Melanie R. Meadors
@lookingupwithmel.bsky.social
I'm a geographer and science communicator who is passionate about conservation and studying the interactions between humans and nature. I love hiking and stargazing, as well as working to protect both green spaces and the night sky.
Tomorrow I'm back on the trails with TWO potential hikes. So who wants to pledge to support me? Well, you're not really supporting me, you are supporting the TREES, the BIRDS, the INSECTS, and all the other life forms that depend on green space. LET'S DO THIS!! www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
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ONE-TIME & PER-TRAIL OPTIONS 2ND SCREENStay updated online at https://gwlt.org/hike-worcester-week/Discover Wild Worcester!Enjoy the outdoors on trail…
www.zeffy.com
September 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Tomorrow I'm back on the trails with TWO potential hikes. So who wants to pledge to support me? Well, you're not really supporting me, you are supporting the TREES, the BIRDS, the INSECTS, and all the other life forms that depend on green space. LET'S DO THIS!! www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
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Discover the State of the World’s Birds!🐦
This sixth edition by BirdLife International focuses on migratory birds and their flyways, and what they reveal about the state of nature, the drivers of biodiversity loss, and the solutions needed to reverse declines.🗺️
Find it here👉 sowb.birdlife.org
This sixth edition by BirdLife International focuses on migratory birds and their flyways, and what they reveal about the state of nature, the drivers of biodiversity loss, and the solutions needed to reverse declines.🗺️
Find it here👉 sowb.birdlife.org
September 11, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Discover the State of the World’s Birds!🐦
This sixth edition by BirdLife International focuses on migratory birds and their flyways, and what they reveal about the state of nature, the drivers of biodiversity loss, and the solutions needed to reverse declines.🗺️
Find it here👉 sowb.birdlife.org
This sixth edition by BirdLife International focuses on migratory birds and their flyways, and what they reveal about the state of nature, the drivers of biodiversity loss, and the solutions needed to reverse declines.🗺️
Find it here👉 sowb.birdlife.org
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Last day to get Tyrant Lizard Queen for 25% off from B&N!
Haven't pre-ordered Tyrant Lizard Queen yet? Then you're in luck, because you can grab it from B&N for 25% off from 9/9-9/11. Just use the code PREORDER25 at checkout. 🦖
bit.ly/TyrantLizard...
bit.ly/TyrantLizard...
September 11, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Last day to get Tyrant Lizard Queen for 25% off from B&N!
Greater Worcester Land Trust's Hike Worcester Week Challenge starts TOMORROW and I would be so grateful for your support @ ANY amount. I will be hiking at least 10 trails in the city area over the course of the week to help conserve green spaces for generations to come! www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
Melanie Meadors's Fundraiser
ONE-TIME & PER-TRAIL OPTIONS 2ND SCREENStay updated online at https://gwlt.org/hike-worcester-week/Discover Wild Worcester!Enjoy the outdoors on trail…
www.zeffy.com
September 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Greater Worcester Land Trust's Hike Worcester Week Challenge starts TOMORROW and I would be so grateful for your support @ ANY amount. I will be hiking at least 10 trails in the city area over the course of the week to help conserve green spaces for generations to come! www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
Hike Worcester Week is coming up! Wait, you don't know what that is? Check out my latest post and learn more about how you can pledge support my treks through Worcester hiking trails and raise money for Greater Worcester Land Trust! lookingupwithmel.substack.com/p/what-is-hi...
What Is Hike Worcester Week, and How Can You Help?
Let’s work together to conserve green spaces for generations to come!
lookingupwithmel.substack.com
September 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Hike Worcester Week is coming up! Wait, you don't know what that is? Check out my latest post and learn more about how you can pledge support my treks through Worcester hiking trails and raise money for Greater Worcester Land Trust! lookingupwithmel.substack.com/p/what-is-hi...
What the heck?? These people are garbage.
“Introduce this Palaeolithic tribe to modernity … Let’s land on this bitch.”
As a collective influencers are a plague on the planet. The bunch trying to photograph indigenous communities for clicks? My thoughts on them are better left unsaid.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
As a collective influencers are a plague on the planet. The bunch trying to photograph indigenous communities for clicks? My thoughts on them are better left unsaid.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes
A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2026 at 1:13 PM
What the heck?? These people are garbage.
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always protect the possibility of something beautiful
September 4, 2026 at 6:58 AM
always protect the possibility of something beautiful
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We need your eyes! 🖥️
Introducing Rubin: Blobs and Blurs, a new citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data. 🔭🧪
We’re on the hunt for faint, blurry galaxies that are dominated by invisible dark matter & often hard for computers to identify.
zooniverse.org/rubin
Introducing Rubin: Blobs and Blurs, a new citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data. 🔭🧪
We’re on the hunt for faint, blurry galaxies that are dominated by invisible dark matter & often hard for computers to identify.
zooniverse.org/rubin
September 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
We need your eyes! 🖥️
Introducing Rubin: Blobs and Blurs, a new citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data. 🔭🧪
We’re on the hunt for faint, blurry galaxies that are dominated by invisible dark matter & often hard for computers to identify.
zooniverse.org/rubin
Introducing Rubin: Blobs and Blurs, a new citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data. 🔭🧪
We’re on the hunt for faint, blurry galaxies that are dominated by invisible dark matter & often hard for computers to identify.
zooniverse.org/rubin
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Good reminder that if you vote in CA, sign up for ballottrax. If USPS fucks up delivery, you'll know asap.
Be aware. A federal appeals court has blocked Donald Trump's plan. Nevertheless, under Trump's executive order, the U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead, potentially leading to millions of American voters not receiving their mail-in ballots this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all.
Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms (Gift Article)
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Good reminder that if you vote in CA, sign up for ballottrax. If USPS fucks up delivery, you'll know asap.
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Please take care of yourselves. A major incarnation of hope, kindness and joy was just lost. Everyone is understandably responding.
August 25, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Please take care of yourselves. A major incarnation of hope, kindness and joy was just lost. Everyone is understandably responding.
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Did you know that thanks to climate change the US is expecting its worst wheat harvest in half a century? We're pushing up against physical limits, and we're pushing hard.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
Reality intrudes
We can’t actually keep on like this
billmckibben.substack.com
August 25, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Did you know that thanks to climate change the US is expecting its worst wheat harvest in half a century? We're pushing up against physical limits, and we're pushing hard.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
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[P] Even ignoring her tremendous contributions to music and entertainment, just spend a few going through at the "Philanthropy" section of her wiki.
*That* is how to live a life.
RIP to a genuine American treasure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...
*That* is how to live a life.
RIP to a genuine American treasure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...
Dolly Parton - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 25, 2026 at 6:19 PM
[P] Even ignoring her tremendous contributions to music and entertainment, just spend a few going through at the "Philanthropy" section of her wiki.
*That* is how to live a life.
RIP to a genuine American treasure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...
*That* is how to live a life.
RIP to a genuine American treasure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...
Hey, if you were subscribing to a monthly astronomy zine that is 12 pages long, what would you want in it? Stargazing tips? what's up in the sky this month? Latest astronomy news? Would you want it to be a digest of a bunch of different topics, or a thing dedicated to a single subject?
August 23, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Hey, if you were subscribing to a monthly astronomy zine that is 12 pages long, what would you want in it? Stargazing tips? what's up in the sky this month? Latest astronomy news? Would you want it to be a digest of a bunch of different topics, or a thing dedicated to a single subject?
OMG it's even better than I thought it would be!! This is exactly the book I was looking for! Heh, @drspacejunk.bsky.social thanks again!!
August 22, 2026 at 6:45 PM
OMG it's even better than I thought it would be!! This is exactly the book I was looking for! Heh, @drspacejunk.bsky.social thanks again!!
This morning, my Zojirushi coffee maker chugged away, making the morning pot. It completed brewing the pot, then quietly died. RIP Zoji. You served us well for many years...
August 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM
This morning, my Zojirushi coffee maker chugged away, making the morning pot. It completed brewing the pot, then quietly died. RIP Zoji. You served us well for many years...
Aurora Borealis greeting cards are available now in my shop! Printed from an original oil pastel by me. Help support public astronomy programming and content! lookingupwithmel.com/store/p/auro...
Aurora Borealis Greeting Card, Print from original oil pastel by Mel — Melanie R. Meadors
Do you have an astronomy or nature lover on your mailing list? Send them a greeting card with a print of my “Aurora Borealis” oil pastel painting! The card measures 4.15 by 5.5 inches. It comes with a...
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August 19, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Aurora Borealis greeting cards are available now in my shop! Printed from an original oil pastel by me. Help support public astronomy programming and content! lookingupwithmel.com/store/p/auro...
AI tokens are now offered as part of compensation at several tech companies now. So you might not be able to feed your families, but at least you can use AI!
People also need to see this not just as an arcane concern for rare book enthusiasts or librarians or archivists or historians and other scholars, but as part of the destruction of the corpus of human endeavour necessary to bring about what Sam Altman says here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqv...
August 18, 2026 at 12:46 PM
AI tokens are now offered as part of compensation at several tech companies now. So you might not be able to feed your families, but at least you can use AI!
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“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.”
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
ysph.yale.edu
August 17, 2026 at 5:25 AM
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.”
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Some photos from my time in the White Mountains/Franconia Notch. Very relaxing. I can't wait to go back.
August 14, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Some photos from my time in the White Mountains/Franconia Notch. Very relaxing. I can't wait to go back.
I'm back from vacation in the White Mountains/Franconia Notch. Here's my photo of the partial eclipse on Wednesday! #solareclipse #solareclipse2026 #space
August 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I'm back from vacation in the White Mountains/Franconia Notch. Here's my photo of the partial eclipse on Wednesday! #solareclipse #solareclipse2026 #space
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[UPDATE] Happy to see that astronomers, biologists and & conservationists filed a petition Thursday asking the FTC to reverse its approval of a for profit plan to beam sunlight from space to Earth at night, on-demand 🧪
Birds, insects and others rely on moon & stars to navigate, feed & more too:
Birds, insects and others rely on moon & stars to navigate, feed & more too:
Environmental groups challenge FCC approval of startup’s plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space
While the FCC approved only a single test mission, the groups argue it could pave the way for a much larger constellation of satellites in the future.
www.nbcnews.com
August 8, 2026 at 9:26 PM
[UPDATE] Happy to see that astronomers, biologists and & conservationists filed a petition Thursday asking the FTC to reverse its approval of a for profit plan to beam sunlight from space to Earth at night, on-demand 🧪
Birds, insects and others rely on moon & stars to navigate, feed & more too:
Birds, insects and others rely on moon & stars to navigate, feed & more too:
Isaacman keeps talking about beating China, building perimeters, and "city blocks" on the moon. Meanwhile, the NASA's moon base updates focus on all the science we're going to be doing up there, and cooperative efforts. So, which one is it?
That's really not the message I want to hear from the NASA administrator, to be quite honest
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
August 6, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Isaacman keeps talking about beating China, building perimeters, and "city blocks" on the moon. Meanwhile, the NASA's moon base updates focus on all the science we're going to be doing up there, and cooperative efforts. So, which one is it?
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Our thoroughly corrupt electoral system.
August 4, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Our thoroughly corrupt electoral system.
I LOVE this month's issue of Looking Up! with Mel, and if you subscribe by Aug 5th at 10AM, you can get one in the mail as well!! lookingupwithmel.com/store/subscr...
August 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I LOVE this month's issue of Looking Up! with Mel, and if you subscribe by Aug 5th at 10AM, you can get one in the mail as well!! lookingupwithmel.com/store/subscr...
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Frustrated scientists spending actual years of their lives dedicated to PLEASE STOP SPREADING THAT BULLSHIT ABOUT DETRANSITIONING, WE BEG YOU
A new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex.
assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
A New Study from Canada Again Finds Less Than 1 Percent of Trans Youth Detransition - Assigned Media
Out of 445 patients across four gender clinics only one who started hormone therapy stopped due to a change in gender identity.
assignedmedia.org
August 3, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Frustrated scientists spending actual years of their lives dedicated to PLEASE STOP SPREADING THAT BULLSHIT ABOUT DETRANSITIONING, WE BEG YOU