Bathsheba Demuth
@brdemuth.bsky.social
Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.
It’s a strange time to be in Alaska and yet here’s the morning run view
August 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It’s a strange time to be in Alaska and yet here’s the morning run view
SOON!! Getting antsy for Alaska rivers. So glad to be teaching on the Yukon again this year.
July 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
SOON!! Getting antsy for Alaska rivers. So glad to be teaching on the Yukon again this year.
My entire strategy for dealing with These Times is ripping up sod and planting wildflowers, and the Sinners soundtrack. And dogs.
June 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My entire strategy for dealing with These Times is ripping up sod and planting wildflowers, and the Sinners soundtrack. And dogs.
A very exciting galley has landed @lancerichardson.bsky.social !
May 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A very exciting galley has landed @lancerichardson.bsky.social !
Yesterday was an extremely good mail day — perfect timing as it was official pub day for @sprucehen.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous new book 💕❄️🎉
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
May 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Yesterday was an extremely good mail day — perfect timing as it was official pub day for @sprucehen.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous new book 💕❄️🎉
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
Who wants to commission me to review these two
February 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Who wants to commission me to review these two
Good to see Google still has some sense
February 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Good to see Google still has some sense
A quick break from the windowless North Pacific Fisheries Management Council meetings to go watch some sea ice glide by the frost
February 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A quick break from the windowless North Pacific Fisheries Management Council meetings to go watch some sea ice glide by the frost
Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours.
Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
January 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours.
Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
The current desk pile — poetry from @beingpoetry.bsky.social, a new book of essays from @evaholland.bsky.social, and watery places with @waterpotential.bsky.social (a truly inspiring thinker with rivers)
December 29, 2024 at 2:01 PM
The current desk pile — poetry from @beingpoetry.bsky.social, a new book of essays from @evaholland.bsky.social, and watery places with @waterpotential.bsky.social (a truly inspiring thinker with rivers)
Happy holidays all
December 26, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Happy holidays all
Finished up oral exams in my Yukon River environmental history course today (students pick an oral or paper).
I have never taught a class like it—what an amazing place & group to learn with. Huge thanks to our guests, Eva Burk, Brooke Woods, Olivia Irwin, Stanley Njootli & @sprucehen.bsky.social 💕
I have never taught a class like it—what an amazing place & group to learn with. Huge thanks to our guests, Eva Burk, Brooke Woods, Olivia Irwin, Stanley Njootli & @sprucehen.bsky.social 💕
December 19, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Finished up oral exams in my Yukon River environmental history course today (students pick an oral or paper).
I have never taught a class like it—what an amazing place & group to learn with. Huge thanks to our guests, Eva Burk, Brooke Woods, Olivia Irwin, Stanley Njootli & @sprucehen.bsky.social 💕
I have never taught a class like it—what an amazing place & group to learn with. Huge thanks to our guests, Eva Burk, Brooke Woods, Olivia Irwin, Stanley Njootli & @sprucehen.bsky.social 💕
It’s somehow Monday again but I have the best office assistant
November 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM
It’s somehow Monday again but I have the best office assistant
Show me a picture, new or old, of #AlaskaSky
Forest fire midnight sun over the Yukon River last June, a few miles upstream from the Kandik.
Forest fire midnight sun over the Yukon River last June, a few miles upstream from the Kandik.
November 11, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Show me a picture, new or old, of #AlaskaSky
Forest fire midnight sun over the Yukon River last June, a few miles upstream from the Kandik.
Forest fire midnight sun over the Yukon River last June, a few miles upstream from the Kandik.
Welcome new folks! I’m a historian & writer, living sorta half in Alaska & RI. Here to learn with y’all about animals, history, writing, rivers, climate, surviving what’s coming, etc
A great thing here are starter packs—here’s a list of 4000+ you can search:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
November 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Welcome new folks! I’m a historian & writer, living sorta half in Alaska & RI. Here to learn with y’all about animals, history, writing, rivers, climate, surviving what’s coming, etc
A great thing here are starter packs—here’s a list of 4000+ you can search:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Because everyone is vibrating at a high frequency with the election pending, Maze came to office hours today.
October 30, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Because everyone is vibrating at a high frequency with the election pending, Maze came to office hours today.
Today’s lecture in my Yukon River class was about driftwood (and sternwheelers and colonialism and contracts law and and) but really mostly about how a river is also its forests.
October 23, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Today’s lecture in my Yukon River class was about driftwood (and sternwheelers and colonialism and contracts law and and) but really mostly about how a river is also its forests.
Exited to see this out in the world — I got to read it last spring and it’s terrific
October 15, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Exited to see this out in the world — I got to read it last spring and it’s terrific
Beavers are in the news a lot as climate saviors (or villains, in the Arctic). In this new piece, we speak to how such narratives occlude Indigenous models for beaver relations—and why they’re important for ecosystem restoration, people, & of course 🦫. #envhum 🌏
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jqpg3pILh...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jqpg3pILh...
September 27, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Beavers are in the news a lot as climate saviors (or villains, in the Arctic). In this new piece, we speak to how such narratives occlude Indigenous models for beaver relations—and why they’re important for ecosystem restoration, people, & of course 🦫. #envhum 🌏
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jqpg3pILh...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jqpg3pILh...