The next European environmental history conference @eseh.bsky.social will be in Salzburg, Sept. 2027! Focusing on inter- and transdisciplinarity, it explicitly invites contributions from neighbouring fields 👉 eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #envhist @zug-wien.bsky.social @bokusec.bsky.social

Today we have "Fire Truck Nationalism: How to Stay a Hero When You Lose to a Fire" by Gillian Der 謝美華 "Fire Truck Nationalism" merges heroic masculinity with Canadian settler myths, protecting the credibility of firefighters facing catastrophic wildfire losses. niche-canada.org/2026/07/09/f...

Beautiful photographs of a tragic reality. Canada is planning for more oil extraction and pipelines as the nation burns and melts around us. @mark-carney.bsky.social this is not okay. #FutureOverF150s

“What they saw was the rapid extraction of wealth in land from their territory with almost no benefits returning to them,” said Black. “The bigger question that the exhibit asks is, ‘Where do you, the person viewing this exhibit, where do you stand now that you’ve learned some things about it?’”

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Being "proud" of your country does not mean burying your head in the sand about its fundamental problems. In fact, Canadians support reconciliation precisely because they want to resolve - not inflame - those tensions to create a better future.

Proofs ✅ Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism will be available wherever you buy books, September 9. You can pre-order now: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-.... Royalties going to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.

Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Bookmark our Open Calls for Submissions page to keep up with all of our series deadlines. niche-canada.org/open-niche-s... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog #envstudies

🚨ALERT🚨 - We have FOUR NiCHE series that have a proposal deadline of June 30th! Find info on all of them in the thread below! #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog

Looking for a change of scene, intellectual community, and a place to write? The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social has just launched a Visiting Scholars Program! More info here: wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/discover/our...

OMG I’ve missed Montreal in all its beauty and weirdness!

Well worth reading this thread!

This extract from @rossbrooks.co.uk's Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life reveals some of the tensions between the rich complexity of biological reality and the social norms that sought to contain it. yalebooks.co.uk/how-darwin-a... #history #pridemonth #naturalhistory #skystorians

The first sentence of this review is, "Kylie Smith wrote an angry book." 1. The construction of that opening line is sexist AF. 2. It's sexist AF, but in an academic book review, it's unacceptable. 3. Everyone should be angry about racism in psychiatry. If you're not, that's a you problem.

I can confirm that I make less than my (less senior) male partner at my Ontario university. It’s both maddening and shameful.

Female professors at post-secondary schools in Toronto earn significantly less than their male counterparts. In Ontario, every major university paid male professors more than female professors, with average wage gaps ranging from 5.7% (University of Ottawa) to 13.5% (McMaster University)

Want to partner with NiCHE? Write for us? Contact us any time at nichecanadawebsite at gmail dot com niche-canada.org/contact/ #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog

Strong agree from me.

Call for Papers – Canadian Environmental Crime Research Network Proposal Deadline: 25 June 2026 For CECRN’s 2nd Annual General Meeting, to be held at Centennial College, Scarborough, on November 12 and 13th. niche-canada.org/2026/05/21/c... #envhist #envstudies #environment #crime

Today we have "Motherhood and Apple Pie: The League of Women Voters and the 1970s Energy Crises" by Warren Dennis This is the third post in our series “Mobilizing Motherhood,” focused on mothers in twentieth-century industrial and environmental activism. niche-canada.org/2026/05/15/m... #envhist

Suddenly have two tickets for Amyl and the Sniffers at Budweiser Stage Toronto for June 4th. Gutted to not be able to go, but if you’d like to, get in touch for a sweet deal on great seats!

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Turns out ChatGPT may NOT have a "large, positive impact on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking"

📚 The shortlist for the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize is out! Awarded biennially, the prize recognises outstanding scholarly books in HistSTEM. This year’s shortlist highlights topics including climate, race, extinction, capitalism, medicine, and animal experimentation. 🔗 bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

We are THRILLED to announce the 2025 Winner of Best Article/Chapter in Canadian Environmental History Prize, @itsmayana.bsky.social!! niche-canada.org/2025/06/04/2... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #bchistory

So excited for census season! Seriously. My Canada post-1885 students will be rolling their eyes thinking of me when they get theirs in the mail, but hopefully they’ll remember the juice from the 1911 and 1921 censuses and fill them out as quick as can be. Whoop!

I've submitted the manuscript for my next book, but don't forget that you can still buy my previous one! Ghosts Behind Glass. Encountering Extinction in Museums is available to order through any bookstore online or in-person. It's a beautiful book. And probably the best thing I'll ever write.

Very sorry to see that the last undergrad archaeology class at Uni #Sheffield was taught yesterday. The wanton destruction happening now in academia on both sides of the Atlantic will be widely seen as the violence it is one day. #SaveSheffield #SaveSheffieldArchaeology

“Ever found yourself driving to the grocery store or coffee shop even tho it’s a 10-minute walk & perfectly nice day? New research suggests the reason isn’t just distance—it’s how the walk feels…its the sights, street life & amenities along the way that strongly shape whether people decide to walk.”

Hey, my book is 40% off! Who doesn't need some light spring time reading??? upittpress.org/intersection...

I just watched the documentary Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social in Toronto and am feeling affirmed and despairing and also tentatively hopeful about the world. If you get the chance, make time to watch it!

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our new collaborative series with Written in the Waves, Soil and Sea: Environmental Histories of the Atlantic World Proposal deadline: June 30, 2026 Series publication beginning September 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/04/30/c... #envhist

I don’t know if I’m ever going to get over people in Hamilton calling it a “chocolate croissant.” Refusing to call it “pain au chocolate” is actually insane.

Chuffed* to see the first view of my article on the development of Manchester's science museum @sim-manchester.bsky.social With very big thanks to @bshsnews.bsky.social Journal crew 🎊 *pun IYKYK www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just a note for everyone in history land, perhaps especially #envhist folks: the American Mining History Association has its annual call out for research grants. Due date is May 1st! mininghistoryassociation.org/ResearchGran...

If Canada's biggest data centre gets built, the emissions from the fossil gas power plant it comes with would fully reverse the emissions reduced Alberta's coal phase-out from 2005 to 2023. Still waiting for AI to solve climate change, folks www.theenergymix.com/encore-exclu...

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

New Publication - A Cold Colonialism Modern Exploration and the Canadian North By Tina Adcock csn-rec.ca/news/84402-n... @ubcpress.bsky.social @tinaadcock.bsky.social

question: are there historians working at the intersection of science, med, and enviro centering the study of allergies? like a burgeoning field of critical allergy studies? I've been wanting to write on plantation forestry in postwar Japan and the hist of hay fever, and I'm looking for inspiration

Come help us shape the future of video game heritage in Scotland! New AHRC PhD opportunity for anyone interested in video game heritage and want to work with National Museums Scotland, Abertay Uni and Uni of Glasgow, apply! Applications due 11/05/2026 ce0173li.webitrent.com/ce0173li_web...

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage? A NiCHE Series Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026 Edited by @ramya.bsky.social NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage. niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c... #rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage

🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔 Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' A two-day workshop organised by @andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below!

There is never an easy time to be flogging a book with the subtitle "A Hopeful History of Uranium" but there is also never a time when uranium isn't of global interest either. So go on buy a copy and find out more about this fascinating and incredibly important element.

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

this @greenhouseuis.net programme is no April fool! April is bursting with activities, energy, and visitors, so make sure to drop by the online book talks or the events in Stavanger! #envhum 🌷

Today's launch isn't technically "going to the Moon," but it is doing something very exciting that hasn't been done since 1972: leaving low-earth orbit. This is astonishing to me. Humans went to (and came back from!) the Moon, and then...we stopped leaving. No one has left orbit in my lifetime.