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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 3h

Learned a good friend, an HB1 holder and refugee, was tackled by ICE outside a grocery store in broad daylight and detained for a few hours in Colorado. They were ultimately released. This friend is brilliant and kind and contributes so much to their research field and community. Feeling rage.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 1d

I miss teaching but also very glad I don't have to answer questions from motivated students about how to fix the many things that are broken because my answers would be way less optimistic than they were just a few years ago.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is fucking terrible and the feds are at best absent and at worst active antagonists to a lot of this work but I’m convinced that getting out and just talking with folks is half the battle.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 1d

Starting next week I’ll be traveling once/week to Santa Fe, Denver, Boise, and Helena facilitating discussions with state legislators, governors’ staffs, NGOs, etc. on transmission permitting, large loads/data centers, the importance of early community engagement, etc. Hoping to learn a lot.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 5d

Mariners! I was emotionally exhausted after the Phillies lost yesterday but super stoked for my PNW friends.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 7d

(Also plz be kind, this is my first personal website attempt and I’ll probably make some tweaks, but just wanted to get it stood up)

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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 7d

This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.

Was that really it? Turns out: No.

@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

www.npr.org

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 7d

Happy to share my new personal website! I'm available for speaking engagements, esp. related to my academic and post-ac career trajectory as a humanities/social science scholar working in national lab and policy spaces, possibly of interest to grad students/ECRs.

Get in touch!

www.matthenryphd.com

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 7d

Still not sure I’ve been overly quixotic in this journey but I’m learning a lot along the way.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 7d

An observation: I use the terms “environmental justice” and “just transition” way less in my day-to-day work yet feel like I have way more opportunities to ensure just outcomes. 🙃

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 7d

Two years ago I was teaching Climate Change and Colonialism and working on a book proposal.

A year ago I was leading a national lab social science research team to understand DER adoption.

Now I’m working with regulators and NGOs on transmission permitting in the west.

Weird trajectory.

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 9d

At the risk of angry-posting, I hope we learn something from this given the *extensive* environmental justice and environmental concessions that were made to "protect" the programs

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Breaking: Heatmap has obtained a new internal DOE grant termination list that includes the two major DAC hub awards — Oxy/1PointFive's South Texas DAC Hub and Heirloom/Climeworks' Project Cypress in Louisiana.
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

heatmap.news

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 9d

The data center angst feels like a leading indicator of a broader economic development question about if the public will ever support high-value industrial activity that:
-uses a lot of power
-doesn’t create many jobs

Because that seems like the future of manufacturing.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t post much on here anymore, or on social in general. The returns from networking/building an audience at the expense of participating in the latest Discourse are not what they once were; touching grass and maintaining relationships in other, more meaningful ways seem to pay more dividends.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 12d

Everything is terrible but the Phillies are in the playoffs so I’m gonna lean into that for a bit.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 14d

Definitely a first, not sure if it was a compliment, eek

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 14d

At CREPC-WIRAB in an elevator with a red state public service commissioner not to be named: “Are you Matt Henry, former University of Wyoming professor? I’ve read your book.”

😳

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 17d

Yep! My first time. Are you attending?

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 17d

To clarify (not that anyone cares) but I do think EH has immense value, but also in some quarters has become too shoegazey.

Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 17d

In academia this is also known as the environmental humanities tbh (no shade intended).

Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 18d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 17d

*ducks*

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 17d

In academia this is also known as the environmental humanities tbh (no shade intended).

Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 18d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 18d

Headed to Portland next week to talk transmission. 😬

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 24d

I would love to know to what extent the rapture stuff has been fueled by ChatGPT/is a version of mass AI psychosis. I imagine we’ll find out.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 29d

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 29d

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · Sep 16

A thing I'm grappling with: it is possible to show your disapproval/dislike of a person or event by refusing to even acknowledge or comment on it; on the other hand, it's important not to let false narratives run rampant. When to speak, when to say silent?

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