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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
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#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.
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · Jul 18
Website: jessicamdewitt.com

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2025 Reading Challenge: 56/50
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Time for School, Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurry
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
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#wearereading #book #booksky #librarybook #childrensliterature #littlebluetruck
A copy of Time for school, little blue truck on a step beside a green pumpkin
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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2025 Reading Challenge: 55/50
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Pinkalicious and the Pinkadorable Pony by Victoria Kann
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⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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HarperCollins, 2020
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#wearereading #book #booksky #librarybook #childrensliterature #pinkalicious
Hardback copy of Pinkalicious and the Pinkadorable Pony on a step beside a pumpkin
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Recipe #2 This Week: Ultra-Creamy Mashed Potatoes
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Rating: Excellent
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Recipe by Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #recipe #food #foodsky #mashedpotatoes
Mashed potatoes, corn, hotdogs on a slate blue plate
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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mfeagan.bsky.social
Thank you! I'm very excited to be sharing this research publicly. Those are some crazy numbers and better than I expected. As Ben said, I will also be presenting a talk on some expansions to this research Nov. 8 at the CSTHA conference.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
Dead salmon line the banks of the Klamath River on Sept 28, 2002. Source: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-biologists-salmon-klamath-river.html
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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atrubek.bsky.social
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Recipe #1 This Week: Classic Pumpkin Pie with “Our Favorite Pie Crust”
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Rating: Excellent
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Pie Recipe by The Gourmet Test Kitchen
Crust Recipe by Rhoda Boone, Epicurious
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#cookingwithdewitt #recipe #baking #food #foodsky #pumpkinpie #pie #dessert
Piece of pumpkin pie with whipped cream on a slate blue plate
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.

read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

#envhum #envhist
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Last month I featured @calocitta.bsky.social, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, and more!

#envhist #envhum
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This autumn has been ROUGH for parenting/work balance, and thus, I'm just sitting down to promote my @nichecanada.bsky.social #EnvHist worth reading list for September! New list out next Friday.

niche-canada.org/2025/10/11/e...
#EnvHist Worth Reading: September 2025
Find historical ecology, a chicken tax, and living rivers in the September list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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As of today I will serve as Associate Editor for the 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 journal together with Jessica DeWitt, Giulia Champion & Jonny Turnbull. Having followed EH since its early days, this is a great honor!

@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social @giuliachampion.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social #envhum
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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-> @mfeagan.bsky.social mentioned his 2020 @nichecanada.bsky.social article in a comment on a video game YouTube video and it has been read 2,000+ times in the past month.

Don't underestimate the potential of bringing up your work in non-academic spaces!

#envhist #academia
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
nichecanada.bsky.social
Appreciate the work we do to get environmental history and humanities into public spaces? Help us continue to do this work by supporting our November fundraising campaign!

fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
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...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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New Comment:

"Based on our website stats, quite a few! Glad that you enjoyed Michael’s research, Miqual." - @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2020/07/16/e...

#envhist #energyhistory #urbanhistory
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.
niche-canada.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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This is the stuff I’m here for
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Do you enjoy the effort our editors and contributors make to contextualize current events with #envhist?

Consider sending $20 to our fundraising campaign to help us keep doing this work: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
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Today, @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social on "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.'"

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior.

niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f...

#envhist #musichistory #greatlakes #envhum
Finding Environmental History in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad immortalized the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, linking Great Lakes industry, Indigenous history, environmental change, and enduring cultural memory.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Tonight’s Recipe: Crispy Tofu with Scallion-Ginger Sauce
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Rating: Do Not Make Again
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Recipe by For the Love of Kewpie by Kewpie Corporation, Elyse Inamine, and Jessie YuChen
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#cookingwithdewitt #food #foodsky #tofu #kewpiemayonnaise #recipe
Rice noodles with veggies and crispy tofu with scallion-ginger sauce on a tan plate
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
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i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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2025 Reading Challenge: 53/50
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Little Fish’s Opposites by Lucy Cousins
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Review on StoryGraph
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Candlewick Press, 2022.
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#wearereading #book #booksky #boardbook #childrensliterature #librarybook
Copy of Little Fish’s Opposites held up with tree in background
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Soaking in the final days of autumn.
A tower of three pumpkins on the right, largest in bottom is green, middle is light cream, then a tiny orange pumpkin on top. On the right is a medium sized orange pumpkin. Pumpkin patch and Saskatchewan sky in background A three year old girl with blond pigtails, wearing a purple vest is looking into a bin of tiny orange pumpkins, assorted pumpkins are in the background and foreground Corn and sky
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
We are happy to announce the 7th year of our partnership with @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social & Folklore Magazine on the From Coulees to Muskeg: A Saskatchewan #EnvHist Series

Get your proposals to our editor-in-chief & SHFS president, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social!

niche-canada.org/2025/10/22/c...
Call for Submissions – From Coulees to Muskeg: A Saskatchewan Environmental History Series
We will consider any environmental history topic that relates to Saskatchewan, including trans-regional and comparative topics
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October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Thrilled to have a wonderful group of speakers coming up this year for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar - @ehameeteman.bsky.social @jimclifford.bsky.social @michamahlberg.bsky.social + participants in the in-person event @lancasteruni.bsky.social!
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Yeah! @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social (me) has made an effort to make it a biennial series since 2020.

This piece from @dr-ourkiya.bsky.social is from the first Succession and remains very popular with readers. Nearly at 10,000 reads now!
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Tonight’s Recipe: Fusilli with Sausage and Leeks
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Rating: Excellent
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Recipe by Giuliano Hazan, Every Night Italian
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #recipe #foodporn #foodsky #pasta #leeks
White plate of fusilli with sausage and leeks and garlic bread
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM