@avakeerak.bsky.social
Métis geophysics undergraduate student at UCalgary (currently researching glacial lake evolution + landslides) | I do a lot of art | life with hEDS + co (she/her)
Photo taken and released by the Nepali Army on October 5, 2025 shows army personnel carrying a landslide victim evacuated by a helicoper following heavy rain-triggered landslides and floods in Nepal
Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal and neighbouring India have killed more than 60 people, officials said on Sunday, as rescue workers raced to reach cut-off communities in remote mountainous terrain ➡️ u.afp.com/SmTh
05.10.2025 10:17 — 👍 8 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0Well don't I feel stupid
26.09.2025 23:02 — 👍 25923 🔁 6806 💬 291 📌 144
Once again asking why a public service is expected to behave like a corporation and earn profits?
Shouldn't every Canadian, including those in rural areas, have the right to receive essential mail, such as ID cards, benefit cheques, and medication?
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
The GLOF that triggered helicopter evacuations in the Bugaboos, British Columbia a few days ago, was only a partial drainage of a small glacial lake. @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social 🧪⚒️
22.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 44 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1
The seismic signal from Tracy Arm in Alaska, which was probably generated by a large landslide. Data released by the Alaska Earthquake Center.
Satellite image of Tracy Arm inlet. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission. Image dated 7 August 2025.
It is likely that a large, tsunamigenic landslide occurred in Tracy Arm inlet, in Alaska on 10 August 2025 at 5:30 am.
Seismic trace from the Alaska Earthquake Center, Satellite image (dated 7 August 2025 - before the landslide) from @planet.com.
eos.org/thelandslide...
A brown and grey pika perched on a rock, side-eyeing the camera
A zoomed in photo of a pika's hind feet and legs as it squeezes under a rock
A pika perched on a rock with clover and grass in it's mouth, staring at the camera
While my 20 year-old digital camera can't handle low light very well, these blurry pika pictures are too cute not to share
01.08.2025 20:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yesterday, Phil Lesueur from Geological Survey of Canada and Mike Thiel, MSc student at @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social and I headed to Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park to collect lidar (laser mapping) of the rock face that collapsed in June, tragically killing 2 hikers 🧪⚒️
31.07.2025 19:49 — 👍 56 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
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A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean.
This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.
There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
05.07.2025 15:50 — 👍 2095 🔁 877 💬 57 📌 144
An orange fossil of what looks like a crinoid (will be double checking this with a professor) sticking out of a limestone boulder
Three solitary horn corals in a rock sticking out of the dirt!
What looks like a syringopora fossil (will be double checking this with a professor) in a creek!
A colonial rugose coral fossil with a very cool honeycomb pattern. The fossil has been worn smooth in a few spots.
Mississippian Period marine fossils from the Mount Head Formation in Kananskis!
(don't worry, I also took photos with objects for scale)
Egale Canada and Skipping Stone win injunction against Bill 26. Quotes from Honorable Justice Allison G. Kuntz. I find there are serious issues to be tried as it relates to the Applicants' rights claims under sections 7 and 15 of the Charter. I grant the requested injunction enjoining the Lieutenant Governor in Council of Alberta from proclaiming into force section 1.92 of the HPA until the Applicants' Originating Application has been finally adjudicated.
Egale Canada and Skipping Stone win injunction against Bill 26. Quotes from Honorable Justice Allison G. Kuntz. I find that there will be irreparable harm to gender diverse youth if an injunction is not granted. The evidence shows that the Ban will cause irreparable harm by causing gender diverse youth to experience permanent changes to their body that do not align with their gender identity. There is nothing speculative about this evidence.
Egale Canada and Skipping Stone win injunction against Bill 26. Quotes from Honorable Justice Allison G. Kuntz. Further, the evidence shows that singling out health care for gender diverse youth and making it subject to government control will cause irreparable harm to gender diverse youth by reinforcing the discrimination and prejudice that they are already subjected to.
EGALE & SKIPPING STONE WIN INJUNCTION AGAINST BILL 26.
Today (June 27, 2025) the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta has granted our injunction request to block the Government of Alberta’s denial of gender-affirming care for gender diverse young people from coming into effect. This is a historic win!
Remember to stay safe near the rivers and creeks. Water levels can change very rapidly as a result of precipitation and of dam operations. Stay dry!
20.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Screenshot of the Wikipedia article for fascism. It reads: Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
People talk about trans issues as if it’s a distraction from anti-fascist work.
As if trans identities threatening the concept of a natural pre-ordained natural social hierarchy isn’t why fascist ideologies target trans people in the first place.
Pre-debunking 2 myths that go with eruptions:
- No, there aren't more eruptions than usual. 40-50 is normal, there's currently 47: volcano.si.edu/gvp_currente...
- No, this CO2 doesn't outweigh human emissions. We emit at ~100x the rate of all volcanoes combined: science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...
I can confirm, I'm a big squid and cuttlefish fan
18.06.2025 22:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A mountain cottontail kit hiding beneath some leaves in a deep window well
There's a family of mountain cottontails in my neighbourhood, and one of the kits ran off and fell into our window well during the major storm last night. Luckily it's safe and back with its family now!
Our window wells seem to trap all sorts of small animals so we're building ramps for them.
Authorities recorded the volcano unleashing 10,000 metres (32,800 feet) of thick grey clouds.
17.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 94 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 2
Woman holding a sign reading "KEEP ICE AT THE POLES, NOT AT THE BORDERS" with a picture of a penguin
I just ran across this photo from seven years ago.
As always: glaciologists against ICE.
And this is why we don't want more coal mining in the eastern slopes of the Rockies thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...
08.06.2025 13:19 — 👍 70 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 1
Canada’s Minister of Emergency Management Eleanor Olszewski says the government will dollar match donations made to the Red Cross for fire assistance in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
She was unable to say what other immediate supports the feds will offer.
My Métis family has lived in the area between Prince Albert and La Ronge for generations. My Grandparents used to live at East Trout Lake and I spent a significant amount of time there growing up. Yesterday my family received confirmation that the entire townsite was destroyed by the Shoe Wildfire.
04.06.2025 18:52 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
An adult Canada goose shows its goslings how to drink water from a puddle while the other parent watches. Four of the goslings are in a neat line, looking curious, while the fifth gosling stands in the middle of the puddle, looking confused.
The goslings are in a grassy lawn, eating dandelions. One of the parents is eating dandelions next to them while the other watches something in the distance.
There's an adorable family of Canada geese with five little goslings that often wanders around campus, and seeing the parents teach the goslings how to do goose things always makes my day.
22.05.2025 16:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm so proud of my peers! Seeing their presentations this morning was amazing (and fun).
12.04.2025 21:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As I just said on radio what is most alarming about Danielle Smith tape is not the attempted collusion with a foreign government to interfere in our election it's that she said Poilievre is "in sync" with "new direction" in America which is a brutal autocracy with a crashing economy 🇨🇦 #CanadaSky
24.03.2025 12:05 — 👍 1533 🔁 711 💬 70 📌 58
A photo featuring the edge of a large glacier. The glacier is covered in grey ash from nearby wildfires, and there's a bright turquoise marginal lake next to it and partially under it. I'm standing in front of the lake with a bright yellow hat, a blue backpack, and hiking poles. I look very small compared to the glacier.
For #WorldGlacierDay, here's a photo of my favourite glacier, the Illecillecwaet Glacier in Glacier National Park, Canada. Its name comes from the Sinixt word meaning "big water", as it feeds the Illecillecwaet River, a major river that flows into the Columbia River.
21.03.2025 21:18 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
It's an Airpods case with two isopods in it, curled up with black scales and yellow highlights. Big Apple-sytle text reads: "iSopods". There's a watermark logo I can barely make out: "ZTH Photography" in the lower right. Stolen from the Internet.
whispering voice in your head:
"...put them in your ears..."
I big blue Métis flag on a beige wall over a computer. Next to it is a filing cabinet with a philodendron trailing down.
@parkefont.bsky.social helped me put up my Métis flag over my desk this morning!
17.03.2025 16:02 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0best colour combo ever 11/10
15.03.2025 05:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Academic interested in moving to Canada? 🇨🇦 Canada Excellence Research Chairs program is now live. @ucalgary.bsky.social is looking for (amongst others) senior research chair in Mountain Water Security. 🧪⚒️❄️ #academicsky Please repost far and wide! research.ucalgary.ca/research/our...
13.03.2025 14:46 — 👍 255 🔁 180 💬 4 📌 10
