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Nuala Proinnseas Caomhánach
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Diploid studying polyploids ‪@amnh.org‬ @nyu.edu

Plants & Protists | Environmental Law | Museums | Phylogenetics | Madagascar
Contr.Ed JHI @jhideas.bsky.social | co-convener Collection Ecologies chstm.org @collecol.bsky.social‬
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Our editor, Nicole Miller, chose "Crafting the Plasticene" by @robinshistory.bsky.social as our most recent Editor's Pick!

"There is no way to unmake resin-infused wood and fiberglass. Wind turbine blades pose the same problem."

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#envhist #envhum #plastics #canoes
Crafting the Plasticene
Robins' DIY wooden canoe project reveals deeper truths about plastic, sustainability, masculinity, and the contradictions of modern maker culture.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
We depend on our supporters to be able to pay our grad student & precarious contributors honoraria. Make sure we don't have to make cuts to this program in 2026 by supporting our annual fundraiser today.

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#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...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we have "Big C3 Energy: Arctic Plant Collections as Evidence for the Climate Crisis." by @nulybranch.bsky.social

This is the 10th post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social

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Big C3 Energy: Arctic Plant Collections as Evidence for the Climate Crisis.
Arctic plants use efficient C3 photosynthesis to survive cold, now serving as biased yet vital climate-change indicators.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
"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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October 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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ehunineteen.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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maryfissell.bsky.social
Hey bookshop.org has FREE Shipping today! catch my book at at a discount AND free shipping: bookshop.org/p/books/push...
October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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plach.bsky.social
Proud to serve as the publishing editor for this fantastic piece. The authors position refusal as an ethical/methodological stance for working with "materials that depend on the objectification of, and through that objectification the commodification of, human subjects." It's a must read!
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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daumlab.bsky.social
Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail
This structure of an archaeal tailed virus (arTV) provides detailed insights into arTV assembly and infection mechanisms.
www.science.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

#envhist #histsci #wmnshist

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Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
YouTube video by CTV News
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October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
nulybranch.bsky.social
Badass 🧑‍✈️ 🛫 #redtailfighterpilot #Tuskegee #worldwar2

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George E. Hardy, Tuskegee Airman, dies at 100
George E. Hardy was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot at 19 years old and completed 21 missions across Europe during World War II.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
You can read @jdunkin.bsky.social and Crystal Gail Fraser's intro, "Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation," here: niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...

#envhist #trc #cdnhist #canada #indigenoushistory #indigenous #everychildmatters
September 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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vickyveritas.bsky.social
Have you ever stood on an ancient seafloor bed?

This is the banded iron formation (BIF) of Hamersley Range, Australia.

Go big #hematite !

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
Woman with a nonchalant pose is dwarfed by the background as she stands on a ridge of the folded red bands of rock of the Banded Iron Formation of Hamersley Range, Australia. Photo: Masha Pastuhov, Dronesandstones
September 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
"This was not a competition between the built and the natural; it was a competition between human choices in how cities ought to be built and how they should appear." - @mfeagan.bsky.social

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#envhist #urbanhistory #builtenvironment
Electric Trees: The Constructed Nature of Utility Poles and Street Trees
Telephone poles and street trees overlapped in nineteenth-century cities, contested between aesthetics, technology, and regulation, blurring natural and built environments.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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andreamatranga.bsky.social
Error Bar would be a great name for a stats themed drinking establishment.
You know where we could go when the article gets rejected
September 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, with a break down of our most-read articles published in July!

#envhist #envhum #cdnpoli #cdnhist

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Our Most-Read Articles in July 2025! #envhist #canadianhistory #cdnpoli #history #environment
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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September 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."

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#envhist #archives
Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories
Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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stundenbower.bsky.social
I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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gvagrad.bsky.social
The Geneva Graduate Institute, the @kofiannanfdn.bsky.social
and @gpplatform.ch invites you to the fifth edition of the
Kofi Annan Geneva Peace Address,
a high-level lecture on peace, held annually as part of #GenevaPeaceWeek.

🗓 14 October📍 Maison de la Paix & Online
👉 shorturl.at/B9XDL
September 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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victorianlondon.bsky.social
the quaint world of Victorian porn advertisements
September 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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tinytalesdaily.bsky.social
"Today's lesson: mitosis," I announce, splitting cleanly down the middle. Two of me continue teaching. Students scribble notes. Four of me patrol the cafeteria. Eight versions grade papers after school. "Homework's due Monday," we chorus in perfect unison. The janitor counts heads as sixteen of me file out. "Just one teacher leaving?" "Just one," I lie. Home already has thirty-two. Wife kisses whoever reaches the door first. --- *Enjoyed today's story? Share your thoughts and follow us for more tiny daily tales.* #Mitosis #Biology #TeacherLife #SciFi #Humor #Cloning #Education #Surreal Your daily treat from TinyTalesDaily.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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dominikhhh.bsky.social
Just like there are no people without history, there is no landscape without history.

#EnvHist
kbruisch.bsky.social Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · Sep 13
a brilliant thread on the invisible drainage infrastructure underneath farmland in northern Germany calling us to read the land as a product of history 👇
akrotelm.bsky.social Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · Sep 12
Obwohl ich es ja weiß, bin ich immer wieder schockiert, dass wirklich fast alle verdammten Senken in der Agrarlandschaft an die #Entwässerung angeschlossen sind.

Hier 👇 n Beispiel.
(und das sind nur die gewidmeten Gräben & Rohrleitungen, d.h. die ungewidmeten + Drainagen sind da nicht mal drin.😐)
September 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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easlce.bsky.social
#newbook: "Literature and Botany", ed. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Paweł Piszczatowski, Tomasz Szybisty, Justyna Włodarczyk (Brill, V&R press)

OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities
Literature and Botany
An interdisciplinary exploration of how literature and botany intersect through myth, symbolism, and ecology, reflecting human-plant relationships in cultural and environmental contexts.
www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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andreamatranga.bsky.social
If you were an illustrator working in 17h century France, a strong explosion drawing game was essential
September 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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sciencehistory.org
*NEWS* @sciencehistory.org has acquired the History of Molecular Biology Collection from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). This unparalleled collection documents the race to identify DNA’s double-helix structure and other significant developments that formed the foundation of molecular biology.
Science History Institute Acquires Molecular Biology Archive That Includes Rosalind Franklin’s Historic ‘Photo 51’
This unparalleled collection documents the race to identify DNA’s double-helix structure and other significant developments that formed the foundation of molecular biology.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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drbeard79.bsky.social
Delighted to see my blogpost for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Humour & Climate Crisis in High Potential up and live - with thanks to @nulybranch.bsky.social for her patient editing of the piece - check out the rest of the series!
On Seeing and Making the World Anew in High Potential
High Potential blends crime comedy with climate themes, using humour, parental responsibility, and unconventional perception to address ecological crises and authority.
niche-canada.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM