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Emily Taylor
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Writing & publishing person.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
etaylor.bsky.social
This January we are inhabitants of the audacious snowy last paragraph of James Joyce's "The Dead."
February 6, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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So grateful to be an Ohio Arts Council Grant Recipient this year, and to have programs like this in Ohio. (oac.ohio.gov/home/news-an...)
77 Ohio Artists Approved for Individual Excellence Awards
$375,000 Awarded Across Seven Disciplines
oac.ohio.gov
February 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? by Matthew Claxton

www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fict...
Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?
The old mode of science fiction is disappearing. What's replacing it?
www.typebarmagazine.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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robinjames.bsky.social
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
neilpollyticks.bsky.social Neil PollyTicks 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · Dec 2
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
etaylor.bsky.social
Get through corn sweat season only to enter sweat bee season.
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Deleting “thus” is never a mistake. Go for it.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Just heard we lost a typography legend. RIP Jim Parkinson, who designed your favorite news nameplate.

Oh, and the Rolling Stone logo.
June 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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@justinwigard.bsky.social‬ speaks with ‪@alinapete.bsky.social‬ about their recent anthologies, Indiginerds and Weregeek!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...

@projectmuse.bsky.social #EisnerAwards‬‬ #IndigenousStudies #storytelling #IndigenousHistory #comics #IndigenousAuthors #RepresentationMatters
Comic images of versions of Star Trek aliens: Andorian, Klingon, Ferengi
June 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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rafertess.bsky.social
And congratulations to Daniel Worden and INKS for these Comics Studies Society nods! comicsstudies.org/uncategorize... @kristener.bsky.social @etaylor.bsky.social
2025 Comics Studies Society Awards Shortlist
comicsstudies.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Every week I say to myself that there never has been a better time to rewatch Brazil and then the next week happens
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk .
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April 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
etaylor.bsky.social
Just tried to explain what a skate key was to a 10 year old. Did not go well.
March 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
etaylor.bsky.social
I thought the movie with Michelle Williams that could make me weep the most was Wendy and Lucy but I just caught up on Manchester by the Sea.
February 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian and colonial tropes and offer alternate versions of morality, race, gender, and ...
ohiostatepress.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
etaylor.bsky.social
What will they put on at the Kennedy Center next season? Pajama Game but whole union gets fired instead of 7 1/2 cent raise?
February 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Who knows if I would have arrived at the editorializing-over-NPR-hosts quite so prematurely on another timeline? Nevertheless, here we are.
February 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
etaylor.bsky.social
When a cat comes out of a room with a real “my work here is done” energy.
January 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
etaylor.bsky.social
@taffyakner.bsky.social bringing The Secret Garden into #longislandcompromise was the NYC suburban teen ‘90s touchstone callback I didn’t know I needed.
December 19, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Taking some time for mountaintops and towers.
Doorway showing a rolling mountain landscape
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 PM