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Kelly Hereid

@kellyhereid.bsky.social

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Climate scientist, geologist, and catastrophe modeler, Liberty Mutual. Posts on all things hurricane, wildfire, flood, earthquake, tornado. Sassy takes are mine not employer's. 📍Oakland, CA Website: hereidk.strikingly.com

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · Jun 17

Really excited to share a project we've been working on with Swiss Re, examining challenges to implementing landscape-scale wildfire mitigation and where the insurance industry needs to get creative to crack some roadblocks: www.libertymutualgroup.com/documents/wi... 1/🧵

Wildfire risk reduction in a changing climate

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 9h

Mud volcano expertise, activated!

Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · Mar 8

You know how the best thing in the Old Days was that like a flaming mud volcano would erupt, and you'd immediately have access to a world expert on mud volcanology?

1-He's here, @marktingay.bsky.social
2-Here's a professor of sand taking down a late night Dune analysis

This place has the juice.

Robert Mahon @bedform.org · Mar 8

Should I tell Neil deGrasse Tyson that you *can* in fact thump sand? I've got a PhD in sand, and I am a professor of sand. I have, in fact hit my hand on a sand dune and can confirm it can thump (if the packing arrangement is right)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qlm...

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Mark Tingay @marktingay.bsky.social · 18h

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan!

The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).

Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.

Video source: @_yagha_

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 14h

Interesting writeup of the new fundraise for Base Power, a cool distributed battery startup, in @texasmonthly.bsky.social

Targeting utilities and builders to bring in customers, but the resilience angle makes me think insurers should consider it as well.

🎁 link:

Michael Dell’s Son Raised $1 Billion to Upend the Texas Energy Market

Battery company Base Power hopes to convince homeowners to buy in to its new model of providing power.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 14h

Love this geo flex 💪

Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 16h

I personally read every single resume that meets basic qualifications (if I specify a graduate degree you need to have one) for any role where I'm hiring. Usually hundreds. I hope to work w this person for years, don't they deserve that?

Kudos to people doing an end run around a lazy system. 🎁 link

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It.

www.nytimes.com

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Akhila Kosaraju @akhilak.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Climtober. Day 1 of 31.

I'm breaking down one climate topic daily and spotlighting the startups solving it.

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Akhila Kosaraju @akhilak.bsky.social · 1d

Your old furnace is wasting 70% of the energy you're paying for.

Every time it kicks on, it burns gas to create heat from scratch, and most of it goes up the chimney or gets lost along the way.

(thread)

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Driver hit two people, one of them is pregnant, the other thrown 20ft, and the headline leads with WINDSHIELD DAMAGE

@thewaroncars.bsky.social

The Berkeley Scanner @berkeleyscanner.com · 1d

BREAKING: A driver struck two pedestrians, including a pregnant woman, near UC Berkeley on Friday, sending both to Highland Hospital.

'Major windshield damage': 2 people struck near UC Berkeley

Both pedestrians, one of whom is pregnant, were rushed to Highland Hospital, according to early reports.

www.berkeleyscanner.com

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

I was never a huge fan of their pizza living there, but I have to admit that "provolone but make it Velveeta" tastes like straight nostalgia now.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

This is the correct take

Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Don't mind me, just sounding for the STL crowd - all 3 of us on here.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

I go to Imo's for the salad dressing.

Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Gooey butter cake is a real thing that real people eat and it's delicious.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

And it's toasted ravioli, not fried.

Cheese toasted ravioli is blasphemy.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Did you somehow escape high school without walking into a BreadCo once??

To be fair my mom worked at one for a while so I may have about moved in for a stretch.

Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Also it's BreadCo, not Panera

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Do we all remember when @alekkrautmann.bsky.social broke the internet introducing the St. Louis bagel slice to the world?

This is still the correct bagel order.

Like a good Midwesterner, I prioritize surface area as a cream cheese delivery maximizer.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

He banged his head against the wall, but he still could not think of a story.

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Andrew Moseman @andrewmoseman.bsky.social · 2d

The #Bolt isn't perfect, but at this price, who cares heatmap.news/electric-veh...

The Chevy Bolt Is the Cheap EV We’ve Needed All Along

It’s not perfect, but pretty soon, it’ll be available for under $30,000.

heatmap.news

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New York Times Weather @nytweather.bsky.social · 1d

An area of Arizona that includes Phoenix falls within the bull’s-eye of a region at particularly risk for heavy rain and flash flooding. A smattering of showers fell on Thursday, and heavier rainfall is on the way on Friday and Saturday.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/w...

Parts of the Southwest May Get More Than a Month’s Rain This Weekend

www.nytimes.com

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Particularly Miffed @miffedinparticular.bsky.social · 6d

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 1d

And just like the other U.S. Category 5 hurricane landfalls, Michael was also only a tropical storm three days before landfall.

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 1d

Seven years ago today, Hurricane Michael continued to intensify as it headed north toward the coast. It made landfall near Mexico Beach FL with 160mph peak sustained winds, making it the 1st Category 5 landfall in the FL panhandle and only the 4th in U.S. history.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Geology 🤝 History, don't mind if I do ⚒️

lynn-colorado.bsky.social @lynn-colorado.bsky.social · 2d

How did a town of some 2,200 inhabitants become a cradle of not one but two revolutions? Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson on the unique prominence of Concord, Massachusetts: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Why Concord?

The geological origins of the American Revolution

www.theatlantic.com

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 2d

Siphonophores were yet another creature I first learnt about watching octonauts with my kids.
Public service broadcasting at its best.

MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 2d

In our newest edition of deep-sea animals that can dance better than you, we present the siphonophore samba by Apolemia rubriversa.💃⁠
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Siphonophores (pronounced “sigh-fawn-oh-fours”) are colonial creatures made up of specialized segments that work together as one.

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