Jennifer Schell
@jenniferschell16.bsky.social
English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
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Greetings from Alaska! I'm an English professor who teaches and writes about the environment and all the critters who live in it, especially whales and mammoths 🐋 🦣. Interests include dogs 🐕, books (obviously!), tea, crochet, and creature features. Love hiking in Alaska and visiting the ocean!
I really need to learn to knit, and this sweater just may be the inspiration that finally makes me pick up some needles!
I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
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November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I really need to learn to knit, and this sweater just may be the inspiration that finally makes me pick up some needles!
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Aspen ‘eyes’ keep us accountable to the natural world
In times of crisis, their gaze is a summon from nature to take action.
In times of crisis, their gaze is a summon from nature to take action.
Aspen ‘eyes’ keep us accountable to the natural world
In times of crisis, their gaze is a summon from nature to take action.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Aspen ‘eyes’ keep us accountable to the natural world
In times of crisis, their gaze is a summon from nature to take action.
In times of crisis, their gaze is a summon from nature to take action.
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Native American History Month is the perfect time for non-Indigenous writers and scholars to stop referring to Indigenous belief systems and stories as “folklore” and “myth.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Fungi are fabulous! So excited for this book! ❤️🍄🟫🍄❤️
#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
"Maria Pinto has somehow made fungi fun, engaging and understandable, even to a non-science person like me."
FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏
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FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏
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October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in October 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Fungi are fabulous! So excited for this book! ❤️🍄🟫🍄❤️
#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
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my book of essays inspired by the hunt for mushrooms is available for pre-order, y’all! 🥳
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i put everything into FSD, and hope you’ll find some of that everything in its pages when you hold it in your hands in October
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i put everything into FSD, and hope you’ll find some of that everything in its pages when you hold it in your hands in October
🖤🐦⬛🍄🟫🐦⬛🖤
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May 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
my book of essays inspired by the hunt for mushrooms is available for pre-order, y’all! 🥳
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
i put everything into FSD, and hope you’ll find some of that everything in its pages when you hold it in your hands in October
🖤🐦⬛🍄🟫🐦⬛🖤
share widely & message for discount code
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
i put everything into FSD, and hope you’ll find some of that everything in its pages when you hold it in your hands in October
🖤🐦⬛🍄🟫🐦⬛🖤
share widely & message for discount code
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Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
Donald Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
His team declared the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge "open for business." For now, nobody's buying.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust
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On this ninth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth, Inupiat artist Edna Wilder takes us on a year of her mother’s life as she is introduced to the Western world for the first time, in “Once Upon an Eskimo Time.”
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #alaska #inupiat
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#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #alaska #inupiat
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 9
On this ninth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting a book that examines life pre- and during first contact with the Western world. “Once Upon an Eskimo Time” is by Inupiat artist…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
On this ninth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth, Inupiat artist Edna Wilder takes us on a year of her mother’s life as she is introduced to the Western world for the first time, in “Once Upon an Eskimo Time.”
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #alaska #inupiat
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#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #alaska #inupiat
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Time to focus on the littles! On our eighth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth, we’re highlighting the board #book “Button Up!: Fall in Alaska” by Koyukon Athabascan writer Angela Y. Gonzalez
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #childrensbooks #alaskanative #alaska
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#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #childrensbooks #alaskanative #alaska
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 8
Infant and toddler age is so incredibly important to a person’s formative reading time, and so for the eighth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting the “Button Up!: Fall in Alaska”…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Time to focus on the littles! On our eighth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth, we’re highlighting the board #book “Button Up!: Fall in Alaska” by Koyukon Athabascan writer Angela Y. Gonzalez
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #childrensbooks #alaskanative #alaska
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#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #childrensbooks #alaskanative #alaska
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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We’re headed back into poetry for the seventh day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth. “Gagaan X’usyee: Below the Foot of the Sun” is a touching collection of poems by Tlingit/Haida/Yup’ik/Sami writer X̱’unei Lance Twitchell.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry
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#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 7
We’re headed back into poetry for the seventh day of Alaska Native Heritage Month. “Gagaan X’usyee: Below the Foot of the Sun” is a beautiful and touching collection of poems by Tlingit/Haida/Yup’i…
verastarbard.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We’re headed back into poetry for the seventh day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth. “Gagaan X’usyee: Below the Foot of the Sun” is a touching collection of poems by Tlingit/Haida/Yup’ik/Sami writer X̱’unei Lance Twitchell.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry
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#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry
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“Attu Boy” is the memoir of Unungan survivor Nick Golodoff who was captured by Japanese soldiers on the island of Attu during World War II. Highlighting this extraordinary story for the 6th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth #books #nativeamericanheritagemonth
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 6
“Attu Boy” is the memoir of Unungan survivor Nick Golodoff who, at the age of six, was captured by Japanese soldiers on the island of Attu during World War II. For the sixth day of Alaska Native He…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
“Attu Boy” is the memoir of Unungan survivor Nick Golodoff who was captured by Japanese soldiers on the island of Attu during World War II. Highlighting this extraordinary story for the 6th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth #books #nativeamericanheritagemonth
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See you at Whalefest! We’re in Sitka from November 7-9 to chat about all things conservation in Southeast Alaska. Catch us at our booth in the vendor area from 10-4:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, as well as 11-3 p.m. Sunday. We can’t wait to see you!
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
See you at Whalefest! We’re in Sitka from November 7-9 to chat about all things conservation in Southeast Alaska. Catch us at our booth in the vendor area from 10-4:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, as well as 11-3 p.m. Sunday. We can’t wait to see you!
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Who is Alaskan and visiting Oahu? Me!
Hello- I have a book talk for #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II at the Univesity of Hawaii Manoa Nov 19 1:30pm arranged by fantastic scholar Noah Dolim! Please come- let’s see some Alaska representation there too if you’re on Oahu 🗃️
Hello- I have a book talk for #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II at the Univesity of Hawaii Manoa Nov 19 1:30pm arranged by fantastic scholar Noah Dolim! Please come- let’s see some Alaska representation there too if you’re on Oahu 🗃️
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Who is Alaskan and visiting Oahu? Me!
Hello- I have a book talk for #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II at the Univesity of Hawaii Manoa Nov 19 1:30pm arranged by fantastic scholar Noah Dolim! Please come- let’s see some Alaska representation there too if you’re on Oahu 🗃️
Hello- I have a book talk for #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II at the Univesity of Hawaii Manoa Nov 19 1:30pm arranged by fantastic scholar Noah Dolim! Please come- let’s see some Alaska representation there too if you’re on Oahu 🗃️
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Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
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Rivers are messy: Beyond the water bias in research and management
This article reviews current trends in interdisciplinary river research to argue that a “water bias” or tendency consider rivers as synonymous with water can hinder our understanding of rivers and con...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Good morning Blue Sky. I’ll just leaf this here
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Good morning Blue Sky. I’ll just leaf this here
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Climate change is upping ocean turbulence at the poles — swirling heat, carbon & nutrients in new ways that could reshape where ocean life thrives.
#Arctic #Antarctic
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#Arctic #Antarctic
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Polar oceans growing more chaotic as planet warms, with impacts for undersea life: study
Most people have heard how melting sea ice and warming oceans are impacting polar environments, but a new study has found that these changes are having an additional knock-on effect for oceans, which ...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Climate change is upping ocean turbulence at the poles — swirling heat, carbon & nutrients in new ways that could reshape where ocean life thrives.
#Arctic #Antarctic
www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...
#Arctic #Antarctic
www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...
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An energy rebound from silence, explained in research on zebra finches' dawn singing: "When light returned, everything released at once. That release – the shift from stillness to song – is what people hear as the dawn chorus." #birds #birding #nature #animalcommunication 🧪
Scientists discover why birds sing so passionately at dawn
Birds sing at dawn due to built-up energy from nighttime silence. When light returns, they release the energy through intense morning singing.
www.earth.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
An energy rebound from silence, explained in research on zebra finches' dawn singing: "When light returned, everything released at once. That release – the shift from stillness to song – is what people hear as the dawn chorus." #birds #birding #nature #animalcommunication 🧪
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Position in Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing and Practices, U of Calgary, Alberta: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1699885...
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literatures and Intercultural Understanding in
Calgary,
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Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literatures and Intercultural Understanding in
Calgary,
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careers.ucalgary.ca
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Position in Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing and Practices, U of Calgary, Alberta: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1699885...
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY FIVE
For the fifth day celebrating #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit” by #Yup’ik scholar Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books
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For the fifth day celebrating #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit” by #Yup’ik scholar Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books
verastarbard.com/2025/11/05/t...
Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 5
For the fifth day celebrating Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting “A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit” by Yup’ik scholar Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley. In this examination o…
verastarbard.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY FIVE
For the fifth day celebrating #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit” by #Yup’ik scholar Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books
verastarbard.com/2025/11/05/t...
For the fifth day celebrating #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit” by #Yup’ik scholar Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books
verastarbard.com/2025/11/05/t...
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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Are you looking to read some new scholarship over the winter? Check out this amazing list of books that I have available to review for H-Environment! Spread the word! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #landscape #conservation #sustainability #anthropocene #waterhist
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Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Are you looking to read some new scholarship over the winter? Check out this amazing list of books that I have available to review for H-Environment! Spread the word! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #landscape #conservation #sustainability #anthropocene #waterhist
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🔥🔥🔥A record warm October for the Arctic (60N to 90N) AND a record warm October for the Antarctic (60S to 90S). This is a disaster. 🔥🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
🔥🔥🔥A record warm October for the Arctic (60N to 90N) AND a record warm October for the Antarctic (60S to 90S). This is a disaster. 🔥🔥🔥
I think this article pretty much says it all about Tom Brady and his cloned dog.
"Tom Brady wasn't strong enough to accept the deal he made with his dog."
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"Tom Brady wasn't strong enough to accept the deal he made with his dog."
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Tom Brady is weird for cloning his dog
In all fairness, we kind of already knew that Tom Brady was a weirdo with way too much money.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I think this article pretty much says it all about Tom Brady and his cloned dog.
"Tom Brady wasn't strong enough to accept the deal he made with his dog."
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
"Tom Brady wasn't strong enough to accept the deal he made with his dog."
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...