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...

As we welcome in the New Year 🎉 and things to look forward to in 2026…… A reminder of the deadline for proposals for #SSHM2026 (University of Leeds, 30 June- 3 July 2026) Deadline for abstracts: 11 January

ICYMI: "The history of artificial Christmas trees illustrates shifting societal priorities, and the ways humans have historically sought a more perfect form of the natural world." - @historiamagoria.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/11/a... #envhist #christmas #trees #plastics

Choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture: things our readers wish they'd known before starting their PhDs go.nature.com/4oUfOCM

I know not everyone shares my #Foucault obsession, but this just out in #Archivaria 100th anniversary issue "Legacies of Critical Theory in Archives." Thanks guest ed @archivalobjects.bsky.social. Thanks also @historiamagoria.bsky.social for hosting my Messecar Visiting Prof gig, where this began.

If anyone out there wants to explore this avalanche database and write a blog post about it! Let us know! Our Guidelines for Contributors: niche-canada.org/guidelines-f... #envhist #cdnhist

Thank you so much! Love getting into the Damn History world. #EnvHist #histSTM

To get us all into the festive spirit, I've written a piece on the #EnvHist #histSTM of artificial xmas trees for @nichecanada.bsky.social. Click for the wild ideas, stay for the wisdom of Peanuts. niche-canada.org/2025/12/11/a...

Planning an AI & History research symposium for spring 2026 and looking for Humanities scholars in the Southern Ontario region to participate. Currently, the list is 100% male. Looking for recommendations for women/non binary scholars in this field! We have LK Bertram coming for another event (woo!)

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy. Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd. Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

This is the final day of the @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising drive! If you haven’t already, please consider donating to help the network support #ECRs, #EnvHist, #CdnHist and #histSTM! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

We’re still raising funds for @nichecanada.bsky.social to continue its fantastic work supporting #EnvHist #CdnHist #histSTM Have a look at this great video then head over to the fundraiser page! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEi-...

Canadian historians: is there a reference list somewhere of all the government record groups (RGs) at LAC? I hope so but Google is not turning up anything... #cdnhist #cdnhistory

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Have you written an excellent article on women’s and gender history in Canada? If so, please consider submitting it for the French or English Hilda Neatby prize by January 1st. The prizes will be awarded at the CHA’s annual meeting in Charlottetown. #cdnhist #prize

New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger. Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it! Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇 www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum #environment

Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind." "There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination." allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...

We have update our interactive map for 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝! It is still a work in progress, so please help us expand and diversify the map by suggesting more institutions, hubs, and associations. Browse the map here: www.iceho.org/eh-map #EnvHist

Excellent article from two outstanding scholars of resource extraction in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

A student is looking for recommendations on books that discuss the promotion of bars, clubs, Pride, etc in the 1970s and 1980s. Geographic location open. Any suggestions, Skymind?

“It’s time for the ‘publish more’ mindset to perish.” Mandy Hill, writing in the Financial Times, calls for reform in academic publishing: Read the full letter (paywall) 🔗 https://cup.org/3WRVlDm

We're advertising!!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

This is worth reading closely. The piece makes a very strong case for being very careful when embracing AI for historical research.

A friendly reminder that we are in peak fundraising season for @nichecanada.bsky.social! Anything that you could spare would be put to excellent use for this fantastic network. Don’t be shy, click on the link! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #EnvHist #CdnHist #histSTM

🌐 THE WEB WE’VE BUILT is a cinematic journey through our shared digital history & preserved pages in the Wayback Machine. archive.org/details/the-... Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/11/l... #Wayback1T

My new book will be out in early December 2025 via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️