A column to keep an eye on, folks sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

Folk Engineering, out just a couple of months ago, is a beautiful exploration of not just regionalism in the American South but of the visions and tensions at work in different strains of regionalist planning thought in general. This is very sad news. uncpress.org/978146969011...

This looks to be an insightful pulling together of climate research and memory studies, much of which is open access. On grief, witnessing, and responsibility to our planet.

On the threat of deep sea mining👇 Read @drandrewthaler.bsky.social's piece on the current U.S. state of affairs, and add your voice to seabedminingsciencestatement.org if you want to join a call for caution.

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A satisfying dose of schadenfreude👇

Atlanta doing its thing 🤩

If you like it here, this'll help it stay that way.

We are publishing to outcomes of our monument advocacy in 4 hours. You still have time to sign. forms.gle/QBmDRyTPJseX...

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Polymetallic 👏 nodules 👏 are 👏 a 👏 renewable 👏 resource! "If you come back in tens of millions of years, you will find nodules back on the seafloor where we have taken them away."

One way abundance looks! This thread 🤩👇!

Sailors--I don't know this mission enough to endorse, but I'm posting to share info. It looks like the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian flotilla to Gaza, is still open to more captains and crew #SailToGaza globalsumudflotilla.org

ATLANTA: Vigil for Gaza's Journalists Saturday, August 16 · 7pm · Freedom Park Join local journalists and community members to honor the 260+ reporters, photographers, and media workers killed in Israel's ongoing mass slaughter in Gaza. More details in next post. Please share widely.

This is a brutal article. "What I've learned in the past few yrs is that the political imagination of the rt wing is far more developed than the political imagination of the left, & contrary to the left it also possesses the means to make that imagination materialize." Still, specks of light in it.

This is a great project and already generating some fascinating information from interviewees! If you are a federal employee in env'l, health, energy, climate work, please contact us!

First, I got obsessed w/a spy story about seabed minerals, then I got obsessed w/the role it played on the stages of lawmaking. As seabed mining becomes a more + more pressing issue, tensions btwn US + int'l seabed law do too--this is a bit of their story 🌊🌐🪨 #deepseamining #lawofthesea #saveourseas

Former and current employees of federal environmental agencies--participating in this project is one valuable way to share your experience 💚 info is below.

Primer-in-progress about ableism and lots of ways to do less of it. Highly recommend.👇

So looking forward to reading this essay! Seems a good time to link to this reading list I made for @placesjournal.bsky.social--some of these pieces will make good company for it. placesjournal.org/reading-list...

"The Negev is not a blank canvas." The State's displacement of the Bedouins, faciliated by framing the Negev as a barren landscape ready for settlement or tree-planting, is a long ongoing, cruel project.

The Hayim Center, in honor of Hayim Katsman z"l, will be a center in Rahat for building a peace rooted in justice and ecology. causematch.com/Hayim/jadashi

For anyone trying to get a mile high view of affect in Israeli politics v-a-v Palestine right now, this thread is a very good one.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

NO. NO HE IS NOT. #DeepSeaMining #DefendTheDeep

As always, @mercoglianos.bsky.social's got a super informative discussion of the state of shipping. Here, it's the impact of tariffs--what we can already see from looking at port data and what we can expect to come. Alarmist, no. Alarming, yes.

These shirts are back by popular demand. I wish it was under better circumstances. The US government is all in on deep sea mining 🤮 Time for us to get loud about our beloved freaks. Start a conversation, get a shirt. Design by @coreydanks.bsky.social squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/save...

We tried deep-sea mining in U.S. waters already -- back in 1970 -- off the South Carolina coast. Scientists returned to the undersea site in 2023 to see what it looked liked now. One told me: "It's like they were there yesterday." My story: pulitzercenter.org/stories/pull... #deepseamining

This is a good time to read about the growing support for a moratorium on deep-sea mining at @deepseaconserve.bsky.social 🐟🪸🐋 deep-sea-conservation.org/solutions/no...

Hi! Some news––our book on the Stop Cop City movement is coming out in ONE MONTH!! It features organizers, political prisoners, abolitionists, anarchists, neighbors, educators, students, media, art & more. It’d mean the world to me if you share/pre-order! bookshop.org/p/books/no-c...

Yep! A reading list from a while back (including an endorsement for @brendancbyrne.bsky.social's piece) at @placesjournal.bsky.social. placesjournal.org/reading-list...

Christian Zionism has a much longer, more theologically and politically nuanced past than many of us realize. Broad strokes, by Shalom Goldman @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/christian-zi...

An article from a few days ago explaining a bit more about the ISA, the Metals Co, and the Law of the Sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...

This is very alarming, and a clear violation of int'l law. You can tell how much, bc "the widespread furor reflected a rare alignment from countries as varied as China, Russia, India, the UK, New Zealand, Indonesia, France, Argentina, Uganda and the small island nations of Mauritius and Fiji."

This piece pulls together several questions about Zionism clearly and succinctly: "[W]hat kind of safety demands the sacrifice of our ethics, our allies, and ultimately, our own people?"

In the past few hours, I've seen the filmmakers of "No Other Land" described as Zionists because they don't seem to want every Israeli Jew to leave the land, and as anti-Zionists because they seem okay with binationalism, and that's why those two terms are basically meaningless now.

Atlantans, 👀 this list!

Folks, exactly 5 years ago today I made this offer, & I'll do it again. Many graduate students are in danger of losing their one field season for collecting data- in March 2020 because of the pandemic, now because of Musk-Trump BS. This means that many won't be able to finish graduate school. 🧪🧵

"The arrest and threatened deportation of... Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. green card holder who did nothing more than lead pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus, should shake every freedom-loving person to their core." Yep. Thanks @haaretzcom.bsky.social + @ariaripaulpaul.bsky.social

which is why having the ADL be rushing up to thank Trump for fascist gendarmes disappearing supposed enemies of the state is so gutting.

Americans don’t just depend on NOAA for their daily forecasts. NOAA’s dedicated public servants are behind your access to healthy seafood, safe marine navigation, and disaster response resources. Ask your members of Congress to step up to #SaveNOAA: community.citizensclimate.org/tools/protec...

Atlantans, if you never have, take a minute to visit with some of our canine neighbors 💚 www.atlantacoyoteproject.org. If you haven't seen them, there's a good chance you've heard them. A short profile on the Atlanta Coyote Project in this month's GA mag: www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/gem...

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

I just got fired from NWS . This email is all I know. Read if you want.

NEW: The Commerce Department has begun laying off potentially hundreds of NOAA employees.

🚨 The indiscriminate firing of employees is going to cripple @noaa.gov's ability to do essential work that every single one of us across the United States relies on. 🔗⤵️ Statement from @oceanconservancy.bsky.social's Vice President of External Affairs Jeff Watters: bit.ly/3QCLdek

This is the absolute darkest of shots, but I'm wondering if anyone knows a science-minded billfish angler in South Florida who'd be down to connect about the migrations of big pelagics from a sportsman's perspective — maybe even let me tag along on a boat. Throwing darts here!

Folks, ✍️

I just added my name to the list of Jewish leaders printed in the NYTimes saying no to ethnic cleansing. If you’re Jewish please consider signing on to oppose ethnic cleansing being done in our name www.saynotoethniccleansing.org