Tina Adcock
@tinaadcock.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian of Canada and the Sub/Arctic. Author: *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North.* Co-editor: *Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History.* Now researching energy and queer histories.
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Tina Adcock
@tinaadcock.bsky.social
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A Cold Colonialism
A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...
www.ubcpress.ca
Delighted to announce that yesterday was publication day for *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* 🥳
It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃
Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
#cdnhist #envhist
It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃
Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
#cdnhist #envhist
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A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
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I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
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Historians on hiring, tenure, and promotion committees should be cautious about relying on Google Scholar, and we need to fight against others using it to assess us. I just noticed three citations to my articles in an American Historical Review article by Jo Guldi, and none show up in my profile.
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Historians on hiring, tenure, and promotion committees should be cautious about relying on Google Scholar, and we need to fight against others using it to assess us. I just noticed three citations to my articles in an American Historical Review article by Jo Guldi, and none show up in my profile.
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Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, "a fascinating tour of the environmental history of the inner solar system," is a @sciam.bsky.social favorite book of the year. Check out the other books (both nonfiction and fiction) on the list! #Space #EnvHist #History www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Scientific American Staff’s Favorite Books of 2025
Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction
www.scientificamerican.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, "a fascinating tour of the environmental history of the inner solar system," is a @sciam.bsky.social favorite book of the year. Check out the other books (both nonfiction and fiction) on the list! #Space #EnvHist #History www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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generative AI in particular is a racket that gets us coming and going -- ripping off work, sucking up time and space at our workplaces, and ultimately eliminating jobs for people like us and our students, with our employers' slobbery blessing
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
generative AI in particular is a racket that gets us coming and going -- ripping off work, sucking up time and space at our workplaces, and ultimately eliminating jobs for people like us and our students, with our employers' slobbery blessing
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this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down
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Dear #envhist world:
A student wants to explore the development of the Wyoming bison meat trade. Any thoughts re primary/secondary sources to learn more? Thanking you in advance,
Alan
A student wants to explore the development of the Wyoming bison meat trade. Any thoughts re primary/secondary sources to learn more? Thanking you in advance,
Alan
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Dear #envhist world:
A student wants to explore the development of the Wyoming bison meat trade. Any thoughts re primary/secondary sources to learn more? Thanking you in advance,
Alan
A student wants to explore the development of the Wyoming bison meat trade. Any thoughts re primary/secondary sources to learn more? Thanking you in advance,
Alan
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Interesting new hypothesis connecting volcanic eruptions, #climate, and the Black Death.
#envhist #history #epidemics #pandemics @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
#envhist #history #epidemics #pandemics @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Did a Volcano Set the Stage for the Black Death?
The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly
www.scientificamerican.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Interesting new hypothesis connecting volcanic eruptions, #climate, and the Black Death.
#envhist #history #epidemics #pandemics @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
#envhist #history #epidemics #pandemics @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The Girl Guides of Canada say: Be prepared to protect trans rights.
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Girl Guides of Canada say: Be prepared to protect trans rights.
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I got tired of studies saying historians were one of the top professions that could be replaced by AI. It just didn't sound right to me.
Librarians, curators, and teachers all score as much less "replaceable", and lawyers score much, much lower still. And I think I figured out why. /1
Librarians, curators, and teachers all score as much less "replaceable", and lawyers score much, much lower still. And I think I figured out why. /1
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I got tired of studies saying historians were one of the top professions that could be replaced by AI. It just didn't sound right to me.
Librarians, curators, and teachers all score as much less "replaceable", and lawyers score much, much lower still. And I think I figured out why. /1
Librarians, curators, and teachers all score as much less "replaceable", and lawyers score much, much lower still. And I think I figured out why. /1
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For me, 2025 has felt like a particularly heavy year ... and you might feel the same. So as we head into the holiday season, I wanted to share a few recommendations — books, podcasts, and newsletters — that encourage me, make me think, and remind me how hope begins with action.
Climate content for purpose, courage, and hope | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Get more from Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
For me, 2025 has felt like a particularly heavy year ... and you might feel the same. So as we head into the holiday season, I wanted to share a few recommendations — books, podcasts, and newsletters — that encourage me, make me think, and remind me how hope begins with action.
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Great question!
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
Dear senior profs who have written tenure letters.
Can you help demystify the process for some junior profs up for tenure soon?
What do you look for? How do you make your evaluation?
We are told that the letters are the most important part of the file, but not what letter writers look for.
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Can you help demystify the process for some junior profs up for tenure soon?
What do you look for? How do you make your evaluation?
We are told that the letters are the most important part of the file, but not what letter writers look for.
1/
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Great question!
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
I know as a professional historian I’m meant to think contextually, but my knee-jerk reaction to late 1950s “peaceful” atomic energy projects is often straight-up “WTFFFFFFFFFF”
December 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I know as a professional historian I’m meant to think contextually, but my knee-jerk reaction to late 1950s “peaceful” atomic energy projects is often straight-up “WTFFFFFFFFFF”
TIL about Project Cauldron/Oilsand, a 1958 proposal to "free" oil from Alberta's tar sands by burying a nine-kiloton nuclear warhead there and detonating it to see if it could "create an oilfield on demand" 😳😳😳
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
TIL about Project Cauldron/Oilsand, a 1958 proposal to "free" oil from Alberta's tar sands by burying a nine-kiloton nuclear warhead there and detonating it to see if it could "create an oilfield on demand" 😳😳😳
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
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Aside from Florence Wyle (who didn't publish poetry until the 40s but was active earlier), can folks think of queer women Canadian poets who were writing in the 20s?
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Aside from Florence Wyle (who didn't publish poetry until the 40s but was active earlier), can folks think of queer women Canadian poets who were writing in the 20s?
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Last day to enter this draw, if you haven't already but are interested! You could win a free signed copy of my new book 😃
It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy.
Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
A Cold Colonialism
A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...
www.ubcpress.ca
December 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Last day to enter this draw, if you haven't already but are interested! You could win a free signed copy of my new book 😃
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There's nothing wrong with being asexual, pass it on. Don't use my life as a throwaway line implying weakness, the exact opposite of what someone should be.
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
There's nothing wrong with being asexual, pass it on. Don't use my life as a throwaway line implying weakness, the exact opposite of what someone should be.
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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This conversation was based on @sabinelebel.bsky.social's NiCHE article, "'Capsize the Rich': Orca Memes and Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity" - niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c...
#envhum #envhist #orcas #memes #animalstudies
#envhum #envhist #orcas #memes #animalstudies
"Capsize the Rich": Orca Memes and Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity
Orca memes humorously depict anti-capitalist, interspecies solidarity, framing yacht attacks as environmental resistance, blending cultural narratives, activism, and ecological critique.
niche-canada.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This conversation was based on @sabinelebel.bsky.social's NiCHE article, "'Capsize the Rich': Orca Memes and Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity" - niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c...
#envhum #envhist #orcas #memes #animalstudies
#envhum #envhist #orcas #memes #animalstudies
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Our NiCHE Conversation with @sabinelebel.bsky.social is now on YouTube!
LeBel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about orca memes and interspecies solidarity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Q8...
#envhist #envhum #orcas #animalstudies
LeBel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about orca memes and interspecies solidarity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Q8...
#envhist #envhum #orcas #animalstudies
NiCHE Conversations 6.5: Orca Memes & Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity with Sabine LeBel
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Our NiCHE Conversation with @sabinelebel.bsky.social is now on YouTube!
LeBel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about orca memes and interspecies solidarity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Q8...
#envhist #envhum #orcas #animalstudies
LeBel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about orca memes and interspecies solidarity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Q8...
#envhist #envhum #orcas #animalstudies
Last day to enter this draw, if you haven't already but are interested! You could win a free signed copy of my new book 😃
It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy.
Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
A Cold Colonialism
A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...
www.ubcpress.ca
December 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Last day to enter this draw, if you haven't already but are interested! You could win a free signed copy of my new book 😃
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Far too many of these elite-school profs confuse hazing for teaching, and every opinion they have about students and learning flows from that.
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Far too many of these elite-school profs confuse hazing for teaching, and every opinion they have about students and learning flows from that.
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Sending strength and wisdom to all my academic colleagues for whom final grade tallying can be heartbreaking. Remember that you do not own the weight of student failures. You did your best. So many students are incredible and do well. Others fail. It is not your fault.
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Sending strength and wisdom to all my academic colleagues for whom final grade tallying can be heartbreaking. Remember that you do not own the weight of student failures. You did your best. So many students are incredible and do well. Others fail. It is not your fault.