Tina Loo
@lootina.bsky.social
Mountain itinerant and photog who teaches and writes Canadian and environmental history at the University of British Columbia. [I chose the photo of Sycamore Gap not knowing what would soon happen...]
Great line up of #envhist #envhum talks!
Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Greenhouse #envhum book talks start up again this month! Episode 199: Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social on Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2026), Monday 24 August 2026, 4pm Central European / 10am Eastern. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Good piece. Highlights the connections between problems with access to proper archival sources (an underfunded public service) and the cheap and toxic production of invented sources. Gresham's law, historical research edition
Suzanne Rent@suzannerent.bsky.social · last wk.AI-generated fake historic images are destroying our past, present, and future Morning File by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
I’m a snob who took Latin for five years, read the Odyssey on my own at 13, enjoyed the movie, and thought EW was spot on. A movie can be both fun and facile; she acknowledges its upshots. People who think she’s too harsh need to watch better movies (or at least one of the stronger Nolan ones).
Jennifer Szalai@jenszalai.bsky.social · last wk.Yes. I've seen complaints that Wilson is too mean, given that Nolan plugged her translation and clearly cares about the arts. But there's lots to be said for her critical ruthlessness. Let people enjoy things. Also let people critique things. There's room for both.
Super cool if you study Canadian history: an interactive digital map of Hudson's Bay Company posts! Thanks, @trailmark.bsky.social! #cdnhist #cdnhistory trailmark.cloud/trailmark/pu...
Terrific answer from the great historian David Blight. Museums aren't there to inform us of all the old answers, but to inspire for us all the new questions.
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.gov · last wk.America’s history is complex, inspiring, painful, and unfinished. The Smithsonian exists to educate and preserve that history honestly, not to conform to any administration's preferred narrative.
A good job in Canadian military history: emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Chief Historian
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Is Animal History radical or not? I have some issues with the way we work and I'd love to hear your opinions about it 😅📗 (thread 🧵) #envhist #animalhistory
Wow! Love the genealogy of the taco in Norway! #foodhist cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @finnarne.me www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
How tacos became Norway's national comfort food
An oil boom, a supermarket opportunity and decades of adaptation transformed the taco from a Tex-Mex import into one of Norway's most beloved traditions.
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“Over the course of history serious efforts have been made to increase rainfall, control the paths of hurricanes and use weather to win wars, all to no avail…And now we face a choice: whether to geoengineer or reconcile ourselves to life in a hostile new climate.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate
Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century
theguardian.com
Terrific piece of writing and photos about the overlooked connections between France and the US, and the statue's Orientalist influences and multiple meanings. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Most Iconic American Artwork Is the Hardest to See (Gift Article)
The Statue of Liberty is caught between the sublime and the souvenir, our critic Jason Farago explains. Look again: She’s much stranger than you think.
nytimes.com
Really important read on the sanitizing of history in US National Parks. A battle was won at one site, but the war goes on. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks
Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands
theguardian.com
Thanks to @theglobeandmail.com for giving me a little space to talk about a moment in my life. I hope maybe it'll be useful to (possibly give a laugh to?)others with metastatic cancer? share.google/8dRbC0go2heN...
I am still physically fit, but metastatic breast cancer took away my ability to plan ahead
Patients are living longer with MBC but don’t tell them they look ‘great’ in spite of the disease
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Vancouver friends, check out this exhibit at the Chinese Cdn Museum #cdnhist www.cbc.ca/arts/steps-f...
Steps from the World Cup, a Vancouver museum tackles the power and politics of sports | CBC Arts
At the Chinese Canadian Museum, the exhibition Momentum: Power and Identity in Sports uses the art and artifacts of athletics to kick off conversations.
cbc.ca
Looks terrific! #envhist
Jim Clifford@jimclifford.bsky.social · last mo."Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade". Iva Lučić and I are excited to share the special issue on Timber Colonialism. #envhist @nichecanada.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ICYMI last night, I share some of my finds from the oil sands archives of the 1950s and 1960s ⤵️
Tina Adcock@tinaadcock.bsky.social · 2mo agoAh, the late 1950s, when it was predicted that not one, but 10 MILLION atomic bombs were needed to extract oil from the oil sands 🤦🏻♀️
Canada has quiet Trumpism in academia. Here’s a thread about one such case.
Andrea DeKeseredy@andiewinnipeg.bsky.social · 2mo ago🧵There is a lot of talk on here about Jack Mintz, his multiple roles in the Alberta government, and his articles on separation. But this year, something bizarre happened. And everyone in Canadian humanities/social sciences missed it. He was named a Trudeau Foundation Mentor.
The idea that Natalie Zemon Davis’ work was/is NOT political (and therefore somehow less threatening than Hartman) is absurd - NZD’s approach was explicitly feminist in how she read her sources and she was criticized exactly for ‘imposing narrative form’ on the accounts by conservative critics.
Bobby Lee@bobbylee.bsky.social · 2mo agoStill thinking about this tortured footnote from the Vanderbilt/WashU report
A U.S. District Court has issued an order stopping the administration from censoring American history and science and ordering the restoration of unlawfully censored information displayed in national parks, including signs explaining the impacts of climate change.
Court Blocks Censorship and Erasure of American History and Science at National Parks
A U.S. District Court has issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from censoring American history and science at U.S. national parks.
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Exciting for sure. Great game, Team Canada! But @tsnofficial.bsky.social, it's Canada's first point in men's FIFA World Cup history.
TSN@tsnofficial.bsky.social · 2mo agoCanada secures their first point in #FIFAWorldCup history in a 1-1 draw with Bosnia and Herzegovina! 🇨🇦
Some great news! Correctional Services Canada has reversed their decision about the removal of librarians from federal prisons! Advocacy works! #libraries #archives 📚
BREAKING: Water not Coal (aka Corb Lund's petition) says it has reached the signatures required under the citizen intiative act. If signatures are counted and approved, it would theoretically lead to an 11th referendum question in Alberta this fall.
Listened to maybe 20 Champlain Society podcasts on my drives to & from PEI this week & really, really recommend them. So many smart folks speaking with so much knowledge & passion about #cdnhist history & their work in it. champlainsociety.utppublishing.com/witness-to-y...
Witness to Yesterday podcast - Champlain Society
Discover who we are and the important work we do in scholarly publishing. Get detailed information about our mission, values, and how we're making an impact.
champlainsociety.utppublishing.com
Terrific book - congratulations! #envhist
Arn Keeling@arnkeeling.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe're honoured to receive the 2026 Rik Davidson/Studies in Political Economy book prize for The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife! The judges' citation calls it "a beautifully written and well-structured book" that...
ASEH 2027 Conference Call for Proposals will be opening soon! We can't wait to see you in Richmond for ASEH's 50th Anniversary, March 31-April 3.
Kinew is correct here, and Smith is misrepresenting the facts and the law. It’s not the citizen petition that triggers the duty to consult. The duty is triggered if the Alberta government is contemplating acting on that petition in a way that would impact treaty rights.
Holly Hoye 🇨🇦@hollyhoye.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn which Wab Kinew sees right through Smith’s BS and provides real time fact-checking:
Ahoy, Mateys, and Arr! My review of Allan Greer's delightful book Canada in the Age of Rum. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
Barrelling Through History | A review of “Canada in the Age of Rum” by Allan Greer Literary Review of Canada
Daniel Woolf reviews “Canada in the Age of Rum,” by Allan Greer, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
reviewcanada.ca
