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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 10h

🦃 🥧! 🇨🇦

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 12h

...and they made a baby! And the baby looked at me!

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 12h

And in Kit Marlowe's play, the fictional Faust is a Doctor of Theology

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 12h

No, but as an itinerant charlatan, self-titling as Doctor Faust probably got a lot more coin than simply as MA Faust

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 13h

Magister artium, Heidelberg, 1487
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_...

Johann Georg Faust - Wikipedia

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 13h

It's in a very accessible location, and you can go and wander around on the moving surface and see all sorts of characteristic diagnostic features of these rotational slumps, like antislope scarps and trenches and tipped over trees fallen uphill

Looking along a trench on the clayslide surface. A bunch of maple trees have leaned so far uphill they basically fell over. The left side of the image has dropped/rotated on a curved failure plane relative to the right

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 13h

Anyways, the Slesse Park one is also a favorite by reason of my experience and history with it, proximity to it, and because it's such a good example of a whole class of similar events - river erosion driven rotational glaciolacustrine failures.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 13h

You can see that one (LS00952) as the blue dot on the other side of the valley. What the dot doesn't tell you is just how big it is. The scarp is a couple of km wide!

Tamihi Bench landslide scarp across the valley (South is up in this view)

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 13h

Of interest, see that huge meander bend with the clayslides on the outer bank?

The core of that bend is the deposit of the huge Tolmie landslides from the opposite side of the valley, when the Tamihi Bench till deposit collapsed (several million m³) and completely blocked the valley.

Slesse Clayslides meander from the air, 2010

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 13h

The last major movement during the 2021 floods saw the river erode into a riprapped bank and 100,000 m3 of stored landslide sediment enter the river. Since then it's been creeping and shifting.

Looking upstream along the eroded bank just after the 2021 flood and erosion event. Water levels in the river are still high.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 13h

I have been working with and wandering around on this landslide feature for ~25 years now, watching and measuring its movements. When I started, Bruce Thomson had a cracked tree instrumented and we'd hike to it and measure how wide the crack was! Nowadays LIDAR is used instead.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 13h

#4 is also a cheat because it has at least two points associated with it, LS0953 and LS07167. The Slesse Park Clayslides!
This is a large rotational slump failure in glaciolacustrine silt and clay on the north (right) bank of Chilliwack River just upstream of Slesse Park

Google Earth view of the Slesse Park Clayslides

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 14h

Some first hand accounts from Kwigillingok and Kipnuk in the thread.

Additional reporting here: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 19h

this letter sounded bananas but reading it is really something else: totally disconnected from legal or historical reality, brimming with AI-generated nonsense, attributed to a made-up nation, and signed — this is the best part!!! — by "Manitou Wabski Kinew" !!
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Syilx Okanagan Nation chiefs deny issuing cease and desist letter in ostrich cull controversy | CBC News

The Syilx Okanagan Nation in B.C. says it did not issue a cease and desist letter that claims to protect a controversial ostrich farm from a Canada Food Inspection Agency cull, and questions its authe...

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 21h

Q500 is now Q2

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

#mycosky #fungifriends Donkia pulcherrima? Fuzzy pale orange top, white teeth pores. But high-elevation central BC growing on pine.

Polypore type shelf fungus with orange fuzzy top, white teeth

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

🐜 christ

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

if you "run government like a business" but your business only succeeded because of government largesse, who is the government to your business when your business is the government?

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Up and down this morning while it was sunny, windy and dry. Now it's cold, wet and has snowed up there

Looking across Stuart Lake at fresh snow on Mt Pope

Rain and snow cloud dumping over the lake

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

No landslides worth the name

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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · 1d

As a physical geographer and a hydrologist, I consider myself a geoscientist.

The @hs.egu.eu Division is the largest at EGU I believe.

However, the This is Geoscience campaign by @geolsoc.bsky.social excludes anything not geology...

www.thisisgeoscience.com

www.thisisgeoscience.com

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 1d

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

First scandal when someone bronzes a mudstone

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

As I've been saying, professors that do this need to have their jobs handed to the nearest adjunct/postdoc/senior grad student.

They clearly don't want their jobs.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 1d

*So entirely secure that they had the security word in their name twice

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 2d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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