Clark Richards, PhD

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

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

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?

AI companies:
Mentat
Butlerian Jihad
Other Memory

Productivity software:
SandTrout
Tleilaxu
Zensuni

Financial services:
CHOAM

Surveillance:
Shai-Hulud
Lampadas

Security:
Honored Matres

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.

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 Halifax ferry, in Halifax Harbor, just after sunrise.

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.

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.

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."

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

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

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

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.

lol, wut?

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.

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?

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen . ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

Why not both? (Actually, I don’t care about views, and think there’s plenty of land without infilling to make lots of homes)

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

Haha I lol’d

For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages… | F... For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages bett...

Just got featured as part of Science Literacy Week for my work with the @argocanada.bsky.social #AdoptAFloat program and for other outreach. What can I say -- I like to talk about what I do! 😀🌊

www.linkedin.com/posts/fisher...

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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@christosargyrop.bsky.social

Kale sales and autism

www.wmbriggs.com/post/58413/

1000%

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

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

Incredible

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

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

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.

Can confirm. Tides are weird. And awesome.

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.

Sea Level

xkcd.com/3135/

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.

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

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. 🌊 🧪🌎🌡️