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Nancy Langston

@nancyclimateart.bsky.social

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Linocut printmaker; emerita professor of environmental history. I write about reindeer. website: www.nancylangston.net

Nancy Langston is an American environmental historian, currently working as a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. She was the President of the American Society of Environmental History from 2007 to 2009. Her initial research on the historical and spatial migrations of toxic contaminants within the Lake Superior basin was supported by the National Science Foundation, and has informed her most recent publication titled Toxic Bodies. Langston is a Marshall Scholar. .. more

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 1d

Couse deer (a subspecies found in the Chiricahua Mountains) in front of an Apache pine. 3 block linocut reduction print, Caligo safewash inks on hosho paper. #linocut #reductionprint #printmaking #PrintSky

A doe and a fawn walk by an Apache pine in the Chiricahua mountains of Arizona.

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 4d

Night wolves linocut #printsky #linocut #printmaking #wolves #nightsky

A linocut print of two wolves running under the milky way. A tiny cabin lies in the forest

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 4d

A seriously long break--forgot the tags! #printsky #linocut #printmaking #woodpeckers

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 4d

Acorn woodpecker in a riparian forest, Chiricahua Mountains AZ (after a long break from social media, but not from linocut printmaking). 2 block linocut print, Caligo Safe Wash ink, Hosho paper.

A female acorn woodpecker flies in front of a sycamore tree in a riparian forest, Arizona. Linocut print, 2 blocks.

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 6d

Our system requires telehealth visits to take place in a local clinic for reimbursement. This means that my rheumatologist is 4 states away, and I see her at the local hospital via zoom. Perhaps yours can make a similar arrangement? The new Medicare rules apply to telehealth at home, not a clinic

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Sep 1

what's with the creepy Hitler mustaches????

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 29

There's a certain set of shared values underlying Jeffrey Epstein saying "She's not here for you" to Trump about a woman he was abusing and Trump complaining that Epstein was "stealing" his people.

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Jul 15

The work is wonderful, although the prices seem very, very low. Are you on Etsy? Facebook? Instagram? Tiktok? It's great you're doing local art fairs.

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Jul 6

it looks like a martagon lily--Lilium martagon

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Jul 5

Wonderful! We are both so lucky to live in places where all this can happen. When I despair of politics, I walk along Lake Superior and listen for wolves and the snuffling of bears.

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Jul 3

Democracy and science have collapsed in the US--but the dog still needs to be fed and walked, the garden weeded, the dishes washed. It's hard to wrap my mind around all this.

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Jul 3

The attack on science in this Big Brutal Bill is horrific: 56% cut to NSF; 73% cut to grad student fellowships; 39% cut to USGS; 100% cut to ecosystem sciences; etc etc. From today's Guardian.

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Jul 2

Not as amazing as Trump’s puppets in Congress, alas

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is grim:

On “July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public.”

“Legitimate” is not defined.
www.archives.gov/college-park

The National Archives at College Park, Maryland

We hold permanent records created by Federal agencies that include: Textual records from civilian agencies Army unit records dating from WW1 Navy unit records dating from WW2 Still pictures Electroni...

www.archives.gov

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Jun 23

So frustrating

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Jun 17

I'm so sorry

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Ⓜ️𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊 💙 🦋 @lmariev.bsky.social · Jun 8

Mass deportations from Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill could quietly cost U.S. over $1.4 trillion.

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Mass deportations from Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill could quietly cost U.S. over $1.4 trillion

White House has been fending off attacks from Elon Musk that bill adds too much to deficit

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 21

It's Monday! So time for another #printPromptMonday, this time with the prompt #Earth. Here's some raw earth revealed as a glacier retreats in #Svalbard (with a #reindeer trotting in front of the glacer, since reindeer in the Arctic are what I research). #linocut #printsky #climateart

A reindeer in Svalbard, trotting in front of fresh rocks and soil revealed by a retreating glacier and glacial lake

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 20

Happy Easter to all who celebrate, including perhaps this #barredowl in the apple trees along #LakeSuperior (we still have lots of snow in the woods, but the owls are beginning to call. Yesterday there were dozens of yellowlegs in the flooding river plain. #reductionlinocut #printmaking #PrintSky

Barred owl in the apple trees along Lake Superior, reduction linocut with some additional ink

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 17

For #PrintPromptMonday #FavouritePiece my favourite print may be last April’s northern gannets over Skrudar Island, Iceland. #linocut #reductionprint #birdsinart

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 12

"Salting the water slows the gelatinization process—or the swelling of the starch granules in the pasta when they come into contact with heated water—that results in a less sticky, and more al dente pasta." www.thespruceeats.com/how-much-sal...

Yes, You Really Do Need to Salt Pasta Water. Here's Why.

Every pasta recipe tells you to salt the water, but how much should you add? When should you add it? Why the heck do you even need to add it? This short guide will answer all your pressing questions a...

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 11

#linocut #printmaking #reductionprint on Caligo Safewash on hosho paper 8x10”

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 11

Another #reindeer portrait for my book in progress, Reindeer on the Run. She’s from Iceland. Reindeer eyes are extraordinary.

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 10

I appreciate your thoughts—and I hope your flares cooperate as well

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thank you so much for your kind words

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 10

#PrintPromptMonday #friends I’ve not been able to carve or print the last 3 weeks cuz of autoimmune flares. (Plus political despair). But here are two raven friends from last winter. Love seeing all your prints

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Strangford @strangford.co · Apr 5

Here’s what’s coming up for #printpromptmonday in April!

Don’t worry about sticking too closely to the prompts, it’s more about connecting with other printmakers 🩷

Give this a share to spread the word!

Looking forward to seeing all the lovely prints on Monday…

#artshare #art #printmaking #print

A graphic to show the prompts for print prompt Monday:
7th: Friends
14th: Favourite Piece
21st: Earth
28th: Portrait

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 3

Wow!! That is so long. (Here in the UP of MI we just lost power for half an hour). I hope you have the basics you need now.

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 2

I love your trees! thanks for posting them

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Apr 2

25 hours and 10 minutes!