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Bathsheba Demuth

@brdemuth.bsky.social
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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

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today in whale news: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Gang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific
Crew described terrifying encounter as they were woken up by “loud thud” as the 52ft vessel was struck
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you! Me too :)
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks Chris! I’m having a great time — so many amazing projects out there!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Being in this role has already been exciting — keep the proposals coming!
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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 01/10/2026
We are thrilled to announce Bathsheba Demuth as the new series editor of Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, succeeding Paul S. Sutter. We’re grateful to Paul for 12 years of extraordinary leadership and excited to see Bathsheba carry the series into its next chapter! @brdemuth.bsky.social
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Bathsheba Demuth Appointed Weyerhaeuser Environmental Series Editor
Bathsheba Demuth steps in as the new series editor for Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books at the University of Washington Press, succeeding Paul S. Sutter.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😱
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Such great news!! Thrilled to be part of this book coming into the world
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“I find myself in the middle of translation, of overlapping colonial and anticolonial projects, as well as the learning of new/old languages. The Blind Man and the Loon illuminates the labors of language and the promise of story” A @sprucehen.bsky.social stunner placesjournal.org/article/blin...
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Blind Man and Loon
A tale shared by Native peoples across the circumpolar Arctic reveals the elusive nature of language, and has come to shape many Native connections to place.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum
Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes!! I’m so thrilled. I love his images so much
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ahh I hope you enjoy! And I have so many river books on my shelf if you’re looking for titles…
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum
Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Pretty much!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’ve tried it an it’s waaaaay better than Google is now, if not quite the Google of yore
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not a novel observation, but digging back into research full time is a real reminder that internet searching has deteriorated so much. My kingdom for Google circa 2014.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think quite startled by our canoes busting in on a quiet morning by the river but lovely to see!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ooh no this looks great!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have seen & learned & felt so many things this summer, including watching more black bears along the Yukon River than I can remember ever encountering before.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thank you Chris!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Yes, it puts the present range of environmental organizing in perspective for sure
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Great review of a book I devoured in a few days 📚
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
Photo via Wayne Wastaken

Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I liked it! A very diverting audiobook
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Amazing thank you — I really liked the Tabor, haven’t read the others. I’m might hold of on the plane crashes until after this very plane-full summer
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I read this long ago, might be time for a revisit!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Oooh yes this sounds fantastic
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@draftingthepast.bsky.social! Always a good listen.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This looks perfect for the theme, thank you!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The exception to this is @robertmoor.com’s In Trees, which I get to talk to him about on Sunday at RiffRaff in Providence, a glorious deviation from o-rings, hideous ideology, or bad decisions
Cover of Robert Moor’s In Trees
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I am apparently in my Dad Disaster History summer reading-wise: so far, we have the Challenger space shuttle, Chernobyl, several shipwrecks, 1929, range of Nazis, and the mess at Waco. Other recommendations very welcome.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m perpetually leaving Dodge these days it seems! (it’s a wild travel summer, in a great way)
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Storm brewing on a Yukon River side channel in the delta — and some expert boating.
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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 06/07/2026
Excited to announce the (very swiftly) upcoming tour dates for the East Coast leg of my book tour! Can't wait to talk with all of these brilliant folks—including @brdemuth.bsky.social and @sandyernestallen.bsky.social—about tree-climbing and 'tree-thinking'.
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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
absolute stunner from @brdemuth.bsky.social on greenland + american empire; i was today years old when i learned grandpapa trump got his start as an extremely-used-horse salesman in the arctic www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Strategic Amnesia | Bathsheba Demuth
Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into t...
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Demuth has become one of the essential historians.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Back from an amazing week on the lower Yukon River and the Bering Sea, with so much dancing and talking and boating and sunshine and rain and even a few summer chum salmon from the test fishery. Many thanks to the people of Emmonak, St Mary’s, and Pilot Station for the welcome
View of the Yukon River from the air, with a large brown island in the foreground, silty whiteish water reflecting the clouds, and deep green land A green fishnet with a silver fish is pulled over the side of a metal boat by a person in camo rain gearA thunderhead brews over the Bering Sea with an eroding bank in the foreground and green grass growing on the edge of a flat island
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thank you Katy!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thanks Michael!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thank you Hester!
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Well this is just bloody brilliant from @brdemuth.bsky.social on American empire and the Arctic. Was gob-smacked to read that 40% of US territory was purchased. Totally shifts the context for trying to buy Greenland. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Strategic Amnesia | Bathsheba Demuth
Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into t...
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thanks Venus!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thank you Sarah!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Not dominant but consequential in the thinking about a Greenland purchase, in my reading of those discussions.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
On the long American tradition of buying sovereignty, Greenland, colonialism, an AI penguin, and the grimy history of the president’s grandfather in the far north www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Strategic Amnesia | Bathsheba Demuth
Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into t...
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
No idea I’m afraid!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Look what book is now *available* for preorder!! @rebecca-altman.bsky.social’s SONG OF STYRENE coming next April. Important and gorgeous. Also that cover!! #envhist #envhum #plastics www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-So...
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The Song of Styrene
A personal history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for t...
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So many questions!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’ve been so bummed to miss you this last year at so many events!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Great bookmail to return home to! @robertmoor.com’s newest — and I’m very much anticipating discussing this gorgeous work with him on July 12 at RiffRaff in Providence 🌳🪾🌲
A photo of Robert Moor’s book, On Trees, with a green tree in the background
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I’m SO looking forward to this! And let me know if you need any PVD arrangement help
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