Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Doesn’t go well unless your shirt extends down about a foot below your belt line. The second u raise your arms anything shorter comes untucked 010
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I bet their scores would improve if you let them use AI on the quizzes 040
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026AI DID make a bunch of minor mistakes, but since I know the topic really well, these were easy for me to spot. What is the future of AI? I dunno. And should I trust the references it suggested? Seems like it, but... 000
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Basically, something that would have taken me days to do on my own, AI did in minutes. I am gonna have to disclose AI use on the current paper I am writing... and the models in the paper were generated in a couple hours rather than a couple weeks!! 100
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I didn't recognize this version of the equation, so I asked it to clarify. It backtracked and gave me the version I know, except better notation and easier to read than Lowson's paper. I would have used this version in my 2020 paper had I had it. 100
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I am kinda intrigued / disturbed by the ability of AI to do maths. I am slow, it takes me hours to do simple things. Yesterday I asked AI for some help and it did an amazing job! Super fast. In the screenshot it has whipped out Lowson's equation in seconds... 100
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Given that most signs in Canada are English message // French message, I assumed that in Quebec it would be similar (French // English). But no. Quebec, sir, where’s the English? 021
Reposted by Chris ClarkJake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1rdcu.beRates of passerine body plan evolution in time and spaceNature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major... 314165
Reposted by Chris ClarkCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/07/2026I'm pretty uncompromising on most first amendment issues but goddamn it posting fake AI nature videos ought to be a felony. 724622
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Now she wants BOTH a snake hook and a lizard boose 220
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026@emilytaylorscience.com my daughter (12) was given your book and today has learned about lizard nooses. 130
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026thanks for doing this! 2 Topology changes to hummingbirds just submitted via your form 100
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026But why would they need to use their feathers , when they already have ears? 000
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Our recent paper on nightjar sonations has been picked up by more science news media www.sciencenews.org/article/nigh...sciencenews.orgThese birds clack their wing bones together to woo mates at nightDuring courtship, male scissor-tailed nightjars crack their wings together to make a sharp snapping sound. It's the result of colliding arm bones. 010
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Hm, I’m not sure how many regime members are employed as faculty at universities… 100
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 17/05/2026youtu.be/q2YT-WyCrBwyoutu.beThe Secret Sound of Nightjars: High-Speed Video Reveals the TruthYouTube video by UC Riverside 021
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Males bang their wrists together to produce a loud 'snap' sound. They do this in multiple contexts, including copulation. For some reason my video of copulation won't post here... macaulaylibrary.org/asset/623341...macaulaylibrary.orgML623341263 - Scissor-tailed Nightjar - Macaulay LibraryMacaulay Library ML623341263; © Chris Clark; La Caldera, Salta, Argentina 251
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Collaborator Nacho Areta and I filmed Scissor-tailed Nightjar displays using infrared lights and a combination of high-speed video and regular video 161
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Woohoo! New paper!! Nightjars bang their wings together to make sound! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 2329
Reposted by Chris ClarkRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent. 1220341739885
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I like to have AI do all my push-ups and sit-ups for me! So much easier than doing it myself. 050
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I'm not sure what's going on with my university's schedule of classes... they seem to be planning classes for the afterlife? But when I click through, the BIOL major is no more... #UCR 000
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Photos from my recent trip to Manitoba. The owls really like perching ON the microphones.. 000
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 01/02/2026how did he know that you were potentially someone who could tell him how to give it to a museum? 020
Reposted by Chris ClarkCin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Myiarchus flycatchers ordered by size and intensity of yellow underparts. When it comes to flycatchers, differences between species tend to be very subtle. Impressions of size and color in the field can be quite subjective, but the differences are real. 16417
Reposted by Chris ClarkNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026That five-year-old is no angel. 351321122
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/s...nytimes.comNature’s Super Feather 000
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/s...nytimes.comNature’s Super Feather 000
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Nice! It's handy that maple syrup and whiskey are the same color, so nobody can be sure what you've got loaded up. 000
Reposted by Chris ClarkNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.ms.nowOpinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it. 9478873318
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I want them to sequence Jesus's DNA!!! Is he HAPLOID? 110
Reposted by Chris ClarkAlfred E. Neuman ( MAD Magazine ) @alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social · 16/01/2026On Closer Inspection... 6617
Reposted by Chris ClarkAna María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Got the first one! Juvie that got measured and got some bling (band). No GPS tag cause the mortality is too high for this age so just some bling… #GoldenEagle #WomeninRaptorResearch #RaptorResearch 🪶 47918
Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 14/01/2026anna's are chunky-- typical adult male is 4.5 grams 110
Reposted by Chris ClarkBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/12/2025The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for... 206216714941