Mike Conathan 🌊

As the husband of a sternman, I can confirm this.

@kaleekreider @AShendruk OK, great start! So… think we can sell a screen adaptation of an ocean CDR Code of Conduct???

Fantastic piece here by @AShendruk Hollywood needs to deliver new storytelling about #ClimateAction

24.9% - that's the area of ocean floor on Earth that has now been mapped to "modern standards". The new figure was released this morning by Prince Albert of Monaco at the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) Assembly. An additional 5.4 million sq km of new data - equating to an area twice the size of Argentina - was added in the past year. A good part of this is previously proprietary data being released into @gebcobathymetry @seabed2030 database. Coloured in red is the additional area. When the quest to assemble a comprehensive map of Earth's ocean floor was begun in 2017, the quoted number was just 6%. So, rapid progress has been made, but to put the lack of knowledge about our own planet in context - when the new seamount catalogue was published last month it included over 19,000 newly discovered undersea volcanoes. Think about that - 19,000 mountains on Earth that we previously didn't know about.

Thinking about the National Review blogger who spent the whole day writing a post explaining why Harlan Crow paying for Clarence Thomas’s kid’s tuition is Super Cool and Legal, and now has to deal with Leonard Leo being like “GIVE GINNI THOMAS THIS SACK OF CASH, NO FINGERPRINTS”

📣📣📣Calling all Mainers with science-minded high school juniors. This FREE week-long residency at @BigelowLab is an amazing opportunity for hands-on, world class experience right here in Maine. Application deadline is Saturday, April 8.

@wood2energy You're welcome.

I mean, the real best day is when your neighbor gets a hot tub.

2 friends, 2 Portlands, 1 scathing op-ed. Thanks to @ayanaeliza & @jeanflemma for bringing this reality check on the Willow Project home to #maine (and #oregon too!) #StopWillow #StopWillowProject @PressHerald pressherald.com/2023/03/16/com…

@KatyCroffBell @anupaasokan @TEDx Can't speak for the organizers on this, but I just know the list was preliminary and not posted on the website...

@KatyCroffBell @anupaasokan @TEDx I know the organizers have added POC speakers as was always the intention. I don’t know if the lineup has been finalized yet. When I raised the issue, I was told the image shared here was never intended to be a final lineup… More to come I hope!

Dear friends, CHECK YOUR FIRE ALARMS. Motivated by the devastating loss of an Aspen Institute colleague to an apartment fire over the weekend, I did. Three of them are nearly 10 years out of date, and weren't making *any noise* at all. Don't be me. Check your alarms.

👀👀👀 #BlackHistoryMonth

@theerubicon @Aimsel Deep sigh. The point is not that it’s not ok to be white. It’s that our society is so slanted toward whiteness that the act of proclaiming such on a street corner is just performative provocation showing nothing but ignorance of our long history of discrimination.

@Conathan @Aimsel So it's not okay to be white? Are you going to remove yourself from humanity? How drastic do we have to go to eliminate white people. I'm not white and all but I got creepy vibes on where this Not being okay to be white thing is gonna end.

@_david_ho_ @_cworthy @matt_c_long @alicia_karspeck Yes please.

Does anyone want to hear about the ocean CDR MRV non-profit @_cworthy that @matt_c_long @alicia_karspeck and I are building?

@TamarHaspel @JohnNCoupland @gearybrewing More here: thetakeout.com/best-non-alcoh…

@TamarHaspel @JohnNCoupland Order some from 1820 Brewing, a spin-off of @gearybrewing, Maine’s original micro, and they recently beat Athletic in a taste off at a local Portland beer market. I like their Peek Interest Pale Ale… 1820brewing.com

As others come out of Dry January I go in to Dry February (fewer days). @JohnNCoupland and others have said non-alcoholic beers have gotten WAY better, so I'm trying a ton. Here's my take so far. In general WAY better! If you've tasted some, and have thoughts, pile on! A 🍺🧵

@nirav_mainecdc @netflix @hulu @AppleTV @hbomax Maybe instead of fancy branded names, they could just use a simple numbering system to organize each streaming service? But the system should start with 2 so nobody fights over who gets to be #1.

With @netflix, @hulu, @AppleTV, @hbomax, etc, there are too many streaming services out there. I would pay money for a company to consolidate all these offerings into one flat, monthly subscription. No more à la carte. They could offer communications and broadcast all in one.

It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do. We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal. 🧵