Season Six of NiCHE Conversations begins Wednesday, October 1st with a doubleheader on Instagram Live! First up will be "a nineteenth-century Waponahki basket and environmental Memory" with Gina Brooks & @rmbryant.bsky.social at 11am EDT! #envhist #envhum #indigenous #cdnhist

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories." niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a... #envhist #archives

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

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...

Online Event - Plants, Memory, Belonging 8 October 2025 – Zoom Presented by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Plant Perspectives - @plantperspectives.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/09/19/o... #envhist #envhum #plants #ecology #morethanhuman

Finally, Zotero has 'Dark Mode.' Now I can do Evil Citations.

My colleagues tell me that our LMS now doesn’t always allow you to make your own assignments and instead makes you “choose” AI. 😐 for selfish reasons I’ve never been gladder than I don’t do quizzes or LMS based exams. It’s a choice I recognize given when I teach. But still.

Thinking wistfully about sending a proposal to the ESEH 2025 meeting hoping I could attend in person. Instead I now get to zoom in at 5 am on Wednesday for my roundtable. And maybe catch some other panels. The vicarious life of an immigrant academic. eseh2025.com

Today @robinshistory.bsky.social's DIY wooden canoe project reveals deeper truths about plastic, sustainability, masculinity, and the contradictions of modern maker culture, in "Crafting the Plasticene." niche-canada.org/2025/08/07/c... #makerculture #canoes #plastics #envhist

UNESCO added the Notman Photographic Archives to its Memory of the World International Register. Some great photos included in this article #cdnhist macleans.ca/culture/will...

For anyone who wants to integrate #Antarctic history into their classrooms this year, I am available, schedule permitting, to Zoom in and visit. Also, I encourage you to look at this digital educational resource I created on polar history for the classroom dcc.newberry.org?p=23646

Tried to take the bus to the library instead of cycling or driving. Took me over AN hour to traverse 5 kms thanks to road work and the bus running at least 15 mins late each way. On the way back it was so late I had to take one of them scooters. Oy. Not sure which was worse. Lesson learned: bicycle!

Check out my contribution to Elena Aronova, @hallucigenia.bsky.social & Marco Tamborini's "Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences," an essay on the "Historiography of the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958)" #histsci #envhist link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Genuinely have to wonder why and how this organization thinks this is okay. Capitulation is its first, middle, and last name. 🤦🏾‍♀️

We have a roundup of the last 4 conversations of Season 5 of NiCHE Conversations w/ @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...

Listen to @camdenburd.bsky.social , he wrote an incredible book and knows things.

Want to learn more about wetlands, check out our 2024 Wetland Wednesday series, edited by @gabtm.bsky.social. niche-canada.org/tag/wetland-... #wetlands #envhist #envhum

Mark Stoller wraps up our series on the 50th anniversary of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry with an interview with Hugh Brody. Brody was among the Inquiry staff who were central to the composition and preparation of Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland. niche-canada.org/2025/07/16/m...

New episode up! Hopefully I did not mess it up. 🤭 IYKYK podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Our NiCHE Conversation with @ramya.bsky.social & Parineeta Dandekar is now available on YouTube! They joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the Indus River Basin, storymapping, & how people on the ground are dealing with climate change & political turmoil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih-h...

"I think about all the times our Elders have spoken+not been heard, the ways their testimonies were archived, boxed up, +forgotten, or ‘discovered’ by some southern settler academics+appropriated...." #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2025/07/08/v...

I had the pleasure of reading both these books in the last few weeks. At the end of reading Simpson, I realise that one of these books was pretty surface level. Well written but surface level.

Perfect holiday present, just saying! (Even if I am also in it haha)

Spent an inordinate amount of time editing an upcoming podcast episode of heartland history to realise: 1. I go on so many tangents OMFG 2. I talk about Matsya so much! I mean I am proud of him but like lady… 3. @camdenburd.bsky.social an absolute saint for allowing me to go on and on.

I read the book this thread responds to. The writing is great but it left me feeling many things that this thread gets at. I am a settler so I don’t claim to speak in or for any Indigenous folks. But I couldn’t fully trust the book…

I feel like a kid at the candy store at the Linda Hall library. Got to walk down to the stacks today. Lord!! So much to do and so many cool things to write about!

You know what would make a great Father's Day gift for any dad who likes to read about boats and/or bearded men? One reviewer said: “If you can't quite afford an Antarctic cruise right now, this is the next best thing." www.bloomsbury.com/us/antarctic...

We don't get tired of hearing how folks are integrating our open-access scholarship into their courses!

Working on a map based DH project. Don’t want to use ArcGIS and keep it open source and relatively light. Please consider responding with your top picks! TIA!

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Great episode, as usual! Thank YOU @camdenburd.bsky.social

Asked M and his BFF is rivers are alive. Pat came the reply: “Of course!” BFF: “rivers support life so they have to be alive!” M: “rivers have a mouth so they have to be alive!” And then they both proceeded to talk about the circle of life and inevitable death. zoo trips are philosophical!

Random query: is there a history of the Buckingham Canal in Madras? [summer reads for nerds] 😬

Toronto friends, and friends who will be in Toronto for CHA and Congress, I'll be doing a book launch between 5:30-7:30 on Monday @nichecanada.bsky.social

Just a tad sad about not being in person for @nichecanada.bsky.social summer school in Hamilton this weekend. I know it’ll be epic. ❤️❤️❤️ Sigh borders, passports, and other inhibitors of movement.

This conversation will be based on @ramya.bsky.social's post on the Indus River Basin and storytelling, in which Dandekar's projects are highlighted, which you can read here: niche-canada.org/2025/05/12/w... #envhist #rivers #indusriver #water

Our next NICHE Conversation will be on Thurs, May 29, at 12pm EDT on Instagram Live @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social will be joined by @ramya.bsky.social & Parineeta Dandekar to discuss the Indus River Basin & Storymapping. Follow NiCHE on Insta here: instagram.com/niche.canada #rivers #water

Hey @southwestairlines.bsky.social was supposed to get on a flight (DEN-OAK) at 8.10 local time. The incoming plane was over 30 mins late. So now the onward flight will be about 30 mins late. If Denver weather is so nuts, maybe don’t run planes through here? This is shitshow.

Such an interesting read. blog.library.in.gov/a-not-so-bri...

The is an AMAZING set of stories. If you can please engage! And if you can hire me to be a river ethnographer, please consider doing so ASAP! Literally my dream job

Listening to Mark Kurlansky’s history of salt. Oy. Kurlansky refers to Jains as “Jainists” incorrectly and his treatment of Gandhi is VERY problematic. But what I am most salty about is Scott Brock’s butchering pronunciations of “Gandhi”, “Satyagraha”, and “Dandi” among others. Oy.

We’d love to workshop your work this summer (or in the fall)!

New Call for Contributors! Our editor @maryeb.bsky.social is building a project page to mark the 25th anniversary of the Walkerton Water Crisis and its impact! Proposals accepted on an ongoing basis. niche-canada.org/2025/05/09/c... #envhist #cdnhist #water #waterhistory

A decade in I still cannot spell bureaucratic correctly at the first go. But then again I also spelled my name ramay this am, again. 😐

Check out Animesh Roy's review of Aloka Parasher-Sen's "Conversations with the Animate 'Other’: Historical Representations of Human and Non-Human Interactions in India," published in 2023 by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Hey @npr.org just heard one of your reporters based in India (Omkar Khandekar) label the April 22 attack on civilians in Kashmir being a “militant” one. You may want to fact check that. There’s no proof (AFAIK) about who was involved. The militant label is given by Indian propagandists.

ONE WEEK left to submit your proposals to our Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories, edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social What's that one "thing" you haven't been able to fit into broader research? niche-canada.org/2025/04/16/c... #envhist #envhum

Yay! This was such a cool book to read and soak in! Amazing teaching resource if you’re looking for one!

I thought I was exhausted and that’s why I accidentally damaged by earphones until I received a rejection from a job I may or may not have applied for with ALL 200+ applicants cc-d instead of being bcc-d. it’s a rough hump day on earth

For any linguists out there, matsya has a question: why do Americans say “boo-ee” while Indians (and the British) say “buh-oy” for the word “buoy”?