Joseph Shea
@josephshea.bsky.social
Professor, researcher, musician on Lheidli T'enneh territory: mountain glaciers, snow, water, weather, climate change, remote sensing, community adaptation, and EDI www.moshlab.org ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4557-1283 (he/him/il/anti-fascist)
Funded 2-year MSc position at UNBC on glaciers, snowpacks, and First Nations water security! Come work with me and @alexbevington.bsky.social ! www.moshlab.org/news/funded-2-yr-msc-at-unbc-glaciers-snowpacks-and-first-nations-water-security @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
Turns out we can still do more (by visiting the US less)! Love a good data analysis piece.
hilzoy@hilzoy.bsky.social · last wk.Kieran Healy, on that tourism graph. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
fast-tracking a publicly funded pipeline *and* cutting gas taxes just as the world will experience its hottest year on record is one way to cement your legacies, I guess
Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
The convicted felon President infantilizing Canada is really fucking weird. And creepy.
Maybe I’m oversimplifying things, but it sure seems a lot of the problems our society is facing could be eliminated by bringing back accountability.
Spectacular fall day for a field trip! GEOG111 and ENSC111 students headed to Shane Lake for a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS aka drone) mapping demonstration and some fresh air and blue skies after yesterday's rain. #highered #getoutside #RPAS #mapping
Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think the government and military *should* be opposed to fascism globalnews.ca/news/1168850...
Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca
Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.
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As our municipal and provincial elections loom here in BC, I hope our candidates will all post their views on the rise of fascist white supremacist groups and how they will run them out of town if they try to show their masked pathetic faces.
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
Western and central portions of Nepal now dealing with destroyed bridges, lost houses, massive (and thankfully temporary) river-blocking landslides, and avalanches from extreme precipitation delivered by a tropical system. nepalitimes.com/monsoon-stor...
Monsoon storms batter Nepal
14 missing in deadly avalanche, floods and landslides damage highways
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Cyclone Tracking@cyclonetracking.bsky.social · 2w agoTropical Storm #01B is continuing to move northwards across #India and is expected to deliver additional Moderate Impacts just southwest of Nepal in the form of flooding! #cyclone
I am not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure the sentence for sexual assault and rape is more than “write an essay”. May these assholes face true consequences and never find another moment of peace in their shitty lives. #cornell
This is the worst business idea and sales pitch all combined into one flaming ball of creepy shit. No ship is too big to sink.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
BuT iT's JUsT liKE a CalCUlatOR LLMs and GenAI need to be shut down.
🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼@youcaughtscott.com · 2w agoOpenAI needs to be dismantled over not reporting this.
I get really annoyed seeing so many people say "Since everyone uses AI to write papers..." or "Referee reports now are just written by AI..." Look: Everything I have written has, for better or worse, been my own writing. Don't project your cynical expectations on my work. Seriously, screw gen-AI.
The "inevitability" of AI argument is such a copout. Its only inevitable if we stand back and let it become entrenched (or worse: encourage it) in our classrooms. Looking at you, UNBC.
The changes to the Canada Labour Code in this new bill are “without precedent in Canadian law and they’re without precedent even amongst our trading partners in the G7.” “It provides the complete and unlimited discretion to the federal minister to decide who gets to go on strike and who does not.”
It can be difficult to say with precision and confidence what the impacts of this will be across British Columbia, but a wide range of extreme scenarios should be considered as possibilities at this point.
Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · 3w agoI have zero faith that most Canadian politicians are taking this seriously or preparing for it in any significant way.
I'm old enough to remember when Trump said the US didn't need anything from Canada.
Postmedia delenda est@olenargy.bsky.social · 3w agoCurious on the logistics and cost of getting potash from a landlocked country on the other side of the world vs Saskatchewan
www.moshlab.org/news/introducing-kaleb-martin-new-mosh-lab-member #snow #hydrology #climatechange #disturbance
Introducing Kaleb Martin, New MOSH Lab Member! — Mountain Snow Hydrology Lab
After a cross-country meander, Kaleb Martin started his MSc in the MOSH Lab this September. Co-supervised by Dr. Jason Leach (Canadian Forest Service), Kaleb will be looking at the drivers of recent h...
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This looks amazing! Too bad I'm in meetings from nearly all day tomorrow 🫠 climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
Edward Luce@edwardluce.bsky.social · 3w ago"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
You know what's better than pumpkin spice in the fall? New students! A warm welcome to Ben Legree 👏👏👏 www.moshlab.org/news/new-moshlab-member-ben-legree
New MOSHLab Member: Ben Legree! — Mountain Snow Hydrology Lab
A warm MOSHLab welcome for incoming MA student Ben Legree, who will be looking at climate change impacts on water availability and food security in the Robson Valley (co-supervised with Dr. Tristan Pe...
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The Ed Sheeran tour implosion is such a vicious self-own: you can't "both sides" a genocide. Free Palestine.
