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
Bathsheba Demuth
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"Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait" by @brdemuth.bsky.social, Dean's Associate Professor at IBES and @brownhist.bsky.social, has been selected as the 2025-2026 Brown University Book Award 📕🏆 👏
Learn more: insite.browntextbook.com/BrownBookAward
En voilà un excellent article. La thèse ? Arrêtons avec « agentivité » à toutes les sauces en histoire environnementale et intéressons nous plutôt à la continuité : « rien n’est peut-être plus radical que d’identifier dans le passé les conditions nécessaires à la continuité. »
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
Hi pals! I've got something I'm REALLY excited about in the works... I'll be editing a nonfiction anthology about the Yukon River. Timelines are tight so I'm mostly seeking out existing work (in your publication archive, sitting on your hard drive...) Please submit / share! forms.gle/Q622LYHExe7x...
Fox hunting on the banks of the Yukon in Whitehorse this morning
An exceptional Alaska lit mail day!
I’m heading to #AWP26 (my first AWP!) later this week, and am very excited about my travel reading.
Midway through the three feet of snow that came to Providence in the last 24 hours, overtaking the Blizzard of ‘78 record. My
The world is so very bad, but this week we hung in our house a tapestry my mother wove, my father made the wooden hanger for with salmon-shaped hardware my brother cast out of copper, based on a photo I made on the middle fork of the Koyukuk River. It feels like the confluence of many homes.
I can endorse working with @greenleejw.bsky.social for maps if you’re looking! He helped with a whole series of custom maps for an edited volume on rivers coming out in about a year — all sorts of scales and details
A gorgeous and exacting piece by Max Liboiron, on plastics and science and birds and much more
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"Industry, for the growing European middle classes, first meant freedom from want—from the real tyrannies of hunger and cold—and then freedom to want. Consumption itself became a kind of liberty."
Beautifully about Svalbard and the world by @brdemuth.bsky.social
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Julien Vincent
What can plastic fragments found in an animal’s digestive tract tell us about the waters it has traversed?
Will you be working this year on a book or article that's going to need #maps? Let me help! I draw custom maps for a living!
I draw each map by hand, to my clients' specifications, & each is unique. You can find out more on my website:
surprisedeelmaps.com
Here's some recent examples of my work:
