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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3h

Read Christian Drury's review of the Ski Like a Girl podcast here: niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r...

#envhist #cdnhist #sporthistory #wmnshist #skiing

Review of the Ski Like a Girl Podcast

“Ski Like a Girl” podcast explores Canadian women’s skiing history, blending research and personal stories to highlight leadership, barriers, and landscape.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3h

Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Friday, October 17th, at 12:30pm EDT on Instagram Live.

Charlotte Mitchell & PearlAnn Reichwein will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss their Ski Like a Girl podcast project.

Follow us on Insta here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 5h

👀 Looks very interesting:

"This PhD course explores how humanities scholars can study energy and how humanities perspectives can challenge dominating technological and economic narratives of energy."

Applications open until 24 October. Full details 👇

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 6h

The @greenhouseuis.net - Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, at the University of Stavanger, 1-5 Dec 2025

The course is open to applicants from both within and outside of Norway.

niche-canada.org/2025/10/15/a...

Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities - University of Stavanger

The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, held at the University of Stavanger from 1-5 December 2025.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 6h

The @greenhouseuis.net - Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, at the University of Stavanger, 1-5 Dec 2025

The course is open to applicants from both within and outside of Norway.

niche-canada.org/2025/10/15/a...

Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities - University of Stavanger

The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, held at the University of Stavanger from 1-5 December 2025.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 6h

Today @dagomardegroot.bsky.social makes a case for an Environmental History that spans the cosmos.

niche-canada.org/2025/10/15/s...

#envhist #space #cosmos #histsci

Something New Around the Sun: The Case for an Environmental History that Spans the Cosmos

Environmental history studies past interactions between humans and nature—expanding from Earth’s ecosystems to the dynamic, interconnected environments of the entire universe.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 6h

Same!!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 7h

How do you tell if a forest has never been cleared?

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#envhist #aghist #ecology #foresthistory #forests

How do you tell if a forest has never been cleared? #forest #tree #trees #nature #history #short

YouTube video by Ethan Tapper

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 7h

"The Williams Treaties & Indian Day Schools: Law & Schooling as Tools of Dispossession" by Jackson Pind is the latest article in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser

niche-canada.org/2025/10/14/t...

The Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools: Law and Schooling as Tools of Dispossession

Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 7h

"Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. Without Being Detained at the Border" by @historaastew.bsky.social is the latest article in our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History & the Current United States Federal Administration series

niche-canada.org/2025/10/13/p...

Inside of a passenger plane showing set of seats and open window

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 8h

"Reclaiming the Don ... captures both the various groups over
time who aim to use this river to fulfill their own visions for the river valley in the city but also my own attempt as an author to give this river its due..." - Jennifer Bonnell

niche-canada.org/2016/09/28/n...
#envhist #cdnhist #books

Nature's Past Episode 54: Reclaiming the Don, From Dissertation to Book

In this episode Dr. Bonnell spoke with me about her journey from dissertation to book.

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Algonquin Park Ranger Mark Robinson @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD (Thu, Oct 14) 1915, building basement for Superintendent's building at Headquarters, #AlgonquinPark: "Mixing cement, etc., all day at Sup’t quarters. Finished walls." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 11h

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The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens,' from hedgehogs to nightjars

As the seasons turn and the nights draw in, the countryside of the British Isles seems alive with omens: an owl's screech, or a bat above the hedgerows.

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 2d

"Planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point"
media> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...
science> www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Anthropocene

The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN

The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d

the word congrats is surrounded by blue lines on a white background

ALT: the word congrats is surrounded by blue lines on a white background

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 2d

I think I can now start calling myself a historian of the American West without feeling like an impostor 😅🥳

Announcement for the W. Turrentine Jackson Award given to SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LOS ANGELES

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQHistoryMonthReading:

"Queer Ecology as a Circle of Reciprocity" by Jessica Marion Barr and Jenn Cole

"Our practice is a small and humble enacting of respectful continuation, of being in relationship, of coming to know and be known by this place."

niche-canada.org/2024/08/21/q...

#ecology

Queer Ecology as a Circle of Reciprocity

Queer ecologies hold us in this circle of reciprocity.

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wips.bsky.social @wips.bsky.social · 2d

Looking for something worthwhile to read? Check out this reading list with environmental history picks!

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading, watching, and listening to from September!

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#EnvHist Worth Reading: September 2025

Find historical ecology, a chicken tax, and living rivers in the September list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 14d

I had an idea, and I don't know if it's necessarily a good idea or not, that I'd do a thread of my favorite 10 landslides from the database. But why not? I'll probably do it next week when I'm back in the office.

Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 16d

Bumping again for the afternoon crowd.

Marc-André Brideau @mabrideau.bsky.social · 16d

Over the last three years, @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social, @geocron.bsky.social, me, and twelve colleagues have been compiling a Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database. Version 12 is now available and contains 25,500 entries.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading, watching, and listening to from September!

niche-canada.org/2025/10/11/e...

#envhist

#EnvHist Worth Reading: September 2025

Find historical ecology, a chicken tax, and living rivers in the September list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

Check out "The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track" by Desiree Valadares

The latest article in our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/10/10/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #ushistory

The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track

Amid wildfire smoke, assembling a vintage toy racetrack evokes reflections on U.S. militarism, consumer culture, and the erasure of northern Canadian histories.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

"There was the sense of how the scene played into the Canadian stereotype: of a people so tolerant, or so passive, that they permitted squatting squatters to take up residence next to the seat of government." - @alanmaceachern.bsky.social

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#caturday #cdnhist

A Parliament of Cats

You couldn’t visit the cats without thinking about the wild and the tame, and the thin line between the two.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

"Such rebellion ignites affective bodies with ambiguity and flux, fostering a queer politics of rebel becomings that resists cis and hetero normative conceptions of the body." - Jay Sinclair

niche-canada.org/2024/08/12/t...

#nationalcomingoutday #queerecology #plastics #queer

The Plastic-Body: A Queer Politics of Rebel Becomings

I argue microplastics and their endocrine-disrupting effects can incite resistance against the traditional norms and values of heterosexuality and cis-genderism.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

Job Opportunity – Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions

Seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with and for Indigenous communities in Alberta & elsewhere in Canada.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 4d

DEVASTATED to learn that we keep losing at olympic curling because all of our coaches got poached

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

"Today, there are around one thousand curling clubs across Canada, from Stephenville, NL, to Whitehorse, YT, and there are more active curlers than in any other country." - @ccoates.bsky.social

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

"Today, there are around one thousand curling clubs across Canada, from Stephenville, NL, to Whitehorse, YT, and there are more active curlers than in any other country." - @ccoates.bsky.social

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