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Tina Loo

@lootina.bsky.social
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Mountain itinerant and photog who teaches and writes Canadian and environmental history at the University of British Columbia. [I chose the photo of Sycamore Gap not knowing what would soon happen...]

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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Opinion: Fuck This Fucking Projector
By Prof. Russell Huang, Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Winners include Coll Thrush and @heiditworek.bsky.social at UBC! congratulations!
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
PhD #envhum Course on "New Approaches to Waste" Online course organised by @greenhouseuis.net. Meeting dates: 30 November–2 December 2026 and 3–4 February 2027. Program of lectures, book talks, discussion sessions, student presentations, and digital fieldtrips. www.uis.no/en/research/...
Collage showing a crane lifting a glas jar with plants growing in it. Two birds flying. Other glass jars behind.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 13/10/2026
Badly maintained trails are preventing access to wide swaths of backcountry in Rocky Mountain national parks. But some argue that’s good news for wildlife. Should Parks Canada restore access to backpackers?
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Hikers push to protect backcountry trails in Rocky Mountain national parks
Access to wide swaths of the mountain parks is cut off, but some argue that’s good for wildlife
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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And some of those receipts are *very* big!
A customs house quarterly report from the port of Halifax, 1814, shown in the reading room of the Nova Scotia provincial archives. It is a sheet of paper about 3 ft wide and 9 ft long. In the foreground is a file folder labeled with the archival reference number for this document, RG 31-104 vol 9 #3
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Great piece of #cdnhist research featuring @stillots1.bsky.social who literally has the receipts! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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How the proceeds of slave labour helped build early Nova Scotia | CBC News
Isaac Saney, a Dalhousie University professor of Black and African Diaspora Studies, wants a waterfront memorial acknowledging that Nova Scotia's early roads, universities and public institutions were...
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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh dear. I was a green MA student in his grad class a long time ago. We were all terrified. He’d sit at the seminar table expectantly, like this pulsating rationality, waiting for someone to say something. Anyone. Then at the end he’d elegantly summarize our half baked ideas. I learned so much!
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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sad to learn that Carl Berger passed away last week. He taught half of the Canadian history survey that I took at the University of Toronto. His book The Sense of Power played a major role in shaping my understanding of Canada's relationship to imperialism in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sad to note the passing of Ian K Steele this past weekend. His book English Atlantics (Oxford 1986) was one of a trio of books that year establishing the Atlantic World paradigm. Trained first as a Jesuit, then in London, the Canadian praire lad became a gentle scholar and mentor. #AtlanticWorld
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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sharing this, please circulate and join us if you can! @lootina.bsky.social @mapicone.bsky.social @katie-r-ives.bsky.social @anasekulic.bsky.social
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Terrific news! Congratulations!
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh. I ran out of space and got interrupted. Another issue is salaries! Maybe cap at $200k for disciplines where there is no larger market competition?
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I agree that people staying on creates a lack of opportunities for younger scholars. But there’s no guarantee that when people retire they will be replaced. At least that’s what the situation is here. There are other causes of too few jobs…,
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was a restaurant kid too! #nostalgia www.nfb.ca/film/restaur...
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Restaurant Kids
For many children of Halifax’s Chinese restaurateurs, the family restaurant was more than a business. It was a second home, a classroom and a workplace. Through intimate conversations …
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨the Department of History at the University of Toronto (St George campus) is hiring an Assistant Professor in the history of early modern or modern South Asia jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - South Asian History
Assistant Professor - South Asian History
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030! We are excited to welcome @iceho.bsky.social and environmental historians from around the world to Canada! niche-canada.org/2026/09/18/t... #envhist #envhum
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The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030!
York University in Toronto will host the 2030 Fifth World Congress of Environmental History, marking its North American debut.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This all sounds terrific. Congratulations on getting the text down to size!
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Dr. Jessica van Horssen @historiamagoria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New #publication alert! I started do-editing the final volume of this series with Bloomberg in 2018. Cue editorial changes, a global pandemic, a baby, a transatlantic move, a new job, and here it is! Can’t wait to dig into the other volumes as well! #EnvHist
Front cover of the new publication with the title A Cultural History of the Environment: In the Age of Acceleration at the top and a space radar image of Salt Lake City, UtahPhoto of the spinal all six books in the Cultural History of the Environment series published by Bloomberg.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am keen to see this but...680 pages?! (just looked at the catalogue)
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looking forward to this one!
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Global Maritime History @globalmarhist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you to @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social for this fantastic post.
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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There's been some really interesting debate here on #AI in history. Here are five basic things to keep in mind. 1. Terminology matters! AI is not the same as LLMs. Machine learning is a branch of AI. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning. LLMs are a family of deep-learning systems. (1/10)
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How do you cook them?
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well this wasn't on my bingo card for 2026
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The University of Toronto and Hello Kitty Collection | Spaces & Experiences at U of T
The University of Toronto and Hello Kitty Collection drops Friday, September 4 at 10 a.m. at the U of T Bookstore. Quantities are limited.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And then there is the question of language: scholars who publish in languages other than English don't get picked up by these indices.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So true. There are huge differences in citation practices, not to mention publishing practices, across the social sciences+humanities, never mind the impossibility of comparing citations from those varied disciplines with those of scholars in the natural sciences, medicine, engineering, etc.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thanks for writing this.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.
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Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley
(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the kind of booze that I hope is on all the shelves in Alberta and is a big seller! @lukaszukab.bsky.social #ForeverCanadian
Display of Canadian Pale, beer brewed in Red Deer to support the Forever Canadian unity campaign in Alberta
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Dolly Parton & Friends - "Jolene" | 2022 Induction
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Among so many other great things, I will remember Dolly Parton for being a staunch advocate for vaccines, donating $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in April 2020, which supported the early scientific research that helped develop the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Pope Hat Night at the White Sox game
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Strictly Canadian version. People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me: Think I’ll go out to Alberta
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
""Sundown in the Paris of the Prairies...."
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"This is exactly what can make the project of revisiting the past so vital: It’s not about the past. It’s about choosing our future." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know (Gift Article)
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Never forget Ponzi’s! www.facebook.com/376489476080...
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As I've said before, if professors could indoctrinate students, more people would use apostrophes correctly.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Great line up of #envhist #envhum talks!
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Enjoy!
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You're back at the alma mater?
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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Good piece. Highlights the connections between problems with access to proper archival sources (an underfunded public service) and the cheap and toxic production of invented sources. Gresham's law, historical research edition
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I’m a snob who took Latin for five years, read the Odyssey on my own at 13, enjoyed the movie, and thought EW was spot on. A movie can be both fun and facile; she acknowledges its upshots. People who think she’s too harsh need to watch better movies (or at least one of the stronger Nolan ones).
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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Super cool if you study Canadian history: an interactive digital map of Hudson's Bay Company posts! Thanks, @trailmark.bsky.social! #cdnhist #cdnhistory trailmark.cloud/trailmark/pu...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Terrific answer from the great historian David Blight. Museums aren't there to inform us of all the old answers, but to inspire for us all the new questions.
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