Chris Chang-Yen Phillips

Two panels. The top includes Geordi La Forge from Star Trek with his hand up and says "Government data going offline." The bottom shows Geordi La Forge from Star Trek pointing and says "The DRP has backups you can contribute to"

Calling all #DataRescuers! Whether you're looking for #governmentdata or looking to volunteer, the Data Rescue Project has you covered. Check out our portal and see how you can get involved:

www.datarescueproject.org/faq/

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

A photo of Finn posing in a velvet jacket beside his painting Beastro Praha, beside a friend. Both are wearing baseball caps.

Swoon.

A colourful mixed-media illustration of animals, humans, and organic and artificial shapes. Titled Beastro Praha. By Finn Phillips.

A colourful mixed-media illustration of bodies and organic and constructed shapes. Titled Wandering Transparency, by Finn Phillips.

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.

Ortona Diaspora (June 7 – Aug 30) - Finn Phillips | Artist Art Gallery of Alberta Community GalleryArt Gallery of Alberta (AGA), 2 Sir Winston Churchill SquareJune 7 – August 30, Reception June 28th, 1-4pm Ortona Diaspora celebrates a dispersed arts community...

Have I mentioned lately how insanely proud I am of my husband Finn for being part of this show at the Art Gallery of Alberta? On til the end of August ❤️

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An illustration - a bunch of overlapping veins and arteries with different translucent organs interspersed throughout the illustration, the effect is a tangled web of branching vessels with various 'organ' shapes overlaying on top, including a lung in the center of the page

Just finished this piece, a bit of personal work, digital illustration

"Systems"

#SciArt

A First Nation in western Yukon is gearing up to celebrate the completion of its very own solar energy project earlier this spring.

This is absurd. We should not be throwing trans Canadians under the bus to appease an American administration who denies their existence!

🌟🏳️‍⚧️

“"Mimizuku". Eagle owl looks around from an oak tree in autumn.”

Tōshi Yoshida (吉田 遠志, Yoshida Tōshi, 1911-1995)
Eagle #Owl, 1968
Color woodblock print, Oban size
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#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt

on top of the expanding transit system, the growing bike network - edmonton is also the most affordable big city in this country, thanks in part to multi-unit housing being permitted everywhere as of last year.

edmonton is transforming itself on all fronts 🥰 someone call the ref, this is unfair 😭

Hiked my painting equipment into the 10 km into beautiful Stanley Mitchell hut, and was it ever worth it! Managed to make 7 little paintings on the trip.

#pleinair #landscapepainting #canadianart #adventureofpainting

Here are some of the paintings from the Yoho trip! All painted on location. One of these was made in 14 minutes (yes, I timed it 😂) while everyone else was having lunch.

#pleinair #yoho #canadianart #landscape #mountains

Opinion: In Alberta schools, books aren’t the threat — censorship is The Alberta government should not be eroding the fundamental rights and freedoms of some of its most vulnerable community members.

“Alberta’s order is precisely about banning books, as its direct effect is to force school authorities across the province to remove from their libraries a host of books deemed inappropriate by the state.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Me too! Didn't know about this other mountain.

Let's leave the thread! Maybe someone else will have more evidence. Walcott certainly didn't shy away from naming things after wives, kids, colleagues, and passing acquaintances haha.

In Edmonton today (Sunday), you can sign the #ForeverCanadian petition by the Old Strathcona farmers’ market, at the gazebo, from 10 am to 3 pm.

Bring friends along. I’ll be there to greet you. The clock is ticking. Canada needs you!

#Yeg #Ableg

I was very interested in this question during my thesis research, following a thread of Walcott implicitly claiming Yoho as settler space through his naming choices. I'd love to know if he did actually name this sponge for Mary!

Vauxia gracilenta - The Burgess Shale 3D Animation3D ModelPhotoPhotoPhotoPhotoPhotoPhotoPhoto 3D animation of Vauxia bellula and other sponges (Choia ridleyi, Diagoniella cyathiformis, Eiffelia globosa, Hazelia conferta, Pirania muricata,...

Interesting! How were you able to determine it was named after Mary? The ROM's site says Walcott named it after Mt Vaux, itself named after William Sandys Wright Vaux.
burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/fossils/vaux...

But I can't find reference to either in his 1920 paper.
repository.si.edu/items/7f7695...

For future Opabinia reference, Wiki actually has the anatomy that we think is the case now.

- mouth is not at the end of the proboscis, but like an elephant
- it had soft legs!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia

Hey, if you think credit card companies should stop trying to censor video games on Steam and itch.io, sign this petition and call in to make a complaint:
www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/how...

Ranking my daily mood on a scale from baby Tawny Frogmouth to baby Albatross.

sketch of an opabinia on a light green background, a cambrian invertebrate with a long snout with a chompy mouth at the end, 5 bulbous eyes on stalks, a worm like body with two flippers on each sides, and some spikes on the tail.

Day 2 of #AugArthroAwe - Opabinia

not even the weirdest Cambrian critter

#invertebrates #SciArt

I almost forgot we won The other day a friend asked me (delicately), “What’s it like having a government that hates you?” I laughed, partly because he assumed I agreed with the premise of his question, …

In 2019, I looked back at the massive safety improvements we’ve accomplished in Edmonton, with bike lanes like the one on 83 Ave. Edmontonians should feel proud and hopeful about this infrastructure. And we will defend it. #yegbike

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Why didn’t he just ride down 83rd Ave? The thing I appreciate about Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh’s novel of man who gets entangled in a family’s downfall, is that it’s a tragedy in the truest sense: all the ingre…

In case you’ve forgotten why Edmontonians started demanding protected bike lanes: it’s because we were fed up watching people die just trying to get around. I wrote about one of them 13 years ago. It’s incredible how much better our city is now. #yegbike

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Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

24. One of the most subversively positive things about crews in Star Trek is how everyone believes each other. Convinced everyone’s ears are shrinking and you’re the only one who noticed? Everyone is out of the conference room performing ear scans immediately, no question.

“A Space Adventure Hour” Reveals Why Modern Star Trek Is Defined by Parodies Strange New Worlds director Jonathan Frakes and more discuss the mutually beneficial relationship between Star Trek and its parodies.

Following this week's Star Trek I've been writing about the complex relationship between Trek and its parodies, with input from @scalzi.com, @goodaaron.bsky.social, @paulcornell.bsky.social, Murderbot designer Sue Chan and William Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes!

www.denofgeek.com/tv/a-space-a...

An illustration I did for a competition in China 🤞Anchiornis

Donald Trump signs executive order hiking tariffs to 35% on some Canadian goods The White House confirmed that Canadian goods which don’t comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement will jump from 25 per cent to 35 per cent at midnight Thursday night.

In exchange for less than nothing, Canada has to date:
-spent $1.3 billion to address a non-existent fentanyl border issue;
-introduced Trump-friendly border legislation;
-sacrificed the Digital Services Tax, at a cost of $1.4 billion/year.
It's almost as if the lesson is: appeasement doesn't work.