Katie Matthews, PhD

Screen shot of Christopher Sanchez throwing a pitch while Bryce Harper is being interviewed by the ESPN dingbats

Interviewing players while they are literally playing the sport is stupid @espn.com I hate this so much

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AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?

Finally found the ONE good thing AI can do www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mcki...

why is smartfood so good

Attention climate scientists -- opportunity to help contribute to comments in the shlock DOE climate report

Occurrence of Microplastics in Tap and Bottled Water: Current Knowledge A narrative review was carried out to describe the current knowledge related to the occurrence of MPs in drinking water. The reviewed studies (n = 21) showed the presence of microplastics (MPs) in tap...

Sources:

Tap v bottled water: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Microplastics leaching into hot liquids put into to-go cups pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36089043/

h/t @drdanielskerritt.bsky.social 🫡

cartoon saying we all may look and think differently but inside us we all have one thing in common: microplastics

individually we can't behavior-change our way out of the plastics crisis - policy fixes are a must

even so, I've cut WAY back on drinking hot coffee to-go (cups all lined w/ plastic that disintegrates in hot acidic coffee) & on bottled water (way more #microplastics than in most tap water)

2 virtual public hearings on deep sea mining Sept 3 & 4 to get comments on the proposed rule for revisions to the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, which makes NOAA responsible for issuing exploration and commercial recovery licenses for polymetallic nodules on the high seas (supposedly)

Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook

My paper "Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should" is formally published in an issue.

It's a how-to guide to using Bluesky, the first ever published in the scientific literature! 🧪🦑🌎🐟

academic.oup.com/fisheries/ar...

The Crab! The Channel Clinging Crab!! The CCC! An unsung hero of Caribbean reefs where they serve as gardeners grazing on the algae that smothers coral. Seen 8x fast, our giant crab friend patiently and carefully plucks it from between the branches of a staghorn coral #coralcitycamera

Check out @climatecentral.org's new interactive tools for monitoring ocean heat around the world: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Using the Ocean CSI system, you can find the influence of human-caused climate change on daily sea surface temperatures and around the paths of tropical cyclones.

spooky!

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...

An incredible discovery that challenges our assumptions about how complex life can thrive in the deepest and more remote places in the ocean.

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Hole in Peru’s Nazca Ridge National Reserve | Hakai Magazine By allowing fishing to persist in the protected area, biologists say the country’s new marine reserve fails to protect the unique Nazca Ridge ecosystem.

If you're a marine scientist interested in adding your name to a letter supporting the exclusion of industrial fishing in Peru's Nazca Ridge #MPA, please shoot me a DM. #PaperParks #Fisheries #30x30 #MarineConservation #MarinePolicy
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Some background here: hakaimagazine.com/news/the-hol...

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

The Hole in Peru’s Nazca Ridge National Reserve | Hakai Magazine By allowing fishing to persist in the protected area, biologists say the country’s new marine reserve fails to protect the unique Nazca Ridge ecosystem.

If you're a marine scientist interested in adding your name to a letter supporting the exclusion of industrial fishing in Peru's Nazca Ridge #MPA, please shoot me a DM. #PaperParks #Fisheries #30x30 #MarineConservation #MarinePolicy
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Some background here: hakaimagazine.com/news/the-hol...

World Cup next year gonna be a shit show

Did I just hear on the radio broadcast that the pitching coach was going to give Zach Wheeler a little blow 👃

perfection

Kyle Schwarber playing left today

Me living life generally speaking

Painting of a small sloping rocky island in a blue sea https://nationalacademy.emuseum.com/objects/67/blubber-island-maine

Blubber Island, Maine
NC Wyeth 1938

#muSEAum

My new favorite hashtag! Ok I’m going to try.

‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study Research shows people’s response to binary data could drive more effective ways of communicating gravity of crisis

Overcoming boiling frog effects ... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

I did my Master’s field work in Svalbard in 2000. This makes me sad.

“From 1961 to 2001, the town’s average air temperature in February hovered around -15°C (or 5°F). In February 2025, the average was -3.3°C (26°F), with the hottest day reaching 4.7°C (40°F).”

Is this something one could procure today?? I love it!

jealous ⛰️

cool cool

MORNING AUSTRALIA

I found a fun and frightful little chart buried in the government's own data, revealing that even they expect domestic gas consumption to never return to its glory days

THE GAS SHORTAGE IS A BIG LIE USED TO JUSTIFY EASING APPROVALS = SUBSIDIES FOR HUGE NEW FF PROJECTS

What are microplastics — and should we worry about them?  | Oceana Oceana Scientist Dr. Kimberly Warner explains what you need to know about microplastics found in the oceans and everywhere on Earth.

What are microplastics — and should we worry about them?

Oceana’s Dr. Kimberly Warner explains what you need to know about the tiny plastic particles. 👉 oceana.ly/44Tn1Lx #PlasticFreeJuly