Chris Chang-Yen Phillips
@chriscyphillips.bsky.social
Likes thinking about fossils, fungi, sweaty men, biking, and falling through deep time into a better future.
YEG/amiskwaciwaskahikan (Treaty Six Territory)
ccyp.ca
YEG/amiskwaciwaskahikan (Treaty Six Territory)
ccyp.ca
Funicular: working (why did the door try to grab my bike tire tho)
Elevator: down for maintenance sigh
#yegfunicularstatus
Elevator: down for maintenance sigh
#yegfunicularstatus
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Funicular: working (why did the door try to grab my bike tire tho)
Elevator: down for maintenance sigh
#yegfunicularstatus
Elevator: down for maintenance sigh
#yegfunicularstatus
Night ride. Elevator and funicular both working fine! #yegfunicularstatus
October 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Night ride. Elevator and funicular both working fine! #yegfunicularstatus
Happy to confirm the funicular is still working. The elevator is still down for maintenance. What a clear blue sky today.
#YegFunicularStatus
#YegFunicularStatus
September 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Happy to confirm the funicular is still working. The elevator is still down for maintenance. What a clear blue sky today.
#YegFunicularStatus
#YegFunicularStatus
I just can’t stop loving [red osier dogwood].
September 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I just can’t stop loving [red osier dogwood].
Showstopper in Yoho: a coral fungus! We spotted this on the hike to Lake McArthur. I love that it was the colour of mac and cheese and the texture of firm and squishy silicone. On closer inspection, we think those white dots at the bottom right might have been slime moulds too.
September 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Showstopper in Yoho: a coral fungus! We spotted this on the hike to Lake McArthur. I love that it was the colour of mac and cheese and the texture of firm and squishy silicone. On closer inspection, we think those white dots at the bottom right might have been slime moulds too.
Now That’s What I Call Sunrise™️
August 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Now That’s What I Call Sunrise™️
Two more weeks to see @fcypca.bsky.social's amazing artwork in the Ortona Diaspora show at the Art Gallery of Alberta. Worth seeing in person for these incredible micro-details!
fcyp.ca/ortona-diasp...
fcyp.ca/ortona-diasp...
August 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Two more weeks to see @fcypca.bsky.social's amazing artwork in the Ortona Diaspora show at the Art Gallery of Alberta. Worth seeing in person for these incredible micro-details!
fcyp.ca/ortona-diasp...
fcyp.ca/ortona-diasp...
This week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is funny, heartbreaking, full of competence porn, cool ships and great Spock/Kirk moments. And offers this desperately timely line:
"Maybe that's the lesson... Empathy isn't conditional. It's either given or it isn't."
10/10
"Maybe that's the lesson... Empathy isn't conditional. It's either given or it isn't."
10/10
August 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is funny, heartbreaking, full of competence porn, cool ships and great Spock/Kirk moments. And offers this desperately timely line:
"Maybe that's the lesson... Empathy isn't conditional. It's either given or it isn't."
10/10
"Maybe that's the lesson... Empathy isn't conditional. It's either given or it isn't."
10/10
These two gorgeous pieces are part of the Ortona Diaspora group show - Finn’s first time showing at the AGA! Worth getting up close and personal to see the almost-embroidered 3D pen layering.
August 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
These two gorgeous pieces are part of the Ortona Diaspora group show - Finn’s first time showing at the AGA! Worth getting up close and personal to see the almost-embroidered 3D pen layering.
Look at this beautiful sandy stilt puffball at Writing-on-Stone.
Never seen one before! No gills under the cap. Didn’t even know puffballs could grow on stalks like this.
Never seen one before! No gills under the cap. Didn’t even know puffballs could grow on stalks like this.
July 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Look at this beautiful sandy stilt puffball at Writing-on-Stone.
Never seen one before! No gills under the cap. Didn’t even know puffballs could grow on stalks like this.
Never seen one before! No gills under the cap. Didn’t even know puffballs could grow on stalks like this.
The story of a dock meeting water. And siblings successfully not driving each other off the deep end 💦
July 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The story of a dock meeting water. And siblings successfully not driving each other off the deep end 💦
Snaps from a wonderful day monitoring birds at Edmonton & Area Land Trust’s Lu Carbyn sanctuary west of the city. Looking for birds with a bestie, playing with dinosaurs, loving the flowers… this is what life is meant for.
June 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Snaps from a wonderful day monitoring birds at Edmonton & Area Land Trust’s Lu Carbyn sanctuary west of the city. Looking for birds with a bestie, playing with dinosaurs, loving the flowers… this is what life is meant for.
Thrilled with my first time looking for the spring garter snakes in Dawson Park. Thank you to my guide @danielbelland.bsky.social! #yegnature #yeg
April 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thrilled with my first time looking for the spring garter snakes in Dawson Park. Thank you to my guide @danielbelland.bsky.social! #yegnature #yeg
I’m just a girl, standing in front of the fossilized remains of a Centrosaurus dentary, asking him to love her.
April 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’m just a girl, standing in front of the fossilized remains of a Centrosaurus dentary, asking him to love her.
Varadha Sethu is suuuch a pleasure on screen. I think I'm going to adore her as the Doctor's latest companion - especially because she's not going to take any of his shenanigans. #doctorwho
April 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Varadha Sethu is suuuch a pleasure on screen. I think I'm going to adore her as the Doctor's latest companion - especially because she's not going to take any of his shenanigans. #doctorwho
If you subscribe to the @taprootedmonton.ca Pulse newsletter (free, btw), you better try the YEG crosswords they’re doing this month. 1) Because they rock. 2) Because I want them forever and you better help me show that we want them!!!
April 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you subscribe to the @taprootedmonton.ca Pulse newsletter (free, btw), you better try the YEG crosswords they’re doing this month. 1) Because they rock. 2) Because I want them forever and you better help me show that we want them!!!
“This raven will help us find and to identify the children.
Through research and through DNA, my hope is to name all the children that are found.”
- Master Carver Stanley C. Hunt (Kwagu’ł) 2/2
Through research and through DNA, my hope is to name all the children that are found.”
- Master Carver Stanley C. Hunt (Kwagu’ł) 2/2
April 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“This raven will help us find and to identify the children.
Through research and through DNA, my hope is to name all the children that are found.”
- Master Carver Stanley C. Hunt (Kwagu’ł) 2/2
Through research and through DNA, my hope is to name all the children that are found.”
- Master Carver Stanley C. Hunt (Kwagu’ł) 2/2
Faces from the Indian Residential School Memorial Monument at the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa. There are 130, each representing a kid who suffered at a residential school. 1/2
April 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Faces from the Indian Residential School Memorial Monument at the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa. There are 130, each representing a kid who suffered at a residential school. 1/2