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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Turns out we can still do more (by visiting the US less)! Love a good data analysis piece.

Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

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.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The convicted felon President infantilizing Canada is really fucking weird. And creepy.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A "no-billionaires" platform would be very easy to vote for.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026

Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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...

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Monsoon storms batter Nepal

14 missing in deadly avalanche, floods and landslides damage highways

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

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.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BuT iT's JUsT liKE a CalCUlatOR LLMs and GenAI need to be shut down.

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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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.”

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember when Trump said the US didn't need anything from Canada.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This looks amazing! Too bad I'm in meetings from nearly all day tomorrow 🫠 climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org

poster describing the flash panel on climate and democracy. link in the post!

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Ed Sheeran tour implosion is such a vicious self-own: you can't "both sides" a genocide. Free Palestine.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s Labour Day weekend! This week on the Climate Conversation podcast I talk with Dr. Sinead Earley about the energy transition in northern BC towns, climate justice, and who gets a voice in climate policy.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

From our 2019 assesssment of cryospheric change in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan region: "...permafrost degradation on oversteepened rock slopes will increase the probability of impact waves and far-reaching flood waves from large rock/ice avalanches..." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

This open access book provides a comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, on social, economic and environmental level. It presents leading knowledge on sustainable mountain developm...

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I had a great chat with Scott Shantz at 730 CKNW this morning about Berg Glacier, the Nepal disaster, and climate change. open.spotify.com/episode/0J0G... #climatechange #glaciers #hazards #justice

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Mount Robson’s Berg Glacier retreats from lake

Mornings with Simi · Episode

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Really interesting piece from Devesh Belbase about the warning that came by telephone, and how the current early warning systems are geared to weather-driven floods, not catastrophic flash melting from ice/rock avalanches: www.spotlightnepal.com/2026/08/28/b...

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Bhotekoshi Flood: The Warning That Came by Telephone

At 9:00 the Division received word that a large flood had entered the Bhote Koshi from Tibet - from the Rasuwa District Administration Office, and from a staff member at the Betrawati gauging station.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I spoke with CBC Daybreak North yesterday about Berg Glacier melting back from Berg Lake, and Brian Cooles sent me a photo taken in 1955 by Elfrida Pigou! My 2026 photo for comparison. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Technical question: why do all three branches of this confluence show scour/deposition? If the debris flow came down (I think) the top right one, did it backwash up the top left one as well as continue down the bottom one?

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Confirmed: the Nepal disaster was triggered by a collapse/detachment of the lower part of this glacier that descends from the north side of Langtang-Lirung peak.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is the kind of direct action I can get behind

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I literally dreamed about Nepal this morning. Having lived there for four years, worked in this region and seen the devastation after the 2015 earthquake in Langtang Valley, my thoughts and my heart go out to everyone affected.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Great article from @tyolsen.bsky.social (with good stuff from @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social) on the challenges facing vaguely proposed portions of Alberta's new pipeline. Their modified plan also pushes through undisturbed sections of Mt. Robson Provincial Park? thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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In the Fraser Valley, a New Oil Pipeline Faces Mountains of Challenges | The Tyee

Getting through the steep, narrow stretch cost Trans Mountain billions. But Alberta’s plans to avoid a repeat is full of holes.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Everyday I wonder how things can get stupider and everyday I am informed how, against my will.

Truth social post where Trump threatens to call Lake Ontario, Lake America

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We've now released four episodes of The Climate Conversations, where I talk with faculty from across campus about how their research and teaching intersects with climate change. It's a great look into what's happening in northern British Columbia, if you've ever wondered. And if you haven't, WHY NOT

Small krummholz trees (they only have branches on one side because the dominant winds are so strong) above the Conrad Glacier in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Laughing and crying at the same time

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is MUCH too accurate

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Horrific. Cars and bikes need to be separated on the roads.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

More consequences for racism, please

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Dr. Twila Moon @drtwilamoon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Colleagues looked for polar programs support in the NSF announced solicitations and found none. Ignoring the fastest changing parts of the planet doesn't stop the large, wide-ranging impacts. It just makes us less informed on when, how big, and what we can do to influence and prepare for them. 😵‍💫

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Prince George has decided that "Single File" signs are enough to keep cyclists safe 🙃

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