Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Congratulations to the 2026 graduates of Philosophy, Ethics and Religion @leedstrinity.bsky.social ! 020
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I'm sick to death of the culture of outrage, and complete lack of empathy that often goes with it 010
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The BASR @thebasr.bsky.social and ISASR 2026 conference will be in Dublin this year! CFPs: basr.ac.uk/2024/01/11/b...basr.ac.ukBASR/ISASR Conference 2026Call for Papers: Futures and Frontiers Joint Conference between the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) and the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) organised… 033
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I was name-checked 😄. Absorbing interview about the institutional issues in the US (and elsewhere) and how McCutcheon steered his dept to keep abreast of the times and succeed. 030
Reposted by Suzanne OwenDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 22/09/2025When you use AI, consider this: the massive energy demands of AI data centers are driving up electricity costs. As well known, the use of water for cooling is also huge. The costs are socialized, the revenues go to the companies. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...pbs.orgHow AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity billsElectricity bills are climbing nationwide, rising faster than inflation in many places. The explosive growth of AI and the massive data centers behind it are driving demand and straining the grid. To ... 8181114
Reposted by Suzanne OwenThe Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Our campaign for the rights and interests of authors in the face of big tech companies using copyrighted work to train their generative AI models continues. Read our views on Bloomsbury offering its authors an opt-in licensing deal with a 20% revenue share. societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/b... 35132
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025This report looks beyond the atomised approach to judging the value of university education to individual graduate earnings and includes wider benefit to society. www.acu.ac.uk/news/new-acu...acu.ac.ukNew ACU research finds university education delivers tangible growthA new report commissioned by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and conducted by London Economics, presents compelling new evidence linking higher education expansion with long-term na... 000
Reposted by Suzanne OwenBASR (British Association for the Study of Religons) @thebasr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Registration is now open for our online conference: basr.ac.uk/2024/01/11/b... Registration is free - we hope to see you there.basr.ac.ukBASR Annual Conference 2025Religion, Space and Place Friday 5th September, 2025. Online, hosted by the Open University. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: Click Here The BASR is pleased to be supporting the quinquennial IAHR confe… 033
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025A nice, scary graph to show how hot it's getting in different regions of the world 010
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025My impression is people are not taking the issue of water consumption seriously when using AI frivolously or in place of other tools or skills that don't use AI. 010
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025At an airport chatting to an older man about our delayed plane. I gave him updates from my phone. He said he had a long layover next, so wasn't worried. We were wearing masks because it was Covid. Later I saw his name - Manilow - and found he'd been performing in the city the night before. 010
Reposted by Suzanne OwenBASR (British Association for the Study of Religons) @thebasr.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The latest edition of the BASR Bulletin is now live! Reports, book reviews, conference reports, and more! basr.ac.uk/2025/05/29/b...basr.ac.ukBASR Bulletin 146: May 2025The May 2025 edition of the BASR Bulletin is available here: BULLETIN 146-minDownload 051
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Can we ever have a fair society when the wealthy are too powerful and tear down whoever might challenge them? When the BBC over-reports on a minor right-wing party leader? When people on the Left blame the Left, saying we're out of touch/don't have a narrative? Corbyn was, did. Look what happened. 120
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Most hills on the Isle of Wight are TuMPs, under 99 metres. However, if you Google 'TuMP height' you get 1.9 metres. That would be a very small hill. But, Google, there is no 'r' in TuMP! 100
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The Isle of Wight has three rivers: Yar ('river'), Yar ('river') and Medina ('middle one') 020
Reposted by Suzanne OwenReligious Studies OU @religiousstudiesou.bsky.social · 16/04/2025📢 #BASR2025 CfP is open! Theme: Religion, Space and Place. This year’s online, one-day BASR conference (hosted by @OpenUniversity) runs alongside #IAHR2025 in Krakow. Submit by June 9: basrconference2025@gmail.com 043
Reposted by Suzanne OwenBASR (British Association for the Study of Religons) @thebasr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025As is our usual custom in an IAHR year, we will be running our annual conference for 2025 over a single day. This year we have also chosen to run the conference online, in the hope of widening participation. The theme will be Religion, Space, and Place. #basr2025 basr.ac.uk/2024/01/11/b...basr.ac.ukBASR Annual Conference 2025Religion, Space and Place Friday 5th September, 2025. Online, hosted by the Open University. The BASR is pleased to be supporting the quinquennial IAHR conference in Krakow this year and we hope t… 064
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The latest issue of our journal, JBASR, on the theme of Environmental Endings and Religious Futures has just been published, with a lead article by Catherine Wessinger @thebasr.bsky.social www.jbasr.com/ojs/index.ph...jbasr.com Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religious 044
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Spring has truly sprung when the blackthorn flowers. In Otley it started earlier in March and now it's at its peak. 020
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I was up walking near Hebden, North Yorkshire, when I investigated these odd grey symbols on the OS map. The area appeared to be full of earthworks (maybe old quarrying?) now covered in heather. Just above Garnshaw House. 020
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Interesting study of Christian, Muslim and Hindu views of the environment in the UK. Despite beliefs that we should care for the environment, Christians don't translate this into action as much as others. Hindus do the most. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.comBritish Hindus engage in most eco-friendly actions of all faith groups, research showsAs the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life study found Hindus are at the forefront of environmental activism, British Hindu, Muslim, and Christian participants discuss how they reconcile faith a... 152
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Using a find a course website (WhatUni), I can only find two Religious Studies ones - Edinburgh and Open University. The latter has two - one as Arts and Humanities (RS) and one as Social Sciences (RS), so they seem to be within broader subject areas, leaving Edinburgh as the only place in the UK. 100
Reposted by Suzanne OwenBASR (British Association for the Study of Religons) @thebasr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025The British Association for the Study of Religions is now on Bluesky! 🦋 Stay tuned for more updates on our conferences, projects, bulletin and academic journal. All available here: www.basr.ac.uk 0144
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Wassailing revivals to bless orchards (esp apple) are part of efforts to connect with nature due to the loss and separation of modern lives with the natural world. This was at East Riddlesden Hall on Sunday with toast hung from trees. 110
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025While my sister and her friends were watching slasher films, my friends and I sat in a dimly lit room watching Eraserhead. David Lynch was one unique filmmaker. 000
Reposted by Suzanne OwenRose @rosebonecrone.bsky.social · 07/01/2025You have the power to get small press books YOU want to read into your local* library. *If you still have one. Use 'em or lose 'em. 011
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Tree defenders at the Tittybottle Oak today, keeping the tree safe. 010
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I've a chapter in this volume, too, on 'Studying "Religion" in Indigenous Cultures', which has a sizeable bit on the politics of refusal - rejecting colonial terms like 'religion'. 010
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024There's a chapter on the background to this in Pagan Religions in Five Minutes (Equinox 2024). 053
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Crucial few days for the oak in Tittybottle Park, Otley - 24-hour watch to protect it from felling by #LeedsCityCouncil 062
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Wonderful presentations at the Community Religions Project at Leeds. Kim Knott spoke on why studying the local and particular matters and CRP (nearly 50 years old) was early for getting the study of religion away from normative text-focussed 'world religions'- based approaches. 010
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Know of this @dralyal.bsky.social ? Seems to have involvement from Uni of. 120
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024One of our students, Olive, created a philosophy D&D game using philsophers as characters. Here seen with Dave. Richard was the staff lead on this 'co-creation' project. Olive will be the lead author in the co-authored article on this. 121
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Tree is still there at lunchtime. No protesters, no police, a rearranged cage and a couple of contractors. 010
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Today, this oak tree in Tittybottle Park, Otley, is due to be felled. This morning I saw contractors, machinery, a police car and just under a dozen protesters who were standing near the tree. I took this photo yesterday. 020
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Chevin walk this morning, which was both medicinal and - at a stretch - fieldwork. Sort of. 030
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024One more week before the Tittybottle Oak in Otley is felled to put machinery in to fit a temporary footbridge. 000
Reposted by Suzanne OwenKatherine Jane Wright @katherinejanew.bsky.social · 23/11/2024You just shouldn't be able to cut down any tree over 100 years old, unless it's already falling down and is dangerous. Like, why isn't that already a rule? People like old trees, that's not controversial 011
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Planners should have seen this type of protest coming, but they didn't. Alternative plans have been put forward by a campaign group but it's probably being ignored. Save the Tittybottle oak (yes, the name means what you think it does). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukOtley's 180-year-old oak tree to be felled for bridge repairsThe walkway dates back to the 1950s when it was added to the side of an ancient stone bridge. 000
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I'm ready to head to campus for the Open Day but the cat says no. It's suppose to get warmer soon. 140
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024One to add to my list of human-tree relations 020
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Nice sunset seen from Bayton Lane on the way home from work. What little snow we did get in this part of Leeds is almost gone now. 030
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024We had an online book launch for Pagan Religions in Five Minutes (#EquinoxPub) this eve, and my cat was pacing behind the laptop and leaping about the furniture but, unusually, she never came into view on camera. We did see another contributor's cat, though. 050
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024By the way, my co-edited book - Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - just got published with #EquinoxPub. Had an on-campus launch for it yesterday with a few of the contributors. Use the code RELIGION for 25% off when ordering here www.equinoxpub.com/home/pagan-r... 052
