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Spring has truly sprung when the blackthorn flowers. In Otley it started earlier in March and now it's at its peak.

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Here's part of what I saw

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I 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.

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Interesting 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...

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Using 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.

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The 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

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Wassailing 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.

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While 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.

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You 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.

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Tree defenders at the Tittybottle Oak today, keeping the tree safe.

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I'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'.

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There's a chapter on the background to this in Pagan Religions in Five Minutes (Equinox 2024).

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Crucial few days for the oak in Tittybottle Park, Otley - 24-hour watch to protect it from felling by #LeedsCityCouncil

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Wonderful 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.

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Know of this @dralyal.bsky.social ? Seems to have involvement from Uni of.

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One 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.

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I did the best that I could

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Tree is still there at lunchtime. No protesters, no police, a rearranged cage and a couple of contractors.

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Today, 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.

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Chevin walk this morning, which was both medicinal and - at a stretch - fieldwork. Sort of.

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