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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis

@stepbd.bsky.social

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Professor of Design Research

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Cartoon. A businessman looks out on a vast burning landscape and tells his colleagues "Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly."

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Why is Trump repeatedly restarting the war with Iran? To distract from the Epstein files, obviously. But perhaps also he plans to claim that as the USA is at war, the elections are cancelled?

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Managers sit round a table in a boat, asking why, after so many cuts, the boat is not moving faster. There is one oarsman left.

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Interesting and alarming estimate of the scale of the money invested in AI... www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

A chart visualising the differing amounts of money spent on past and current projects requiring investment, comparing the dollars spent on AI to those spent on other projects such as the international space station.

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Suddenly the book I pre-ordered on Amazon is not available. Looks like suppression to me. @franceskalbs.bsky.social

A screenshot of an email message from Amazon, cancelling a customer pre-order, because the book "When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine" by Francesca Albanese is no longer available.

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A disturbing story of erasure – but one that time is correcting! news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...

Detail of an oil painting including three figures, with an obscured female face starting to show through.

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

On this day…

Leaflet for the launch of the UK NHS, 5 July 1948

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The current exhibition at @museeorsay.bsky.social ‘L’Art est dans la Rue’ is superb: C19 posters and their effect on the city / modern life. This painting by Vuillard of the Metro in 1916 was a big surprise. I associate him with light, sunny paintings, so to see this dramatic gloom was startling!

A large, wide, gloomy and dramatic painting of the metro underground in Paris

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Two men found guilty of ‘mindless, moronic’ act of vandalism. Will be sentenced in July. If only.

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A book is out, containing an invited chapter I wrote on Thomas Hardy. In "Change Has Marked the Face of All Things: The Problematic Landscapes of Thomas Hardy" I discuss deceptive/untrustworthy landscape and its relation to perception/depiction. The book is here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A fine summary of where we are now.

Excerpt from The Guardian on US security leak.
“In any normal circumstances and in any previous era, Hegseth and Waltz would be expected to resign immediately: Hegseth for sharing what any reasonable observer would regard as details of war plans - and then lying about having done so - and Waltz for his shocking sloppiness around security.
But whether or not they will resign or be dismissed by a dysfunctional president, equally hostile to the notion he should be held accountable, is an open question.
What should be clear to already shocked allies of the US is that not only is intelligence and other sensitive material not safe in the hands of Trump's senior security officials, but that they cannot be counted on to be truthful individually or as a group.”

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Acquired this engraving by Nathaniel Sparks, cousin of Thomas Hardy. Sparks was a scholarship student at the RCA in the early 20th century.

A sombre engraving of a lake or estuary.

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Today at Tatton Park, Cheshire, UK

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users (I was #1,289,333)

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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis @stepbd.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

So glad to have seen her live in London in Kiss of the Spider Woman. She was a sensation at an age when some people would have been shuffling about in slippers.

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