Emily Taylor

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.

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...

This January we are inhabitants of the audacious snowy last paragraph of James Joyce's "The Dead."

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...)

Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? The old mode of science fiction is disappearing. What's replacing it?

Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? by Matthew Claxton

www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fict...

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

Get through corn sweat season only to enter sweat bee season.

Deleting “thus” is never a mistake. Go for it.

Just heard we lost a typography legend. RIP Jim Parkinson, who designed your favorite news nameplate.

Oh, and the Rolling Stone logo.

Comic images of versions of Star Trek aliens: Andorian, Klingon, Ferengi

@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

And congratulations to Daniel Worden and INKS for these Comics Studies Society nods! comicsstudies.org/uncategorize... @kristener.bsky.social @etaylor.bsky.social

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 .

Every week I say to myself that there never has been a better time to rewatch Brazil and then the next week happens

Just tried to explain what a skate key was to a 10 year old. Did not go well.

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.

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 ...

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...

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?

Who knows if I would have arrived at the editorializing-over-NPR-hosts quite so prematurely on another timeline? Nevertheless, here we are.

When a cat comes out of a room with a real “my work here is done” energy.

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."

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...

@taffyakner.bsky.social bringing The Secret Garden into #longislandcompromise was the NYC suburban teen ‘90s touchstone callback I didn’t know I needed.

The best seat for reading, crying, and looking out over the water.

Doorway showing a rolling mountain landscape

Taking some time for mountaintops and towers.