Photos from our trip to Japan (plus our afternoon layover in Shanghai)

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Still recovering from Backrooms. Nasty, stressful film about bad AI art that can't understand doors or hands. They even got the piss filter. Great bit of A24ing.

The @nfsengland.bsky.social is notable for getting positive coverage in both the Guardian and the Telegraph, (despite being an academic humanities project) www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk/press

This month (a week early, on the fourth Monday!) we have the team from Sheffield Hallam's @nfsengland.bsky.social for England talking about their findings. 22nd March, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome! www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk

Taking voluntary severance from Sheffield Hallam, weird times tidal.com/track/110108...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on here, the Greens aren't splitting the left vote because this Labour party isn't left wing.

Might have accidentally taken my new favorite photo today. 😉😊 #wildlife #nature #photography #deer #sunrise #morning

Reminds me of Helen Lewis once comparing transition to immigration, using the UK's violent border regime and immigration system to argue that there should be checks on what gender you're allowed to be. That whole set is reactionary across the board.

日本に行きます！イギリス、じゃあね！

If you're still interested however, you can find Panos' work (and book!) here interregnum.ghost.io/the-precario...

This month is in collaboration with Sheffield Anti-Raids Network, please note different time and location. Panos Theodoropoulos from @intrrgnm.bsky.social will talk on his book The Precarious Migrant Worker. Food 6:30pm, talk 7:00pm. Monday 27th April 6:30pm, Sharrow Community Forum, all welcome!

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Reading 20,000 Leagues under the Sea and it is mostly them doing this youtu.be/wwo8yXXgj40?...

Doing the exercise of drawing "leadership" in class and one of the students invented Hobbes' Leviathan entirely off their own bat.

Also coming up this year: The Precarious Migrant Worker, Megaliths in Folk Horror and the @nfsengland.bsky.social.

This month (in a change to our planned schedule) we have Edanur Yazıcı talking about a study on Migrant Exploitation in the Care Industry by @bristoluni.bsky.social and the Pan-African Workers' Association. Monday 30th March, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

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This month we have @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social's own @marsnicoli.bsky.social talking about Queerness in European Cinema. Also coming up this year The National Folklore Survey for England, The Precarious Migrant Worker and Megaliths (tbc). Monday 23rd February, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

I think a reasonably frequent experience for junior academics is a life wherein they were the smartest person in the room in most rooms they were in (even some pretty fancy rooms) up until The Great Filtration suddenly puts them among a bunch of other people with the same life experience.

My main takeaway from this "automation bias", the assumption that if the AI says it it must be true. Basically "computer says no", market fetishism or (as my partner immediately clocked) the plot of Brazil.

Some photos from @davidraho.bsky.social 's talk on AI to Europe in the Pub on Monday (and to @skepticsinthepub.bsky.social) #creenpy

Definitive ranking: 1) Days 2) Years 3) Bones 4) Weeks

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This month (different venue and earlier than usual) Europe in the Pub has another joint session with Sheffield @skepticsinthepub.bsky.social, and have @davidraho.bsky.social asking Should we be Resisting or Embracing AI?. Monday 19th January, 7:30pm, Farm Road Sports & Social Club, all welcome!

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Article out!

Someone just addressed me as "Europe in the Pub guy", we're slowly building a profile @europeinthepub.bsky.social

Also coming up: megaliths in folk horror, migrant exploitation in the care industry, and AI.

This month we have Joel Mayfield from @unitetheunion.bsky.social talking about the ongoing strike at the Sheffield Veolia plant, which has now outlasted the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Monday 29th September, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

Throwback to the time we saw a heron.

Went to see more great crested grebes and their weird stripy chicks.

Slight change to booking: we're downstairs this evening

ATG Highlights 2025: - We Lost The Sea doing Departure Songs - Envy - Sugar Horse - Godspeed - Melvins - Walpurgis (all Sabbath covers) - Mars Volta channel

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This month, a week earlier than normal, Europe in the Pub has Harriet Earle on Whose war is it anyway? Vietnam, the US and France in conflict... and comics! Monday 18th August, 7:30pm, The Museum. Come along, and bring friends.

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This month the University of Sheffield's Guy Cowman-Sharpe will give us the latest on the US tariff situation. Also coming up this year: Vietnam war comics, early Zionism and folk horror. Monday 28th July, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

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Anya says: "CQ, measures capability to work effectively in diverse situations. CQ predicts readiness for relating effectively with people from different backgrounds. In this interactive session we investigate how you acquire CQ and what happens if you don’t bother!"

This month (a week early) we have Anya Louis, Professor of Transnational Popular Culture from Sheffield Hallam talking about Cultural Intelligence in a Globalised World. Monday 23rd June, usual time and place of 7:30pm at The Museum on Orchard Square. All welcome!

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This month: Chris Hall on the translation and adaptation of Georges Perec's Un Homme qui dort. 28th April, 7:30pm, The Museum, Orchard Square

Call for Contributions: special edition of the journal Nationalism & Ethnic Politics on Nationalism & Irony Deadline for articles, drafts and proposals: Friday 20th June drive.google.com/file/d/1mO2m...

Next session! On Monday 31st March, former parliamentary candidate for Doncaster North TUSC Andy Hiles will be talking about his experiences discussing Brexit on the doorsteps. As ever, 7:30pm, upstairs in the Musuem on Orchard Square. Hope to see you all there!

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A week on Monday! It's probably going to be bitter medicine for Europey types but not to be missed.

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