Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt

@jmariedewitt's February 2026 Wrap-Up BOOKS 11 PAGES 1,330 Highest Rated Reads EXTRACTING HOME IN THE OIL SANDS SETTER COLAMALISA ANO ENVIRCANENTA aple Low's STMAS TREE AV. RATING 3.27 Potato Pul Pie Society, ~ Mary Ann Shaffer 4.25食 4.75 4.75 Average book length: 99 pages Average time to finish: 6 days Childrens Historical Literary Romanco Sports • fiction (73%) • nonfiction (27%) Compared to January... Books + 10% 4 No. of books Pages + 17% 6 ∞ Plus 200 150 Pages read • print (100%) Day STORYGRAPH

My February reading stats.

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We go at 1-3 times a week. Our three year old loves it. I’ve already saved over $1000 this year borrowing from the library (our library keeps track).

I’m proud to announce the fourth CFP for Succession IV: Queering the Environment, which I’ve edited biennially since 2020.

This year we are inviting topics related to “queer joy.”

YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE Our Most-Read Articles Published in December 2025! #envhist #rdr2 #popculture #environmentalstudies

Pop culture meets academia in our two most read articles in December, on Red Dead Redemption 2 and Terror Camp. Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has the details!

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#EnvHist Worth Reading: January 2026 Find coyotes, weather data, and architectural history in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.

ICYMI: I've got another great list of environmental history worth reading (and listening to) that were released in January!

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#envhist #envhum #animalhistory

This month I featured @donnalferguson.bsky.social, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @herberthistory.bsky.social, @cymene.bsky.social, @dominicboyer.bsky.social, @maximepolleri.bsky.social, and more!

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I always point out to folks that nobody cares about disciplinary boundary lines outside of the academy, so don't fence yourself in!

👇🎯 All related to the abject poverty of the category error analogy that universities are businesses & students are customers.

If we're going there (which we shouldn't) then the <students> are the <product> & society/the polity is the <customer> & we are producing well-educated human beings.

For the kids who don’t know: The Lancet is a - if not the - premier medical profession publication.

Evan nails it here. Committing to being an independent journalist is a fundamentally hopeful position that we can build something new from billionaires’ scorched earth, having no idea if it will actually work.

Copy of the wiggles starting school laying on a vintage floral blanket

2026 Reading Challenge: 16/50
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Starting School by The Wiggles
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Review on StoryGraph
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FiveMile, 2023.
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature #thewiggles #librarybook

A copy of Extracting home in the oil sands laying on a vintage floral blanket

2026 Reading Challenge: 15/50
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Extracting Home in the Oil Sands: Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada edited by Clinton N. Westman, @tarajoly, and Lena Gross
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Review on StoryGraph
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Routledge, 2020.
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#amreading #envhist #anthropology #oilsands #energy

Copy of happy birthday SpongeBob laying on a vintage floral blanket

2026 Reading Challenge: 14/50
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Happy Birthday, SpongeBob! by J.P. Chanda
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Review on StoryGraph
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Simon Spotlight Nickelodeon, 2005.
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature #spongebobsquarepants #librarybook

Rethinking Psychedelic Risk Bia Labate argues psychedelic risk is exaggerated through colonial, moralizing narratives that conflate risk with harm. Unlike accepted risks like alcohol, psychedelics are stigmatized and medicalized...

In our latest @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicles, Bia Labate argues that substance-related risk is exaggerated through colonial, moralizing narratives that conflate risk with harm.

chacruna.net/psychedelic-...

Pushing Back, Building Bridges - A Renewed Call for "Tracking the Effects" Collecting stories of resistance, both historical and actual, that relate to environmental history or environmental historians.

Editors @stundenbower.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social & @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social invite submissions related to "resistance" for the 2026 renewal of our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History & the Current United States Federal Administration series

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Halfway through Season Six!

My cousin-in-law is an ER doctor. Her undergrad is in Women's and Gender Studies. And yes, it prepared her well!

Pretty on par for most recipes. ha!

An invitation to help us think about the current moment in relation to the discipline of environmental history and the work of environmental historians -- please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to chat about a potential contribution.

Peanutty noodles topped with tempeh cucumbers cilantro and scallions

Tonight’s Recipe: Peanutty Noodles with Tempeh Crumbles
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Rating: Good
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Recipe by Sarah Jampel, Bon Appetit Magazine
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #foodgram #tempeh #veganrecipes

Look out for our Succession IV: Qeering the Environment - “Queer Joy” CFP on @nichecanada.bsky.social later this week.

Me: <just sitting here very tired, hoping the 8yo will go to sleep soon.>

The 8yo: “daddy, I know the universe is constantly expanding, but if we DID reach the edge of the universe, what would be on the other side?”

This week @jamellebouie.net had some questions for me about where the US is at now and why the term "concentration camp" might be a useful way to think about the crisis. (He interviewed me eight years ago for Slate on a similar topic. Let's hope we don't end up having the same discussion in 2034.)

If you don’t see yourself in this concept, something in your home is currently extremely gross

This one hits hard.

Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss Volunteering revealed urban conservation’s failures as Saskatoon Grasslands lost biodiversity, accountability, and fescue prairie, prompting calls for memorialization and justice.

This conversation was based on Gilmore's article, "Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss," for our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/r...

#envhist #yxe #urbanhistory #sask #treatysix

YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE NiCHE Conversations 6.8: Saskatoon's Urban Prairie & Lessons in Ecological Loss with Carmen Gilmore

Our NiCHE Conversation with Carmen Gilmore is now on YouTube!

Gilmore joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to talk about Saskatoon’s urban prairie, broader conservation efforts and issues in the city, and ways to move forward.

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Another fabulous BPES Fashion Show! Wish I could have stayed till the end. #yxe #blackhistorymonth #fashion

#EnvHist Worth Reading: January 2026 Every month I carefully track the most popular and significant environmental history articles, videos, audio, and other items making their way through the online environmental history (#envhist) commu...

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

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