Tonight’s Recipe: Millet Couscous with Roasted Carrots 🔸 Rating: Good 🔸 Recipe by Bon Appetit & Yossy Arefi 🔸 recipekeeperonline.com/recipe/2E-55... 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #cooking #recipe #millet #carrots
Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
#EnvHist & #Parks Historian. NiCHE Editor-in-Chief. Chacruna Institute Managing Editor. SHFS President. SURJ YXE. Social Media. Editor. Writer. Consultant. Mischief. Organizer. Mom. Cook. Queer. Femme. #YXE. She/Her.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
ICYMI: In this interview, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social chats with Will Wright about his book, Borders of Biodiverity, exploring cross-border species conservation. niche-canada.org/2026/07/23/c... #envhist #histsci #borderstudies #books #conservation #biodiversity
Corridors, Not Cores: Rethinking Conservation with Will Wright
Will Wright discusses his new book, exploring how migratory species transform transboundary large landscape conservation and shape new scientific fields.
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New @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicles article from Paulina Valamiel! "Santo Daime and Sexual Diversity: Reflections on the 2025 Survey" Santo Daime faces growing LGBTQ+ diversity alongside ongoing inclusion challenges. chacruna.net/santo-daime-...
Santo Daime and Sexual Diversity: Reflections on the 2025 Survey - Chacruna
A landmark 2025 survey of 309 Brazilian LGBTQIAPN+ Santo Daime practitioners reveals shifting dynamics within the ayahuasca tradition. While a majority report feeling respected, significant racial and...
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New science fiction franchise that's just a school of Arts & Sciences that is fully staffed
Electricity costs much less on days with lots of wind or solar generation. Without wind and solar power, electricity would cost far more.
Renewables do unambiguously reduce wholesale power prices | Carbon Commentary
We still hear assertions that adding renewables to the grid has increased the UK’s electricity costs. I looked at two sources of data and plotted one against the other to test whether there’s any trut...
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What happens when productivity rises, but workers don’t get more time back? Drawing on @julietschor.bsky.social’s decades of research, Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon examine the renewed push for a 32-hour work week—and the labor power it would take to make it widespread.
A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One?
Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands.
inthesetimes.com
Companion read - "The Past, Present and Future of Forest Fires" by @haydenlnelson.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/t... @nichecanada.bsky.social #envhist #wildfires
The Past, Present, and Future of Forest Fires
Upfront costs–in research, in personnel, and in deployment–are essential for fire prevention. Yet today, as in the early twentieth century, the federal government, despite possessing knowledge indicat...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d agoCARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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Seattle has almost no benches anywhere. It limits pedestrians because a lot of people would take a bus and walk downtown if they could sit down. They would buy more food, and have more conversations with friends. There would be more old people keeping things calm.
Stop the city of Saskatoon from removing downtown benches! "This is a shortsighted, costly, offensive, and backwards decision. The benches in downtown Saskatoon serve everyone and are more than just places to sit." www.change.org/p/keep-the-b... #yxe #saskatoon #treatysix #urbanplanning
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Our editor-in-chief @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social sat down with Will Wright to talk about his new book Borders of Biodiversity (@uncpress.bsky.social), which traces the history & conservation of 3 charismatic species across borders Listen to or read the interview: niche-canada.org/2026/07/23/c...
Corridors, Not Cores: Rethinking Conservation with Will Wright
Will Wright discusses his new book, exploring how migratory species transform transboundary large landscape conservation and shape new scientific fields.
niche-canada.org
The extraordinary wildfire outbreak across Oregon, eastern Washington, and southern British Columbia has become even more alarming amid critical fire weather conditions. Over 500,000 acres have already burned in OR & WA alone, and that number could be >1 million acres by Mon.
I think a lot of people outside of the Western US don't know that wildfires are generally not put out. They're contained.
I wrote this for Chicago magazine about the U.S. government's plans to close the National Archives branch in Chicago:
Chicago magazine@chicagomagazine.bsky.social · 2w agoAt a time when dubious information runs rampant, we need more — not less — access to our history.
In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. (Published March w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)
Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...
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Half birthday excursion to Doukhobor Dugout House. #exploresask #saskatchewan #doukhobor
Archaeologists helping to find unmarked graves at residential schools and what 1970s eco-dystopian sci fi films can help us learn today topped the most-read articles in April Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has the details. www.youtube.com/shorts/FGLK8... #envhist #envhum
Our Most-Read Articles Published in April 2026! #envhist #canadianhistory #archaeology #scifi
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading and listening to from last month over on @nichecanada.bsky.social! niche-canada.org/2026/07/14/e... #envhist
#EnvHist Worth Reading: June 2026
Find guts filled with plastic, rocks embedded with plastic, and border-crossing wildfires in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
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This month I feature @envhistnow.bsky.social, @placesjournal.bsky.social, @maxliboiron.bsky.social, @bplmaps.bsky.social, @aeon.co, @katecarp.bsky.social, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social, @draftingthepast.bsky.social, and more! #envhist #envhum
NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 3w agoOur editor-in-chief @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading and listening to from June! niche-canada.org/2026/07/14/e... #envhist
Tonight's Recipe: Cheesy Pork and Tomatillo Skillet 🔸 Rating: Excellent 🔸 Recipe by Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appetit Magazine 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #recipe #foodsky recipekeeperonline.com/recipe/5Blyd...
@chacruna.bsky.social Launches 2026 Course on Roots of Psychedelic Therapy: Shamanism, Ritual and Traditional Uses of Sacred Plants chacruna.net/chacruna-ins...
Chacruna Institute Launches 2026 Course on Roots of Psychedelic Therapy: Shamanism, Ritual and Traditional Uses of Sacred Plants - Chacruna
Registration is now open for the Chacruna Institute’s hybrid online course, Roots of Psychedelic Therapy, running July 28 – November 10, 2026. This 16-week program bridges Indigenous knowledge, ethics...
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I am still so incredibly pleased and grateful for how well the cleanup went this past Sunday!
Showing Up for Racial Justice Saskatoon - Treaty Six@surjyxe.bsky.social · 2w agoYesterday’s 20th Street Cleanup with Queer Compass YXE and 7th Generation Rising exceeded expectations. ▫️ Around 50 volunteers showed up in the heat to take care of the land and community in Saskatoon’s core.
We hope to organize another big cleanup with Queer Compass in the spring. In meantime we’ll still be at CUMFI every Sunday from 11-12 for our weekly cleanup. Join us! ▫️ Thanks again everyone! - @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
Hello @nichecanada.bsky.social friends! I’m hoping to put together a panel on climate, weather, and the Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes at the annual meeting of the CHA. If you know anyone that might be interested, please let me know.