Josephine Taylor

Very excited to be discussing my book Monday 16th March for Greenhouse Book Talks!

Issue 3.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’ is now live online. This journal is #openaccess again in 2026 through #subscribetoopen – with warm thanks to all of our subscriber-supporters! Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
#plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social

🗞️ Great News: 4 × 3-year postdoc positions in the Multispecies Mutualisms project at the University of Sheffield. 🗓 Deadline: 12 April. Please share & encourage great applicants! 🌱 jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/4-x-Rese.... @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social

Some stuff from my art therapy sessions

Last week Audrey Plan (UCD Research Culture) and myself on behalf of the #PostdocsSpotlight project had a chance to discuss our experience with running the project during the UCD-University of Strathclyde Joint Seed Funding Workshop & Everyday Cultures Collaboration Conference in Glasgow🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 [1/2]

A sunny 5k in Dublin - a break from article writing

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Spring has started to sprout and the @greenhouseuis.net is looking forward to full month with events on everything from climate justice in education over the sea urchins on the menu to the architecture of low-voltage cabins.

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“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

Malahide 💙🌊

So much love and so much pride in being a part of the beyond gender collective. And our cyborg feminist Katie Stone translating our ideas, chats and work into this wonderful zine

Beyond fear and conflict: A new framework exploring wildlife, environment, interactions, institutions & justice to make human-predator relations more convivial. 🐻🌿🤝#HumanWildlifeCoexistence pollenpoliticalecology.network/coexistence-...

Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick The six-storey building on O’Connell St, Limerick, has been donated to the State by billionaire businessman JP McManus

Well this is interesting news. ‘Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick’
#spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

is his brain so much more comprehensive, combining, and subtle than man’s, that he can at the same moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on one side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction?

In Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry corporations have applications in to harvest seaweed from the coast with absolutely no oversight.
Corporatisation of seaweed harvest would be a significant negative step for the west

What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research - LSE Impact What can oral histories tell us about the tacit knowledge required for successful collaborative environmental and sustainability research.

What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research – @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

@renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

A morning walk in Dublin centre 🌼🌞

Shakespeare’s Body Language Why do the Capulets bite their thumbs at the Montagues? Why do the Venetians spit upon Shylock's Jewish gaberdine? What is it about Volumnia's act of kneeling t…

Bloomsbury are having a sale at the moment and there's one day left to get my book, Shakespeare's Body Language, at 30-40% off! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social

If you've ever wondered why Romeo and Juliet starts with a thumb bite - and what it means - I got ya.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...

New episode from ASLE EcoCast, "Cows in the Caribbean: Cattle Chat with Chaz and Andrew"--Chaz Yingling and Andrew Kettler chat about their forthcoming book: The Once and the Future Cow. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky #ecocriticism

On 16th March, I will be interviewed for the Greenhouse book talks, about my book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy. Link below. It will also be recorded as a podcast, so tune in!

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Ur fuckin jokin

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 …

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:

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

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...

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.

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....

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

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.

📀 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 ⬇️

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

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

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 🏃‍♀️