My favourite moment in any oil price shock cycle is when the Very Serious Energy People explain why this — again! — is not the time to give a shit about the climate crisis

Day 3 of pre-departure learning and prep included a Shane Lake lunch lecture, ice sheet landforms, a drone mapping survey demonstration, weather station setup, and a mama black bear with three cubs #fieldschool @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social

🧵Jack Mintz has a new piece in the Financial Post arguing that men in Canada are being discriminated against through federal research funding allocation and Canada Research Chair hiring quotas. @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found this is simply misinformation.

This asshole is trying to do the exact same thing in Alberta: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hoping the new rockslide that is currently blocking Highway 16 just east of the BC/AB border gets cleared quickly, but also: WE JUST FOUND A NEW STOP FOR OUR FABULOUS FIELD SCHOOL!!!

Seeing reports of a wildfire in #Valemount, BC this afternoon - not that warm, according to the moshlab.org weather station which still has snow (!), but low humidity and gusty winds leading to the 'spring dip' local weather: bit.ly/ValemountCSH blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/b...

In good news: the lilac buds are starting to appear!

This is surprising to absolutely no one. The National Post has been explicitly right wing and openly racist for a long time.

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

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cc: @davidebybc.bsky.social @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

Nice view of Canmore today: Cougar Creek (centre of the photo), which drains out these snowy mountains, is one of the stops on our upcoming @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social field school, where we will meet with a town engineer to talk about geohazards and mitigation.

CBC should not be interviewing Dan McTeague, a rabid climate change denier. I don't care what kind of fake-ass fossils fuel boot licking charity he runs. he's a know-nothing conspiracy theorist www.desmog.com/2026/03/25/h...

Glaciers had one of their worst years in 2025: 👉 408 billion tonnes of ice mass lost 👉 ≈1.1 mm added to global sea levels 👉 6 of the 7 worst years have happened in the past 7 yrs Since 1975: ~9,600 billion tonnes gone (≈26.4 mm SLR) This isn’t a gradual change... www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Mark Carney is Stephen Harper and Brian Mulroney in a trenchcoat

Yikes, this is terrible. Read the room!

As Artemis II returns back to Earth, I keep sneaking little peeks at the NASA feed to watch our planet getting bigger in the window. Hard to imagine how those astronauts feel.

@ Vancouver folks! Go if you can!

It’s snowing here in Prince George - again - but there is an auspicious gathering of American Robins on my lawn.

The juxtaposition of the Artemis 2 earthrise image with the genocidal ravings of the lunatic US president is very very heavy

They loathe science.

You don’t get to PAUSE RIGHTS! THAT’S NOT HOW RIGHTS OR LAWS WORK www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

gas too expensive because some moron decided to start a war with Iran? rather than tax breaks at the pumps, let's reduce consumption with free transit, subsidies on e-bikes, tax breaks on bike purchases and supplies, investment in cycling infrastructure...

BC #snow update: - spring still on hold! - averaged over the whole province, snowpacks are 10% above normal for this day of year - below normal on The Island, S. Coast, and S. Interior mountains, but otherwise: ❄️

It’s Trans Day of Visibility, and by happy coincidence I am currently reading The Cure For Drowning by Loghan Paylor, which will be a serious contender in the upcoming Canada Reads competition (championed by Tegan Quinn of @teganandsara.com). 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ #transdayofvisibility

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Stephen Lewis eulogizing Jack Layton in 2011: "Inevitably, we fastened on those last memorable lines about 'hope, optimism and love', but the letter was at its heart a manifesto for social democracy"

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

This is a remarkable opportunity for governments worldwide to commit to electrification and increased energy efficiency, and bring decentralzied energy production online quickly. www.france24.com/en/france-co...

BC NDP closing the Climate Secretariat is beyond warped - sending at least 10 of the staff to work on LNG projects They are not even pretending anymore, all in on joining the last gasp of fossil fuel capitalism instead of actually facing the future They are the opposite of progressive #BCpoli

Evergreen, everywhere

Giving up on climate action is shortsighted and irresponsible.

Impressive snowfall totals so far in my Prince George backyard: 20 cm and un-doggable drifts (he’s got short legs) ❄️❄️❄️ #bcstorm #lousysmarchweather

They will even deliver to Canada! CANADA!! (love it, look forward to it, please don't ever stop)

This. If the work has an AI statement and the statement includes that you used genAI I’m going to decline the review

Idea: Academics should tour their old papers again like a reunited rock band. There’s some gems, some fan favourites, and the obscure b-side that some nerd somewhere appreciated

I mean, tourism is already hurting so I’m sure putting masked goons in the airports will be fine www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Lost among the many other horrors of 2026, Israel is attempting to create another Nakba in Lebanon, no one is even attempting to explain or justify this, they're just bombing and killing and taking

So I’ve started (and stopped and started and then pulled it all out and then started again) to knit. Please appreciate this 5 cm scarflet.

❄️BC Snow Update: The Song Remains the Same❄️ We got about 20cm of lovely spring snow in Prince George last night, but this snow report doesn't include data from the past two days. Still seeing above normal snowpacks in northern BC and Interior/Rocky Mountains. Below normal everywhere else.

Playing music with my friends in the snow (Brewski at Caledonia Nordic)

Friday dinner (with help from the 13yo): - gojuchang chicken thighs (baked) - Shanghai bok choy with garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil, green onions, red chili - sushi rice -lime, cilantro, and green onion garnish - gluten free beer: Rousse, from Helix

If there are any Canadian undergraduates in your life looking for an amazing spring field school in the mountains of western Canada, send them here ASAP! jmshea.opened.ca/2026-fieldsc... Visiting students welcome! #physical #geography #glaciers #mountains #highered #fieldschool

We need to bring shame back. And accountability. But mostly shame. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

okay, serious question for other academics out there: how much time do you/your department spend looking at class scheduling and trying to fix problems?

someone needs to make a feed of all the "can this be a solution" posts

100% co-sign on everything in here. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...