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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 · 18/09/2026

I am honored to be a winner of this year’s @coveringclimatenow.org awards. But even more honored to be among @sammyroth.bsky.social’s favorites. Thanks, pal! ❤️

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Update: I am responding well to chemo and my docter expects me to be in remission by December. I’ll be looking for a job in climate reporting then. If anyone is hiring. But it’s funny cause I can’t figure out which is worse…getting cancer or being on the journalism job market in 2027. 😅

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When I was diagnosed with cancer this year I stepped back from my work as a climate reporter to undergo chemo. I know that for some people journalism is just a job. For me, it’s a calling. It’s public service. It’s being part of democracy, really. I miss it.

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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 23/07/2026

2024 #scicomm award winners @cbo.bsky.social, @fieseler.bsky.social, @zacksavitsky.bsky.social, and @joelbervell.bsky.social show how science communication can build trust through transparency and empower all of us to keep learning by sharing the process of discovery. #medialiteracy #trustinscience

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Vital article. If even an experienced science journalist can fall afoul of the institutional misogyny threaded through medicine, what chance do the rest of us have? This is about the U.S, but the issues around “women’s complaints“, of course, apply internationally.

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

I flashed back to my 25-year-old self when a mechanic told me my brake pads were so shot, he was surprised I hadn’t already died in a car accident. Both men’s words made me feel undeserving of my good fortune for surviving and ashamed of my womanly ignorance. How had I let it come to this?

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

“Has anyone told you what we think this is?” one physician blurted while he toyed distractedly with the finicky ultrasound machine. “This looks like cancer...”

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

Two male attending physicians were performing a rushed ultrasound on my chest, tilting the screen so I could see the melon-sized tumor nestled between my lung and my heart. I could make out a large mass, ink black, looming next to my four chambers. My chest felt tight, as it had for days.

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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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Alexandra Talty @alexandratalty.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is a must-read on the status of women’s health in America. Thank you to @fieseler.bsky.social for this personal reportage. Sending you all the positive healing vibes ❤️ sciencepolitics.org/2026/06/16/w...

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What We Don’t Know About Women’s Health Can Kill Us - Science Politics

My symptoms weren’t just perimenopause. They were signs of cancer — and better care might save others from delayed diagnoses.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was on the “Tiny Matters” podcast talking about one of my favorite things…. offshore wind power! Listen here👇

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was on the “Tiny Matters” podcast talking about one of my favorite things…. offshore wind power! Listen here👇

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

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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 · 11/02/2026

*NEW* The freshly dead whale is a 3 year old female. What a loss. This species has less than 100 breeding females remaining. It's now washed up on a barrier island managed by The Nature Conservancy in VA. NOAA and other groups are attempting a necropsy to determine cause of death.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm getting reports that another critically endangered North Atlantic Right whale was just spotted dead. Carcass spotted off VA coast. This marks the 2nd death in just three weeks for a species w/ about 400 individuals remaining. Last month's fatality, a male, died from fishing gear entanglement👇

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Right whale 'Division' is found dead after entanglement in Georgia

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the coast of North Carolina

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

BREAKING: Trump directs Pentagon to buy whale oil to revive whaling industry

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Check out "Ocean Empire," a column on entanglements between the US, "an empire of political and cultural influence" and another empire, "the global ocean, which makes up 70 percent of our planet" - by the brilliant ecologist and journalist @fieseler.bsky.social. sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

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Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My 6 year old said one of the kids in her class rolled in late to class this morning and when the teacher asked why he was tardy he just said “I blame Bad Bunny.”

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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 · 06/02/2026

I am so sorry Dino. You did such amazing reporting!

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Please correct this headline @apnews.com. All humans are primates. That’s a biology. What Trump posted was a depiction of the first Black U.S. president and First Lady as chimpanzees. That’s racist. (Please repost to get an AP editor’s attention on this.)

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Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates

President Donald Trump has used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Ob...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

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Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I would see him in the newsroom and never had the courage to go up and speak to him. I was only there for a 4 month fellowship. Greatest regret was not getting to chat with Marty!

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Emily Mendenhall @emendenhall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@fieseler.bsky.social has a new column in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social! Ocean Empire will bring an essay a month. "The U.S. — this ocean nation I call home — is an empire of political and cultural influence whose reach, at times, seems unlimited." sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

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Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Marty Weil is a legend. He was the last reporter remaining from the Watergate era at the Post. Just an phenomenal old-school metro reporter. They axed him too. Please read this story to honor his tenure at the Post. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

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He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Okay, another thing: If the ocean is not your thing, but outer space is... We've launched a new column for space policy, too! The great @dagomardegroot.bsky.social is at the helm for that one: HORIZONS OF HUMANITY. sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/13/h...

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Horizons of Humanity - Science Politics

Introducing a new column on the existential risks and opportunities that will shape humanity’s future.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I feel the same way. I'm grateful institutions like @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social are stepping up.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

One last thing: This role is extra meaningful cause I get to work w/ wonderful colleagues I left 5 years ago when I pivoted from a faculty job @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social to science journalism. Thx to @emendenhall.bsky.social the Editor-in-Chief of @sciencepolitics.bsky.social for inviting me back!

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

How are America’s actions at sea reverberating through the rest of the world? How are other nations responding? How could these shifting geopolitics impact the health of our ocean and its wildlife? These are the questions I’ll be answering in my new monthly column. Please follow me to read along.

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Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

From abandoning treaties to defunding research to high seas attacks to pursuing deep-sea mining, America's offshore actions make headlines. But who is covering this in-depth? No national news outlet has a beat dedicated to the oceans. Maybe that changes. I'm writing OCEAN EMPIRE in the meantime.

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