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An utter joy to support and pitch in on this engrossing essay! Thank you Maggie 😊😊

Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway Denver’s 1950s Valley Highway film exposes intimate demolition scenes, revealing memory, loss, and urban transformation that complicate archival interpretation.

Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social

This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social

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Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.

In 1895, he was charged with embezzlement stemming from an audit of the bank. Before the trial, he fled to Honduras, where he began writing Cabbages and Kings (in which he coined the term "banana republic"). Porter surrendered to U.S. authorities when he learned his wife was dying from tuberculosis, and he cared for her until her death in July 1897. He began his five-year prison sentence in March 1898 at the Ohio Penitentiary, where he served as a night druggist. While imprisoned, Porter published 14 stories under various pseudonyms, one being O. Henry.

Did everyone know this about O. Henry . Every sentence is bonkers

Of lab mice and men — Outside/In The story of how a leading eugenicist and a handful of wealthy automakers helped engineer the modern lab mouse.

Listen to "Of lab mice and men" - @outsideinradio.bsky.social - outsideinradio.org/shows/of-lab...

Read "A Model Organism Triptych: A Vacanti Mouse, a Ticklish Rat, and A Pain-Free Mouse" - niche-canada.org/2023/07/18/a...

#animalstudies #animalhistory #histsci #envhist #science

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3. Only 284 characters left so not possible to answer clearly. Is there a makeup exam for this questionnaire? 🤭

Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753) Botanical collections assembled before the widespread adoption of the ‘Linnaean’ system of binomial naming often have nomenclatural significance, are increasingly utilized to investigate genetic an...

Our data paper is out today: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753).

Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine

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CollEcologies is back this week with another great discussion on how THINGS are also NATURE and what is all this about collecting and preserving, and where is "knowledge"?

Join us this coming Thursday! You won’t regret it; well, you will if you dont join us 🤭✨✨✨✨

The Terror’s aesthetic was partially inspired by the visual record of later expeditions like the Endurance. Screenshot from series The Terror, courtesy of the author.

"Terror Camp Clear" by @tchotchke.bsky.social of @terrorcamp.bsky.social is the eleventh and final post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social

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Can you help push us over $12,000? Only a few more days left in our annual fundraising campaign and we are still far from our goal.

We are not institutionally funded. We rely entirely on supporters and do good work with a very small budget!!

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Crafting the Plasticene Robins' DIY wooden canoe project reveals deeper truths about plastic, sustainability, masculinity, and the contradictions of modern maker culture.

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

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...

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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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.

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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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.

"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

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.

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...

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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!

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.

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/...

Love how the purslane is photo bombing the Muhly 😂

YouTube video by CTV News Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

#envhist #histsci #wmnshist

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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.

Badass 🧑‍✈️ 🛫 #redtailfighterpilot #Tuskegee #worldwar2

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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

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

Have you ever stood on an ancient seafloor bed?

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

Go big #hematite !

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#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

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.

"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

Error Bar would be a great name for a stats themed drinking establishment.
You know where we could go when the article gets rejected

YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE Our Most-Read Articles in July 2025! #envhist #canadianhistory #cdnpoli #history #environment

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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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.

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."

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#envhist #archives

I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social