My quiet protest won, I will renew use of my neighbour’s Disney+.

The 2025-26 Rural History Roundtable begins on Tues Sept 23rd, when @alanmaceachern.bsky.social presents "Becoming Green Gables: The Making of a Famous Farmhouse." His talk is from 330-5pm at @uofglibrary.bsky.social, room 246B. For info on how to attend via Zoom: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/r...

Just dropped! The Champlain Society's "Witness to Yesterday" podcast convo between @nobyrne.bsky.social & me about "Becoming Green Gables." champlainsociety.utppublishing.com/digital-cont... www.mqup.ca/becoming-gre... #cdnhist #greengables @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Sick burn.

Call for Nominations: 2026 NiCHE Book Prize Books published in 2024 and 2025 are eligible! Submit your nominations by December 31st! niche-canada.org/2025/09/16/c... #envhist #cdnhist

In a few years, the exact timing of AI's rise to ubiquity will be forgotten & it'll just be assumed that the books I laboured to research & write in the early 2020s involved AI. 🙄 So save this: they didn't!

Graphing #envhist in Canada? Number of new books published in @ubcpress.bsky.social Nature/History/Society series, 2005-on, & the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series, 2011-on.

If you're in Guelph or on Zoom on the 23rd, come hear me talk #GreenGables & rural history. #annewithane

Looking forward to "Mountain Voices" taking its place atop the Canadian History & Environment tower of power. And we're always looking for more books for the series. If interested in developing an #envhist / #cdnhist collection, drop a line. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

With contributions from Chic Scott to Liza Piper to Bruce Cockburn (!) to …dozens & dozens more, this is a fantastic, monumental (mountainous?) work. Cheers to Eric & all. And great to have it in @nichecanada.bsky.social / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series.

In discussing the of the "ecoregion" concept, did I really need to mention the creator of "bioregion"? Probably not. But glad I could. www.mqup.ca/miramichi-fi...

Really thrilled to announce that our new book on the history of the #MohawkInstitute is now available in #OpenAccess format. You can pay for the physical book, but you can also read a digital copy for free. This was a very important choice for us: press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... #cdnhist #cdnpoli

The 200th anniversary of the 1825 Miramichi Fire is a month away, so I'm occasionally going to post bits about it that I uncovered. www.mqup.ca/miramichi-fi... #forestfire #wildfire #envhist #cdnhist #newbrunswick

I am shook. Watch to the end. This is Truman Show stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEby...

This story. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

What does this guy know? It starts "Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no strings."

Starting to appreciate how much the term "AI" looks like the short form of "Alan." So many think pieces; I'm really making an impact.

The 1st question that an academic should ask themself when choosing a new topic is "What would *I* like not to read?"

It's time to look into what's happening with the Rural History Roundtable at @uofguelph.bsky.social. Fall '25 has three hybrid sessions, including a November double billing. All are welcome to attend! More info on @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's Sept 23 talk coming soon. #aghist #cdnhist #ruralhist

Truer now than ever.

Not much new here, tbh. But the photos.

I was in the Miramichi last weekend & was directed to this fenced grave memorializing 2 victims of the 1825 Miramichi Fire, along an ATV trail - off the Oldfield Road, which had itself burned this summer. I wondered if the sign was accurate & how long it had been there. 1/2 #cdnhist

Just saw "Forthcoming in 2019" on a faculty page. That's the academic equivalent of "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

It was a pleasure to talk the 1825 Miramichi Fire not just in Miramichi, but in St Paul’s Anglican Church, which had survived the fire. @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Delighted to see this new review of "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean," a book that pulls "earthlings out of their complacency to recognize the precarity of their position amid ongoing cosmic dramas." Now available for pre-order! #Space #EnvHist www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/ripp...

Hot off the press! PEI back-to-the-lander tells all. I read an early draft of this & it’s so good.

The call for papers for the CHA’s 2026 annual meeting is now online! Please consider submitting a proposal and joining us in PEI this coming June. #cdnhist #CHA2026 #UPEI #Charlottetown

The Ark was a PEI bioshelter opened by PE Trudeau in 1976. (50 yrs next yr!) Decades later, I happened across its demolition, got its welcome sign saved by PEI Museum, & salvaged a few small signs for myself. Still have them! Why? Lord knows! 😀

spot the cruise ship

Just wrapped this up. It’s so exhausting being careful not to swear! 😀

When you’re reading a book outside in the summer & you check your phone & the wind picks up & the page taps your hand to get your attention.

History friends at @discoverunb.bsky.social & @stthomasu.bsky.social: an early heads-up that I’ll be in Fredericton on the afternoon of 7 October, a guest of the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the 200th anniversary of the Miramichi Fire.🔥

If you’re listening to CBC this Sunday morning, I’m a guest on “The Sunday Magazine,” talking Canadian national parks’ past & future.

Weird that tho’ I’ve talked the book any number of times, this’ll be the 1st time in New Brunswick - nay, the Maritimes! Luke 4:24.🙂 (I’ll also be talking about it in Fredericton on 7 October, the fire’s 200th anniversary.) #wildfire #forestfire

Really pleased to be talking the 1825 Miramichi Fire *in* Miramichi & Bathurst next weekend. Meanwhile, the #Miramichi is burning. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnhist #envhist

1989 & 2025. That tree has survived Fiona, Dorian, Juan, etc. You go, girl.

Ahh, what a time to be a teacher. (This from Bowen & Watson’s Teaching with AI.)

5 stitches in a freak raspberry-picking incident. Wasp sting yesterday when picking blueberries. But I’m eating well. 🙂

Spotted in the wild, in Victoria, PEI - & not even a bookstore! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Best Canadian place name.

[Spit take]

Spotted on a Goodwill Bookstore mural.

Historian: The past is a foreign country. Geographer: You know what's really a foreign country? A foreign country. Environmental historian / historical geographer: And a foreign country's past is a *particularly* foreign country.

Taking some time to read "This Summer Will Be Different" to figure out why only one set-on- #PEI summer 2024 release was a #1 NYTimes bestseller. Realize I need more "His hair is a sexy disaster."

Honestly thinking of writing a piece on cats with jobs. (+ history + Canada = my jam)

It's every scholar's dream to be interviewed by the @nytimes.com about cats. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w... #envhist #cdnhist #animalstudies

Sad news that Coal, the last cat of Parliament Hill, has died. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... I wrote about Coal & his crew here & here: niche-canada.org/2024/08/06/l... niche-canada.org/2014/10/25/a... #cdnhist #envhist

Sent to me by Jonathan Vance this morning.

If it’s a 2 minute DIY YouTube, I know I can fix it. If it’s 10 minutes, I’m calling a guy.