Kristen Jeanveau
@kjeanveau.bsky.social
This year, get them English Muffins™️
Non-binary PhD Candidate History @ Western University. My research looks at London tube shelter newspapers in the Blitz. I spent too much time playing Baldur's Gate 3 in 2024...and 2025.
Non-binary PhD Candidate History @ Western University. My research looks at London tube shelter newspapers in the Blitz. I spent too much time playing Baldur's Gate 3 in 2024...and 2025.
A fun benefit of being an "extremely online person" with a partner who is decidedly not so is that I can say a sentence like "You don't understand, Mr Fantasy is the DJ Crazy Times of 2025" to Jay and he will wearily allow me to explain.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A fun benefit of being an "extremely online person" with a partner who is decidedly not so is that I can say a sentence like "You don't understand, Mr Fantasy is the DJ Crazy Times of 2025" to Jay and he will wearily allow me to explain.
You've got that footnote day dream look in your eye
And I've got that eighteenth version thing that you like
And when we try APA we come back every time
Cause we gotta use Chicago style
We gotta use Chicago style
And I've got that eighteenth version thing that you like
And when we try APA we come back every time
Cause we gotta use Chicago style
We gotta use Chicago style
The original version of Taylor Swift’s ‘Style’ was about the superiority of the Chicago Manual of Style for notes and referencing, but eventually she was convinced that this was not commercial enough. When the Manual reaches its 20th edition, she may release ‘Style (Chicago version)’ to celebrate.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
You've got that footnote day dream look in your eye
And I've got that eighteenth version thing that you like
And when we try APA we come back every time
Cause we gotta use Chicago style
We gotta use Chicago style
And I've got that eighteenth version thing that you like
And when we try APA we come back every time
Cause we gotta use Chicago style
We gotta use Chicago style
Today I'll be thinking about William Dawson, CAMC & Harry G. Dickson Jr, RCAF who died in the First & Second World Wars. Both from London, Ontario, and the same age (22/20) as many of the students that I teach today. It's a privilege to share William & Harry's stories with them every year 🗃️ #cdnhist
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today I'll be thinking about William Dawson, CAMC & Harry G. Dickson Jr, RCAF who died in the First & Second World Wars. Both from London, Ontario, and the same age (22/20) as many of the students that I teach today. It's a privilege to share William & Harry's stories with them every year 🗃️ #cdnhist
Reposted by Kristen Jeanveau
Always amazed at the amount of research that can be done entirely online these days. A thread: 🧵
I was looking at a piece of digitised archive film (IWM AYY / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) which includes these shots showing a ship transporting British soldiers to France in 1939:
I was looking at a piece of digitised archive film (IWM AYY / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) which includes these shots showing a ship transporting British soldiers to France in 1939:
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Always amazed at the amount of research that can be done entirely online these days. A thread: 🧵
I was looking at a piece of digitised archive film (IWM AYY / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) which includes these shots showing a ship transporting British soldiers to France in 1939:
I was looking at a piece of digitised archive film (IWM AYY / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) which includes these shots showing a ship transporting British soldiers to France in 1939:
Reposted by Kristen Jeanveau
History postdoc researcher Eric Story is uncovering the remarkable 1923 journey of George Hincks and Marshall McDougall — two disabled WWI veterans who hiked over 2,000 km to raise awareness of veterans’ challenges after the war. Featured by CTV Winnipeg: www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...
‘History that’s been overlooked’: The First World War amputees who walked across Canada
Nearly 60 years before Terry Fox’s famous cross-Canada journey, a pair of First World War veterans attempted a similar feat.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
History postdoc researcher Eric Story is uncovering the remarkable 1923 journey of George Hincks and Marshall McDougall — two disabled WWI veterans who hiked over 2,000 km to raise awareness of veterans’ challenges after the war. Featured by CTV Winnipeg: www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...
The fun thing about doing a Canadian history comp field is that you never know when Granatstein is going to leap out from behind a metaphorical bush when you least expect him.
(For the record I think The Canadian war on queers is essential reading now more than ever 🤔) 🗃️ #cdnhist
(For the record I think The Canadian war on queers is essential reading now more than ever 🤔) 🗃️ #cdnhist
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The fun thing about doing a Canadian history comp field is that you never know when Granatstein is going to leap out from behind a metaphorical bush when you least expect him.
(For the record I think The Canadian war on queers is essential reading now more than ever 🤔) 🗃️ #cdnhist
(For the record I think The Canadian war on queers is essential reading now more than ever 🤔) 🗃️ #cdnhist
"Fantasy Crap Figurine with Battle Scuttle Action" is not a sentence I thought I'd read today but I'm amused that I did.
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"Fantasy Crap Figurine with Battle Scuttle Action" is not a sentence I thought I'd read today but I'm amused that I did.
Mentally, I'm here right now.
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Mentally, I'm here right now.
Or you can graft a determinate tomato scion to a potato as a rootstock, plunk it in a 5 gallon tub and market it as a "french fry & ketchup plant."
Yes, this is a thing.
For actual context: 95% of the greenhouse grown tomatoes you buy in Canada are grafted to 1 of 3 dominant rootstock variants.
Yes, this is a thing.
For actual context: 95% of the greenhouse grown tomatoes you buy in Canada are grafted to 1 of 3 dominant rootstock variants.
The ancient trick of grafting one plant onto another could find a very modern use – enabling gene editing of plants that are very difficult or impossible to edit by other means.
Grafting trick could let us gene-edit a huge variety of plants
Many plants including cocoa, coffee and avocado cannot be gene-edited but a technique involving grafting could change that, opening the door to more productive and nutritious varieties
www.newscientist.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Or you can graft a determinate tomato scion to a potato as a rootstock, plunk it in a 5 gallon tub and market it as a "french fry & ketchup plant."
Yes, this is a thing.
For actual context: 95% of the greenhouse grown tomatoes you buy in Canada are grafted to 1 of 3 dominant rootstock variants.
Yes, this is a thing.
For actual context: 95% of the greenhouse grown tomatoes you buy in Canada are grafted to 1 of 3 dominant rootstock variants.
Reposted by Kristen Jeanveau
the humble potato
is there any thing it can not do
is there any thing it can not do
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
the humble potato
is there any thing it can not do
is there any thing it can not do
Reposted by Kristen Jeanveau
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
@karenbowness.bsky.social questions: do you like Florence and the Machine? Do you like them enough to spend $140 to see them in April? 🤔
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@karenbowness.bsky.social questions: do you like Florence and the Machine? Do you like them enough to spend $140 to see them in April? 🤔
Desk clerk in the gym is clearly Feeling Something™️ as it was quiet when I came in and his music choice a few mins later was Piano Man.
November 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Desk clerk in the gym is clearly Feeling Something™️ as it was quiet when I came in and his music choice a few mins later was Piano Man.
Ok, with limited knowledge gleaned only from this week:
I predict Springer will get a hit but will be confused and walk back to the bench.
Did I do it right?
I predict Springer will get a hit but will be confused and walk back to the bench.
Did I do it right?
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Ok, with limited knowledge gleaned only from this week:
I predict Springer will get a hit but will be confused and walk back to the bench.
Did I do it right?
I predict Springer will get a hit but will be confused and walk back to the bench.
Did I do it right?
Nineteen innings or bust.
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Nineteen innings or bust.
I love that even the most sports-ambivalent of Canadians will cheer for the Jays but we all still delight when the Leafs biff it yet again.
November 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I love that even the most sports-ambivalent of Canadians will cheer for the Jays but we all still delight when the Leafs biff it yet again.
Reposted by Kristen Jeanveau
Happy Halloween!
If FWW photography is good for anything, clearly it's men playing dress-up (I kid, I kid). (Although also, I'm not kidding. It really is great).
Here are some snaps by Rider-Rider of a Maple Leaf Party in France, dated September 1917, LAC O-2012, 15, 16.
If FWW photography is good for anything, clearly it's men playing dress-up (I kid, I kid). (Although also, I'm not kidding. It really is great).
Here are some snaps by Rider-Rider of a Maple Leaf Party in France, dated September 1917, LAC O-2012, 15, 16.
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy Halloween!
If FWW photography is good for anything, clearly it's men playing dress-up (I kid, I kid). (Although also, I'm not kidding. It really is great).
Here are some snaps by Rider-Rider of a Maple Leaf Party in France, dated September 1917, LAC O-2012, 15, 16.
If FWW photography is good for anything, clearly it's men playing dress-up (I kid, I kid). (Although also, I'm not kidding. It really is great).
Here are some snaps by Rider-Rider of a Maple Leaf Party in France, dated September 1917, LAC O-2012, 15, 16.
Happy Halloween from 1988? 1992, 1999, and 2003.
I want to say the 1999 look was for Halloween but that was everyday wear for me when I was an angsty 17 year old.
No idea what the last one was. Inebriated university student who liked emo music? (I miss that Jimmy Eat World shirt!)
I want to say the 1999 look was for Halloween but that was everyday wear for me when I was an angsty 17 year old.
No idea what the last one was. Inebriated university student who liked emo music? (I miss that Jimmy Eat World shirt!)
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy Halloween from 1988? 1992, 1999, and 2003.
I want to say the 1999 look was for Halloween but that was everyday wear for me when I was an angsty 17 year old.
No idea what the last one was. Inebriated university student who liked emo music? (I miss that Jimmy Eat World shirt!)
I want to say the 1999 look was for Halloween but that was everyday wear for me when I was an angsty 17 year old.
No idea what the last one was. Inebriated university student who liked emo music? (I miss that Jimmy Eat World shirt!)
Third year in a row of having to get student health services to update my name and gender at the flu/covid shot clinic. Gotta love consistency!
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Third year in a row of having to get student health services to update my name and gender at the flu/covid shot clinic. Gotta love consistency!
Reposted by Kristen Jeanveau
We're accepting applications until 30 November, but *today* is the last day to apply if you want a chance to win $250 worth of books in the UBC Press Nature | History | Society series.
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
We're accepting applications until 30 November, but *today* is the last day to apply if you want a chance to win $250 worth of books in the UBC Press Nature | History | Society series.
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
Ah, this is my favourite poppy/remembrance day head scratcher every year.
In crisping of the crust and in the mozzarella, we will remember them.
In crisping of the crust and in the mozzarella, we will remember them.
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Ah, this is my favourite poppy/remembrance day head scratcher every year.
In crisping of the crust and in the mozzarella, we will remember them.
In crisping of the crust and in the mozzarella, we will remember them.
This is the best take that requires historical knowledge and fifteen year old internet lore.
Frame it, hang it in the Louvre, and have someone steal it via a ladder.
Frame it, hang it in the Louvre, and have someone steal it via a ladder.
I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This is the best take that requires historical knowledge and fifteen year old internet lore.
Frame it, hang it in the Louvre, and have someone steal it via a ladder.
Frame it, hang it in the Louvre, and have someone steal it via a ladder.
Well this is a gut punch.
I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies | CBC News
Tim Cook, the chief historian at the Canadian War Museum and the country’s “pre-eminent military historian,” has died, the museum announced Sunday.
www.cbc.ca
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Well this is a gut punch.
I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...