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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 9h

Potato History Reclaimed.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."

A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations Thom - a great recognition of your contribution to #EnvironmentalHumanities and #ExtinctionStudies @aehhub.bsky.social @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Thom van Dooren @thomvandooren.bsky.social · 7d

I’m honoured to be the recipient of the BBVA Foundation’s 7th Biophilia Award in Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences www.biophilia-fbbva.es/en/noticias/... @seisydney.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @usyd-humanities.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social

Thom van Dooren | Biophilia Award in Environmental Humanities

Philosopher Thom van Dooren receives the BBVA Foundation’s 7th Biophilia Award for what the committee describes as his “central role” in “understanding and addressing species extinction.”

www.biophilia-fbbva.es

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations!!! Look forward to reading it!

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 9d

It's finally in my hands! @harvardpress.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the jacket. It's available for preorder, and will ship (to anyone in the US or Canada) on October 28th. #EnvHist #Astronomy #Space

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 9d

Or a murder mystery!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 11d

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social

@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.

niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...

#envhist

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History

The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...

niche-canada.org

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 13d

Very happy to see colleague Ray Blake has won the big book prize for political writing this year, the Shaughnessy Cohen.

Congrats to the whole shortlist!

www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · May 24

Ray Blake's book on how prime ministerial speechifying has shaped 🇨🇦 national identity since 1945.

He's right that PMs have a job of nation-building to do and their nationalist talking points matter in that job

Not just a repetitive list of platitudes. Continuity and change. Tracks Overton window

Book cover of Canada's Prime ministers and the shaping of national identity, by Raymond B. Blake

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Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social · 14d

A nice article - en français - about the critical and important @internetarchiveca.bsky.social. A few words from me too on how important web archiving is for us all.

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/219...

Préserver la mémoire du pays avec Internet archive Canada

L’organisme américain Internet archive a un siège social à Vancouver et sert d'outil pour garder des traces de l’histoire numérique du Canada.

ici.radio-canada.ca

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 15d

What's the rationale for this? Cost savings via amalgamation of departments and reduction of staff comes to mind.... And how will it change the individual work lives/work loads of faculty?

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 15d

Great - was a gift link, so it should work for everyone!

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 16d

Saddened to learn that J.R (Jim) Miller passed away a little over a week ago. His scholarship on Indigenous history, I think it is fair to say, was extremely influential for many of us - and his survey textbooks provided an accessible entry point. www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...

James Miller Obituary September 11, 2025 - Saskatoon Funeral Home

View James Miller's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 15d

Oh no! So sorry to hear this Jim was editor of the CHR when I submitted my first article there. He was a generous scholar and I learned a lot from him.

Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 15d

Not sure what you mean. You should have access to the article, no?

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 16d

The latest in bringing agriculture to the Canadian Arctic (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

Where No Trees Grow, Fresh Strawberries All Year Round

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 16d

Tom Peace has a nice "salvaging" piece here:

tpcanoe.ca/adventurers-...

And for our Mi'kma'ki e-text, we wrote a snapshot take here that we'd hoped would be developed in class discussions.

ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/digitaldisru...

Introduction: Disruptions Past & Present – Settler Colonialism in Acadie/Mi'kma'ki

Historical methods taught through the 18th-century history of Mi'kam'ki & Acadie

ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub

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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 16d

emplois/employment

Histoire - Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint et Bourse professorale Ruby Heap en histoire des femmes

Université d'Ottawa

History - Assistant Professor and Ruby Heap Professorship in Women’s History

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 25d

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.

Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · 26d

Very happy to announce the book, Mountain Voices, will be published in early November by @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. Fifty authors explore their love of Canadian mountains through interpreting photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... Order early!

Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada

Discover Canada’s mountains as you’ve never seen them before with gorgeous photography from the Mountain Legacy Project accompanied by gripping essays from mountaineers, artists, and mountain research...

press.ucalgary.ca

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 28d

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

Behind the Bricks - University of Calgary Press

The story of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s first and longest-running residential school and a model for the entire residential school system.

press.ucalgary.ca

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 29d

This looks great! #envhist

Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 29d

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.

Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · Aug 25

A portent of what’s to come in Canada? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times

PostNord blames sharply falling demand - will other post firms around the world follow suit?

www.bbc.com

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Aug 25

Denmark has cut taxes on books as part of a plan to improve reading levels.

Australia could look at cutting GST on books - something industry proposed to the Howard government all those years ago.

Denmark scraps book tax to combat "reading crisis"

The government hopes abolishing the sales tax will encourage more people to buy books.

www.bbc.com

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Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃‍♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social · Aug 25

Environmental Historians!

What are your favorite digitized archival collections or resources for undergraduates to use?

I'm directing a senior capstone seminar on (North American Environmental History theme). I know that new primary sources are digitally released daily. What are your favorites?

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great to see this and that the family family business continues! :-)

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Arif Cem Gundogan @cemgundogan.bsky.social · Aug 11

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule:

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · Aug 11

Another found and lost sound... youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0?...

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