Katie Matthews, PhD
@katieocean.bsky.social
Lapsed geologist, Chief Scientist at @oceana.bsky.social, dog mom. DC born and raised. Philly is my 2nd home.🖖
Skeets my own, *not* my employer’s. Mostly oceans + science + climate + policy. A little politics (sorry) and Phillies (not sorry).
Skeets my own, *not* my employer’s. Mostly oceans + science + climate + policy. A little politics (sorry) and Phillies (not sorry).
Less posting from me this week for the excellent reason that I’m in Ireland and busy IRL (pleasure then work, though some of my favorite work 🪸)
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Less posting from me this week for the excellent reason that I’m in Ireland and busy IRL (pleasure then work, though some of my favorite work 🪸)
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A few days ago a similar graph was shared around that just stopped in the present day. The below view of the future that we were on track for, and the less-bad future we are currently headed for, is also helpful.
We need to keep working for a better future, but also remember where we’ve come from.
We need to keep working for a better future, but also remember where we’ve come from.
10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A few days ago a similar graph was shared around that just stopped in the present day. The below view of the future that we were on track for, and the less-bad future we are currently headed for, is also helpful.
We need to keep working for a better future, but also remember where we’ve come from.
We need to keep working for a better future, but also remember where we’ve come from.
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Hiring alert: Pacific Fisheries Management Council staff scientist. A good job opportunity!
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Recruitment
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November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hiring alert: Pacific Fisheries Management Council staff scientist. A good job opportunity!
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🧪🌏🦑🌊🎣 New paper alert, open access.
"a midwater mining plume could trigger bottom-up ecosystem impacts with potentially severe consequences for the faunal community, extending beyond zooplankton and micronekton to nekton, including large marine predators"
#deepseamining
"a midwater mining plume could trigger bottom-up ecosystem impacts with potentially severe consequences for the faunal community, extending beyond zooplankton and micronekton to nekton, including large marine predators"
#deepseamining
Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications
Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🧪🌏🦑🌊🎣 New paper alert, open access.
"a midwater mining plume could trigger bottom-up ecosystem impacts with potentially severe consequences for the faunal community, extending beyond zooplankton and micronekton to nekton, including large marine predators"
#deepseamining
"a midwater mining plume could trigger bottom-up ecosystem impacts with potentially severe consequences for the faunal community, extending beyond zooplankton and micronekton to nekton, including large marine predators"
#deepseamining
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I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
I would love it if public discourse on data centers could be just a skosh more sophisticated than "data centers good vs. data centers bad."
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
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Lower-middle-income countries disproportionately face the burden of the Open Access publication model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684097v1
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Lower-middle-income countries disproportionately face the burden of the Open Access publication model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684097v1
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Not good...
The annual meeting of the international body responsible for the conservation of Southern Ocean marine ecosystems concluded Friday with no progress on two contentious issues before it: the creation of new marine protected areas and the strengthening of regulations governing the fishery for krill.
Antarctic conservation summit closes with stalemate on MPAs & krill fishing rules
The annual meeting of the international body responsible for conservation of the marine ecosystems in the Southern Ocean concluded on Friday with no progress on two contentious issues before it: the…
news.mongabay.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Not good...
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"Under the deal, large cargo ships would have paid a fee if their CO₂ emissions exceeded a certain level. The standard would get stricter over time, encouraging the industry to move away from oil-based shipping fuel to cleaner options."
THE LEADING SHIPPING LOBBY SUPPORTED IT
THE LEADING SHIPPING LOBBY SUPPORTED IT
The nation’s top diplomat: “Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties and other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship pollution.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Under the deal, large cargo ships would have paid a fee if their CO₂ emissions exceeded a certain level. The standard would get stricter over time, encouraging the industry to move away from oil-based shipping fuel to cleaner options."
THE LEADING SHIPPING LOBBY SUPPORTED IT
THE LEADING SHIPPING LOBBY SUPPORTED IT
Woah.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned Tehran may face evacuation. Water reserves have fallen to just 5% after months without rain.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Woah.
simply not possible that it's the 20th anniversary of The Greatest
JUST ANNOUNCED: Cat Power, The Summer Set, All Good Presents... Lotus, Dirty Three, Oklou, CMAT, Chet Faker, and WolfMother.
Tickets on sale Friday, November 7 at 12PM
Tickets on sale Friday, November 7 at 12PM
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
simply not possible that it's the 20th anniversary of The Greatest
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yum yum malt shop drive-in sign, bossier city, louisiana, 1982
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
yum yum malt shop drive-in sign, bossier city, louisiana, 1982
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Temps are finally starting to drop in the Northern Hemisphere.🌡️ So we hope it’s helpful to know that deploying alternative insulation materials is a Highly Recommended climate solution!
Check out the solution details, including how to take action, in the Drawdown Explorer. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qJ5O1l
Check out the solution details, including how to take action, in the Drawdown Explorer. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qJ5O1l
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Temps are finally starting to drop in the Northern Hemisphere.🌡️ So we hope it’s helpful to know that deploying alternative insulation materials is a Highly Recommended climate solution!
Check out the solution details, including how to take action, in the Drawdown Explorer. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qJ5O1l
Check out the solution details, including how to take action, in the Drawdown Explorer. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qJ5O1l
Earlier in the testimony:
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Earlier in the testimony:
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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STOP ASKING MIKE JOHNSON ABOUT THE NEWS! HE IS PROTECTING HIS MENTAL SPACE!
Mike Johnson: I Am Tuning Out the News Cycle to Focus on Self-Care
Don’t ask me about the news. I am protecting my mental space.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
STOP ASKING MIKE JOHNSON ABOUT THE NEWS! HE IS PROTECTING HIS MENTAL SPACE!
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👇🏼 includes the worst: subsidies to fishing fuel🎣⛽. These benefit most fuel intensive, least selective and destructive bottom trawling. Polluters pay principle 🥴?
EU finance ministers may be about to maintain full tax exemptions for fossil fuels used in aviation and shipping until 2035, says bloomassociation.org
- that's €45bn a year
- that's €45bn a year
Accueil - BLOOM Association
Contre la destruction de l'océan, du climat et des pêcheurs artisans
bloomassociation.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
👇🏼 includes the worst: subsidies to fishing fuel🎣⛽. These benefit most fuel intensive, least selective and destructive bottom trawling. Polluters pay principle 🥴?
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Don’t forget to vote Pennsylvania!
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Don’t forget to vote Pennsylvania!
Today! Get your analysis from actual climate science and policy people.
Read about the Gates memo in the news? Wondering what @kimcobb.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social, @sammyroth.bsky.social and I think about it?
No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:
No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:
The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency — Covering Climate Now
Ahead of this month’s COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates is advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that effort to reducing emissions a...
coveringclimatenow.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Today! Get your analysis from actual climate science and policy people.
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Just your daily reminder: carbon offsets are not only still a thing, they're still a global multi-million dollar business that seems to be immune to consequences!!
New @carbonplan.org post here on the absurd remediation plan from a carbon offset registry in response to 15 million (!!!) fake offsets
New @carbonplan.org post here on the absurd remediation plan from a carbon offset registry in response to 15 million (!!!) fake offsets
Verra doesn’t have a good solution for excess crediting – CarbonPlan
Verra recently acknowledged the existence of millions of excess credits issued to the Kariba REDD+ project. Rather than resolving the issue, Verra’s proposed solution exposes a fundamental structural ...
carbonplan.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Just your daily reminder: carbon offsets are not only still a thing, they're still a global multi-million dollar business that seems to be immune to consequences!!
New @carbonplan.org post here on the absurd remediation plan from a carbon offset registry in response to 15 million (!!!) fake offsets
New @carbonplan.org post here on the absurd remediation plan from a carbon offset registry in response to 15 million (!!!) fake offsets
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This is a fun chart!
The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)
The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾
The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)
The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is a fun chart!
The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)
The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾
The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)
The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾
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Open for pics from our bday party, stick around for our growth schemes for next year: 51st.news/the-51st-fir...
A first birthday worth recapping
Celebrating the wins of the last 12 months and scheming for the future
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November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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“Protected” needs to mean something real. Our future depends on it.
Read article here: belize.oceana.org/blog/protect...
Read article here: belize.oceana.org/blog/protect...
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Protected” needs to mean something real. Our future depends on it.
Read article here: belize.oceana.org/blog/protect...
Read article here: belize.oceana.org/blog/protect...
Wow big props to @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social @mongabay.com for calling out #Belize (nontransparent) fisheries management and bringing receipts. 🦑
"...the country’s promise, and the premium its brand now commands in global climate-biodiversity finance, bring a special duty to show the work."
"...the country’s promise, and the premium its brand now commands in global climate-biodiversity finance, bring a special duty to show the work."
The Sea Around Us assessed 18 fish and invertebrate stocks and concluded that “most species are unsustainably fished”, with particular worry for conch and lobster, Belize’s export mainstays. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/beli... (via @mongabay.com)
Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary)
Belize sells itself as a small-country answer to a big problem: how to keep the sea alive and the people who depend on it working. The pitch is strong. A debt-for-nature “blue bond” shaved public debt...
news.mongabay.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Wow big props to @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social @mongabay.com for calling out #Belize (nontransparent) fisheries management and bringing receipts. 🦑
"...the country’s promise, and the premium its brand now commands in global climate-biodiversity finance, bring a special duty to show the work."
"...the country’s promise, and the premium its brand now commands in global climate-biodiversity finance, bring a special duty to show the work."
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Ensuring the answer to this ridiculously important question stays permanently secret is the single most important priority of the tech industry right now, in terms of data / climate disclosures
...Also, what percentage of the AI and data center demand is being used for genuinely important functions (life-saving medical, scientific, or efficiency practices) and what percentage of the energy use is powering slop videos and bad Google search responses? I worry it is 10% valuable 90% junk,
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ensuring the answer to this ridiculously important question stays permanently secret is the single most important priority of the tech industry right now, in terms of data / climate disclosures
