@eebeejay.bsky.social
Writer, science communicator, maker/mender. I like to spin yarns.
88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms
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Big rally underway at YVR as Air Canada flight attendants defy a federal back-to-work order
Flight attendants are very riled up and sending a message to the feds: butt out
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Members of the seed industry lobbying the federal government include multinationals with foreign ownership, such as Swiss-based Syngenta, owned by Sinochem, a Chinese state-owned enterprise. 🍁🌱
17.08.2025 12:25 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0solidarity
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This story is shameful and enraging. SFU was warned about this contractor many, many times. Will they finally give these workers the respect they deserve and bring them into direct employment?
13.08.2025 23:30 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0You got this!
13.08.2025 15:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ICYMI: This piece by @lukewsavage.bsky.social names the political moment in Canada with power and precision.
Mark Carney's lurch to the right is endangering us all.
Instead of investing in Canadian self-sufficiency, he's deepening integration with the US financial and military model.
A manul in a zoo enclosure looking calmly at the camera with her front paws resting on a blank piece of paper.
Please sign here for your delivery of one (1) Manul Monday, thank you!
11.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 101 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 1The BC government is on Bluesky!
09.08.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How is it already August???
Bracket will be released around Aug 20, so get in any suggestions for minerals soon!
it'd be great if folks can support The Lantern and the Night Moths for #WomenInTranslation month
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Many of the AI-generated images firefighters are seeing this year exaggerate the size and intensity of the blazes burning around B.C., stoking fear as a result.
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The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.
02.08.2025 14:17 — 👍 1232 🔁 307 💬 59 📌 15
Worried about hunger in Gaza?
This Vancouver-based parents group has made it easy to donate to a food/kitchen provider.
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A National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) diagram illustrating how tsunami wave information in the deep ocean is transmitted to tsunami warning centers (right)
Kamchatka earthquake highlights the advances in tsunami early warning systems 🌊 🛰️
BGS Prof David Tappin, Marine Geologist & tsunami expert explains how the Kamchatka event highlighted the improved mitigation measures now in place.
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Fascinating study about the effects of using ChatGPT to write. It shows that using AI might have negative cognitive impacts (lower likelihood to remember what one wrote) compared to writing without AI support
31.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 2By putting these conditions on the table, I don’t see how it doesn’t incentivize any number of bad actors and/or factions who stand to lose ground from doing something between now and September to derail this from happening
30.07.2025 23:51 — 👍 70 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 1
the wandering ghost (2024) An image of an old engraving of a vagus nerve embroidered on green cotton. The main nerve lines are in blue chain stitch in perlé cotton. The brain and some of the face is in the same thread in backstitch. Details in the face are in single strand floss. A bright red anatomical heart is in whipped back stitch. Around it a bright golden yellow halo in a vesica piscis shape is in single strand thread. Three sets of ribs are in bright green/yellow stem stitch. There are some tiny details in different colours along some of the nerves. Burgundy roiling with sparse tiny black French knots are in the gut area. The nerve endings in the diaphragm area are lengthened with one and two strand whipped back stitch. Lia’s initials are stitched in green thread in the bottom right.
heart vortices (2016) An embroidery on bone coloured linen. There is a swirling pattern in a vague heart shape stitched in burgundy back stitch. Poetry around the heart is stitched in tan and reads: whorl of fingertips. Apex and infundibulum. Fibres sway downwards in vortices. Papillary heart. Wings wrapt.
mitosis sampler: summer (2024) Two reproductive cells dividing embroidered on off-white linen. The edges of the dividing egg cells and the nucleus membranes are in bright acid green split stitch. A circle of dark green stem stitch is started for the cell membrane. The corona radiata is in sage green zig zag chain stitch. The nucleolus of each cell is in sage green bullion stitch. The polar bodies are stitched in purple single strand back stitch. The cytoplasm is in variegated dark to bright green thread in a mix of seed stitch and French knots. Lia’s initials are stitched in off white whipped back stitch on the lower right.
woman in skull (2016) An embroidery on bone coloured linen of the inside of a human skull looking down from a cut open top done in thin black thread. The textures make it look like the Vesalius woodcut it is based on. In the bottom left corner of the skull there is the tiny silhouette of a woman done in bronze thread.
It’s #WorldEmbroideryDay ! I make #SciArt #embroidery of #anatomy and #symptomatology. After I got sick with #MECFS in 2015 I started stitching as a more restorative creative practice than my previous music and theatre work.
30.07.2025 16:10 — 👍 84 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 1There are some other aspects of these trade issues not mentioned:
1) US Producers receive much more, and much more significant incentives (subsidies) than CDN producers, so the playing field doesn't start out even;
2) US ag regulations have been decimated
3) Imports cost more than domestic products
Let this free tip sheet be your guide to deciphering research studies. It can be done! 🧪
28.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0In which I learned that Atlantic ferries are subsidized by the Feds to the tune of $300 a person, but BC's are $1 per person.
28.07.2025 19:16 — 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 1
Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.
But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘With the conclusion of current funding programs, WAGE Canada’s budget is set to decline by a whopping 80% between 2024-25 and 2027-28’ @policyalternatives.ca @kjscott.bsky.social
25.07.2025 13:33 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.
A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.
In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?
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Huge climate win from the ICJ that sharply rebuked Canada which argued it was not bound by international law to seriously fight climate change.
Going forward “Canada's pursuit of mega fossil fuel expansion projects stands in stark defiance of the ICJ." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/23/n...
Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
Blurry spreadsheet of text
I made a spreadsheet of all of the alerting systems used by Cities/Municipalities in BC, as well as the regional districts and started on the first nations communities.
If you wanted to travel around BC and receive emergency notifications wherever you are you'd need 5 different apps.
