Joseph Shea
@josephshea.bsky.social
Professor, researcher: mountain glaciers, snow, water, weather, climate change, remote sensing, community adaptation, and EDI in science. www.moshlab.org
Musician: https://trundled.bandcamp.com + https://theebbs.bandcamp.com
(he/him/il/anti-fascist)
Musician: https://trundled.bandcamp.com + https://theebbs.bandcamp.com
(he/him/il/anti-fascist)
Failed UCP candidate sues media for reporting her actual words 🙃
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Failed UCP candidate sues media for reporting her actual words 🙃
Is this a Hunter S. Thompson story
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Is this a Hunter S. Thompson story
I spoke with Matt Preprost about the water issues facing NE B.C. as #climatechange intersects with municipal and industrial #water use.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
As water dries up in northeast B.C., some want industry paying more to pump the precious resource | CBC News
Environmental groups are calling on the B.C. government to raise industrial water rates as drought deepens and demand for freshwater rises in some areas of the province.
www.cbc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I spoke with Matt Preprost about the water issues facing NE B.C. as #climatechange intersects with municipal and industrial #water use.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
don't forget to switch your clocks back an hour and cancel that one-month Sportsnet subscription you got to watch the Jays epic playoff run!
November 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
don't forget to switch your clocks back an hour and cancel that one-month Sportsnet subscription you got to watch the Jays epic playoff run!
Congratulations to former @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social and @moshlab.bsky.social graduate Rulan Xiao on his recent publication in Hydrological Processes! As per moshlab.org tradition, here is Rulan with his first authored paper mug.
#fuelmoisture #remotesensing #wildfire
doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
#fuelmoisture #remotesensing #wildfire
doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Congratulations to former @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social and @moshlab.bsky.social graduate Rulan Xiao on his recent publication in Hydrological Processes! As per moshlab.org tradition, here is Rulan with his first authored paper mug.
#fuelmoisture #remotesensing #wildfire
doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
#fuelmoisture #remotesensing #wildfire
doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
Heads up @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social and @unbc.bsky.social students! I'll be holding a field school information session next Wednesday at 4:30 pm in Room 10-4588.
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Heads up @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social and @unbc.bsky.social students! I'll be holding a field school information session next Wednesday at 4:30 pm in Room 10-4588.
Reposted by Joseph Shea
www.sportsnet.ca/590/
#bluejays #sportsnet streaming had one job so if you’re screwed like us - at least we have radio??
#bluejays #sportsnet streaming had one job so if you’re screwed like us - at least we have radio??
Sportsnet 590 The Fan
Sportsnet 590 The Fan Radio, Shows and Schedule
www.sportsnet.ca
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
www.sportsnet.ca/590/
#bluejays #sportsnet streaming had one job so if you’re screwed like us - at least we have radio??
#bluejays #sportsnet streaming had one job so if you’re screwed like us - at least we have radio??
Co-sign
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Who’s still here in the 18th inning
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Who’s still here in the 18th inning
open source FTW!
I have gotten lots of questions over the years for a python version of cancensus. @dshkol.bsky.social has now built a python port!
Yet another way to make StatCan census data more accessible.
Yet another way to make StatCan census data more accessible.
the cancensus R package has had 81k dls since 2018. It's the best way to interact with StatsCan data for R users.
pycancensus is a full python port, with equivalent data access and manipulation grammar, output, and geospatial retrieval.
check it out here: github.com/dshkol/pycan...
pycancensus is a full python port, with equivalent data access and manipulation grammar, output, and geospatial retrieval.
check it out here: github.com/dshkol/pycan...
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
open source FTW!
Reposted by Joseph Shea
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Central Interior BC seeing some chinook action as a major atmospheric river hits the coast
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Central Interior BC seeing some chinook action as a major atmospheric river hits the coast
Reposted by Joseph Shea
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via @RoysEnergy
October 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via @RoysEnergy
I see we are doing that “waking up and it’s still dark” thing now for another five months
October 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I see we are doing that “waking up and it’s still dark” thing now for another five months
Noone* could have predicted this
*everyone
*everyone
BC Conservatives told to ‘get your s**t together,’ Kelowna MLA says it’s crucial they do
At a time when many have expressed frustration with BC's sitting NDP government, their biggest challengers seem to be busy dealing with internal issues.
www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/...
At a time when many have expressed frustration with BC's sitting NDP government, their biggest challengers seem to be busy dealing with internal issues.
www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/...
BC Conservatives told to ‘get your s**t together,’ Kelowna MLA says it’s crucial they do
Politicians from all levels of government and every corner of British Columbia gathered at the Union of BC Municipalities convention in Victoria in la.
www.kamloopsbcnow.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Noone* could have predicted this
*everyone
*everyone
Listening to the Jays smack the Yankees around on the radio. So good.
🧢🧢
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October 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Listening to the Jays smack the Yankees around on the radio. So good.
🧢🧢
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You might see me on CBC's The National tonight (!), talking about the storm that trapped hundreds of trekkers on the north/east side of Everest and its connections to #climatechange. Here is a collection of satellite loops from 01 - 05 October showing the development and progression of the storm.
October 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You might see me on CBC's The National tonight (!), talking about the storm that trapped hundreds of trekkers on the north/east side of Everest and its connections to #climatechange. Here is a collection of satellite loops from 01 - 05 October showing the development and progression of the storm.
Will be bringing this little nugget into our upcoming departmental meeting on AI policies
September 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Will be bringing this little nugget into our upcoming departmental meeting on AI policies
The realization that we will forever carry the burden of not attempting to stop another genocide is heavy.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
Israel 'must finish the job' in Gaza, Netanyahu tells UN, after dozens walk out in protest | CBC News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly on Friday that Israel "must finish the job" against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing internatio...
www.cbc.ca
September 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The realization that we will forever carry the burden of not attempting to stop another genocide is heavy.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” 🎶🎶
"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes."
It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” 🎶🎶
no rapturing over here so I guess I need to get this lecture ready for tomorrow <sighs>
September 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
no rapturing over here so I guess I need to get this lecture ready for tomorrow <sighs>