Josephine Taylor
@josietaylor.bsky.social
Postdoc on energy narratives in Ireland. Research and life between Dublin and Brighton. Beyond Gender Collective. Life with bipolar rage and love 💥🧡
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Josephine Taylor
@josietaylor.bsky.social
· May 16
The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy
This book brings the emerging field of petrocultures and energy humanities discourse into conversation with the field of animal studies.
link.springer.com
My book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multi species Encounters in Extraction Zones is coming out this year 25th July: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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The British Museum has removed the word ‘Palestine’ from information panels and galleries following pressure from the group UK Lawyers for Israel:
British Museum removes the word ‘Palestine’ from exhibits
The British Museum has removed the word ‘Palestine’ from information panels and galleries following pressure from the group UK Lawyers for Israel
www.newarab.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Ur fuckin jokin
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We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. 31/03:
CHASE placement opportunity at the Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available …
www.openlibhums.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. 31/03:
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of my great uncle, Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strike. Solidarity to all my Irish family today and the commemorations happening in Ballina, across Ireland, today and over the weekend 🇮🇪
February 12, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of my great uncle, Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strike. Solidarity to all my Irish family today and the commemorations happening in Ballina, across Ireland, today and over the weekend 🇮🇪
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Why is US President Donald Trump eyeing Greenland, Ukraine – and now Cornwall? 👀
It’s all part of a global scramble for critical minerals – materials that power data centres, smartphones, advanced weapons systems and clean energy technologies.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It’s all part of a global scramble for critical minerals – materials that power data centres, smartphones, advanced weapons systems and clean energy technologies.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Cornish tin mine could reopen with Trump administration investment
South Crofty site could get $225m funding as US seeks to secure supply of critical metal
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Why is US President Donald Trump eyeing Greenland, Ukraine – and now Cornwall? 👀
It’s all part of a global scramble for critical minerals – materials that power data centres, smartphones, advanced weapons systems and clean energy technologies.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It’s all part of a global scramble for critical minerals – materials that power data centres, smartphones, advanced weapons systems and clean energy technologies.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature was published this week by @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection brings so many new perspectives to the discussion of death and the body in Irish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature | Home
Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature was published this week by @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection brings so many new perspectives to the discussion of death and the body in Irish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom
February 9, 2026 at 11:47 AM
in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom
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📀 Professor Kevin K. Gaines explores how Stevie Wonder's album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants was inspired by political movements, global musical styles and engagement with nature at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture.
📆 4 March
⏰ 18:00
🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️
📆 4 March
⏰ 18:00
🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️
Global Culture and Environmental Consciousness in Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants | King's College London
Professor Kevin K. Gaines situates Stevie Wonder’s 1979 album, “Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants,” within the artist’s engagement with global cultures and social movements.
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February 9, 2026 at 10:12 AM
📀 Professor Kevin K. Gaines explores how Stevie Wonder's album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants was inspired by political movements, global musical styles and engagement with nature at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture.
📆 4 March
⏰ 18:00
🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️
📆 4 March
⏰ 18:00
🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️
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Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!
PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
February 9, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!
My reading has suffered over recent years but am building inspiration slowly with poems and short stories. These are the present two
February 7, 2026 at 8:06 AM
My reading has suffered over recent years but am building inspiration slowly with poems and short stories. These are the present two
Reading more poetry, as memoir writing includes poetic extracts. A fitting poem as I reflect on working class background struggles and tensions in the present
February 6, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Reading more poetry, as memoir writing includes poetic extracts. A fitting poem as I reflect on working class background struggles and tensions in the present
Ah this morning's run 🏃♀️
February 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Ah this morning's run 🏃♀️
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Come on Ireland, sign! For these ECIs to work and be considered by the European Commission, 7 EU member states must meet their threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are now at 8,951, 88 8%. No more EU-Israel Agreement for the apartheid state.
#SanctionsNow
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#SanctionsNow
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
February 3, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Come on Ireland, sign! For these ECIs to work and be considered by the European Commission, 7 EU member states must meet their threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are now at 8,951, 88 8%. No more EU-Israel Agreement for the apartheid state.
#SanctionsNow
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
#SanctionsNow
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
Jump for joy that sun is finally shining in Dublin ⛅
January 28, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Jump for joy that sun is finally shining in Dublin ⛅
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Academics can, but Universities as institutions have been taken over by a craven management class that will align themselves with state interests, as we saw with the policing of anti-genocide protests in the past two years.
Universities can be a “thorn in the side” of undemocratic governments in the post-truth era, according to the editor of a new book. Patrick Jack reports #academicsky #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/universities-threat-misinformation-post-truth-era
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/universities-threat-misinformation-post-truth-era
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Academics can, but Universities as institutions have been taken over by a craven management class that will align themselves with state interests, as we saw with the policing of anti-genocide protests in the past two years.
My notebook to write my autotheory oil and bipolar memoir says this on the front. Radiating manic energy.
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
My notebook to write my autotheory oil and bipolar memoir says this on the front. Radiating manic energy.
Friday evening's reading
January 23, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Friday evening's reading
This was so powerful - starting to read poetry, a form I never really engaged with and this was an awe inspiring place to start
January 17, 2026 at 6:21 AM
This was so powerful - starting to read poetry, a form I never really engaged with and this was an awe inspiring place to start
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Ellen Meiksins Wood passed away 10 years ago today.
From her classic The Origin of Capitalism, to The Retreat from Class, she made major contributions to history, sociology, and theory.
To celebrate her life, we're offering 30% off all of her titles.
From her classic The Origin of Capitalism, to The Retreat from Class, she made major contributions to history, sociology, and theory.
To celebrate her life, we're offering 30% off all of her titles.
Ellen Meiksins Wood: Groundbreaking Marxist Historian and Political Th
From her classic historical work, The Origin of Capitalism, to her sharp criticism of the Post-Marxist milieu in The Retreat from Class, Ellen Meiksins Wood was a Marxist thinker with major contributi...
www.versobooks.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Ellen Meiksins Wood passed away 10 years ago today.
From her classic The Origin of Capitalism, to The Retreat from Class, she made major contributions to history, sociology, and theory.
To celebrate her life, we're offering 30% off all of her titles.
From her classic The Origin of Capitalism, to The Retreat from Class, she made major contributions to history, sociology, and theory.
To celebrate her life, we're offering 30% off all of her titles.
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Given supply dynamics and trajectories, I think control of Venezuela's actual oil is less relevant than the message sent to other countries hosting US oil majors. If national govts threaten their operations by demanding remediation/payment of liabilities, they now have to contemplate invasion.
January 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Given supply dynamics and trajectories, I think control of Venezuela's actual oil is less relevant than the message sent to other countries hosting US oil majors. If national govts threaten their operations by demanding remediation/payment of liabilities, they now have to contemplate invasion.
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The US has begun an unprovoked and unjustified war for conquest and oil, as President Trump has himself made clear on several occasions. The Americans also now claim to have abducted a foreign leader in his own country. This imperialist aggression must be condemned.
January 3, 2026 at 10:08 AM
The US has begun an unprovoked and unjustified war for conquest and oil, as President Trump has himself made clear on several occasions. The Americans also now claim to have abducted a foreign leader in his own country. This imperialist aggression must be condemned.
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they saw the before lifeless head throbbing and heaving just below the surface of the sea, as if that moment seized with some momentous idea
January 3, 2026 at 9:47 AM
they saw the before lifeless head throbbing and heaving just below the surface of the sea, as if that moment seized with some momentous idea
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* DEADLINE EXTENDED *
We are now accepting applications for the 2026 National Mentoring Programme until Friday 16 January, at 5pm.
This is an opportunity open to all writers across the island of Ireland.
For all the information you need, check out our site: irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...
We are now accepting applications for the 2026 National Mentoring Programme until Friday 16 January, at 5pm.
This is an opportunity open to all writers across the island of Ireland.
For all the information you need, check out our site: irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...
January 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
* DEADLINE EXTENDED *
We are now accepting applications for the 2026 National Mentoring Programme until Friday 16 January, at 5pm.
This is an opportunity open to all writers across the island of Ireland.
For all the information you need, check out our site: irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...
We are now accepting applications for the 2026 National Mentoring Programme until Friday 16 January, at 5pm.
This is an opportunity open to all writers across the island of Ireland.
For all the information you need, check out our site: irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...
I wrote an author's note on my book for the energy humanities website, do check it out: www.energyhumanities.ca/news/the-non...
Energy Humanities News | The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multispecies Encounters in Extraction
In this Author’s Note, Josephine Taylor outlines the intellectual and ethical foundations of her recent book, The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy, tracing how animal life has been rendered absent within...
www.energyhumanities.ca
January 2, 2026 at 7:12 AM
I wrote an author's note on my book for the energy humanities website, do check it out: www.energyhumanities.ca/news/the-non...
Autotheory reading to think through my own writing on combining petrocultural analysis and fossil fuel energy with my experience of manic energy
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Autotheory reading to think through my own writing on combining petrocultural analysis and fossil fuel energy with my experience of manic energy
Completely obsessed with synth electric pop musician Halsey and the badlands Petrocultural elements, which has dystopian themes with car freedom iconography along with her early experiences with bipolar. Have spent the past week obsessively analysing 😅
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Completely obsessed with synth electric pop musician Halsey and the badlands Petrocultural elements, which has dystopian themes with car freedom iconography along with her early experiences with bipolar. Have spent the past week obsessively analysing 😅