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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 · 04/01/2026

Makes sense! I vaguely recall my mother making Guinness bread and now I’ll have to ask her about it …

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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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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I LOVE the ferry. Absolutely love it. Best commute ever, and a steal at regular bus fare. Rode it across on a beautiful morning today to attend a meeting about how the ocean might be able to help reduce CO2 (after we cut emissions drastically). NS is such a gem of a place to live and work.

A Halifax ferry, in Halifax Harbor, just after sunrise.

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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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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Funny coincidence — all I know about it is what I just read in a New Yorker article about Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the Internet and html), who is involved. Looks interesting.

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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 · 09/09/2025

Moar density!! And better transit to support it, which means higher taxes if not offset by the density (but hopefully it would be).

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

I’ve been there. In the moment I convinced myself that there was a special quiet to working so early in the morning and I should appreciate it. Then 6:30 hit and I had to also get 3 kids up, fed, and ready for school while still in the conference. Never again.

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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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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

They didn’t even wait to see if the union was going to reject their offer!

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I’m Clark, based in Halifax NS Canada. I use robots to study the ocean and work primarily in the Canadian Arctic and the Northwest Atlantic. I’m a foster parent for a bunch of #Argo floats that I get school classes to adopt before they get deployed across the global ocean. 🌊 🧪🌎🌡️

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Here’s my “I haven’t seen the basin recently so am just guessing” oceanographer reply: bsky.app/profile/clar...

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

On the other hand, if the water is very clear, that would indicate the opposite (low nutrients and so not much growth). I might have to take a drive by before leaving town for two weeks tomorrow 😊.

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I haven’t seen in person, but usually a greenish hue would be the result of a phytoplankton bloom (eg tiny plants). There has been lots of light so maybe that’s kicked off something. I can ask colleagues to see if our regular sampling has picked up anything! 🌊

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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 · 12/08/2025

You should come! Halifax is fantastic.

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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

I haven't, that I know of. But I've been reading the literature and about other things found in this area, and now I'm going to be looking everywhere for them!

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

Apparently the shells are a species of brachiopod (a two-shelled animal) and the worm-like bits are likely the stem from a crinoid. Apparently there are trilobytes in the fossil record around here too, so now I'll be looking out for them 😀

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

Good call! Googling on those lead me to this article (screenshot for context): publications.gc.ca/collections/...

Screenshot from a linked document about fossils in the Saint John NB area, with the highlighted text reading:

"The fossil finds include early
sponges (Protospongia), brachiopods (a large group of
two-shelled animals called lamp shells, most of which
are now extinct), primitive stalked echinoderms called
crinoids (distantly related to sea urchins and starfish)"

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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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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I wouldn’t want to review a paper from a student that was trained by someone who didn’t know how references/citations work. It sounds to me like “high expectations” is actually “basic expectations” …

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