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).
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ROV SuBastian pilots need raises because CAN YOU SEE IT?! ROV SuBastian in the eye of this Taningia! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
ROV SuBastian pilots need raises because CAN YOU SEE IT?! ROV SuBastian in the eye of this Taningia! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
wrote and posted this from my Farragut Sq office - and 40 minutes later the two National Guard were shot across the street
fuck
fuck
OOO message up
entering a temporary but deep sloth phase
entering a temporary but deep sloth phase
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
wrote and posted this from my Farragut Sq office - and 40 minutes later the two National Guard were shot across the street
fuck
fuck
OOO message up
entering a temporary but deep sloth phase
entering a temporary but deep sloth phase
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
OOO message up
entering a temporary but deep sloth phase
entering a temporary but deep sloth phase
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Calling all marine conservation and fisheries scientist and practitioners!!
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟
Want to get more involved in SCB Marine? They are seeking three new board members to join their board!
They are also looking for an Administrative Coordinator (paid).
Due by Dec 15
Learn more here:
#conservation #networking #conservationjobs #marine 🐠🦈🪸
They are also looking for an Administrative Coordinator (paid).
Due by Dec 15
Learn more here:
#conservation #networking #conservationjobs #marine 🐠🦈🪸
SCB Marine Program: Open Positions
conbio.informz.net
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Calling all marine conservation and fisheries scientist and practitioners!!
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟
@popville.bsky.social tip my hat to this quality DC content
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
@popville.bsky.social tip my hat to this quality DC content
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can’t believe tomorrow is already the last day of the year
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
can’t believe tomorrow is already the last day of the year
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November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Yo DC peoples:
Did you love the City Paper?
Did you subscribe to DCist?
Wanna get more of that in your life?
Subscribe to @51st.news!
5 stars. Do recommend.
Link: 51st.news/membership/?...
Did you love the City Paper?
Did you subscribe to DCist?
Wanna get more of that in your life?
Subscribe to @51st.news!
5 stars. Do recommend.
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the aftermath of discussing the environmental chapters of project 2025 in my seminar on anti-environmentalism in America
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
the aftermath of discussing the environmental chapters of project 2025 in my seminar on anti-environmentalism in America
I just took some advil I found in the back of my desk drawer. Probably ~8 years old. That's cool, right?
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I just took some advil I found in the back of my desk drawer. Probably ~8 years old. That's cool, right?
Calling all marine conservation and fisheries scientist and practitioners!!
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟
Want to get more involved in SCB Marine? They are seeking three new board members to join their board!
They are also looking for an Administrative Coordinator (paid).
Due by Dec 15
Learn more here:
#conservation #networking #conservationjobs #marine 🐠🦈🪸
They are also looking for an Administrative Coordinator (paid).
Due by Dec 15
Learn more here:
#conservation #networking #conservationjobs #marine 🐠🦈🪸
SCB Marine Program: Open Positions
conbio.informz.net
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Calling all marine conservation and fisheries scientist and practitioners!!
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟
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let's take the CAR out of CARCINIZATION
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
let's take the CAR out of CARCINIZATION
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the jobs go to a different school. you don't know her.
Trump: "We're leading in everything. Our auto plants are pouring back into our country. Wait until you see the jobs coming with them. But they're, many of them are under construction."
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
the jobs go to a different school. you don't know her.
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Weddell seal pups can be curious if you’re sitting next to them quietly. Here, we were collecting a scat sample and the little one leaned a bit closer to see what I was doing.
Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025
🧪🌎🦑🦊
Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025
🧪🌎🦑🦊
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Weddell seal pups can be curious if you’re sitting next to them quietly. Here, we were collecting a scat sample and the little one leaned a bit closer to see what I was doing.
Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025
🧪🌎🦑🦊
Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025
🧪🌎🦑🦊
Some beauts in this thread
Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Some beauts in this thread
Definitely solid reporting here: “Key to the cutback is the elimination of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which in the last decade has increasingly fallen in line with the global climate change hysteria.” Still, though… 👀
This illegal and unconstitutional plan is moving forward!
Trump Administration to Move NOAA Fisheries to Fish and Wildlife Service | OutdoorHub
The Trump administration is preparing to implement significant changes to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to internal budget documents for fiscal year 2026. The p...
www.outdoorhub.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Definitely solid reporting here: “Key to the cutback is the elimination of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which in the last decade has increasingly fallen in line with the global climate change hysteria.” Still, though… 👀
Ran into @drandrewthaler.bsky.social at a cafe Saturday. Resulting conversation included his hobby goats & chickens, the town’s tidal buoy he made, the CIA, UNCLOS & the deep sea, a nascent project in Ghana, & shark fins he once 3D printed for me. Hidden passage bookshelf did not!! Buried the lede!
"But Andrew," you may ask. " what happens if you ever have to get back into the crawlspace in the future.
You know where this is going.
You know where this is going.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Ran into @drandrewthaler.bsky.social at a cafe Saturday. Resulting conversation included his hobby goats & chickens, the town’s tidal buoy he made, the CIA, UNCLOS & the deep sea, a nascent project in Ghana, & shark fins he once 3D printed for me. Hidden passage bookshelf did not!! Buried the lede!
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This month marks one year for me on Bluesky. I’ve connected w/ more people here than I ever did at the bird place. 🎉
Last year, I left my job @politico.com / E&E News to make a film about new ocean industries. I started covering the war on U.S. offshore wind for @canarymedia.com. Been a good year!
Last year, I left my job @politico.com / E&E News to make a film about new ocean industries. I started covering the war on U.S. offshore wind for @canarymedia.com. Been a good year!
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This month marks one year for me on Bluesky. I’ve connected w/ more people here than I ever did at the bird place. 🎉
Last year, I left my job @politico.com / E&E News to make a film about new ocean industries. I started covering the war on U.S. offshore wind for @canarymedia.com. Been a good year!
Last year, I left my job @politico.com / E&E News to make a film about new ocean industries. I started covering the war on U.S. offshore wind for @canarymedia.com. Been a good year!
What a life.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
What a life.
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Time to get your public comments in on the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule that would strip protections for countless wetlands and streams.
Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:
www.tu.org/conservation...
Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:
www.tu.org/conservation...
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Time to get your public comments in on the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule that would strip protections for countless wetlands and streams.
Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:
www.tu.org/conservation...
Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:
www.tu.org/conservation...
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Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage ONLY a VOLUNTARY agreement to BEGIN discussions on a roadmap to an EVENTUAL phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this INCREMENTAL progress only in the teeth of IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION from OIL-PRODUCING countries.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Petrostates, such as Saudi Arabia, Russia--and the U.S. under Republican rule--are a threat to us and the planet, and must be treated as such.
#ScienceUnderSiege
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ScienceUnderSiege
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage ONLY a VOLUNTARY agreement to BEGIN discussions on a roadmap to an EVENTUAL phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this INCREMENTAL progress only in the teeth of IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION from OIL-PRODUCING countries.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Very cool - but also a reminder that this is a relatively fast growing coral and they still don't do much in a year. And why it's so hard to regrow/replace damaged reefs in a time frame that matters to humans.
Coral City Camera | Staghorn Coral Timelapse (365 Days) | 11.12.24-11.12.25
Coral City Camera | Staghorn Coral Timelapse (365 Days) | 11.12.24-11.12.25
YouTube video by Coral Morphologic
youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Very cool - but also a reminder that this is a relatively fast growing coral and they still don't do much in a year. And why it's so hard to regrow/replace damaged reefs in a time frame that matters to humans.
Reposted by Katie Matthews, PhD
Sun-dappled lemon shark 🔮🌈🌞🍋🦈🪸🌇 #lemonshark #sharksofcoralcity #shark #rainbow #dappled #sunlight #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #bridgeinitiative #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sun-dappled lemon shark 🔮🌈🌞🍋🦈🪸🌇 #lemonshark #sharksofcoralcity #shark #rainbow #dappled #sunlight #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #bridgeinitiative #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity
I had no idea these critters existed
Man, crabs just evolve into all kinds of places
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Man, crabs just evolve into all kinds of places
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Have you ever seen the granulate shellback crab? Unlike hermit crabs—which hide inside their chosen shells—this unusual-looking crustacean uses its posterior legs to hold a shell onto its back, protecting it from foes.
Photo: Austin Smith, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: Austin Smith, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist
November 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I had no idea these critters existed
Man, crabs just evolve into all kinds of places
🦑
Man, crabs just evolve into all kinds of places
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Yes, you CAN go back in time! This StoryMap allows readers to experience several hundred million years of Earth history in just minutes with a scroll-driven animation. Happy GIS Day too!
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Want to know how the team did it?
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⚒️ 🧪 #gischat #geogsky #geogchat 🌎 🌍 🌏
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Want to know how the team did it?
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⚒️ 🧪 #gischat #geogsky #geogchat 🌎 🌍 🌏
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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