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.

I may be in the same building as Joni Mitchell. I may be about to faint with glee. #Junos2026

⏳ Two days left The BSHS Small Grants deadline is 31 March - don't miss the chance! Grants of £50–£500 are available to support research activities such as archival visits, research trips, or remote archive assistance. More info & application: bshs.org.uk/grants/#rese...

📣 BSHS Outreach & Engagement Project Grants Have an idea for sharing #HistSci with wider audiences? We offer grants of up to £500 to support creative engagement projects — from events to collaborations with museums or heritage sites. Next deadline is May 15, 2026! bshs.org.uk/oec/#project...

Yes, the very specific application that you, personally, use it for might be excellent and important. But unless you first acknowledge how it is actually impacting real people right now and address that from first principles, I simply don't have time for your AI boosterism. Full stop.

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

Great lecture from Jason W. Moore "Slaveship Earth: Capitalism’s Secret 500-Year Climate History" "The climate crisis didn’t begin with factories, smokestacks, or fossil fuels. It began with slave ships." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lykF... #envhist #climhist #anthropocene

Today we have "“Filth, Squalid Misery, and Seemingly Drunken Debauchery”: Energy Relief in Toronto’s House of Industry Records" by Kenzie Kosowan. Part of the Assembling a City project, which examines the urban metabolism of Toronto between the 1830s and the 1930s. niche-canada.org/2026/03/20/f...

Join us online on Monday 23 March for @brycchancarey.bsky.social discussing The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (Yale UP 2024) in @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk series. Starts 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #ecocrit

Excerpt: A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and The Dream of Affordable Housing by Betty Boyd Caroli This article includes excerpts from A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch andthe Dream of Affordable Housing by Betty Boyd Caroli and published by OxfordUniversity Press in the US © Caroli…

In trying to figure out the link between fascism and capitalism, I wrote this piece for @activehist.bsky.social Lemme know what you think! activehistory.ca/blog/2026/03...

In light of recent federal and provincial budget cuts, CHA president Colin Coates has written a letter to CHA members and to the public. The letter can be read here. #cdnhist

Jessica van Horssen introduces the film, "The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology."

If you haven't yet, make sure you read @lootina.bsky.social's latest for us, "Canada Strong, Knowledge Devalued: Decommissioning the Parks Canada Library," which includes a suggested action to take. niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c... #envhist #cdnhist #parkscanada #parkhistory #cdnpoli

In "The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology", @historiamagoria.bsky.social introduces a new tribute film that she recently released. niche-canada.org/2026/03/06/t... #envhist #histtech #cdnhist #genderhistory #history

Crisis can be opportunity. Seize it.

This film was such a privilege to make. Please take a look! #EnvHist #histSTM

Great hidden #CdnHist moment and song!

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

Excited to be on the line-up for this fab seminar series — if you’re disgruntled with Emerald Fennell, come along next week to immerse yourselves in the dangerous histories of an alternative (and dare I say superior) moor

🚨 @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I - along with a dream team of incredible collaborators - are excited to announce a new book challenging residential school denialism! Truth Before Reconciliation will be released in September with the University of Manitoba Press: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...

I’ve made a short film about the impact and legacy of the phenomenal #CdnHist #histSTM #EnvHist historian, Joy Parr featuring new and established scholars. Check out The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life via this link! www.joyparr.com/tributes/

These are all such great pieces and I’m lucky mine is included in the list!

In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps: How dumplings spread around the world (tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)

Thrilled to announce the new #pod a former student has launched to uncover/explore the incredible history of light rail in #HamOnt! Check out Hammer and Rails (what a name!) via this link: shows.acast.com/hammer-and-r... #UrbanHist #EnvHist

Reviewing a book is one of the best and most fun service opportunities available! Check out the awesome books available from H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #envtech #conservation #sustainability #envjustice #ecocrit #envphil #plantstudies #animalstudies #nature docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Looking for sources relating to verticality and/or extractive penetration (queer focus) on #MiningHist #EnvHist Any suggestions most happily welcome!

I might not care one bit about watching the winter olympics, but I have a new #envhist #energyhistory piece out in @nichecanada.bsky.social on how the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic media village built on Norwegian cabin traditions - and transformed them after the games. niche-canada.org/2026/02/09/t...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Recent BA graduate Kaley MacMullin and Dr. Heather Green of @historysmu.bsky.social have co-authored 2 posts on the Network in Canadian History & Environment’s The Otter. For the first see: "Finding Black Lung in he Archives." niche-canada.org/2026/01/02/f...

And see: "Down Below Ground: Research, Memory, and Place at Springhill Mine." niche-canada.org/2026/02/03/d...

Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book! #booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️

So happy to see the cover of this collection! Out this spring/summer as the final volume of A Cultural History of the Environment, huzzuh! #EnvHist

Today we are highlighting the research that @danitaburke.bsky.social conducted at the Laurier Archives for the @sealsandsurvival.bsky.social project. niche-canada.org/2026/02/02/s... #envhist #cdnhist #arctic #archives

On this day in 1969. hundreds of students occupied the computer center at Sir George Williams University in Montreal to protest the racism of a professor & the admin. The action & police response influenced the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Trinidad & Tobago. anticolonialhistory.com/event/328/

CFP: explore the historical relationships among natural resources, institutions & socio-environmental change at the POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN HISTORY summer school! 18–20 June 2026, U of Tübingen 500-word abstract & 2-page CV to [email protected] by Feb 23.

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

Hey, pre-order John's excellent book to read the history about Washington and slavery this administration is trying to hide, and how we've always fought over it.

What would you do if you had one day to design a solution to a real tuberculosis challenge? On Feb 6, students come together at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social for a global health case competition grounded in real TB challenges. 🏆 Big prizes 🎟️ Limited spots Register 👉 bit.ly/FEB06

Today on @activehist.bsky.social, we are launching a new year-long series - Indian Act 150 - looking at the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. As part of the introduction to the series, I offer some reflections on the history and historiography of the Indian Act: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...

Coming up next month! Talks in Bristol, Cambridge, & Oxford on extinction in museums. Reserve your free place thru the links 👇

Can one corn kernel hold centuries of knowledge and survival? 🌽💾🧪 Indigenous chef and food sovereignty advocate Chef Nephi Craig believes traditional foods are more than nourishment, they’re living archives of ancestral knowledge. Watch the video here:

Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.

New on the blog! The next installment of our partnership with @nichecanada.bsky.social: Jaida Johnson on sidewalks as environmental thresholds: themetropole.blog/2026/01/08/t... #envhist #urbanhistory

Honoured and surprised to be in this list, alongside some other great northern content! #envhist

Just released - the preliminary program for @deindustrialpol.bsky.social's June 18-20 conference in Montreal on "(Un)Just Transitions? Deindustrialization and the Environment." Check it out! deindustrialization.org/depot2025con...

A beautiful piece by @christianelliott.me. “Set aside before industrial agriculture arrived in Iowa, pioneer cemeteries have become the prairie’s final resting place — one of the few where the land remembers what it once was.” www.noemamag.com/where-the-pr...