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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 1d

"Planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point"
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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 · 1d

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

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

#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."

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#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 · 3d

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

#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 · 13d

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 · 15d

Bumping again for the afternoon crowd.

Marc-André Brideau @mabrideau.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

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#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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

"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

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#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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

"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 · 3d

"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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Mina Harker @bellalieughosty.bsky.social · 3d

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly." - Anna Soper

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

"On the surface, naming a newly discovered frog in Ecuador after Led Zeppelin, the British rock music group, seems like scientists having a bit of fun or sharing a rare touch of whimsy. Let me squash that notion." - Jacqueline Scott

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#science #ecology #histsci

Naming a Frog After Led Zeppelin is Not a Fairy Tale

Naming a frog after a British rock group is an

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 3d

This is whimsical as fuck.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, son of Nathaniel Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in England, once rode a zebra-drawn carriage to Buckingham Palace, to prove that zebras could be domesticated and should be legally permitted as transportation in London.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly." - Anna Soper

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 3d

This makes me so happy! 🐢

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

"Does humour in the face of the climate crisis allow us to explore environmental humanities research in novel and innovative ways?" - @nulybranch.bsky.social

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#envhist #envhum #climatecrisis

Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis

This series explores how humour helps environmental historians engage climate crisis narratives, bridging human-nonhuman relations and resisting despair.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

Watch: "Building of the Alaska Highway in WWII - Original Color Documentary" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMC6...

Read: "The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track" by Desiree Valadares - niche-canada.org/2025/10/10/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #militaryhistory

Building of the Alaska Highway in WWII - Original Color Documentary

YouTube video by Look in The Past War Archives

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

Funded Master’s Position in the History of Food Systems in Canada

Work with @jamiemurton.bsky.social on the How Canadians Ate Project at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario.

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#envhist #cdnhist #foodhistory #foodstudies

Funded Master's Position in the History of Food Systems in Canada

The project asks: how did Canadians get their food following the rise of industrial capitalism in the 19th century? In other words, in a Canada that was increasingly industrial from about the 1870s, w...

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 4d

Please sign to support part-time academics and teaching assistants at Dalhousie! #KeepDalStrong @dalfaculty.bsky.social

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 3d

GM: "We have the car of the future, but we can't make it."
Toyota: "We are complying with regulations."

Eisler notes that this was a public element of technical dramaturgy that shows what automobility might look like in the future. But GM didn't know about Toyota's new hybrid (#Prius)

#SHOT2025

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

"It has long been obvious that the fossil fuel lobby has a powerful influence on the Liberal Party of Canada. However, it is truly amazing to see how quickly they have gained influence over this new Prime Minister." - @drlorileeoates.bsky.social

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

"On a crisp autumn day along the south shore of Lake Superior, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay set off into the woods. His quarry was 'a true local delicacy: the chaga mushroom.'" - @robinshistory.bsky.social

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#envhist #foodstudies #foraging #chaga

Picking Stories, Selling Chaga: How History Helped Make Chaga a Superfood

Jonathan Robins investigates how history has been adapted to market chaga as a popular superfood.

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