Tonight’s Recipe: Creamy Pumpkin Pasta 🔸 Rating: Good 🔸 Recipe by Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit 🔸 epicurious.com/recipes/food... 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #pasta #pumpkin #pumpkinpasta
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Tonight’s Recipe: Creamy Pumpkin Pasta 🔸 Rating: Good 🔸 Recipe by Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit 🔸 epicurious.com/recipes/food... 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #pasta #pumpkin #pumpkinpasta
Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
“well this is certainly a bold departure from political norms!” as they are marched to the gulag
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Job - Policy Advisor – Clean Energy Canada SFU Centre for Dialogue Location: ideally based in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver or Victoria. Some travel may be required. Applications will be accepted until Sept 9, 2025 niche-canada.org/2025/09/02/p... #energy #energystudies #envhist #cleanenergy
After careful consideration of the current situation and the tools at our disposal at this present time, I have made the strategic decision to Lie Down For a Bit
Some moments from August.
Yeah, looking forward to the picking up the second book this month
2025 Reading Challenge: 41/50 🔸 Penguin and Pumpkin by Salina Yoon 🔸 ⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2014 🔸 #wearereading #book #booksky #childrensliterature #boardbook
My reading stats for August! I’m on StoryGraph @ jmariedewitt
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has a rundown of our most read pieces published in June! Examining Carney’s decarbon rhetoric and the colonial legacy of modern, post-war exploration in northern Canada topped the list. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8lH...
2025 Reading Challenge: 40/50 🔸 How to Do a Science Experiment by Jean Teagan, illustrated by Lee Wildish 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 #wearereading #book #bookstagram #librarybook #childrensliterature #science #kidscience
Today’s Recipe: Pumpernickel Bread 🔸 Rating: Good (if you smother it in jam) 🔸 Recipe from HEALING FOODS: Cooking for Celiacs, Colitis, Crohn’s and IBS by Sandra Ramacher 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #baking #food #foodgram #glutenfreerecipes #pumpernickel #bread
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Your periodic reminder that people who blame “mental illness” for every mass shooting want to make it easier for people to get guns and harder for people to get mental healthcare.
www.democracynow.org/2025/8/27/he...
"The margins are, for queer eels and for queer folk, safe places – places of liberation and pleasure." - Taylor Coyne niche-canada.org/2022/06/27/q... #queerecology #envhist #wetlands
I’d rather see your visual artist friend cobble something together in an hour for $50.
I get why independent musicians are using AI to design album covers (it’s rough out there for independent artists), BUT it is one of my least favourite AI developments. Immediately makes your work, in its entirety, suspect; plus now I have to do the extra step to see if they are actually human.
Some August magic in the yard.
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Companion read, "Wilderness as Marketing Strategy: Joseph Whitson on the Outdoor Industry, Colonialism, and Land Back Futures" with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/24/w... #envhist #wilderness #outdoorrecreation #publiclands
2025 Reading Challenge: 39/50 🔸 The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 DCB, 2017. 🔸 #amreading #book #booksky #indigenoushistory #paperback #dystopian #sciencefiction #canadianliterature
Two slides from intro to art history lecture 1, 2025. Let's go.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
2025 Reading Challenge: 38/50 🔸 Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 A Read and Resist Book Club selection 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Pathfinder Press, 1990. 🔸 #amreading #book #booksky #burkinafaso #blackhistory #womenshistory #colonialism #genderhistory
Archival deep dive.
I’m at Creatures of the Night Market selling Riversdale Community Fridge Merch and chatting about how to get involved until 7pm! Come say hi! Cosmo Senior Center, 614 11th St E, Saskatoon #yxe #saskatoon #treatysix
Lovely, we camped at Echo Valley Provincial Park last year, which our first extended trip to the area, only scratched the surface though. Need more time!
We finally got to explore the Qu’apelle valley this summer. Stunning place with incredible history. Also really enjoyed Motherwell National Historic Site.
This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
PSA, using generative AI heavily contributes to irreversible climate change. We are cooked. Literally.
From @candicebernd.bsky.social: “It’s been an open secret in the Legislature for a while that if your bill has the word ‘climate’ in the caption, it’s not getting a hearing. That has been true for many sessions.” www.texasobserver.org/gop-flood-re...
Fears over immigration raids are dampening US cities' cultural vibrancy as festivals and parades are canceled. Those that go forward are taking extraordinary precautions
Our short trip to Grasslands National Park left me wanting more. #saskatchewan #exploresask #nationalpark
The latest article that I edited in the @yegcityasmuseum.bsky.social labour series is now out! Read "'Queen of the Link': Margaret Littlewood, Canada’s Only Woman Flight Instructor during WWII" by Bruce Cinnamon. citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/08/12/q... #cdnhist #yeg #womenshistory #aviation #WWII
This month I feature @zoeyunker.bsky.social, @thetyee.ca, @theguardian.com, @darakerr.bsky.social, @markstoll.bsky.social, @theobserveruk.bsky.social, @lauracummingart.bsky.social, and more! #envhist
Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading from July! niche-canada.org/2025/08/11/e... #envhist
Ooo fellow #Saskatchewan people this looks interesting!
when I think about presentism, I recall the avowedly presentist center for "genocide studies" at my former u that split hairs over the use of "genocide" with reference to residential schools, then said nothing about Gaza, before rebranding as a "global security" institute irrelevance does less harm
Saddened to learn today that shíshálh Nation researchers for the St. Augustine's Residential School in BC have, through Survivor testimony, historical research, and archaeological technology, located an additional 41 unmarked burials: shishalh.com/2025/08/15/s...
Here is more info on our @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social historic trail walk program, which are long multi-day walks on historic Saskatchewan trails that take place every two years. www.skhistory.ca/historic-tra...
This group hike looks so fantastic. You pretty much never see people hiking or walking across the countryside in Southern Saskatchewan. Most of the interesting land is on private property and there generally isn’t a culture of allowing public access on private land.
Hugh Henry, past @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social president, has put a lot of effort into these walks, contacting land owners, setting up get-togethers and overnights along the way. This page needs to be updated, but here is some more info: www.skhistory.ca/historic-tra...
I joined some of my fellow @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social colleagues this past weekend at Wood Mountain to mark the 10th anniversary of our historic trail walks and retrace the first leg of the original walk from Wood Mountain to Fort Walsh. #skhistory #saskatchewan #exploresask
This collection belongs in only two places: items generated by the company must go to the HBC Archives in Winnipeg, and items created by Indigenous people must be returned to the Indigenous nations to which they belong.
ICYMI: Last week at @yegcityasmuseum.bsky.social, Cathy Roy examined the women's labour that drove early computerization in Alberta's government. citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/07/29/a... #yeg #wmnshist #histstm #alberta #cdnhist
I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism. Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
Last year, @melinabuns.bsky.social and I published this article after our visit to Hiroshima in November to see the Hibakujumoku, the trees that survived the blast, as part of our ANEST #envhum project funded by the Research Council of Norway. The trees are living memorials saying «never again».
80 years ago today, the US dropped an atomic bomb on #Hiroshima, destroying the city and causing tremendous suffering. With the bombing of Nagasaki three days later, more than 160,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed.
Today on @chacruna.bsky.social, we have "Plant Medicine in Mexico: From Traditional Use to Psychedelic Therapy" featuring Osiris García Cerqueda, Anja Loizaga-Velder, Carmen Amezcua, Raul Escamilla Orozca, and Bia Labate. chacruna.net/plant-medici... #plantmedicines #psychedelicscience #mexico
ICYMI: Season Five of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social wraps up with four conversations about Indigenous history and sovereignty and mining and water pollution. niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #water
Some moments from July. #summer #july #blooms #berries #saskatchewan
My July reading stats! Friend me on StoryGraph! @ jmariedewitt
We have a roundup of the last 4 conversations of Season 5 of NiCHE Conversations w/ @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
2025 Reading Challenge: 37/50 🔸 Duncton Rising (Book of Silence #2) by William Horwood 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Fontana, 1992. 🔸 #amreading #book #bookstagram #paperback #fantasy #moles #bookofsilence
Great new @yegcityasmuseum.bsky.social story this week by Cathy Roy about the women worked with the Alberta government’s first mainframe computers. A rough job but one they took a lot of pride in. (Shout out to editor @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social) citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/07/29/a...
Tonight’s Recipe: Pink Grapefruit and Orange Cake 🔸 Rating: Good 🔸 Recipe from HEALING FOODS: Cooking for Celiacs, Colitis, Crohn’s and IBS by Sandra Ramacher 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #baking #food #foodsky #glutenfreerecipes #citrus #cake #dessert
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social. chose "'B is for Baby' / B is for Bitumen." by Elysia French as our most recent Editor's Pick! niche-canada.org/2025/05/16/b... #envhist #envhum #mininghistory #museums
Another wonderful half birthday weekend in the books! #exploresask #saskatchewan
We visited the WDM and the Tunnels of Moose Jaw, explored Avonlea, spent much of Sunday at Dunnet Regional Park (a gem), and ended our day walking around the Claybank Brick Works National Historic Site. #exploresask #saskatchewan
Planned a trip to Avonlea to see the badlands and ended up doing everything but see the badlands (our tour was cancelled). #exploresask #saskatchewan
A good read! and "I was drawn to Brown’s book because I live at the suburban edge in Saskatoon, a place where deer ford the roads leading into my subdivision as they once forded rivers" is a great sentence
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Ah yes, tale as old as time.
New on @chacruna.bsky.social , "The Language of Integration: Chacruna In and Through Psychedelic Science 2025" by Marta Camagna - @hemelsblu.bsky.social and Miranda Milbauer chacruna.net/the-language... #psychedelics #psychedelicscience #plantmedicines
awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduces our Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series. niche-canada.org/2025/07/25/f... #envhist #envhum #climatecrisis
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
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Yeah, my daughter is very into them right now!
2025 Reading Challenge: 36/50 🔸 Pinkalicious and the Amazing Sled Run by Victoria Kann 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Harper, 2018. 🔸 #wearereading #book #booksky #childrensliterature #pinkalicious #librarybook
I've got a new interview out with Joseph Whitson on @nichecanada.bsky.social. It was a treat to chat with someone who is also a public lands/parks scholar AND a marketing/social media person. niche-canada.org/2025/07/24/w... #envhist #publiclands #outdoorrecreation #parks #wilderness
Indeed! I believe I do. I have one favourite empty lot in Saskatoon that has been for sale for years, and I'm scared of what they will do with it once someone buys it!
Today on our site @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social speaks with Joseph Whitson about the outdoor industry, colonialism, and the use of wilderness as a marketing strategy. Whitson's book, Marketing the Wilderness, came out earlier this year with @uminnpress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/24/w...
I have not, but I edited Carmen Gilmore's "From Vacant to Vital: Rethinking the Role of Empty Lots in North American Cities" article/review for @nichecanada.bsky.social! - niche-canada.org/2025/02/20/f... And chatted with her about it - www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWia... #emptylots #urbannature
As someone who is raising a child in a non-traditional family setting, this is terrifying. Also just rage-inducing as a human living in this world that cares about others.
Empty lots are so beautiful this time of year.
Extremely important effort here to document NPS signage to try to save it sites.google.com/umn.edu/save... Please spread the word through your networks that may be close to parks @learothawms.bsky.social @waterpotential.bsky.social @drangelasutton.bsky.social 1/2
Rainy July #raspberries #july #summerrain
Tonight’s Recipe: Smoky Tofu Shaksuka 🔸 Rating: Good 🔸 Recipe from Sabzi: Vibrant Vegetarian Recipes by Yazmin Khan 🔸 epicurious.com/recipes/food... 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #foodgram #veganrecipes #tofu #shakshuka
2025 Reading Challenge: 35/50 🔸 Pinkalicious and the Robo-Pup by Victoria Kann 🔸 ⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Harper, 2021. 🔸 #wearereading #book #booksky #childrenliterature #librarybook #pinkalicious
You can learn more about this special section of @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social on “Indigenous Voices: Self-determination in mine site transitions and mine closure governance across nations” here: niche-canada.org/2025/05/27/s... #mining #indigenous #mininghistory #remediation #politicalecology
Our NiCHE Conversation with @arnkeeling.bsky.social is now available on YouTube! Keeling joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss Indigenous self-determination in mine site transitions and remediation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV1r... #mining #mininghistory #envhist #politicalecology
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, with a rundown of our most-read posts published in May. www.youtube.com/shorts/qikxv... #envhist
When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
#MothWeek "Butterflies and moths predate the existence of human beings by a significant measure of planetary time, they have a history that is beyond us." - @devyngwynne.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/08/23/t... #envhist #envhum #animalhistory
This is a meaningful failure: Toronto’s massive new park has little bike parking.
Hey yinz guys! I'm looking for a plant chemist for a story. Preferably one who knows about medicinal plants. Any ideas? I keep striking out. 🧪🌱
This conversation was based on @peterfortna.bsky.social article for our Historicizing Adaptation series, "The Athabasca River, Indigenous Knowledge, and Adapting to Danger" - niche-canada.org/2025/04/17/t... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #alberta #oilsands
Our NiCHE Conversation with @peterfortna.bsky.social is now available on YouTube! Fortna joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the oil sand industry on the Athabasca River, forcing downstream communities to adapt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7S... #envhist #cdnhist #oilsands
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Our provincial & federal govt need to invest in better preparedness, resources & infrastructure against wildfires. Tell your MP & MLA that wildfires ( and climate change related disasters in general ) need to have an action plan developed and implemented www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Political scientists: They WANT to hear from us! Do you study the past? They might just have a new buddy for you!