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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These Captcha's are getting weirder .... Like, it's hard to answer this question if I don't know what's in the envelope!

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

An obvious AI-generated ad included in a NYT email to me (a subscriber). So many questions: 1. Why only 23? 2. How is riding that thing easier (or safer) than just walking up the stairs? 3. Can that thing even drive up stairs, because it looks stuck. 4. WTF?

An AI generated ad for a stupid stair-climbing device that is completely pointless.

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Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

AI companies: Mentat Butlerian Jihad Other Memory Productivity software: SandTrout Tleilaxu Zensuni Financial services: CHOAM Surveillance: Shai-Hulud Lampadas Security: Honored Matres

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Claudia Chender @claudiachenderns.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today I got to take a ride in the ferry wheelhouse on my way home to Dartmouth! The oldest saltwater ferry in North America, it's "the best office view in Halifax," Captain Stuart said. And it sure beats sitting in bridge traffic. Thank you!

A smiling ferry captain in a bright yellow Halifax Transit jacket stands beside Nova Scotia NDP Leader Claudia Chender inside the ferry wheelhouse. The harbour is visible through the windows behind them.

A view from inside the wheelhouse of a ferry, showing two stacked navigation screens. The top screen displays a green radar view, and the bottom screen shows a digital nautical chart. Outside the windows, the Halifax shoreline is visible across the harbour.

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Claudia Chender @claudiachenderns.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

After the hard work and advocacy of the community, the Minister of Municipal Affairs has decided not to overturn the bylaw restricting infilling in Dartmouth Cove. We will look at their amendments closely, but at least for now, Dartmouth Cove won't be turned into a dump.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?"

The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics
Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never. If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Hey author friends! Please help! I do freelance writing, and I’m trying to find my DC pro and semi-pro writer friends. How do I find them? Are there Bluesky starter packs, meetup group, professional societies? How do writers find each other?

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Ok, now to make this happen for the North Atlantic Right Whale.

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Salt Bae of Fundy 🦭 @asaltyredhead.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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A screenshot of a fb post saying "I want to live in a world where the flags are lowered for Jane Goodall"

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John D. Cook @johndcook.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

@christosargyrop.bsky.social Kale sales and autism www.wmbriggs.com/post/58413/

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Another beautiful September Halifax morning, another day watching visitors to our city trying to figure out to pay for the ferry by taking out cash from a private ATM, turning it into different cash, and feeding it into a little box. @samaustind5.bsky.social @tonymancini2025.bsky.social time for tap

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

If there is a position you are interested in and the application process asks you to answer very specific things -- you should address them Sending a form letter about why you love the ocean is a waste of my time and yours This is a public service announcement

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Can confirm. Tides are weird. And awesome.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2025

Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/

Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.

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Doug Wallace @dougieocean.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The reputational risk to #Dalhousie University from its misguided and ill-considered lockout of Faculty is massive. A glance at the Board makeup, mainly corporate types, makes me worry they may have no idea what makes a successful University, what Faculty do, and why.

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Ken Johnson @montereyken.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🌊The Southern Ocean is warming, is productivity changing? New paper by Liniger et al. uses the nitrate sensors on 274 SOCCOM/BGC-Argo floats to compute annual NCP. It has increased significantly over the past two decades. @mbarinews.bsky.social @soccomproject.bsky.social @bgc-argo.bsky.social‬

Screen shot of the article by Liniger et al. "Two decades of increase in Southern Ocean net community production revealed by BGC-Argo floats.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GB008371

Graphs shown the increase in mean (a) and total (b) Annual Net Community Production over the Southern Ocean from 2004 to 2022. The spatial distribution of the ANCP increase in shown in panel (c).

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🌊 Another beautiful day teaching kids about the ocean and how we measure it in Halifax NS, aboard the historic CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. One of the oldest hydrographic research ships still afloat! #CSSAcadia

A selfie of middle-aged oceanographer aboard the CSS Acadia.

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Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I just learned a lab appropriate alternative to rock, paper, scissors- Kelp, Urchin, Rock. Kelp covers the rock, urchin eats the kelp, rock squashes the urchin!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

#FossilFriday !! I’d love to be able to date/identify these fossils!

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Hey #FossilSky (is that a thing?)! These fossils are all over the shore at my family farm in NB Canada, along the Wolastoq (Saint John) river. I’d love to know if there’s a way to date them and/or identify species. Can someone help?? 🧪

Photo of a fossil with shell imprints, with a pen for scale

A fossil with imprints of a shell and what looks like it could be a worm. In fact, there are two “worm-like” structures — one that is smaller and appears to have preserved the entire outer layer.

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A strong wind, a hay field in NB, a recently-turned 7yo enjoying summer, and a kite made out of a garbage bag, duct tape, bailer twine, and an old sheet made for a perfect summer day.

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

It's really too bad people are falling for the distraction of bike lanes. Like I said, there are some people, including those in power, who create drama and drag everyone into it but they have other motives. You all personally know people like this. Don't fall for the drama, #Halifax.

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🌊 Argo Outreach: Adopt a Float programme Adopt a Float lets students explore ocean science by adopting an #Argo float. Born at @imev-mer.fr, it’s now global. The latest Adopt a Float #Canada Newsletter is live! Discover updates, research, and a researcher spotlight: 🔗 lnkd.in/e-zjHbEE

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Hey! That's me 😀 Seriously though, Adopt-a-float is a great outreach program, and one of the funnest things I get to do as part of my job. A highlight this year was hosting my daughter's grade 1 class at the Bedford Institute to tour and learn about Argo.

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🌊 OneArgo: A Game Changer for Monitoring Ocean Ecosystems! By collecting an unprecedented volume of BGC data, it reveals how marine ecosystems respond to climate change and human impact. It’s essential to support critical actions: 🎣 Fisheries management 🌱 Carbon sequestration 📈 Forecasting systems

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Dave Green at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge told me about his colormap "cubehelix". It solves the problem that many color maps use hues like green/yellow for mid values, which appear brighter than red used for high values. Is anyone using cubehelix? 🌊🧪 people.phy.cam.ac.uk/dag9/CUBEHEL...

A gradient of colors transitioning from dark blue to light pink and white, displaying a smooth blend of hues.

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🌊 #OneArgo is revolutionizing ocean health monitoring! With more than 75,000 pH profiles, it reveals critical changes in ocean acidification, with surface waters now about 40% more acidic than in pre-industrial times. We need this data to protect our oceans!

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I'm looking for people from American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands (looking to connect with both residents and diaspora) who are opposed to deep sea mining. Is that you? Do you want to help with a campaign?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/06/2025

Free, unsolicited advice for physics students: many things will go more smoothly for you if you can derive and explain the simple harmonic oscillator in your sleep

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Nicki Doyle (she/her) @nickidoyle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Screw uranium. Let's sink millions into this and sell it to everyone else. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Saturday morning adventures in parenting:

A screen shot of a text saying “Any hot tips for how to get super glue off your fingers? How about for getting eyelash curlers out of a toilet? Things have gone to shit around here.”

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🌊 Today was World Oceans Day, and I set up some gear and demos with colleagues from the NS Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. It was a great turnout, and a lot of fun! (photo not representative because all the times it was busy there was no way I could grab a photo).🌊

A photo of some oceanographic instruments displayed on a table for World Oceans Day 2025

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Useful life advice (misc): 1. When frying up old mashed potato DON'T STIR IT: you need it to stick to the pan to get brown and tasty. It will come unstuck afterwards, I promise. >

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I was in Prospect and took this pic of a whaleback rock formation that I thought looks like a whale. I waited until a wave crashed up so it appeared as if the "whale" was spouting water through its blowhole.

A cracked rock formation that looks like a whale sitting among other rocks on an ocean shoreline. The whale rock is smooth but has several crack through it. Other rocks are smaller and smooth while some rocks in the water are covered with seaweed.

Waves crash up on the rock formations.

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planktonteuta.bsky.social @planktonteuta.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🌊 NASA and other federal agencies supporting Earth and Ocean sciences are decimated in president's proposed budget. This tool can help all the science advocates - Kudos to the Planetary Society for putting it together. dashboards.planetary.org/nasa-science...

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NASA Science Spending Across the U.S.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Maybe this @johncullenocean.bsky.social et al. piece where they said — "adding iron to the ocean is not an effective way to fight climate change, and we don't need further research to establish that" — wasn't straightforward enough because this idea just won't die. 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.nature.com/articles/461...

Screenshot of Nature opinion piece called Ocean fertilization: time to move on, published in September 2009. The authors are Aaron Strong, Sallie Chisholm, Charles Miller & John Cullen. 🌊

"Adding iron to the ocean is not an effective way to fight climate change, and we don't need further research to establish that, say Aaron Strong, Sallie Chisholm, Charles Miller and John Cullen."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

@altagliabue.bsky.social making a presentation at @ucl.ac.uk telling us that ocean iron fertilization won’t do jack for climate and will further harm fisheries. Yet, it’s the marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) method that has sold the most credits so far. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Conclusions from Al’s presentation:

• Iron limitation will not make a significant contribution to ocean carbon dioxide removal, even if tech challenges to scalability are dealt with
• ~4 years of emissions assuming the most optimal (impossible to achieve)
scenario
• The similarity of the 'fingerprint' of OlF on ocean biogeochemistry to climate change will make MRV very difficult
• Negative impacts on fisheries will compound climate effects and may emerge after 15-20 years after initiation of OlF
• Hampering our ability to reverse course or cease 🌊

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

After many years of direct and collaborative involvement in working towards implementing a new CTD sensor on Argo floats, it is very satisfying to finally see it (officially) come to fruition. 🌊🧪

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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🌊One decision that came from the Argo AST last month is that the RBRArgo CTD is now accepted for global implementation. Argo Canada has committed to buying at least 50% of our floats with RBR sensors to support diversification of the fleet. In photos, an update to my lego Argo float 😄.

A lego Argo float with the traditional (black) sensor on the end cap (with a lego tortoise named Gus, who lives at the NS Museum of Natural History, looking on).

A lego Argo float outfitted with the new (red) RBRArgo CTD.

14 Teledyne Webb APEX Argo floats set up in a lab for testing at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. 7 of them have an SBE CTD, and the other 7 have the new RBRArgo CTD (red).

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Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Do you like a good rant? Read my good (I think) rant. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

halifaxexaminer.ca

'The hell site' is everything now - Halifax Examiner

"It's like they want you to turn it off."

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

every time the Canadian media refers to Poilievre as the "opposition leader" they undermine how Canada's democratic system works.

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

🚨 BGC-Argo DMQC Virtual Workshop kicks off May 14, 10 AM–12 PM PT! Hartmut Frenzel & Chris Gordan will demo the bgcargoToolbox for DMQC of BGC variables like nitrate & pH. 🔗 Zoom meeting link: mbari.zoom.us/j/8517513187... 🔗 Full schedule: biogeochemical-argo.org/cloud/docume...

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