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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Everyone, quick! The blackberries are ripening

A takeaway cup full of ripe blackberries freshly picked from the canals of East London.

Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Handy little heatwave toolkit here. For my windows I found two pieces of string and a white blanket go a long way to cooling down a room! www.heatwavetoolkit.com Other steps... maybe we take heat seriously, fight the highest carbon emitters/their financial backers & invest in some retrofitting!

A window which has been rigged up with a blanket hanging outside, secured with string trapped in the window, for external shading.

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Solid report here on why Trump/Wall Street proposals to open up $14trillion of 401k retirement pots to private equity would be a catastrophic sacrifice of people's savings: ourfinancialsecurity.org/resources/th...

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Unbelievable demolition of voting rights & protections against racist gerrymandering in the US. Also highlights the undemocratic absurdity of the supreme court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A few Autumn/Winter Epping Forest photos

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

If you're wondering whether academics have written on 'asylum hotels', I can point you in the direction of Martina Tazzioli's work on refugee carcerality & value extraction in the UK, Greece & Italy. See esp. section on financialised asylum accommodation in the UK. dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Up early and on my way from London to Copenhagen for the Finance and Society conference. Looking forward to a great programme! Always a highlight of the academic year. financeandsocietynetwork.org/wp-content/u... Say hi if you're around 👋

An image of the Thames at sunrise from London Bridge

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

On this more generally, this recent review & analysis of critical geographies of heat was excellent journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Detailed agenda for 'Transforming central banking in the ecological crisis: intersecting perspectives from political economy and accounting'

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Speakers include @unsocialtheory.bsky.social, @davidharvie.bsky.social, James Brackley, @rstephenson123.bsky.social, @profstevenjones.bsky.social With time for collective discussion on diagnosing the multiple crises & considering paths through & against the status quo.

A set of questions concerning the multiple crises of higher education in the UK

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The event will focus on the global labour & ecological struggles behind AI, seeking to explore alternative forms of AI production. All welcome. Join us in Mile End!

An event blurb that discusses the ecological and labour-related themes of CLaSP's end of year event on AI.

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The trashing of government institutions by DOGE/the Trump admin reminds me of this excellent 2017 book by Bonnie Honig, on how 'public things' stabilise our worlds, are undone by anti-democratic forces, yet remain an enduring focus of democratic action even in a context of extreme loss.

The Book cover of Bonnie Honig's 'Public Things'

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Dan Neyland reviews Liliana Doganova's excellent book on the politics of discounting, reflecting on economic sociology, STS and futures politics more generally: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

📚Currently reading these books for reading group(s). I can recommend them all! They complement each other nicely, too.

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