Shared an elevator with Manute Bol. Bonus mark: In the Grand Hyatt, when it was the 1st & only hotel Trump owned.

Betwixtmas, illustrated.

Ever come across a website so delightfully weird you want to share it? Know your comic book sound effects: www.comicbookfx.com/fxlist.php #His1840

best cats of 2025. #caturday

In its dishonesty cut with absurdity, for me this was the quote of the year.

Just read. Whew.

Problems: There's no "i" or "v" in my name. Also no 2nd "h" & no 3rd "n" or "e". And the OED doesn't know from mannels. AI can't anagram my name. Each real man can.

Fascinating. My Graphic History! course is a month away, so I must be reading "Consulting the Map: Bil Keane’s dotted-line drawings in The Family Circus and comics cartography."

Whenever I hear stories of "Canadian" animals spotted in the UK, I first wonder if they're the descendants of donated Canadian national park ones that escaped. It's happened. Here are beaver heading to London, Eng, 1946. 2 died in the traps, another in transit. heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm....

Email restored. Après le weekend, le déluge.

My university email account has been disabled since Friday afternoon. Bliss.

Just learned that “Hamnet” was published as “Hamnet & Judith” in 🇨🇦 & only 🇨🇦. Let’s spend some productive Friday night time tracking down & doxxing the know-better marketing hoser who decided that.

Dear #envhist world: A student wants to explore the development of the Wyoming bison meat trade. Any thoughts re primary/secondary sources to learn more? Thanking you in advance, Alan

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, "a fascinating tour of the environmental history of the inner solar system," is a @sciam.bsky.social favorite book of the year. Check out the other books (both nonfiction and fiction) on the list! #Space #EnvHist #History www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

I hear you, Western U, I hear you.

We want to extend an invitation to submit a proposal to the upcoming HGSA Graduate Conference on March 6, 2026. The submission date is January 4, 2026. We look forward to seeing all the research that you're working on. Please feel free to email Rose Giles if you have any questions. [email protected]

Cause-&-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone.... ~ Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark [I could sit here all day typing out Rebecca Solnit.]

We've had 60 applicants for CHESS 2026 on PEI -- ie, a lot, ie, more than we can handle! Thanks to everyone who's applied; we'll be making some tough decisions in the next while. Stay tuned. niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...

Deadline, tomorrow!

Taught this in my #envhist class today & was reminded how superb it is not just on doing animal history, but on doing history, full stop. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.

This is well worth reading (& watching). In particular, it's by far the most direct articulation of what @nichecanada.bsky.social has been up to over the past decade. Kudos, @micaamy.bsky.social!

Once upon a time, Ryan O'Connor & I interviewed & wrote about PEI back-to-the-landers & their kids ("children of the hummus"). Happy to report UPEI's Island Voices is now archiving all the interviews & the resulting essays. Take a look & listen. islandvoices.ca/collection/b... #envhist #cdnhist

my take: high Ont prof $ = fewer $ available for grad students, sessionals, & tenure-track hires = fewer grad students, sessionals, & tenure-track hires = far more work & far worse job for Ont profs = high Ont prof $ becomes more justified!

I can't decide whether adding this to my calendar today is a sign of positive thinking or despair.

If Don Draper were alive today, he’d pitch an @archive.org ad with the tagline “It’s not AI. It’s IA.”

Prof. Cody Groat's new publication, "Always a Part of the Land: The Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories" is available for pre-order. www.mqup.ca/Books/A/Alwa... @westernulibs.bsky.social

🦞 Only 10 more days to apply to attend Climate & History: Canadian History & Environment Summer School 2026. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...

🦞 Only 10 more days to apply to attend Climate & History: Canadian History & Environment Summer School 2026. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal for our 2026 annual meeting. We are thrilled to announce that we received over double last year’s total submissions! Looks like Charlottetown will be a full house, and we can’t wait to see you there! #CHASHC2026 #cdnhist

Todd Snider, 1966-2025. Time for a beer run. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vR...

For #UPWeek, we'd like to shout out @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, who support our open-access Canadian History & Environment book series! Peruse the titles here: press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... And series editor, @alanmaceachern.bsky.social, is always looking for more proposals! #envhist

Your annual reminder that 🍁 were whale blower-uppers well before 🗽 were. We just didn't get television until 1990, so couldn't go viral. #itsacanadianfact Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959. islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...

Snowvember

And you know what that means: an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social #envhist #cdnhist

Informed, inspiring text. Beautiful, illuminating pix. Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social! @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

🦞 1 place, 3 events, no waiting: Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c... Canadian Historical Association, 1-3 June event.fourwaves.com/cha-shc-2026... Atlantic Canada Studies, 3-5 June activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11... #cdnhist

56 yrs ago today, Canadian climatologist Kenneth Hare gives a talk "Carbon Dioxide and All That" at the University of Toronto. Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke... allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...

@nytimes.com today.

Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada "Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...

What's been the most exasperating Jays news in the 3 days since the World Series? That Kirk, Guerrero, Gimenez, & Clement wuz all robbed Golden Gloves (but hey, Ty France won!?) or that Bichette, Scherzer, IKF, Bassitt, & Diminguez (&, oh, France) are all free agents?

I got home just after my family had finished dinner. *Just* after. Food had been put in the fridge for me a minute earlier. Solve an argument: Was this “dinner” or “leftovers”? Does dinner become leftovers as soon as the fridge door closes?

Just submitted a grant that asked for recent "contributions to training" - MA & PhD supervisions. My list was of histories of kudzu, snow, highways, oil & gas dev, sand sucking, alternative service work, NASA missions, the blind in nature, POW camps, & yellow fever. History prof = no comfort zone.

A slow, bluesy “Ok Blue Jays” - Sarah Harmer? Diana Krall? - running through my head today.

Springer forward, fall balk

Whatever happens: what a great Jays season.

Giving off some Normanne Bates of Green Gables energy handing out candy. The kids keep walking.

“So you could have gone to bed after 3 pitches?”

We're accepting applications until 30 November, but *today* is the last day to apply if you want a chance to win $250 worth of books in the UBC Press Nature | History | Society series. #envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist

Well this is a gut punch. I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ok, you don't want Ontario to quote that 1987 Reagan radio address? Fine. How about this 1988 one? www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...