Stephen Taylor
@wstaylor87.bsky.social
Geography | Global Health | Queen Mary University of London | Likely to be found reading a book on a train, somewhere between Cambridge and London
@totallyshow.bsky.social FIFA are going to award a "peace prize" at the 2026 World Cup Draw. Presumably doing what the Nobel Committee wouldnt do and giving it to Donald Trump. After awarding World Cups to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, presumably Gianni wanted to do something *less* controversial?
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
@totallyshow.bsky.social FIFA are going to award a "peace prize" at the 2026 World Cup Draw. Presumably doing what the Nobel Committee wouldnt do and giving it to Donald Trump. After awarding World Cups to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, presumably Gianni wanted to do something *less* controversial?
"It is protected by an energy shield which is generated from the nearby forest towns of Oxford".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New set of forest towns to be built between Oxford and Cambridge
Communities in the middle of new national forest to show how housebuilding can be delivered alongside nature
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"It is protected by an energy shield which is generated from the nearby forest towns of Oxford".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Every rankings e-mail I receive (THE, QS etc.) ends up in my institutional e-mail quarantine. Think of all of that labour around soliciting e-mail addresses and a lot it ends in invites being filed as spam…
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Every rankings e-mail I receive (THE, QS etc.) ends up in my institutional e-mail quarantine. Think of all of that labour around soliciting e-mail addresses and a lot it ends in invites being filed as spam…
Excellent piece on the worrying decision to ‘sunset’ UNAIDS in 2026. The rise of injectables has given the tech fix brigade a victory, but it was also the advocacy, social and demographic work of highly stigmatised communities that marked out UNAIDS. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UNAids is set to close in 2026 – four years early. Are experts right to be alarmed?
The move to shut the agency comes as aid budgets are being slashed, leading to fears that global progress on HIV may be reversed
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Excellent piece on the worrying decision to ‘sunset’ UNAIDS in 2026. The rise of injectables has given the tech fix brigade a victory, but it was also the advocacy, social and demographic work of highly stigmatised communities that marked out UNAIDS. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Exploring Earth Photo 2025 competition shortlist and the dazzling dahlias at Anglesey Abbey this morning.
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Exploring Earth Photo 2025 competition shortlist and the dazzling dahlias at Anglesey Abbey this morning.
Enjoying the faulty train signal outside Bishops Stortford that is only showing red/stop this morning.
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Enjoying the faulty train signal outside Bishops Stortford that is only showing red/stop this morning.
“Britain has been infected by a mind virus that sees no value in place,” says chair of GB News. They’ll be on about scale next.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience
White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“Britain has been infected by a mind virus that sees no value in place,” says chair of GB News. They’ll be on about scale next.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Can’t recommend this book enough (having had it recommended to me by an Australian undergraduate student). The chapter on the ghostly afterlife of the Golden Ridge Station hair sample collected by Alfred Haddon in 1923 is worth the price of admission alone.
www.dukeupress.edu/haunting-bio...
www.dukeupress.edu/haunting-bio...
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia
www.dukeupress.edu
October 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Can’t recommend this book enough (having had it recommended to me by an Australian undergraduate student). The chapter on the ghostly afterlife of the Golden Ridge Station hair sample collected by Alfred Haddon in 1923 is worth the price of admission alone.
www.dukeupress.edu/haunting-bio...
www.dukeupress.edu/haunting-bio...
Time spent with this excellent book has been one of the benefits of the return to long commutes this semester. The focus is on the murder of Emmett Till, but with a focus on the long history and geography of the Delta landscape that made that horror possible.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/467703...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/467703...
The Barn
Emmett Till’s murder is one of the most infamous in American history; a moment that, more than any other, awakened the world to the racism of the Deep South. Yet despite growing up just a few miles fr...
www.penguin.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Time spent with this excellent book has been one of the benefits of the return to long commutes this semester. The focus is on the murder of Emmett Till, but with a focus on the long history and geography of the Delta landscape that made that horror possible.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/467703...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/467703...
I’m not sure what I think about this book. It’s an accessible overview of planet hunting, but for all the possibilities of life elsewhere never really gets to addressing the fundamental shock that alien life on *one* exoplanet would be to our entire sense of being.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/460729...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/460729...
Alien Earths
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question should have an obvious answer: yes or no. B...
www.penguin.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’m not sure what I think about this book. It’s an accessible overview of planet hunting, but for all the possibilities of life elsewhere never really gets to addressing the fundamental shock that alien life on *one* exoplanet would be to our entire sense of being.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/460729...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/460729...
Nice trip to Audley End today with the kids. Last time I was there, I got engaged.
September 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Nice trip to Audley End today with the kids. Last time I was there, I got engaged.
Future geographer has a birthday party today, and I provided some consultancy on the design of the cake.
August 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Future geographer has a birthday party today, and I provided some consultancy on the design of the cake.
So @totallyshow.bsky.social, Almaty is closer to Tokyo (5329 km) than it is to Newcastle (5539 km). Roll on the Champions League draw!
August 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So @totallyshow.bsky.social, Almaty is closer to Tokyo (5329 km) than it is to Newcastle (5539 km). Roll on the Champions League draw!
This is a great and accessible book on indigenous histories, particularly the experiences of those who chose or (more likely) were compelled to come to Europe’s “savage” shores of inequality, violence and intolerance.
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/carol...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/carol...
On Savage Shores
A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of the Year. One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Histor...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is a great and accessible book on indigenous histories, particularly the experiences of those who chose or (more likely) were compelled to come to Europe’s “savage” shores of inequality, violence and intolerance.
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/carol...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/carol...
Some of the fiercest fighting in World War I was in Serbia, Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. I enjoyed Nick Lloyd’s different perspective on that conflict and learned a lot.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/443194...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/443194...
The Eastern Front
In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war': the vast conflict in East...
www.penguin.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Some of the fiercest fighting in World War I was in Serbia, Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. I enjoyed Nick Lloyd’s different perspective on that conflict and learned a lot.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/443194...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/443194...
Thanks @pierrenovellie.bsky.social for a great night on the front row at @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social #edfringe yesterday.
I very much deserved my “sniping” but he was just so funny! #comedy #DaretoDiscover
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
I very much deserved my “sniping” but he was just so funny! #comedy #DaretoDiscover
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
It's time for Pierre to do stand-up! It's time for you to watch! Why not just embrace that, for God's sake? All earthly glories fade! Co-host of the Frank Skinner podcast. As seen on World's Most Dangerous Roads (U&Dave), The Mash Report (BBC Two), Stand Up Central (Comedy Central). Heard on The Now Show and The News Quiz and Breaking The News (BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Scotland).
www.edfringe.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Thanks @pierrenovellie.bsky.social for a great night on the front row at @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social #edfringe yesterday.
I very much deserved my “sniping” but he was just so funny! #comedy #DaretoDiscover
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
I very much deserved my “sniping” but he was just so funny! #comedy #DaretoDiscover
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
First time using Google AI mode in search. Completely made up answer that bore no semblance to the original search response.
August 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
First time using Google AI mode in search. Completely made up answer that bore no semblance to the original search response.
Just devoured Quinine’s Remains by Townsend Middleton. Rooted in fieldwork across Darjeeling’s overgrown - yet somehow surviving - cinchona plantations, it eloquently excavates the afterlives of empire, colonial medicine, labour regimes, and conflicts around land.
www.ucpress.edu/books/quinin...
www.ucpress.edu/books/quinin...
Quinine's Remains by Townsend Middleton - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
July 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just devoured Quinine’s Remains by Townsend Middleton. Rooted in fieldwork across Darjeeling’s overgrown - yet somehow surviving - cinchona plantations, it eloquently excavates the afterlives of empire, colonial medicine, labour regimes, and conflicts around land.
www.ucpress.edu/books/quinin...
www.ucpress.edu/books/quinin...
Reposted by Stephen Taylor
The Phillies debuted the “Coldplay Kiss Cam” tonight 😂
(via X/JasonFox29)
(via X/JasonFox29)
July 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The Phillies debuted the “Coldplay Kiss Cam” tonight 😂
(via X/JasonFox29)
(via X/JasonFox29)
July 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Quite the statistic here: 11 women (all aged 19-35) accounted for 9% of the total A&E admissions at Barrow-in-Furness hospital last year. It’s believed to be a pattern of self-harm and self-neglect among vulnerable adults intended to access hospital care.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Britain in 2025: sick man of Europe battling untreated illness crisis
As poverty deepens across Britain, the Guardian visited some of the hardest-hit places where leaders are aiming to shift healthcare from hospitals to communities
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Quite the statistic here: 11 women (all aged 19-35) accounted for 9% of the total A&E admissions at Barrow-in-Furness hospital last year. It’s believed to be a pattern of self-harm and self-neglect among vulnerable adults intended to access hospital care.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Here's my MLB All-Star Ballot.
June 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Here's my MLB All-Star Ballot.
Quite the line in the independent report into the University of Dundee's finances:
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June 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Quite the line in the independent report into the University of Dundee's finances:
www.sfc.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
www.sfc.ac.uk/wp-content/u...