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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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Jessica M. DeWitt: Editing and Consulting
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My superpower is consistency.
I'm on a 1500' day learning streak! duolingo
February 11, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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You can read Roussel's article, "Exhibiting Dawson: Visual Narratives of an Interconnected Past," from our Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V series, here: niche-canada.org/2025/11/20/e...

#envhist #cdnhist #museums #visualculture
Exhibiting Dawson: Visual Narratives of an Interconnected Past
Dawson’s heritage storytelling has shifted from Gold Rush mythmaking to collaborative, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in–led narratives that foreground deeper, long-standing histories.
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February 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Our NiCHE Conversation with Patricia Roussel is now on YouTube!

Roussel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the centrality and evolution of Dawson City, Yukon’s heritage industry and how collaborative heritage is being employed there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0b...

#envhist #cdnhist
NiCHE Conversation 6.7: Exhibiting Dawson: Visual Narratives of Interconnection w/ Patricia Roussel
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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February 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Throwbackkkk
February 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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"The Center for Anthropocene History ... is largely an extension of #envhist ... into the complex & rapidly evolving field of Anthropocene practice & thought. History is part of defining our time, as it should be." - S. Sörlin

Notes from the ICEHOUSE - liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
The Center for Anthropocene History provides a good example. It is largely an extension of environmental history, and other strands of history writing, into the complex and rapidly evolving field of Anthropocene practice and thought. History is part of defining our time, as it should be. - Sverker Soerlin Notes from the Icehouse
February 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Tams and I are baking this afternoon for the Bake It Happen event this Saturday!

Details below.

#yxe #saskatoon #treatysix @surjyxe.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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As former editorial director at @electricautonomy.com (2019-24), I’ve been awaiting Carney’s revamp of Canada’s EV policies with some trepidation. At first glance, I’m relieved. He’s reinstated sales incentives and only moderately relaxed adoption targets. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...
Carney reinstates EV buyer incentives, scraps sales mandate
Changes are main planks of Ottawa’s strategy to support the auto industry in time of upheaval
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February 5, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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New @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicle! - "The Tangled Web of Psychedelics and Memory" by @hoodooalphabet.bsky.social

Ali McGhee uses a story on recovered memories during MDMA use as a jumping off point for highlighting controversies around psychedelics and memory.

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The Tangled Web of Psychedelics and Memory
Ali McGhee uses a New York Times story on recovered memories during MDMA use as a jumping off point for highlighting controversies around psychedelics and memory in current public and
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February 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Call for Papers – Towards a Critical Canadian Studies

Journal of Canadian Studies
Guest Editors: Kristine Alexander, Phil Henderson, Will Kujala, Miranda Leibel

Abstracts due: March 1st 2026

niche-canada.org/2026/02/03/c...

#cdnhist #cdnstudies #canada
Call for Papers - Towards a Critical Canadian Studies
Contributions can be either retrospective–looking back on 50 years of nationalist Canadian Studies–and prospective–attempting to set an agenda of what scholarship on but critical of Canada might look ...
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February 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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This conversation was based on Piercy's video essay, "Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAEF...

#frostpunk #videogames #sensoryregulation #neurodivergence
Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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February 4, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Our NiCHE Conversation with @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social is now on YouTube!

Piercy joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss Frostpunk and the sensory role of indoor gameplay.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-53...

#envhist #envhum #videogames #sensoryregulation
NiCHE Conversations 6.6: Frostpunk and the Sensory Role of Indoor Gameplay with Adeline K. Piercy
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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February 4, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Had a great time chatting with @saskculture.bsky.social about @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social’s communication strategy today!

Not pictured, our SHFS executive director, communications extraordinaire, and co-interviewee, Kristin Enns-Kavanagh.

Podcast episode out soon!

#skhistory #saskatchewan
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February 4, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
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बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”

An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv

Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.

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February 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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2026 Reading Challenge: 13/50
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One Fancy Day by Elle Stephens, illustrated by Dave Aikens
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Review on StoryGraph
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Random House, 2023.
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#wearereading #bookstagram #childrensliterature #spongebobsquarepants #librarybook
A copy of one fancy day laying on a vintage floral blanket
February 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Today we are highlighting the research that @danitaburke.bsky.social conducted at the Laurier Archives for the @sealsandsurvival.bsky.social project.

niche-canada.org/2026/02/02/s...

#envhist #cdnhist #arctic #archives
Seals, Stigma and Survival Project - Archival Research at Laurier Archives
Archival research at Laurier Archives supported Seals, Stigma and Survival, examining environmental, anti-sealing activism records impacting northern communities and economies.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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NiCHE’s series on environmental histories of colonial schooling in Canada, edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social, continues to draw readers in. Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has the lowdown.

www.youtube.com/shorts/5PKX8...

#envhist
Our Most Read Articles Published in November 2025! #envhist #canadianhistory #indigenoushistory
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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February 2, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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Today’s Recipe: Pumpkin and Almond Bread
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Rating: Do Not Make Again
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Recipe from HEALING FOODS: Cooking for Celiacs, Colitis, Crohn’s and IBS by Sandra Ramacher
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#cookingwithdewitt #baking #recipe #glutenfreebread #glutenfreerecipe
Loaf of Pumpkin and almond bread laying on a red plastic cutting board with one slice cut and laying down
February 2, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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2026 Reading Challenge: 12/50
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Maple and Willow’s Christmas Tree by Lori Nichols
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Review on StoryGraph
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Nancy Paulsen Books, 2016.
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#wearereading #bookstagram #childrensliterature #willowandmaple #librarybook
Hardcover copy of maple and willow’s Christmas tree laying on some yellow pillows
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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2026 Reading Challenge: 11/50
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The Tooth Fairy
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Review on StoryGraph
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#wearereading #booksky #peppapig #childrensliterature #librarybook
Copy of Peppa pig the tooth fairy laying on some yellow pillows
February 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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2026 Reading Challenge: 10/50
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Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
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Review on StoryGraph
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Orbit 2016
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#amreading #bookstagram #thefirstlaw #fantasy #librarybook
Hardcover copy of sharp ends laying on a vintage floral blanket
February 1, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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2026 Reading Challenge: 9/50
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George’s New Dinosaur
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Review on StoryGraph
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Scholastic Inc., 2014.
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#wearereading #childrensliterature #librarybook #booksky #peppapig
Copy of George’s new dinosaur laying on some yellow pillows
February 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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2026 Reading Challenge: 8/50
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Peppa Goes Apple Picking adapted by Meredith Rusu
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Review on StoryGraph
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Scholastic Inc., 2017
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#wearereading #childrensliterature #booksky #librarybook #peppapig
Copy of Peppa goes apple picking laying amidst some yellow pillows
February 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Successfully finished the StoryGraph January challenge. Read every day last month!

I’m @ jmariedewitt over there if you want to connect.
@jmariedewitt's January 2026 Wrap-Up BOOKS 10 PAGES 1,612 BABY Putting Down Roots BELUG/ Bustrated by Ashly W chery roups AV. RATING 4.03 Highest Rated Reads The Music of Dolphins Kar 4.5 5.0 * 5.0 食 Average book length: 167 pages Average time to finish: 11 days Childrens Short Stories Fantasy Literary Middle Grade • fiction (90%) • nonfiction (10%) 4 Compared to December... Books + 0% No. of books Pages + 70% Plus 400 300 Pages read 200 100 • print (100%) 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 Day THE STORYGRAPH January Pages Challenge 2026 thestorygraph 273,635 participants Host 01 Jan 2026 - 31 Jan 2026 100% 31/31 days complete The progress circle updates once a day Pages in January 2026 1,612 pages 400
February 1, 2026 at 8:19 PM