@johnstolnis.bsky.social Sally’s Baking Addiction is one of my favorites! 😂

Today we have "Playing the Vanishing Frontier: Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Environmental Imagination" by Nolan Reynolds This is the tenth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/12/p... #envhum

Biggest frustration with AI aren’t the students who straight-up use it. (I feel reasonably confident in my ability to see this.) but the use of it for intros & conclusions & for outlining. Using it as a tool, but losing the process, which is the purpose of writing assignments.

ONE WEEK to get your proposals for our The Winter Olympics & Their Environments series to editors @theliftline.bsky.social and Blake Butler!! niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c... #envhist #olympics #sporthistory #winter

Today we have "Seeing like a Peon: Warcraft and Perspective in Forest History" by @jason-l-newton.bsky.social This is the eighth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/03/s... #envhist

The relationship between tourism as a revitalizer of economies & an example of disaster capitalism is fascinating and deserves a book!

❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️ Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025 Publication: January/February 2026 niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c... #envhist #sporthistory #olympics

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

In the latest piece for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social, @callmarkkent.bsky.social examines "'Indoors or…. What is indoors?' Unsettling Settlements in Fallout 4." niche-canada.org/2025/10/24/i... #envhum #videogames #fallout

Today we have "Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction" by @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social This is the seventh article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/10/31/c... #envhum

Friends! Come join me at GCSU! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69352/g...

The federal government is trying to extort U Texas by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. Sign this alumni petition now to tell your school to reject the "Compact" and stand up for campus freedom. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/si...

Today we have "Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public" by Sherri Sheu This is the fourth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/10/17/b... #envhist #envhum #games

Check out "The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track" by Desiree Valadares The latest article in our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/10/10/t... #envhist #cdnhist #ushistory

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A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security. www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

Check out this game that @scoutblum.bsky.social designed for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social!! Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games niche-canada.org/2025/10/03/d...

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I love watching documentaries from the early 2000s about peak oil… and every time I hear someone tell me about peak emissions I can’t help but want to point this out to them

Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h... #envhum

"Quebec did not have a comprehensive system of formal segregation such as the 'white’s only' signage in the southern United States, but it did have a history of slavery and pervasive anti-Black racism." - @stevenhigh.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/10/20/g... #envhist #cdnhist #parkhistory

It all makes sense now! If we leave PFAS and don’t use tylenol & vaccines, all illness will disappear! I’ve just been so confused thinking vaccines help people and forever chemicals wreck our environment and bodies… It’s good to feel informed again.

In our latest book review, @jakebreadman.bsky.social examines @rossfair.bsky.social's Improving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791-1852 ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2024) niche-canada.org/2025/09/22/r... #envhist #aghist #cdnhist #bookreview

These people need to take an intro level environmental history class. There I’ll learn unintended consequences are the rule, not the exception. This is argonaut, idiotic, antidemocratic, and disgraceful. They should be ashamed.

In 2009, we asked: How does the environmental & social history of the river inform the current debate? What environmental changes will a dam introduce? What are the possible social and economic effects? Are there alternatives to secure BC’s future electricity needs? niche-canada.org/resources/co...

I never realized how useful 10 key texting in the early days was to my note taking until I had Gen Z students turn in a notes assignment. So many fewer activations, so many more words, so many questions when I recommend “text-like” writing

As always, great work on NiCHE!

"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter niche-canada.org/2023/01/31/c... #envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory

If "Brick By Brick" is the Flyers' new slogan, can this be their new theme song? youtu.be/wb1o3puaHz8?...

Everyone who writes books on how to write seem to have remarkable memories… I need a writing book by someone with lots of concussions, who understands me!!!! 🙃

A spectacular example pf building an argument about today through an exasperatingly weak understanding of the past. Apparently race, gender, and education are “social identities” but income is instead “social class…” Asking the difference will be my next trick quiz question for students.

First article in my series on playing inside and the environment—and @jkdahl.bsky.social piece about building a digital version of a historical board game is spectacular!!!

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

I’m sorry, but when was this mythical time when immigration enforcement was only on the border?

My new experiment—indoor vegetables 🥕

Representatives with the United Coal Workers of America have condemned a federal court’s decision to continue delaying the implementation of a federal rule to lower coal miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust, calling the pushback “bureaucratic cowardice," reports @caitycoyne.bsky.social.

My Grammarly score has plummeted since my "t" key got sticky 😭

We have an article planned in our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series on beer history for August. Stay tuned.

I had mistakenly thought the point of a uni marketing team was to create demand for & sell a product, not to be the arbiters of what we teach based on whether it’s a “money-spinning easy sell”. I was very wrong.

Before Dave Keeling started making systematic measurements of atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa in 1958, there were only a few such measurements worldwide. We shouldn't take for granted that we can access real-time and historical environmental data from anywhere in the world.

It’s terrifying that scammers know I’m returning a car to enterprise today…

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

Today on our site we have "Ordinance in the Orchard: The History of the Meaford Tank Range" by Bram Fookes This post is based on Fookes' MA thesis that he defended at in April with @uguelphhist.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/03/t... #envhist #cdnhist #militaryhistory #WWII

In Trump’s America, Who Gets to Call Themselves American? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

Today is the LAST DAY to get your proposals in for @theliftline.bsky.social's series on Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors! niche-canada.org/2025/06/05/c... #envhist #envhum #envstudies

I think history associations should considered suing people like Altman who work in AI for spreading this lie… it’s just not true.. and saying it’s mot true doesn’t make you a Luddite… it just means you’ve read a peer reviewed history book… #history #AI

MIT study found that AI overuse causes measurable brain damage. “Cognitive atrophy.. like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work” MIT Publication - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... Time Magazine - time.com/7295195/ai-c...

If you want a space to write about this order to wipe erase history at the NPS, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis. niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #parkhistory #NPS

NEW NiCHE Series Call for Submissions!! Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors Submission Deadline – 20 June 2025 @nichecanada.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/06/05/c... #envhist #envhum #envstudies #games