Tina Adcock
@tinaadcock.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian of Canada and the Sub/Arctic. Author: *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North.* Co-editor: *Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History.* Now researching energy and queer histories.
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Tina Adcock
@tinaadcock.bsky.social
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A Cold Colonialism
A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...
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Delighted to announce that yesterday was publication day for *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* 🥳
It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃
Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
#cdnhist #envhist
It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃
Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
#cdnhist #envhist
Reposted by Tina Adcock
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities.
We center these tradi...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
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What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
Hello! Here is my critical microhistory of modern Arctic exploration. You can now pre-order a paperback copy for $32 CDN during @ubcpress.bsky.social’s winter sale. Also available in hardcover, ebook and PDF! ❄️❄️❄️
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Hello! Here is my critical microhistory of modern Arctic exploration. You can now pre-order a paperback copy for $32 CDN during @ubcpress.bsky.social’s winter sale. Also available in hardcover, ebook and PDF! ❄️❄️❄️
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
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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.
fnd.us/niche2025?re...
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.
fnd.us/niche2025?re...
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...
fnd.us
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 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.
fnd.us/niche2025?re...
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.
fnd.us/niche2025?re...
If you’re working on anything to do with energy or extractive industries, Zoe Todd’s article on weaponized fossil kin is a must-read, whew. Important and thought-provoking (as is all her work) #envhist #envhum #energyhist
doi.org/10.1111/anti...
doi.org/10.1111/anti...
Fossil Fuels and Fossil Kin: An Environmental Kin Study of Weaponised Fossil Kin and Alberta’s So‐Called “Energy Resources Heritage”
Alberta produces 80% of the crude oil extracted in Canada. Canadian resource industry proponents and governments claim to be climate leaders, but Canada produces the highest per capita greenhouse gas....
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you’re working on anything to do with energy or extractive industries, Zoe Todd’s article on weaponized fossil kin is a must-read, whew. Important and thought-provoking (as is all her work) #envhist #envhum #energyhist
doi.org/10.1111/anti...
doi.org/10.1111/anti...
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Ok, it took me to the last day but got my donation in for this year's NiCHE fundraiser. If you can, support amazing digital scholarship and community-building in environmental #history and historical #geography by this unique organization!
Think it is amazing that we publish such high-quality content Monday - Friday (sometimes Saturday) every week?!?!
We can't keep doing this without you! Support our annual fundraising campaign NOW! Can you send $20 our way?
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#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
We can't keep doing this without you! Support our annual fundraising campaign NOW! Can you send $20 our way?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
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...
fundrazr.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ok, it took me to the last day but got my donation in for this year's NiCHE fundraiser. If you can, support amazing digital scholarship and community-building in environmental #history and historical #geography by this unique organization!
It's the last day to put in a bid for a hardcover version of my book at the BC Studies Auction! You could still pick it up for as little as $31+shipping. I'll even mail you a signed bookplate to put between its covers, if you like! www.32auctions.com/organization...
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It's the last day to put in a bid for a hardcover version of my book at the BC Studies Auction! You could still pick it up for as little as $31+shipping. I'll even mail you a signed bookplate to put between its covers, if you like! www.32auctions.com/organization...
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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if you worry about the decline of media, the rise in AI slop and the rampant misinformation circulating online — one small but meaningful way to do something about it is to support @thenarwhal.ca in reporting factual, original, investigative stories. plus you get a toque & a hand-written note!
We’ve got a better idea for Black Friday…
Will you swim against the consumer current this week? Our independent journalism is made possible by people like you — and we need to add 400 members to meet our 2025 goal.
Join today and we’ll send you a Narwhal toque!
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Will you swim against the consumer current this week? Our independent journalism is made possible by people like you — and we need to add 400 members to meet our 2025 goal.
Join today and we’ll send you a Narwhal toque!
thenarwhal.ca/black-friday/
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
if you worry about the decline of media, the rise in AI slop and the rampant misinformation circulating online — one small but meaningful way to do something about it is to support @thenarwhal.ca in reporting factual, original, investigative stories. plus you get a toque & a hand-written note!
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream
We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
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Spread the word, friends! I’m excited to share that I'm hiring for TWO roles in marketing at @ucpress.bsky.social. A Marketing Coordinator & a Marketing Manager.
Know someone who’d be a great fit?
→ www.ucpress.edu/about/careers
Know someone who’d be a great fit?
→ www.ucpress.edu/about/careers
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Spread the word, friends! I’m excited to share that I'm hiring for TWO roles in marketing at @ucpress.bsky.social. A Marketing Coordinator & a Marketing Manager.
Know someone who’d be a great fit?
→ www.ucpress.edu/about/careers
Know someone who’d be a great fit?
→ www.ucpress.edu/about/careers
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Really fascinating blog post about the plants that Neanderthals cooked and ate (the real "paleo diet" included a lot of grains, pulses, and other plants!).
Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
A Neandertal recipe with lentils and grain
Looking at a fascinating new study that finds mixtures of different plants within ancient morsels of charred foods.
www.johnhawks.net
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Really fascinating blog post about the plants that Neanderthals cooked and ate (the real "paleo diet" included a lot of grains, pulses, and other plants!).
Reposted by Tina Adcock
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Indigenous folks of these lands don't need to earn their identity, but the discussions around ethnic frauds basically circle the the idea that yes we do. Discussions around ethnic frauds always have settlers asserting the idea that Indigeneity is something you can just choose.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Indigenous folks of these lands don't need to earn their identity, but the discussions around ethnic frauds basically circle the the idea that yes we do. Discussions around ethnic frauds always have settlers asserting the idea that Indigeneity is something you can just choose.
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The disconnected urban foster kid is "authentic". The butch lesbian 60s scoop auntie taking community language classes is "authentic". The raised-in-community sundancer is "authentic." And I use scare quotes because damn, what even is authenticity in a settler colony that needs us to die out?
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The disconnected urban foster kid is "authentic". The butch lesbian 60s scoop auntie taking community language classes is "authentic". The raised-in-community sundancer is "authentic." And I use scare quotes because damn, what even is authenticity in a settler colony that needs us to die out?
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They "do so much for community" and "live more authentically than most Indigenous people."
Well I'm sorry, but the uncle, that residential school survivor who is unhoused, a "public nuisance" lost in addiction and/or mental illness, is still "authentic".
Well I'm sorry, but the uncle, that residential school survivor who is unhoused, a "public nuisance" lost in addiction and/or mental illness, is still "authentic".
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
They "do so much for community" and "live more authentically than most Indigenous people."
Well I'm sorry, but the uncle, that residential school survivor who is unhoused, a "public nuisance" lost in addiction and/or mental illness, is still "authentic".
Well I'm sorry, but the uncle, that residential school survivor who is unhoused, a "public nuisance" lost in addiction and/or mental illness, is still "authentic".
This whole thread = required reading for settlers today
Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This whole thread = required reading for settlers today
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When these people are outed, it presses on that identity wound. It has actual Indigenous people, within the vast diversity of Indigenous experiences, re-evaluating their own authenticity. Again. It's almost impossible to escape this feeling of not being enough, because that's been THE colonial goal.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
When these people are outed, it presses on that identity wound. It has actual Indigenous people, within the vast diversity of Indigenous experiences, re-evaluating their own authenticity. Again. It's almost impossible to escape this feeling of not being enough, because that's been THE colonial goal.
Reposted by Tina Adcock
Every single Indigenous person has had their identity attacked and undermined in one way or another, and no matter how connected, culturally rooted, and tradish someone is, they FOUGHT against erasure to get there. Disconnected folks face an even steeper hill.
So when we have ethnic frauds?
So when we have ethnic frauds?
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Every single Indigenous person has had their identity attacked and undermined in one way or another, and no matter how connected, culturally rooted, and tradish someone is, they FOUGHT against erasure to get there. Disconnected folks face an even steeper hill.
So when we have ethnic frauds?
So when we have ethnic frauds?
Reposted by Tina Adcock
Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
Apropos of nothing, here is a new children’s book with LBGTQ characters that I am excited about reading (which appears to only be available through Amazon, unfortunately) #cdnhist
a.co/d/fsjHSiZ
a.co/d/fsjHSiZ
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Apropos of nothing, here is a new children’s book with LBGTQ characters that I am excited about reading (which appears to only be available through Amazon, unfortunately) #cdnhist
a.co/d/fsjHSiZ
a.co/d/fsjHSiZ
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
5 more days, now! Applications due November 30th. Hopefully see you there? 🤞
🦞 Only 10 more days to apply to attend Climate & History: Canadian History & Environment Summer School 2026.
#envhist #cdnhist
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#envhist #cdnhist
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CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
5 more days, now! Applications due November 30th. Hopefully see you there? 🤞
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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
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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