STAR TREK🖖 + WHALES🐳 = best possible combination. Fellow nerds (and future nerds), read this wonderful piece by @chanda.blacksky.app in @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/plan...

Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine

Learning from Star Trek’s space whales

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I love interviewing botanists. Whenever you come across an Echinocactus in the field, they all make the exact same joke, and you end up with transcripts that look like this. <nerd joke alert> 🤦‍♀️🌵

Congrats to @hhansman.bsky.social whose excellent book FIERCE COUNTRY is out today! If you liked my book and are hungry for more stories of fierce, complicated, wonderful women out in the wilds, this one's for you. #books #writing #nature www.harpercollins.com/products/fie...

Fierce Country

The inspiring, untold story of three incredible women who spearheaded recreation, conservation and resilience in America’s most beloved landscapes, for read...

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If you've hiked the Yetman Trail in Tucson, you know the Bowen homestead. I've been obsessed with Ruby Bowen's story since I was a kid, and it was fun to finally write about her. My latest in Arizona Highways: www.arizonahighways.com/archive/issu... #nature #writing

OUT IN THE DESERT

Unlike her namesake, a woman whose story is repeated in karaoke bars around the world, Ruby Bowen never took her love to town. Instead, she and her husband built a house and made a home on a secluded ...

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My latest in @highcountrynews.org: after a decade of preparation, scientists restore one of the nation's rarest orchids to a desert wetland in Arizona. #science #botany #scicomm

High Country News@highcountrynews.org · 4w ago

Returning a rare orchid to the wild is a complex challenge, but if these scientists succeed, they’ll blaze a path for future reintroductions.

Back from rafting the Green River. Here's our last morning - sometimes nature is ridiculously, wonderfully, amazingly cliche.

Still time to sign up for a #writing workshop on the Green River with me and the fantastic Holiday River folks! We'll take off on June 22 - don't you want to be floating a beautiful river next week?? www.bikeraft.com/specialty-ri...

Writing Workshop on the Green River - Holiday River Expeditions

Flex your creativity in this writer's workshop! Float the Gates of Lodore with acclaimed author Melissa Sevigny and hone your writing skills.

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Advice to writers from the 1920s. It has aged rather well. "Don't hurry the book because no one will publish anything now..." #amwriting #authors

Health insurance companies: Let's talk about wellness! Me: Okay, my eyes have been -- 👀 Them: Eyes don't count. Me: Oh, well, I could use a dentist --🫤 Them: Teeth don't count. Me: Really? I'm gonna need a therapist. Them: Brains def don't count. 🧠

A bit of country bliss.

Prickly poppies abloom in the White Sage burn scar north of the Grand Canyon.

For your Sunday reading, #author Benjamin Schneider talks about the value of truly public spaces, the concept of "15 minute malls" and flying cars. Take a deep dive into the future of American urban centers. @terrainorg.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2026/intervi...

Gathering Spaces: An Interview with Benjamin Schneider - Terrain.org

Congress for New Urbanism Fellow Galina Tachieva interviews Benjamin Schneider, author of The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution.

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Okay, mostly being a writer does not look like this. But some days it does. 💙 #amwriting

Goodness, I almost forgot it's my book's 3-year anniversary! To celebrate, here's a throwback photo to my publicity manager, who gets credit for keeping my sanity mostly intact. 🐱💙📚

Goodreads is running a giveaway for my upcoming book LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown! You can enter to win a free print copy www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

The new issue of About Place includes my brief essay "Landslide." It's about loss, interconnected ecological and human health, and the ocean. Give it a read. #writing #climatechange #ecology aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Melissa L. Sevigny – The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal

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Morning on the Colorado River above Lees Ferry. Had a lovely float before the crazy wind set in.

Science writer @melissasevigny.bsky.social does a deep dive on last summer's Dragon Bravo Fire on the north rim of Grand Canyon National Park: www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/after-t...

After the Fires: Restoring the Grand Canyon's North Rim | Grand Canyon Trust

In 2025, fires raged across the Grand Canyon's north rim. What does the future hold for the forests, people, and economies of the North Rim?

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Grand Canyon sunrise. Never a bad thing when this is your office for the day.

Mother's Day feels like the right time to share this poem, published in the latest issue of Grist journal. #poetry #amwriting

Is anyone in #scicomm reporting on the FDA and thyroid medication? This needs a close eye. Insurance is now basically forcing everyone to take levothyroxine, a generic that DOES NOT ALLEVIATE SYMPTOMS for most people who take it. It took me years to find a thyroid med that worked; fewer options now.

New book alert! #scicomm #science #womeninSTEM #books

Roberta Kwok@robertakwok.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm thrilled to announce that my book LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown is available to pre-order now and has been chosen for Indies Introduce, the American Booksellers Association's list of best summer/fall debuts! www.instagram.com/p/DYCj597DTp... (1/N)

This little sprig is a third generation Apollo Moon Tree, set to be planted at Lowell Observatory. Space + botany, the best combo! 🌑🌱

Important reporting in @sierramagazine.bsky.social by @morgansjogren.bsky.social on stalled Colorado River negotiations: "the only common ground between the states is disapproval for all alternatives put forward. " #water #scicomm www.sierraclub.org/sierra/can-c...

Can the Colorado River Survive 2026?

This mighty river’s water levels are approaching dangerous lows, which could impact millions of people

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In case you need to read something cute and cheerful today: learn all about splooting! #scicomm www.knau.org/earth-notes/...

Earth Notes: Splooting

Prairie dogs, squirrels and even the family dog exhibit a behavior called “splooting" to help regulate body temperature.

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Chatted with the amazing whitewater river runner/writer Becca Lawton about.... let's see, rivers, deserts, #womeninSTEM, #books, #poetry, the impact of a mentor, and other things. Give it a listen! beccalawton.substack.com/p/melissa-l-...

Melissa L. Sevigny and Brave the Wild River

One writer's journey through science and writing to a river life

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Ta da!

High elevation gluten free sourdough baking today. Wish me luck!

Today's Earth Notes: what to do if you get stuck in quicksand. (No, you won't sink in all the way like in the movies). www.knau.org/earth-notes/...

Earth Notes: Quicksand on the Colorado Plateau

Quicksand can form in rivers and washes across the Colorado Plateau. Conditions beneath the surface can create unstable ground and potential hazards.

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Interesting @newyorker.com piece. I think a lot about the joys of physical media; on VCR nights w/ niblings, they squabble over who gets to push the cassette in. There's beauty in the tactile. Also, it starts and stops: a mindfulness not found in endless streaming. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

Our Longing for Inconvenience

People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?

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