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Alan MacEachern

@alanmaceachern.bsky.social
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Researcher, writer, & teacher of stuff Canadian, historical, & environmental. www.mqup.ca/content/search?type%5B%…

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Plus ca change, etc. Ottawa Citizen, 20 Oct 1938
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Toronto Star, 9 Nov 1960. Whew, that's a relief. For more, theconversation.com/scientists-p... #doomsday
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sometimes you fall down a rabbit hole, sometimes you jump. Here's a just-published piece of mine on Malthus, math, & magic, in @ca.theconversation.com. 43 days till Doomsday. Should you be worried? theconversation.com/scientists-p...
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Scientists predicted Friday 13 November 2026 will be ‘Doomsday.’ Should you be worried?
An article published in Science in 1960 predicted that, thanks to ever-increasing growth, in the year 2026 the human population would approach infinity.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the anniversary of Silent Spring, published on this day in 1962. This Peanuts cartoon is from February 1963. #envhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To mark the start of Truth and Reconciliation Week, @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social, Gord Hill, and I are excited to share some big news: In January 2027, we will be releasing "A Knock On the Door: A Comic Book History of Residential Schools": uofmpress.ca/books/a-knoc...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
According to this moment's version of me. A few perfect. A few imperfect but somehow more perfect for it. Breaking Bad, oddly grudgingly. And had to give a kdrama & an offbeat Aussie comedy some love.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So many moving parts & last-minute scrambling to get this post up in time for Sunday's 50th anniversary of the Ark's opening. Just like the Ark's opening itself! #princeedwardisland #pei #envhist #cdnhist
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So many moving parts & last-minute scrambling to get this post up in time for Sunday's 50th anniversary of the Ark's opening. Just like the Ark's opening itself! #princeedwardisland #pei #envhist #cdnhist
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of the things we do in this post is annotate & embed the transcript of a 1976 talk by Amory Lovins. Super simple to do - & pretty useful, I think. Lots of potential applications.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is so sad. My heart goes out to Susan, Jordi, & everyone who loved Karen. She was such a warm & wise mentor to so many, including me. www.queensu.ca/devs/news/re...
queensu.ca
Remembering Dr. Karen Dubinsky, Professor Emerita | Department of Global Development Studies
Dear DEVS commmunity,It is with great sadness that we share the following obituary of our colleague Professor Emerita Dr. Karen Dubinsky. Karen was a dynamic researcher and pedagogical innovator. Her ...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey! Congratulations to @adeleperry.bsky.social on receiving the JB Tyrrell Historical Medal for outstanding work in the history of Canada.🍁 rsc-src.ca/en/about/pub... #cdnhist
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The Royal Society of Canada Announces its 2026 Award Winners | The Royal Society of Canada
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Last day to get your nominations in to @alanmaceachern.bsky.social for a series on Commemorating Canadian Environmental History Describe your topic and discuss its impacts, environmental and otherwise, and how it meets the HSMBC criteria niche-canada.org/2026/08/18/a... #envhist #cdnhist
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A Failure to Commemorate - a call for submissions
Environmental history remains vastly underrepresented on Canada's national register. Pitch your ideas for a new NiCHE series and help shape HSMBC designations.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is fun: @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social & I have assembled a 3-parter for @nichecanada.bsky.social about the environmental turn on #PEI in 1976. Today, pt. 1 launched: niche-canada.org/2026/09/14/p... Wed, pt.2 on Energy Days. Fri, pt.3 on the opening of the Ark, 50 yrs ago this weekend.
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PEI & The Spirit of ‘76 - pt.1
Spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, PEI Premier Alex Campbell pivoted the province toward renewable energy and resource self-sufficiency.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As beautiful a first teaching day as my very first teaching day at Western U, 25 years ago.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Realizing that I'm working simultaneously on 4 small, completely distinct writing projects at the moment. Is that efficient? No. Will any of them lead to a book? No. But are they fun? Yes. Weird? A couple.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this post, I put out a call for #envhist people, places, or events that Canada should be commemorating. Submit yours: there's a $200 prize at stake. Deadline 14 Sept. Details in post.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yesterday, I had a 10-minute touch-up laser surgery 5 years after cataract surgery & I wish I could show you just how amazingly good my vision is. I’m going to spend all day today just looking at things.
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Good-faith dialogue with people who are critically engaging with these systems is now the best way for those who refuse them to stay informed about what the technology can actually do.” My new post for @activehist.bsky.social activehistory.ca/blog/2026/09...
activehistory.ca
How Do We Talk about LLMs?
It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all dealing with the rep…
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#PEI has been there. Or rather, not been there.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trapped in bed this morning. Oh well.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A NiCE piece for historians talking to the media. niche-canada.org/2026/09/05/p...
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Pitching, Pitfalls, Soundbites and Historians: Lessons from the Lake Ontario Naming Dispute
After a controversial presidential proposal regarding Lake Ontario, historian Dan Macfarlane gained sudden media attention, sharing advice on handling press.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now in purple, too! I had one last week. Amazing.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this post, I put out a call for #envhist people, places, or events that Canada should be commemorating. Submit yours: there's a $200 prize at stake. Deadline 14 Sept. Details in post.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In Thunder Bay today & revisited my home for 2 PhD years: the CCGS Alexander Henry icebreaker.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2035-36: the first year Canadian universities employ more tenured/TT professors over the age of 80 than under the age of 35.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#His2189 @westernuhistory.bsky.social
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In 2019, the Historic Sites & Monuments Bd of Canada identified 4 strategic priorities for designation. How many of each have been designated since then? 🔵diversity: 33 🔵Indigenous peoples: 14 🔵Can & the world: 9 🔵environmental history: 1 Ouch. niche-canada.org/2026/08/18/a... #envhist #cdnhist
niche-canada.org
A Failure to Commemorate - a call for submissions
Environmental history remains vastly underrepresented on Canada's national register. Pitch your ideas for a new NiCHE series and help shape HSMBC designations.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just an American chemical rep, in the wake of Silent Spring, explaining to a Canadian Parliamentary cttee in 1963 why we couldn't give up on pesticides like DDT: we needed to feed the impending population explosion ...that would, uh, result in Doomsday on 13 Nov 2026. Good times. #cdnhist #envhist
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My post ends with a call for submissions to a @nichecanada.bsky.social series on "Commemorating Canadian #envhist." One lucky submitter will win a $200 credit for @ubcpress.bsky.social books.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In 2019, the Historic Sites & Monuments Bd of Canada identified 4 strategic priorities for designation. How many of each have been designated since then? 🔵diversity: 33 🔵Indigenous peoples: 14 🔵Can & the world: 9 🔵environmental history: 1 Ouch. niche-canada.org/2026/08/18/a... #envhist #cdnhist
niche-canada.org
A Failure to Commemorate - a call for submissions
Environmental history remains vastly underrepresented on Canada's national register. Pitch your ideas for a new NiCHE series and help shape HSMBC designations.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Never has a bearded JC been so wrongfully crucified. 🙄
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Help settle an argument: Bad Grandpa or Bad Grade Point Average?
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just realized that Doomsday is 100 days away! If the prediction turns out not to be accurate, I'll write about it after. (Because if I publish something in advance & it's accurate, what's the point?) #envhist #envhum
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ian Millipede? Featurenota? Jerry?
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One of the most satisfying novels I can remember.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thoughts & prayers! We had an oak split right down the middle 10 yrs ago, connected it w/ electrical tape (hockey tape!) for 6 months, & here it is today.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Roadside raspberries, brought to you by #PEI & summer.
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Rebecca Beausaert (she/her) @rebeccabeau.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The UN recognized 2026 as the Year of the Woman Farmer and I'm so proud to announce the installation of a new exhibition at McLaughlin Library @uofguelph.bsky.social that honours women's contributions to Canadian agriculture. Will be on display until Spring 2027. #womeninag #cdnag #ruralhist
Photograph of a display case containing items related to the history of the Ontario Agricultural College. Photograph of a display case containing items related to the history of women's involvement in fall fairs. Photograph of a display case containing items related to the history of the Macdonald Institute. Photograph of the intro panel for the exhibit titled Breaking Ground: Women and Canada's Agricultural Past.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Another round of: “Spot the Cruise Ship”
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
PEI Tourism may start re-promoting its “cool, health-giving air” of a century ago. “Salubrious” will make a comeback.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Back on PEI. Some research, some meetings, 2 talks - but also this.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Just starting “John of John” & already stopped dead.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Good, long photo-essay about the Statue of Liberty — with some unfortunate ad placement. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Didn’t know Hell Street! Thx.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
References in a podcast to “of Island” constantly transcribes to “of Violent.” That’s going to help give me a 2nd title in my #PEI noir series, after “Harlot Town.”
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations, Mary!
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Mary Baxter @maryeb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just found out that I won the James Pritchard Student Article Prize from the Canadian Nautical Research Society for my article about sand suckers at Point Pelee that published earlier this year in The Northern Mariner! What a delightful surprise! Here is the article: doi.org/10.25071/256...
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Point Pelee’s Disappearing Act: Sand Suckers, Erosion, and Conflict Along the Shores of a Canadian National Park | The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Agreed!
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Louis Riel says hi: Was just gifted this copy of Chester Brown's book, signed by the man himself.
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