This is the sixth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week.

Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 10-April 16, 2017):

Monday: “Is That Skeleton Gay? The Problem With Projecting Modern Ideas Onto The Past” by Kristina Killgrove, Forbes Magazine

Tuesday: “The Environmental Price of Dams” by Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian.com

Wednesday: “How Google Book Search Got Lost” by Scott Rosenberg, Backchannel 

Thursday: “Greeted by screaming fans, Malala Yousafzai becomes a Canadian” by Elizabeth McSheffrey, National Observer

Friday: “CFP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice”, The British Society for the History of Science

Saturday: “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – May 2017” by Andrea Eidinger, Unwritten Histories

Sunday: “NASA just snapped the first photos of a mysterious crack in one of Greenland’s largest glaciers” by Chris Mooney, The Washington Post

Top Words

1. Google
2. Canadian
3. new
4. Books
5. History
6. one
7. May
8. available
9. books
10. time
11. dam

Published by Jessica M. DeWitt

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States. She is passionate about the use of digital technologies to bridge the gap between the public and researchers. In addition to her community and professional work, she offers various editing and social media consultancy services.

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