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Katie Matthews, PhD

@katieocean.bsky.social

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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).

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 2h

Ahh I missed you’re in Tokyo! Have an amazing time!

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 2h

Only took til October 13th but finally feels like fall

Wet residential street in Philly, leaves on the ground, black Lab in foreground and brick row homes in background

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3h

This is great - where is it from?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3h

Equinor spent a decade offering hollow promises with CCS then dropping them, and now its hollow promises for electrification are seeing the same fate.

Ultimately, the company's main climate harm come from the products it sells, not how it manufactures them for sale.

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Equinor will drop two projects with power from land
High costs are causing Equinor to shelve plans to electrify the Snorre A and B fields in the North Sea off Florø.
The company states this in a letter sent to the Ministry of Energy, which E24 has seen.

Equinor is currently carrying out electrification projects on the Snøhvit, Troll, Oseberg and Njord fields.

Electrification is controversial because it takes up power resources on land.

On Monday, the Center Party submitted a representative proposal to the Storting to stop all further electrification of the shelf with power from shore.

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3h

Ife Okafor-Yarwood and @dyhia.bsky.social pointed out some similar hypocrisies re EU and West Africa. #fisheries www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 13h

Understandable!! 😳

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 18h

The visiting scientists should know this too. You think any of them will speak truth to power?

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 18h

#fisheries and #marineinvert alert

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 21h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 2d

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 38:
- MIT declines loyalty oath/compact & I review latest at other 8 universities
- Newest RIFs gutting CDC
- “Payroll pirates” targeting university HR

& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Week 38

Oct 4-10, 2025 - failure state

buttondown.com

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 2d

Les ‘n Doreen’s Happy Tap is a fantastic name

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

good strategy I will do the same

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

whelp regardless of what happens next with Onion Ring, I have enjoyed this little Phillies bluesky community and hope you all remain sane and safe til we meet again

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

onion rings give me heartburn

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

I think I'm having a stroke

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

#phillies

a cartoon of spongebob and patrick eating a sandwich with the nick logo in the background

Alt: a cartoon of spongebob and patrick hyperventilating into paper bags

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

that time schwarber went to catch something in the outfield and went ass over tea kettle

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

a man is sweating while wearing headphones and says `` totally fine '' .

Alt: trying to land the plane in Airplane! and sweating like a mofo

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

GAGH you chased that WHYYYYY

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

Harrison Bader, my man. Helluva AB going.

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

weston wilson?

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

ermmmm kemp? who is left?

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

Well Matt Strahm *is* kinda rocking an Our-Lord-and-Savior hairdo and beard 🙏

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

He seems like he’s cool with anyone appreciating his fine form

Was about to say he “takes all comers” but in this context one might interpret that literally and that wasn’t exactly what I meant 😝

Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

Flew under the radar for me too until I saw a shot of him in street clothes and was like 👀

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 3d

NICKY BUTTONS!

a phillies baseball player wears a red helmet and sunglasses

Alt: Phillies player Nick castellanos pointing

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