagonistic to science, they mobilize science-like activities to support their views. www.iflscience.com/how-do-bigfo...
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
@iflscience.com an interview we did for @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/how-do-bigfo...
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How Do Bigfoot Hunters Use Scientific Evidence? We Asked Two Sociologists Who Have Spent Years Among The Bigfooters
Bigfooting is a specific activity within the Bigfoot believer communities. Rather than being antagonistic to science, they mobilize science-like activities to support their views.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Flyer for our STS book on Bigfooting including a 20% discount code.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If anyone is at a loose end in London this Saturday, I will be talking at this event at 2pm.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Some words from Andy and me on the status of Bigfooting
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Didn’t find Bigfoot but might have captured a stork
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I shall be speaking at this a week on Saturday. Details below. @tetzoo.bsky.social will also be speaking on the same day!
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Hover over the play button and move cursor to around 49 minutes and you’ll hear me talking about Bigfooting and our book www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #Bigfooting #Bigfoot #BBC
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Saturday Breakfast - 04/04/2026 - BBC Sounds
The big weekend news and sports stories with Eleanor Oldroyd and Jeanette Kwakye.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
On at 06.48 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radio 5 Live - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to Radio 5 Live on BBC Sounds
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
An article in this on pages 30-37
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
An interview piece for BBC Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cardiff lecturer interviews 160 Bigfoot hunters over three years
There have been thousands of reported Bigfoot sightings since it rose to prominence in the 1960s.
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Rob Smith @robinjsmith.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Applications for the ESRC WGSSS postdoctoral Fellowship are now open. If you have recently completed a PhD in the U.K. and are interested in coming to Cardiff to work with me and the small, but lively and lovely, CEEIT research group, do get in touch. wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/ #EMCA #Ethnography
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
When your co-author finds your article in a newsagents
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Speaking at the EASE anthrozoology conference this Friday
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I bought the new ish of Fortean Times for the Lewis and Bartlett article. I already have their book and am part way through it.
Cover of current issue Fortean Times. Front page of Lewis and Bartlett article. Cover of book.
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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
One month to go until Andrew J Bartlett & @drjamielewis.bsky.social explore contemporary Bigfoot belief at #StrangeCentral @conwayhall.bsky.social 18 April 2026 Link and tickets below:
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Our piece on Bigfooting is pages 30-37 of the new edition of the Fortean Times
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