Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have sticky back tape, if that's any use. I'll be at FantasyCon. 100
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm dropping into FantasyCon on Sunday - looking forward to attending panels and meeting other delegates 010
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 · 10/07/2026Haruki Murakami was always good with secondary characters - often they were more interesting and fully-realised than the protagonists! An example is Oshima the librarian in Kafka on the Shore. 000
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
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It doesn't mention a fifth option, which appears in the history - military intervention. In the US they defend the constitution, not a particular office holder. 100
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I've just recommended you to another author for editing 110
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
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Slightly implies that secularisation is the opposite of becoming more 'religious' (in the sense of attending a church), while I understand it as freedom from and for 'religion'. That the Catholic Church is increasing attendance is proof of secularisation (it's allowed to exist). 100
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 · 14/07/2025Thinking is hard - so the lazy turn to AI without legitimate cause and help to destroy the environment. 000
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
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025A large beardless man in a leather cloak appeared at her cell door and pressed his shoulder against the bars to force the key to turn. ‘Come on out,’ he said. Liza remained on the pallet, unable to move, struggling to swallow. The man sighed. 'Come... on... out.' #WriteCBC 030
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 · 03/05/2025Well, this from the Guardian indicates that Labour voters either did not turn out or switched to voting for Green or LibDem. Labour should leave Reform for the Tories to worry about and ditch austerity. 000
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 · 19/04/2025As a child when I declared to my dad that I wanted to be a palaeontologist, he put me down and said 'you'd have to study science', as if that was beyond me. I did work as an archeological site assistant later for a few years. 110
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Btw, I don't do GIFs because they agitate me 000
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025The highest hill on the island is 241 metres (a 'marilyn') on St Boniface Down. When you search 'marilyn height' you get 37-23-36, which isn't about height at all! At least the results didn't insert extra letters to your search term. 000
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
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I tore a tendon in my arm climbing over a fence. That never used to happen when I was younger. 110
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 · 20/03/2025I was going to count the Warsaw album as the debut - I didn't know it was a 'bootleg' circulated by RCA. I should dig it out and have a look at it more closely, but it's not a great album, like the two released by Joy Division (not counting Still). 010
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 · 12/03/2025Ah, it's often the case that students will be getting ideas from US-based media sources. In any case, I've now steered him to look at the relationship between secularisation, freedom of conscience and the decline of religious commitment in the UK and Germany. 000
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025If from analytical philosophy, then they tend to deliberately make it difficult with such questions! 100
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Where does this formula come from? A student has asked about researching politics replacing religion. I've never heard that type of phrasing. It seemed to be a Habermas type of study rather than politics as religion. 110
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 · 08/03/2025That was my thought, now grown over with heather. Certainly a lot less interesting than the symbol on the map led me to expect! 000
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 · 20/02/2025I read the book first - The Dumas Club - which I enjoyed 000
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025What film is that? It doesn't look like Monty Python's Holy Grail. 000
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025To find our course, you need to search under 'philosophy' now. 000
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Not for several years. We only offer Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - I teach one religion module each year. Most of it is philosophy-oriented. 100
Suzanne Owen @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025For a subject that started at Lancaster in 1967, Religious Studies has had a short life in the UK. 000
