Aria Ritz Finkelstein
@coastofbohemia.bsky.social
Researching coastal and ocean space at MIT Urban Studies and Planning + WHOI Marine Policy Center. Atlantan. Jew. Frequent forgetter. She/her. www.ariaritzfinkelstein.com. How are people liking it here?
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Secrecy & spectacle, or how a tale of seabed exploitation shaped the U.S.’s relationship to the law of the sea
How do representations of extractive frontiers shape political geographies? This study examines one episode, that of the USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer, …
www.sciencedirect.com
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
If you like it here, this'll help it stay that way.
October 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
If you like it here, this'll help it stay that way.
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We are publishing to outcomes of our monument advocacy in 4 hours. You still have time to sign.
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Keep Our Marine National Monuments Protected
The Trump Administration is currently conducting a review of all U.S. marine national monuments to consider opening these protected areas to industrial fishing.
Please sign the national petition bel...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We are publishing to outcomes of our monument advocacy in 4 hours. You still have time to sign.
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September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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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."
www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...
Here's the ridiculous quote from Hans Smit:
Smit says it takes a million years for the nodules to grow back, and it is guaranteed that they would grow back, "because it's a natural process, it's just a very slow process."
Here's the ridiculous quote from Hans Smit:
Smit says it takes a million years for the nodules to grow back, and it is guaranteed that they would grow back, "because it's a natural process, it's just a very slow process."
Cook Islands confronts critical questions on identity as debate on deep sea mining grows
The question facing its people is no longer just about mining - but about identity, sovereignty, stewardship, and the ocean that binds them all.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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 🤩👇!
Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers!
I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈
I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈
August 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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
Sail to Gaza - Collective Action for Gaza
globalsumudflotilla.org
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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
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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.
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.
August 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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.
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.
⚠️ 'Jewish jihad has taken hold': This scholar hopes Gaza war will be Israel's 'ISIS moment' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
By @nirhasson.bsky.social
Article in 🧵👇
By @nirhasson.bsky.social
Article in 🧵👇
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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.
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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!
❗Former & current fed employees @enviro agencies: EDGI is looking for confidential interview participants.
➡️ Interviews are ~1 hour
➡️ Participation is confidential (encryption & password-protection used)
Interested? Reach out to Scout Blum:
Signal @scoutblum.26
Email scoutblum @ gmail dot com
➡️ Interviews are ~1 hour
➡️ Participation is confidential (encryption & password-protection used)
Interested? Reach out to Scout Blum:
Signal @scoutblum.26
Email scoutblum @ gmail dot com
August 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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
Secrecy & spectacle, or how a tale of seabed exploitation shaped the U.S.’s relationship to the law of the sea
How do representations of extractive frontiers shape political geographies? This study examines one episode, that of the USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer, …
www.sciencedirect.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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.
❗Former & current fed employees @enviro agencies: EDGI is looking for confidential interview participants.
➡️ Interviews are ~1 hour
➡️ Participation is confidential (encryption & password-protection used)
Interested? Reach out to Scout Blum:
Signal @scoutblum.26
Email scoutblum @ gmail dot com
➡️ Interviews are ~1 hour
➡️ Participation is confidential (encryption & password-protection used)
Interested? Reach out to Scout Blum:
Signal @scoutblum.26
Email scoutblum @ gmail dot com
August 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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.👇
One like=one disability related thought for the anniversary of the ADA
July 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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...
June 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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.
Through different means, the ultra-nationalist ideology of Israel's far-right aims to oppress and marginalize Palestinians, not just in Gaza and the WB, but the Palestinian citizens of Israel as well. Join us in rejecting their supremacism.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"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
May 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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.
I need you to understand that Gaza, IN ITS ENTIRETY, is about the size of Las Vegas, but with more than 3x the population (source🎁🔗 wapo.st/4d45nZ6).
Which means that the entire population (again: 3x that of Las Vegas) is on the brink of literally starving to death, within just a few miles of food.
Which means that the entire population (again: 3x that of Las Vegas) is on the brink of literally starving to death, within just a few miles of food.
We are still supporting Palestinian families by distributing critically needed potable water where possible. #ChefsForGaza (4/5)
May 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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.
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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 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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
May 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
1/Everyone has to be careful about misreading shipping data. This chart from @MarineTraffic shows normal density for containerships and shows icons for all vessels destined for the US.
April 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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.
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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
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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
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April 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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...
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...
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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
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
Pulled From the Deep: Scientists Found a ‘Lost’ Deep-Sea Mining Site off the SC Coast. What Secrets Does It Hold?
Foul weather rained down as Chris Garside looked out across Charleston Harbor’s choppy waters. The British oceanographer needed to get offshore, quickly. A local fisherman stood ready to ferry him...
pulitzercenter.org
April 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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
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...
Momentum for a Moratorium - Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
deep-sea-conservation.org
April 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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...
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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...
It’d mean the world to me if you share/pre-order! bookshop.org/p/books/no-c...
No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement
Lessons from the Movement
bookshop.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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...
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...
April 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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...
Christian Zionism hasn’t always been a conservative evangelical creed – churches’ views of Israel have evolved over decades
The history of Christian support for a Jewish state far predates the religious right.
theconversation.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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...