Check out the latest issue of Cultural Studies for an interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm on Fossil Capital, climate politics, and more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Calling all Canada-based museum workers: registration for the CMA's Ethics Symposium is now open! Join us for a day of critical conversations around themes of labour, technology, sustainability & funding. Some free tickets are available for volunteer note-takers and equity-deserving participants 👇🏻

EE2026 Call for Posters We are warmly inviting academic poster submissions from Undergrad, Masters, PhD students & Early Career Researchers engaging with the theme of 'Infrastructures of Energy'. Poster submissions close 13 April 2026 Find out more: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/call-...

Yuma Kagiyama though

Our NiCHE Conversation with Patricia Roussel is now on YouTube! Roussel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the centrality and evolution of Dawson City, Yukon’s heritage industry and how collaborative heritage is being employed there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0b... #envhist #cdnhist

Minneapolis artists are employing the full power of their creativity and community to fight against the ICE invasion of their city, and their message is loud and clear: Get the hell out.

Can't wait!

Grassy Narrows protesters briefly interrupt Doug Ford’s speech in Mississauga

So the Documentary Heritage Community Programme is axed. A serious blow to #cdnhist from the Carney Cuts. RIP, it did good work. But I guess we need more American fighter jets instead. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

TOMORROW! Please join us for More-than-Human Curation, 2nd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto Come explore how art & wildlife interact in museum settings & curatorship🦣🌾 Wed 4 Feb 17:45–19:15 Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ON4d36KQQWSXZUwX10Nuw

New article in the Journal of Environmental Media is out, co-authored with Jordan Kinder, Zannah Matson, & @camillemarys.bsky.social . We write about Beyond Extraction’s creative media interventions challenging PDAC (the world’s largest mining convention every year in Toronto).

I enjoyed reflecting on our recent scholar-activist interventions for the Journal of Environmental Media with comrades @emeliedt.bsky.social, Zannah Matson, and Jordan Kinder. Check it out 👇🏻

"UNESCO’s institutional drift and normative vacuum: interpreting the failure to protect Palestinian heritage in Gaza" - Benjamin Isakhan & Eleanor Childs (2026) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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“Crawford Lake: Layers in Time” offers an engaging look at the record of human life on Earth. On until Sept. 13, 2026, Crawford Lake illustrates how everything from early agriculture to modern nuclear weapons testing has left its mark on this unassuming Canadian lake - and on the Earth at large.

Irving Oil donates $1.5 million to New Brunswick Museum capital campaign www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new...

Ontario received 14,233 comments on its plan to drop protections on a portion of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, transferring management to the municipality. The plan is moving ahead unchanged, despite 98 per cent of those comments being in opposition. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

NEW: The push to prevent the Art Gallery of Ontario from acquiring a Nan Goldin work last year – which led to four resignations + an internal review – was prompted by AGO trustee + significant donor Judy Schulich, according to newly reviewed documentation www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Every single line in his statement has immediate implications for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis sovereignty in Canada.

Our book is out today! 🎉 "Cultural Landscapes of Energy" adds a historical perspective to current debates on energy transition by bringing together conflicting histories around work, habitation and leisure in landscapes impacted by energy production across Europe.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

Museums and art spaces in the Twin Cities—including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Dreamsong, and others—will be closed tomorrow in support of the general strike against ICE: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/22/m...

Artist Gabrielle Goliath is reportedly planning to take legal action against South Africa’s right-wing arts and culture minister after he dropped her Venice Biennale commission, which included references to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Such a fun and creative session yesterday.m ✨️ We read Laura Watts' 'Energy at the End of the World' (2018) - an inspiring methodological experiment and rich ethnographic text! Join us in February for our next session on the theme of Petroleum Archives #EnergyHeritage #ReadingGroup

Another big mess at AGO, resignations, after a work by Nan Goldin was not acquired due to her remarks about Gaza. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Scoop: The AGO is reckoning with the resignations of a senior curator & two members of a collections committee after the group narrowly voted to not acquire a work by Nan Goldin over accusations that the Jewish-American photographer’s views are antisemitic www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Join @camillemarys.bsky.social tomorrow (Wed 21 Jan) for the first CEE Online Reading Group meeting of the year. Session 3 of this series is titled: 'Sagas of Renewable Energy' energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cee-r...

CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. Deadline: January 26, 2026. #cdnhist @csdhschn.bsky.social

Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI

Why would you apply to grad school in social sciences or the humanities and use Chat GPT for your application? Are you OK?

What on earth!?

After a successful election, staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are officially unionized. The new union will represent workers across 50 departments, including curators, librarians, conservators, visitor experience, and archivists.

I'm going to Cables of Resistance, a movement conference for anti-fascist/anti-climate delay tech activism in Berlin in April. Anyone else I know planning on being there? cableresist.de#overview

We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...

🎯 I still have my "I like it long!" protest sticker from when Harper tried to eliminate the long form census. People galvanized very quickly, and the government did not anticipate the level of pushback they got. Governments who want less data want to make policy based on vibes and not facts.

Academics are often accused of using obtuse terminology, but the American right has one of the most tortured relationships to language today. "Toxic empathy?"

The @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social! #envhum

It’s hard to know if people outside MN understand how much of life is grinding to a halt here because of Trump’s occupation. Schools have shut down, businesses are scaling back hours or closing because their employees aren’t safe. The whole city is weighted down.

Watched it myself. After she spoke to him calmly. After shooting her. Three times. In the face. The murderer called Renee Good a "fucking bitch."

This is part of the way that Canada loses its sovereignty — Canadian business elites will cheer it on

AI “ghost artists” are ushering in slopifcation—and threatening Canadian culture in the process. If we want it to survive, writes journalist and author Vass Bednar, we need to pay more attention to what humans are producing. thewalrus.ca/can-canadian-cul...

Who is a must-read re: anti-oil boycotts during South African apartheid?

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

Some Minneapolis protesters throw snowballs at law enforcement officers as demonstrators march after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman. Law enforcement earlier deployed pepper spray and tear gas, KARE reports.

Renee Nicole Good was identified as the woman murdered by ICE. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

International environmental law has floundered in the face of the global climate crisis and cannot hold our worst actors to account. @scottwstern.bsky.social traces the problems back to the 1972 UN Conference that put us on this trajectory.

Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition to disperse students during a protest and film screening. At least three students were injured as troops entered the campusand classrooms.