Seeing folks say that the rise and normalisation of the alt-right in the UK is because of the US and while I think the UK’s fascists are taking a lot of inspiration by the US’s tactics and aesthetics, it would be really cool for you Brits to also own up to the fact that this shit is also homegrown.

Empathy is our greatest strength.

Looking forward to our paper @drjuliabish.bsky.social @mariamyamin.bsky.social on finding folksong in the NATCECT #Archives of Cultural Tradition @uoscollections.bsky.social for this brilliant conference!

I’ve had some deeply sobering conversations recently about how arts and education organisations across the country are actively preparing for how they’ll navigate life under a Reform MP/ Council/ Govt. This story from Notts feels like a harbinger of things to come www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Save the date! Saturday 4 October is a Black British Folk Renaissance and you are invited. I’ve nurtured this idea for a few years now, so I’m thrilled that @efdss.bsky.social will be hosting it at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social See you there! 🖤 www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-...

New wheels (not the white van) courtesy of my lovely bloke who surprised me with a whole car for my birthday next month #Saab

“If we stop producing people who are trained or educated to help undergraduates understand the most important things thought or written or painted in human history, we might not be able to recover that.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

No, I'm sorry, I can't come back to work, I haven't finished helping Princess Zelda save the Kingdom of Hyrule. Thanks in advance for your understanding in this matter.

#Folklorists against fascism.

Ok. "Starting this Sunday, Extinction Rebellion’s Dirty Water Campaign is launching the World Water Wedding...for people to pledge their troth [hand in marriage] to protect rivers and water bodies across the country" "Actions will [include] hand-fastings & other commitment ceremonies on riverbanks"

Coming Nov 2025 - our new ✨ 'Writing Folklore' ✨ group! A space for creative and academic #Folklore writing led by Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social, Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social and @cathbannister1.bsky.social. Join us on TUOS campus for community and creativity. More details soon! ✒️👨‍💻

Kiruna church is in the news today for being on the move. I mention this in my poem 'Midnight Sun at Abisko', published in the Consilience anthology Field Notes Volume 1 (excerpt below) www.consilience-journal.com/field-notes

Off to the East Coast tomorrow for my hols, and thanks to a hot tip from @davidwclarke.bsky.social, a spot of werewolf hunting. theconversation.com/why-we-shoul...

Like Jeremy Corbyn and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, I grew up in Woodcraft Folk. Here’s how it changes children’s lives | Phineas Harper

looking forward to being part of the Newer Researchers in #Folklore event on 26 Sept alongside amazing experts at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social There's still places for this free day of Folklore Studies workshops @folkloresociety.bsky.social @herts.ac.uk www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

the trick is the scientist has to be having secret lunch dates with a poet, where they eat plums and cheese, and he’ll look at the plum, then the poet, then BAM he’ll just know it doesn’t work any other way, everyone knows this

So...who was going to tell me that Brownies has a #Folklore badge?!!! www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-we-do/o...

Brilliant @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social member Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social will be In Conversation with the Society of Young Publishers about her debut novel, 30 Aug at The Mowbray, Sheffield, if any of you would like to pop along and hear about her folklore-inspired writing!

Wish I could get my #fandom badge. I've absolutely earned it #girlguiding 🏴‍☠️☠️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heading back to my happy place.

I've been lured out of hiding by a mate to check out the Sheffield event @stoneclub.bsky.social. Feeling very old and definitely not down with the folk kids about this so please say hi to your Nanna if you see me.

It makes sense then that #fanfic #writers were among the first creators to raise the alarm about their work being fed into learning language models powering generative #AI without their knowledge or permission. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I am so excited for this workshop!

Sums up me opening an email today pretty well.

Really looking forward to this @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social online #storytelling workshop. Finally, a space where talking to myself dramatically is encouraged! Still places available for 16th July if you want to join in! Free on Eventbrite.

This is my Coca Cola Christmas Truck #Halloweeniscoming

Congratulations to our brilliant @accessfolk.bsky.social colleagues on their team prize for open research @openresshef.bsky.social 🍾🎵

Billy Hobbys well in Chester is reputed to be the home of a local Hobgoblin🧚‍♀️ & was famously used by single women to wish for a husband. It is still used today for those hoping to have their wishes granted. Last year people wished for tickets for Taylor Swift & ....um ....😺😂 #witchsky #folkloresky

And to borrow from what our leading man, @rhysiedarby.bsky.social, has been saying there is no way AI could do this! 👇 There is nothing like human creativity and the joy it can bring the world. #YOFT #OFMD

Flying Ant Day, they get bigger every year 😆

I am so excited about this project! And so lucky to have the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from two such excellent folklorists 📚

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to our work on how we can evaluate whether digital technologies have good societal outcomes - the Digital Good Index. We set out some ideas about how the DGI might take shape on our website: digitalgood.net/dg-research/...

Different David Mitchell.

108 Labour MPs have signed the reasoned amendment, including key figures like Meg Hillier (Treasury select committee chair), Debbie Abrahams (Work and Pensions select committee chair), and former transport secretary Louise Haigh. This is over a quarter of Labour's MPs. So far.

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Day 24 of #30dayswildmultilingual - is the wind blowing where you are? Find three things blowing in the breeze, and name them in any language :) #30dayswild

CND condemns the move to ban Palestine Action. Non-violent direct action at military bases has a strong history within our society - from Greenham Common through to many other RAF bases today. Peaceful action to stop war and genocide is not terrorism.

All set up for our zine-making workshop for children and families today at @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase

FREE CFRC online storytelling workshop 16 July led by Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social and Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social of the @lincsfolk.bsky.social study and Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social of Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told! Details👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...

While I couldn't attend in person it was lovely to share plans for a historical, contemporary and creative dive into this #Folklore classic at @folkloresociety.bsky.social conference at @ucc.ie. Kudos @paulcowdell.bsky.social for presenting our ideas and @draflint.bsky.social for her brilliant poem.

With a brilliant bunch of colleagues, we’ve put together a poster for #DARIAH2025 on how folklore collections are expanding into digital research infrastructures. Presentation tomorrow at the Alte Mensa venue. Digital folklore resources mentioned > traditionarchives.org/resources/digital-resources

We're getting excited for 'Folklore and the Senses', our conference with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie next week, 20-22 June! Online tickets are still available to buy until 21 June (in-person registration has now closed) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...

medieval pride parade!

Grim stuff. I’m a USU alum: they have one of the few centers of excellence in #folklore left in the whole US.

Delighted that @berrypillot.bsky.social will be talking about her award-winning research on children's play in London and Liverpool in the Second World War as part of the @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social online seminar series on 25 June, 1-2.30 pm. See below to book your place!

My latest research article 'Monstrous Megaliths: Ancient Stones in Folk Horror Film and Television – Showing, Telling and Making On-Screen Folklore' proposes my own methodology to describe the showing, telling and making of folklore on-screen.VERY proud of this! www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Folklore friends, the portal to The Otherworld was discovered this afternoon by my Tiny Son halfway up a tree in the Middle Bailey at Nottingham Castle. Fortunately, we're quite safe as it had iron hinges and latch-fittings.

Iona Opie and the People in the Playground is tonight’s Between the Ears… Listen to Opie's extraordinary recordings that reveal the language and rituals of young people being remade through time. Produced by James Spinney Photo by Matt Houghton www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are humbled by the fact that over 1250 of you have already contacted your MP - THANK YOU! If you haven't already please do so via our webpage which makes it very easy. The government needs to look at the evidence presented by their own experts and many others. act.bats.org.uk/planning-and...