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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake

@bethanjuliet.bsky.social

PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds

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Thanks!

02.09.2025 07:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thankyou!!

01.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also means Im now officially locked out of my old student email (after 10 years 😢) so message on my staff one

01.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m now a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds for this year!

01.09.2025 13:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Amazing, I’d love to hear more about it! & of course :)!

21.05.2025 13:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thankyou!!

21.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!

21.05.2025 12:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!!

21.05.2025 10:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much :)!

21.05.2025 09:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My PhD thesis ‘The satanic cult conspiracy: how online conspiracy theory discourses construct moral panic’ is now up on WREO: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...

21.05.2025 09:06 — 👍 51    🔁 17    💬 6    📌 1
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And first day on site setting up the new exhibition (and curating a cabinet of curiosities) for the museum of the history of science, technology & medicine at the uni

09.05.2025 11:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Phd corrections accepted!!

09.05.2025 11:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thankyou!! Will send a new bio over :)!

09.05.2025 11:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Big thank you to my examiners Aled Thomas @aledjllthomas.bsky.social & David Robertson @davidgrobertson.bsky.social ! And my amazing supervisors Caroline Starkey @carostarkey.bsky.social , Mike Finn & Mel Prideaux 🖤

04.04.2025 17:58 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
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I PASSED MY PHD VIVA!!! Introducing Dr Oake

04.04.2025 15:35 — 👍 59    🔁 0    💬 16    📌 1

Update the clinical trials rejected me

25.03.2025 09:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!!

17.03.2025 17:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thankyou!!

17.03.2025 10:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thankyou!!

17.03.2025 10:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I submitted my PhD!!!

17.03.2025 09:54 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 6    📌 0

Officially reached the deleting all social media phase of the PhD write up. See you in a month once it’s submitted!

23.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Great couple days at the OU Religion & Disinformation workshop. Thanks again to @paulftremlett.bsky.social & @preciouschatd.bsky.social !!

22.01.2025 12:47 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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And also getting lost on ilkley moor (again) and finding a stone circle in the process

01.01.2025 18:37 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last year highlight - searching for the demon wisht hounds of wistman’s wood, Dartmoor

01.01.2025 18:37 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Post-PhD job searching (There are no jobs and I’m signing up for paid clinical trials)

18.12.2024 10:54 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Really enjoyed the talk, thanks so much!!

04.12.2024 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Worst timing ever!

04.12.2024 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s stayed like this for about a week now so just hoping it’s not going to get any worse!!

04.12.2024 13:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Now fighting against time and this growing crack in my laptop screen with 2 months to go for the thesis deadline. Who has hexed me

04.12.2024 12:46 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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Presented a paper, found a haunted hotel & met some real life mermaids. Thank you #sblaar24 !

28.11.2024 13:49 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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