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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Special thx to my editors for giving me the time (many months!) to write about David Stevenson, a fascinating person political operative who led America’s anti-offshore wind campaign. Yes, good journalism still takes time. @danmccarthy.bsky.social @lisahymas.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I’ve been quiet. Here’s why: At my 20-year college reunion in May, dozens of old friends arrived at our campus and started snapping photos on Georgetown’s front lawn. I, too, was on campus, but on the back side, at the university hospital, laid out on a gurney in the emergency room’s trauma suite…

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

*NEW* The dead whale found on a remote VA beach was the 2023 calf of the well-known whale “Porcia" #3293. According to NOAA, it marks the 43rd mortality in the ongoing "Unusual Mortality Event" impacting the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

There it is. The very last BOOK WORLD. I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this. I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Rep. Huffman: “I think there is a very tight connection between NOAA and your company right now … and I don’t think there is any effective oversight by NOAA. I think you guys are in bed together to go out here and mine in the high seas.” The Metals Company CEO: "I refute that sir." #deepseamining

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

No commercial deep-sea mining exists anywhere because international legal frameworks don't yet allow it. But The Metals Company CEO is here saying "it is our plan to be in commercial production by the end of next year 2027.” Rep. Huffman barks back "because the U.S. a potential loophole" for you.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm watching @drandrewthaler.bsky.social testify now in front of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. "While I have significant concerns about the long-term environmental harms that can result from mining the deep seafloor, I am not an absolutist against all forms of deep-sea mining."

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"We’re a poor state. We need industry. To have a new industry that is unique to us, floating offshore wind, now targeted by the feds … It feels like a kick in the teeth." - Lincoln Varnum, former engineer at UMaine, laid off by Trump's cuts Thanks @mainemorningstar.com for republishing my story.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

BONUS #MobyDick CONTENT: At the Moby Dick Marathon, I met a woman who brought her lawn chair and a cross stitch of the Pequod ship with the White Whale. She did it all night, listening to the readings over the museum speakers. (Not pictured: the guy who stitched a sweater with Moby Dick quotes!)

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

BONUS #MobyDick CONTENT: Anyone can sign up to read aloud infront of the lecture at the Moby Dick marathon. Most of the novel is read by everyday people. But there are exceptions! Chapter 40, Midnight on the Forecastle, is acted out in its entirety by local actors and musicians. It was so merry!

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

More of your favorite Moby Dick bro! 😎

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This concludes my live-posting of the annual Moby Dick reading marathon. Tune in this time next year. Stay true, New Bedford!

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

At 25 hours in, the final chapter of the Moby Dick marathon was read by actor Steven Weber (who I used to watch every week in WINGS). Gave me chills. This event drew 3,100 people. Hundreds stayed all 25 hours. And it’s free! Mark your calendar for January 9 & 10, 2027. 🔗 in threads for deets

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

One of the final readers of the Moby Dick marathon is a park ranger ❤️ I bet you didn’t know that we are reading this novel at a museum within the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, a NPS property!

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

We’ve officially reached 24 hours of the Moby Dick marathon. Just two chapters left. Perfect timing. It stopped snowing here in New Bedford and, from the reading room, we now can see the harbor — where both Herman Melville and his character Ishmael launched their respective whaling adventures.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

We’re officially 23 hours and 35 minutes into the Moby Dick reading marathon! It’s the part where people read sections in different languages. Here’s a high school humanities teacher from Pennsylvania kicking it off with German. We’re at chapter 129, continuously read by over 200 readers.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Check this out! 🖼️ Over 25 attendees (and me) made this mural inspired by Moby Dick at an art shop across from the New Bedford Whaling Museum where we are attending the Moby Dick marathon right now. Peak art creation was 11pm to 2am, a break to get outside and use your hands during all the reading.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Check out these Gen Z bros lighting up the Moby Dick Marathon reading at 6:10am right now in New Bedford, MA. Most of the people who endured here in the museum up until this point are under 30 years old. Guys, the kids are all right.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It’s 5:53am and we are 17 hours into the continued out-loud reading of Moby Dick. Our friends on the Pequod just encountered the French ship, the Rose-bud. There are still about 100 people in the main auditorium, about about 200 reading along in overflow rooms or in sleeping bags on the floor.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

We are 16 hours into the Moby Dick reading marathon. It’s 4:44am and the coffee station ran out of cups. 😬 The read aloud session in the auditorium is piped in from a speaker.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Update from 11 hours into the Moby Dick marathon: The “quiet room” is starting to fill up with people bedding down for the night. Real “night at the museum” vibes. The out-loud reading presses on in the museum auditorium downstairs, readers taking turns.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Captain Ahab is a very Trump-like figure. This goes through my mind 9 hours and 16 minutes into the Moby Dick marathon (I’m still going!) Outside this packed auditorium, more people read along in overflow rooms, filling the hallways and exhibit halls with lawn chairs and sleeping bags.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

At 8 hours and 30 minutes into the Moby Dick reading marathon here in Massachusetts, the entirety of chapter 41 was read by Senator Ed Markey! Now back to in-person live reading… @markey.senate.gov

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

We’re now 7 hours and 5 minutes into the Moby Dick marathon! Chapter 36 underway….”Enter Ahab: Then, all.” I just took a 1 hour break for a fish sandwich and walk around New Bedford to stretch legs. But back at it! About to hunker down for the next 18 hours of reading…

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

When the Moby Dick reading marathon runs out of chairs and you have to sit on the floor inside a dead whales mouth.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I am 3 hours and 45 minutes into reading Moby Dick alongside 2,000 strangers at the annual Moby Dick marathon in New Bedford, MA. 🐳 Just 21 hours left to go! Can I make it?

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Out of the office. ❄️ ⛷️👍🏻

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Trump’s dizzying 2nd term has turned fringe movements and personal grudges into full-blown policies. But while vaccines and universities will endure through Trump’s political attacks, in one form or another, the U.S. offshore wind industry may not. My last story of 2025 is a postmortem.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

This time last year I agreed to cover the U.S. offshore wind industry for 2025. I pitched an expansive beat that leaned heavy on science/environment/tech. I ended up writing 34 stories about revenge politics, culture, and disinformation. The story of U.S. renewables became the story of America.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Tired: winning the Powerball Wired: winning a seat to a “Moby-Dick” all-night marathon reading

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"Based on BOEM’s initial review of this classified information, the particularized harm posed by this project can only be feasibly averted by suspension of on-lease activities,” the letter to Dominion reads. Its Virginia wind farm is slated to start coming online in 4 months. I visited last month👇

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It brings me no pleasure to report that my beat — offshore wind power — skyrocketed to the top of new sites today. I just published a scoop about Trump's halt on 5 in-progress wind farms capable of powering 2.7 million homes. Here's a mega🧵 🔗 2nd post is a link to my scoop 🎁 last post is a gift

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Thanks to @amyaharder.bsky.social and @axios.com for calling me a “hot read.” Guy, I still got it! 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

ICYMI Here’s your Friday long read: My in-depth profile story of David Stevenson, the man who crushed America’s offshore wind industry. Thanks to @motherjones.com for republishing. 🙏

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Didn’t ask for this but sure OK why not

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I am so thrilled this little non-fiction book about two people who craved the ocean world, love it deeply and loved each other — is making the top 10 book lists for NYT and the New Yorker. It was my favorite book I read this year. Congrats to Sophie Elmhirst. 🌊

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We lost an ocean champion yesterday. Jean Beasley, 90, started North Carolina's first sea turtle hospital and saved over 1,500 turtles. She was a school teacher with no other training. By the time she died, she had co-authored a half dozen veterinary science papers on sea turtle rehabilitation.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This time last year I was wrapping up six months of beat reporting on the perils of “clean hydrogen” — an emerging industry many see as a false climate solution. My colleague Brian Dabbs and I were finalists for the @spjdc.bsky.social “Beat Reporting” award for this work. What a ride!

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Coming back from vacation to some good news! The first baby whale of the 2025-2026 North American right whale calving season was spotted Nov 28 near South Carolina. Mom is Champagne (ID #3904) and its her 2nd documented calf. What joyful news for a species with 384 whales remaining.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Thanks to @giorgiograffino.bsky.social for pointing me to this fascinating 400-year history of wine windows in Florence (which is where we found this one!)

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My sister and I discovered a place in Italy where you ring a bell and a wine gnome hands you a glass of wine out of a 12 in x 12 in window. This is a *real* thing. Life is beautiful.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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!

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🚨If you are at #COP30, evacuate the Blue Zone immediately. (from a source)

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

‘Climate change’ is out. Energy affordability is in. Awesome new media analysis by @shannonosaka.bsky.social and Kevin Crowe for the @washingtonpost.com showing declining mentions of “climate change” by Dems in speeches, media appearances, podcasts, etc. 📉

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Good bye, picture books. My 6-year-old and I just finished reading our first chapter-length book together. THE WILD ROBOT was the perfect introduction to a complex, well-told narrative. It’s been incredible to witness her tiny human brain coming to terms with it all — “a book can be THIS?!”

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🪨 A @natcomms.nature.com paper out today delivers a new warning about Trump's push for deep-sea mining. 🦐 The discharge waste from #deepseamining — if allowed to be done at commercial scale — will "likely to disrupt midwater food webs." 👇More here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Feeling overwhelmed? Visit a college campus and talk to the students. I had the pleasure of speaking at my alma mater yesterday. Banished some of the overwhelming dread I’ve felt about the future, AI, and climate change in recent weeks. Jane Goodall said it best: “We must not give up hope.”

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