gab taillefer mclaren 🎃

🍉 environmental historians and PhD student studying settler responses to environmental disease during a pandemic/climate crisis popcorn enthusiast 🍉

[gab taillefer mclaren 🎃 @gltmcl]

It's me, sliding into the line-up of cool wetland writers! If you want the main historiographical bullets of my MA thesis, here they are 🦟

[NiCHE @NiCHE_Canada]

"Tropical Disease in Untropical Places: Thinking of Malaria in Canada" by @gltmcl is the ninth post in our Wetland Wednesday series!

https://t.co/g7jgRAl6Jb

#envhist #histmed #cdnhist

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

A butcher to the bitter end.

Christ, what a legacy.

[Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag]

Today on Edge Effects, Lucy Sabin shares her creative research on sensing atmospheres with lichens as proxies. What can we learn from lichens about the air we breathe? 🦠https://t.co/6v32KOy1RQ

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

Everybody be wary of what you see here tonight!

#disinformation #propaganda #chaos

[Dr. Merritt Turetsky @queenofpeat]

Wetland language and politics should
not mix. Please share a photo of your favorite wetland scene, moss, or other aquatic plant to show everyone that “draining the swamp” is a hard no. Instead we all need to get mired together. Healthy wetlands healthy society. Pass it on.

[Dr. Debby Sneed @debscavator]

My latest in Classical Journal! This article is intended to encourage other people to think about the role of disability in our traditional canon of ancient literature. What if we ackowledge that everyone experiences their worlds through their bodies?

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

‘It seems that a decision has been made to execute all the medical staff who refuse to abandon their patients & evacuate Kamal Adwan hospital’ https://t.co/dIDdy4rHJG

[Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin88]

Something that Tanya Talaga said a couple of weeks ago that hasn’t left me: when you think of Murray, think of the weight of hearing thousands of accounts of untold horror, and the toll it would take on your body. Think of taking that on. https://t.co/30LQbg26Q2

[Scarlet Astrorum @ScarletAstrorum]

You don’t have community because you aren’t a good community member. You don’t host events, you don’t know how to cook, you don’t know how to dance, you don’t know how to sing, and you aren’t doing anything to learn. You can’t tell stories or jokes.

[Nate Holdren @n_hold]

halloween first: I took the kids trick or treating and an older lady went 'oh your dad's with you, hang on, I got a treat for him too' and went back into her house then came out with a whole pineapple that she gave me.

[Taco Bell Quarterly @TBQuarterly]

Re-posting because It's always worth killing the bastard again: Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix in TBQ7.

[Reductress @Reductress]

Male Loneliness Epidemic? Everyone Too Busy Cleaning up After Dinner to Hang out With Man in Living Room: https://t.co/s5Ef765Fra

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

“i never see you at the club” and i never see you on the shared doc

[‎ ‎ ‎ ⊹ ོ @sighswoon]

the honeymoon stage lasts forever if you date people who see Romance as not only a vehicle for courting, but as a medium in which to live forever

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

an irish pharmacist looking through the national archives in dublin accidentally unearthed a forgotten and lost short story by bram stoker, author of DRACULA. unknown even to scholars, it’s being published for the first time in a century. first new mozart, now new bram stoker

[gab taillefer mclaren 🎃 @gltmcl]

NiCHE Needs You in 2024: Support for Environmental History & Community #crowdfunding @FundRazr Support and Retweet https://t.co/5LHgXbOInk

[gab taillefer mclaren 🎃 @gltmcl]

ba: study on campus
ma: study at coffee shops
phd: study at the bar

[gab taillefer mclaren 🎃 @gltmcl]

@acagamic Finding that the best I can do as a TA is help first year students build this vocabulary! Would love access to the sheet if possible!

[Jiggly News 🇨🇦 @JigglyPants44]

Canadian conservatism in a nutshell

[gab taillefer mclaren 🎃 @gltmcl]

learning lots in my phd (fellow TA gave me candy corn during lecture so i could taste it for the first time)