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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Shocker! Also shocker: It’s not true www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Excited to be awarded a writing residency @the-vcca.bsky.social and going this fall!

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

With Fulbright Portugal support, I visited central Portugal and hear one town's experience integrating foreign migrants into their plans for climate resiliency, reducing wildfire risk, and rural revitalization. Also, goats! 🐐 Read my piece in the @ssir.org summer issue! ssir.org/articles/ent...

Shows about a dozen brown goats walking along a dirt road in the mountains toward grazing land, trees on either side.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

From Andrew Leyden: helicopter responded after chase on Connecticut Ave over Taft Bridge

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The WPA guide to Utah featured photos of Frisco ("Utah's richest silver town") and Butch Cassidy with his gang. More nuggets can be found in the Utah State digital exhibit, The American Guide Series: American Culture Defined: exhibits.usu.edu/exhibits/sho...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thx Penney White for writing to @pw.org about Serena Alaggapan's article on The People's Recorder podcast: "What resonated was poet Kiki Petrosino's comment, 'We still need every voice ...The People's Recorder is a necessary exercise... It is truly a 'dynamic exchange.'" www.pw.org/content/reac...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“This isn’t an argument against technology. A.I. holds extraordinary promise. For that promise to be realized, ethical guardrails grounded in human well-being, not market dominance or political expedience, are necessary.” Letters to the editor: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Related: article in Oneida newsletter about Native voices in FWP & @peoplesrecorder (Kalihwisaks = 'Good news.') Along with Oneida WPA writers, listeners hear from contemporary Oneida including comedian Charlie Hill, historian Loretta Metoxen, and more. includes QR links to ep + related on youtube.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Excited to have our podcast The People’s Recorder featured in this issue, and our host Chris Haley!

Black man around age 40 wearing a denim shirt speaking before a microphone, recording narration

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Looking for a thrilling human story of environmental security? Pick up a few copies of CORK WARS: INTRIGUE AND INDUSTRY IN WW2, in this holiday sale from Hopkins Press. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... See promo code below. Also available as an #audiobook

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What makes for a meaningful life? 3 @nber.org economists + LLMs put that question to 1300 life stories gathered by the Federal Writers' Project & crunched the numbers. Click 👇 for the answer.. + Visit The People's Recorder, still learning from the "giant listening project": www.peoplesrecorder.info

Black and white photo of two African American men dressed in ties and coats, one holds a guitar, the other holds a stand-up bass.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players Like Their Counterparts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

For @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social I wrote how a convergence of environmental crime and organized crime speeds damage to the planet. And how journalists can help create a clearer picture of what's going on. Thx Lauren Hirzer Risi and @stimsoncenter.bsky.social www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/09/clim...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Find out the rest of the story in my book Ginseng, the Divine Root: davidataylor.org/books/ginsen...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Monday 9/1 is the start of ginseng season in West Virginia. What is ginseng season? Find out the root's saga in my book, Ginseng, the Divine Root from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

In foregound, a man's hand holds an uprooted plant, the thin tendrils of a ginseng root. In background the man's face and the forest greenery is out of focus.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It was a thrill to pick up Craig Thompson’s graphic memoir Ginseng Roots & find his homage to my own @AlgonquinBooks.social book Ginseng, the Divine Root. His story of ginseng farming & growing up is amazing. Gripping account of life, death & nature. @ScienceWriters.social #graphicmemoir #forests

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I reviewed @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS for @wirobooks.bsky.social: www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t...

Book cover of Penguin Classics "Twelve Stories by American Women" shows a woman in 19th-century clothes facing a typewriter and looking out a window, where a variety of eight women of different skin tones in long 19th-century dresses are on a hillside doing various activities: reading, talking, walking along a path.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A DC crowd within sight of the White House calls for Free DC, not using the National Guard for a political ploy

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Reading and Travel: “The intersection of social media and literature is creating an entirely new travel category,” a new report says. Gen Z and young millennials are “turning fiction into flight plans.” s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

… and details on how defunded grants actually were studying life-ending conditions faced by millions of Americans

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

… with a clearer picture of NIH research grants cut short…

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Trump’s tax bill plan adds to federal debt, prompting investor backlash

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Our podcast, The People's Recorder, produced by Spark Media and hosted by Chris Haley, has been nominated for Best Indie Podcast at The Ambies! Learn more about The People's Recorder and listen: www.peoplesrecorder.info Thx @podcastacademy.bsky.social

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users. That’s a lot of growth in a year!

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

The Newton apple tree’s descendant, still hanging in there for science and story, still a landmark on my walks. #newtonappletree #sciencehistory #gravity #physics #dc #apples

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Yesterday among other researchers at the National Archives @ College Park. Thanks to the patient staff there for their help with my arcane questions. Hoping they don’t get shut down next week… #usnationalarchives #americanhistory #research

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