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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
#EnvHist & #Parks Historian. NiCHE Editor-in-Chief. Chacruna Institute Managing Editor. SHFS President. SURJ YXE. Social Media. Editor. Writer. Consultant. Mischief. Organizer. Mom. Cook. Queer. Femme. #YXE. She/Her.
-> @nichecanada.bsky.social has published 257 posts in 2025 alone. A the vast majority of those posts are full-length blog posts, articles really.

Do you know another history or environmental blog publishing at that rate?

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#envhist #envhum
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We are reaching the end of our @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising campaign & we are still 31% away from our goal.

I owe a great deal to this group, & I also put SO MUCH labour into this community. More than ever, environmental knowledge needs to be protected & supported.

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Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Donate to our fundraising campaign so that we can keep doing this work!

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Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Our NiCHE Conversation with @issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social is now available on YouTube!

They joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series that they are co-editing.

youtu.be/sL2YD3FjS30
NiCHE Conversations 6.4: New Research in Arctic Pasts & Visual Culture with I. Gapp & S. Pickman
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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A conventional and straightforward legal analysis of US operations in the Caribbean and E Pacific putatively involving drug trafficking, concluding that these operations are illegal and the homicides resulting from them are extrajudicial executions for which the perpetrators can be held to account.
America Unbound in the Caribbean
The real costs of Washington’s use of force.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Spending the day meeting with undergrads in 20 minute Zoom intervals to discuss the rough drafts of their 20-page research papers, which I line-edited.

They’ll be better writers and historians when they leave my class. I’m proud of them.

I’m also pooped.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 61/50
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Stitch-or—Treat by Eric Geron
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Review on StoryGraph
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Random House, 2022
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 60/50
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Rabbit and His Friends by Richard Scarry
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Review on StoryGraph
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Golden Books, 1981.
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 59/50
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The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
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Review on StoryGraph
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Gollancz 2011.
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#amreading #book #bookstagram
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Today we're spotlighting friend of EHN, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, who has helped keep us sustainable during our fundraising drive this year #envhist #envhum
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 58/50
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Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
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Review on StoryGraph
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Triangle Square Books, 2025
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#wearereading #book #booksky #boardbook #childrensliterature #community
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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people who graduate from foster care should get at least four years of support sufficient to cover food and housing
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.

Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.
scottsantens.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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This conversation will discuss Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.

- Read the intro here: niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...

- Explore the ongoing series here: niche-canada.org/tag/circumpo...

#envhist #envhum #arthistory #visualculture #arctic
New Research in Arctic Pasts - Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disci...
niche-canada.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Our next NICHE Converation will be TOMORROW at 10:30am EDT on Instagram Live.

@issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and visual culture.

Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada

#envhist
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Tonight’s Recipe: Hazelnut Green Beans with Prosciutto and Dates
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Rating: Very Good
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Recipe by Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine
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epicurious.com/recipes/food...
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #foodsky #recipe #hazlenuts #greenbeans
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, with a breakdown of our most-read articles published in August!

www.youtube.com/shorts/CPnqk...

#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
Our Most-Read Posts Published in August 2025! #envhist #canadianhistory #environment
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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If you appreciate the great deal of labour and love that we pour into supporting the global #envhist community, please consider supporting our annual fundraising campaign.

We do all of this on a very small budget, and we do it independently.

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#envhum #cdnhist
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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ICYMI:

Find a landslide, urban light pollution, and unfulfilled treaty promises in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/11/14/e...

#envhist
#EnvHist Worth Reading: October 2025
Find a landslide, urban light pollution, and unfulfilled treaty promises in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
niche-canada.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Tonight’s Recipe: Honey Garlic Salmon
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Rating: Good
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Recipe by Nagi Maehashi
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #foodsky #salmon #recipe
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November 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM