Joanna Dean
@joannadean.bsky.social
Historian of horses and trees, compulsive gardener, settled uneasily on Omàmìwininìwag land.
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Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
Good summary of our new PM’s climate credentials. Not much has been made of this in Canada - were we hoping Alberta would not notice? (Diana Fox Carney’s climate work is also worth noting.)
Recommended read: For @commondreams.org , @billmckibben.bsky.social claimed that Mark Carney knows “roughly 20 times” as much about climate and energy economics than any other leader.
Canada Rebukes Trump—But That May Just Be the Start of Mark Carney's Role in History | Common Dreams
I’ve been watching Carney for a long time and there's a few things you should know about this man, especially as the U.S. president tries to drag the world back onto the dead-end street of fossil…
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May 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Good summary of our new PM’s climate credentials. Not much has been made of this in Canada - were we hoping Alberta would not notice? (Diana Fox Carney’s climate work is also worth noting.)
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A beautiful story in these trying times. What would a Canadian version be to Swedish Moose TV (besides moose)? I'm thinking caribou migration.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Live coverage of Sweden’s moose migration draws millions of viewers
From now until May 4, a livestream’s remote cameras will capture dozens of moose as they swim across the Angerman River in the annual spring migration toward summer grazing pastures
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A beautiful story in these trying times. What would a Canadian version be to Swedish Moose TV (besides moose)? I'm thinking caribou migration.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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FREE article: Blakley "Historicizing the 'Beast-Man': On Slavery and Human-Animal Studies" Issue 1, no. 1
April 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
FREE article: Blakley "Historicizing the 'Beast-Man': On Slavery and Human-Animal Studies" Issue 1, no. 1
More animal archives…
🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?
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Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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April 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
More animal archives…
Caddisfly archives
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Caddisfly archives
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The most innocent explanation I can come up with for de-extinction is that they’re making some fancy designer pets for Bezos’ Future Moon Ranch. teamtrash.substack.com/p/is-it-a-di...
Is it a Dire Wolf? Or a Gee Whiz Puppy?
The perils of a living PR stunt.
teamtrash.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The most innocent explanation I can come up with for de-extinction is that they’re making some fancy designer pets for Bezos’ Future Moon Ranch. teamtrash.substack.com/p/is-it-a-di...
Ghost dog. Reminds me of the photo of the free ranging dog in Susan Nance’s introduction to The Historical Animal
Ghost dog. Atget, "Galerie Vivienne, 2ème arrondissement, Paris" Eugène Atget, collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.
March 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ghost dog. Reminds me of the photo of the free ranging dog in Susan Nance’s introduction to The Historical Animal
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According to @publisherswkly.bsky.social, Lab Dog is an "illuminating" and "intriguing deconstruction of a little discussed, ethically complex issue". And you can preorder a copy wherever you preorder copies of books right this second
www.publishersweekly.com/9780226839745
www.publishersweekly.com/9780226839745
Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles by Brad Bolman
In this illuminating and at times grim debut study, Princeton historian of science Bolman explores how the beagle came to be con...
www.publishersweekly.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
According to @publisherswkly.bsky.social, Lab Dog is an "illuminating" and "intriguing deconstruction of a little discussed, ethically complex issue". And you can preorder a copy wherever you preorder copies of books right this second
www.publishersweekly.com/9780226839745
www.publishersweekly.com/9780226839745
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This article both freaks me the fuck out and makes me feel like a crazy person for feeling like the only person constantly screaming about it.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/c...
America’s butterflies are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate | CNN
US butterfly populations are declining because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new nationwide study finds.
www.cnn.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This article both freaks me the fuck out and makes me feel like a crazy person for feeling like the only person constantly screaming about it.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/c...
Hey fellow Canadian historians: best sources on us/canadian tariff history?
March 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Hey fellow Canadian historians: best sources on us/canadian tariff history?
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“When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)
March 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)
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Excited that my first Bluesky post is the first major #BoxOfficeBears publication, Open Access and Open Fabulousness in @antiquityj.bsky.social.
Learn about the bears and dogs of C16th Bankside from our team of ancient-DNA analysts, archaeologists and historians.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Learn about the bears and dogs of C16th Bankside from our team of ancient-DNA analysts, archaeologists and historians.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’
www.cambridge.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Excited that my first Bluesky post is the first major #BoxOfficeBears publication, Open Access and Open Fabulousness in @antiquityj.bsky.social.
Learn about the bears and dogs of C16th Bankside from our team of ancient-DNA analysts, archaeologists and historians.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Learn about the bears and dogs of C16th Bankside from our team of ancient-DNA analysts, archaeologists and historians.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Hummingbirds, burnout and the experiential www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Hummingbirds, burnout and the experiential www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
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Why would CBC do this to Canada? To us?
February 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Why would CBC do this to Canada? To us?
fast ruins, modern ruins, future ruins, and the sacred sites beneath our feet.
My co-editor and I have the privilege of hosting this beautiful, intimate event at uOttawa this weekend. The work presented is brilliant and we hope to bring the volume to publication later this year. danrueck.com/2025/02/12/c...
Contributors’ Workshop – Sacred Sites of the Anishinabe and the Ruins of Ottawa, University of Ottawa, February 21-22, 2025
On February 21-22, 2025 the Faculty of Arts and the Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies hosted a Contributors’ Workshop for the forthcoming publication “Sacred Sites of the Ani…
danrueck.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
fast ruins, modern ruins, future ruins, and the sacred sites beneath our feet.
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
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February 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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✨A Sense of Nature✨
This year our annual International Summer Meeting will explore the intersections of the senses with the history of natural history.
📆19-20 June 2025
🏛️Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow.
We're looking for papers that explore the sensory experiences 👇
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
This year our annual International Summer Meeting will explore the intersections of the senses with the history of natural history.
📆19-20 June 2025
🏛️Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow.
We're looking for papers that explore the sensory experiences 👇
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
January 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
✨A Sense of Nature✨
This year our annual International Summer Meeting will explore the intersections of the senses with the history of natural history.
📆19-20 June 2025
🏛️Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow.
We're looking for papers that explore the sensory experiences 👇
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
This year our annual International Summer Meeting will explore the intersections of the senses with the history of natural history.
📆19-20 June 2025
🏛️Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow.
We're looking for papers that explore the sensory experiences 👇
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
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Coming up Monday, 27 Jan 2025, 16:00 CET (10am Eastern):
We welcome Wilko Graf von Hardenberg to discuss his book Sea Level: A History (Univ of Chicago Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series.
Join us for the live online talk!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
We welcome Wilko Graf von Hardenberg to discuss his book Sea Level: A History (Univ of Chicago Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series.
Join us for the live online talk!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
January 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Coming up Monday, 27 Jan 2025, 16:00 CET (10am Eastern):
We welcome Wilko Graf von Hardenberg to discuss his book Sea Level: A History (Univ of Chicago Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series.
Join us for the live online talk!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
We welcome Wilko Graf von Hardenberg to discuss his book Sea Level: A History (Univ of Chicago Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series.
Join us for the live online talk!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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Graduate Student Opportunity with the Canadian Museum of Nature - @museumofnature.bsky.social
Application Deadline - 2 March 2025
niche-canada.org/2025/01/14/g...
#envhist #histsci #nathist #museums
Application Deadline - 2 March 2025
niche-canada.org/2025/01/14/g...
#envhist #histsci #nathist #museums
Graduate Student Opportunity with the Canadian Museum of Nature
As part of the Scientific Training Program, the museum is seeking applications for a two-year award to support a master’s student who will undertake a research project related to biodiversity or geodi...
niche-canada.org
January 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Graduate Student Opportunity with the Canadian Museum of Nature - @museumofnature.bsky.social
Application Deadline - 2 March 2025
niche-canada.org/2025/01/14/g...
#envhist #histsci #nathist #museums
Application Deadline - 2 March 2025
niche-canada.org/2025/01/14/g...
#envhist #histsci #nathist #museums
Invasive plants in the longue durée: the European spruce and beach rose in Finland.
We’ve published two new articles online first in ‘Plant Perspectives’. @plantperspectives.bsky.social www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/forthcomi... #plantstudies #envhum #openaccess
Forthcoming
| Plant Perspectives
www.whp-journals.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Invasive plants in the longue durée: the European spruce and beach rose in Finland.
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💚It is just lovely to see so many new and familiar faces from climate/energy twitter and beyond!💚
🗣️ To commemorate the start of something really good here, I’d like to tell a story.
🧵 1 out of not-sure-how-many-but-please-bear-with-me-if-you-like
🗣️ To commemorate the start of something really good here, I’d like to tell a story.
🧵 1 out of not-sure-how-many-but-please-bear-with-me-if-you-like
November 10, 2024 at 6:33 PM
💚It is just lovely to see so many new and familiar faces from climate/energy twitter and beyond!💚
🗣️ To commemorate the start of something really good here, I’d like to tell a story.
🧵 1 out of not-sure-how-many-but-please-bear-with-me-if-you-like
🗣️ To commemorate the start of something really good here, I’d like to tell a story.
🧵 1 out of not-sure-how-many-but-please-bear-with-me-if-you-like