Science journalist in Flagstaff, Arizona. Author of Brave the Wild River (WW Norton, 2023), Mythical River, and Under Desert Skies. I write about science, nature, rivers, space. Trekkie! www.melissasevigny.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mlchvguug22cIs 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.08 May 2026 00:27 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlchvguug22chttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mlchnqvphk2cNew book alert! #scicomm #science #womeninSTEM #books [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 00:23 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlchnqvphk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3ml57qxr25k2cThis little sprig is a third generation Apollo Moon Tree, set to be planted at Lowell Observatory. Space + botany, the best combo! 🌑🌱05 May 2026 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml57qxr25k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3ml4xdprlkc2rImportant 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 https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/can-colorado-river-survive-202605 May 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4xdprlkc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3ml4r2nqq6s2nIn case you need to read something cute and cheerful today: learn all about splooting! #scicomm https://www.knau.org/earth-notes/2026-04-22/earth-notes-splooting05 May 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4r2nqq6s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3ml2c6o75ic2uChatted 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! https://beccalawton.substack.com/p/melissa-l-sevigny-and-brave-the-wild04 May 2026 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2c6o75ic2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mkvywrku4c2vTa da!03 May 2026 01:27 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvywrku4c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mkva6hfdb22nHigh elevation gluten free sourdough baking today. Wish me luck!02 May 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkva6hfdb22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mkqdabtids24Today'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). https://www.knau.org/earth-notes/2026-04-29/earth-notes-quicksand-on-the-colorado-plateau30 Apr 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqdabtids24https://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mkjge5ypys2eInteresting @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. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/our-longing-for-inconvenience28 Apr 2026 01:23 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkjge5ypys2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mjn4ebztfc2cMy cat is such a weirdo. ❤️16 Apr 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjn4ebztfc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mjfzu63vas2zCool piece in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy by @chanda.blacksky.app about the perils of metaphor in #scicomm. I think about this a lot! Figurative language has such power to captivate and make the strange more understandable...but can also lead us astray. #science https://lithub.com/where-physics-meets-poetry-on-language-and-the-power-of-metaphor/ https://lithub.com/where-physics-meets-poetry-on-language-and-the-power-of-metaphor/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KNW4DRRCX0A4JZW3T81QCZHG&_kx=wAYdtYCJUewUlxRjGHetW6aqbVvKVXEvDzYahs4SmIt7jKgVYFyty4cB80GJkTHR.U5D8ER13 Apr 2026 23:36 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfzu63vas2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mjcnarn4pc2z My latest in AZ Highways, the mysterious story of the Continental Divide marker in Bisbee which is 100+ miles off from the real divide12 Apr 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcnarn4pc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mixfdj5bt22oToday's adventure afield: baby endangered orchids returning to the wild. Story to come! #scicomm #botany08 Apr 2026 03:52 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mixfdj5bt22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3miu4t7y6js2gSonoran Desert in the spring, seen through the windows of the old stone house on the David Yetman Trail.06 Apr 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3miu4t7y6js2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mijvjo7lkc2zThis thread! I work with archival materials that aren't available online, and it is slow and painstaking and totally inefficient, and guess what? I love it, and I find humor and heart and surprise and awe in my work. AI can't do that. It shouldn't even try. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Apr 2026 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijvjo7lkc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mihtnvqj6c2gBought a used book today and found a package of wildflower seeds tucked inside .... From 1998. Think any of them will still sprout? #books #nature01 Apr 2026 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihtnvqj6c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mihdvvhguk2mHummers are heading back our way! Here's some tips on filling your feeders. 🪶 https://www.knau.org/earth-notes/2026-04-01/earth-notes-feeding-hummingbirds01 Apr 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihdvvhguk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mihcymb3hk2eupdate: not a scam. It's a tariff. Apparently this is happening a lot, where the seller puts the tariff bill on the buyer long after the fact. $15 tariff on a $25 item... 🤷‍♀️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2026 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihcymb3hk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3miciayljs22vFlagstaff friends, I'm teaching a (free!) nature writing workshop Tuesday at Willow Bend Environmental Center at 5pm. Also, Thin Air magazine has other workshops coming up on comics and the science of storytelling, so keep an eye out! #writing30 Mar 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3miciayljs22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhyozevmis2qStarting in 10 minutes! Join me. 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyozevmis2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhyhil6r522vEarly cherry bloom plus smoky skies (Rx burn) making things both beautiful and apocalyptic today.26 Mar 2026 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyhil6r522vhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhy4yrskms27Cool project run by a friend of mine to save Liberty Hyde Bailey's home/herbarium and turn it into an #ecology #scicomm center. (Look him up - he was one of America's earliest environmental educators!) The folks involved in this do good work; if you can donate, please do. www.bailey-center.org https://www.bailey-center.org/26 Mar 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhy4yrskms27https://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhvwovft422fI keep getting letters from FedEx saying I owe shipping costs on an item I did not order or receive. Is this just a mistake, or anyone know if it's a weird kind of scam?25 Mar 2026 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvwovft422fhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhtf4wmpqs2hInteresting historical fact: there was research on predator/prey relationships way back in the '30s by the Muries (who concluded ecosystems do need predators). Curious to know the (undisclosed) design of this study; any controls; random replicated plots? Probably not. 🧪 https://www.hcn.org/articles/utahs-new-study-aims-to-kill-as-many-cougars-as-possible/ https://www.hcn.org/articles/utahs-new-study-aims-to-kill-as-many-cougars-as-possible/?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2026-03-24-Newsletter24 Mar 2026 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhtf4wmpqs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhqtmbjotc25If you haven't had a chance to hear me talk about my botany/adventure book BRAVE THE WILD RIVER, I'm giving a virtual talk Thursday night for Vermont River Conservancy - open to the public! #authors 👩‍🔬#scicomm 🧪 https://vermontriverconservancy.org/news/brave-the-wild-river-webinar23 Mar 2026 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqtmbjotc25https://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhetcq3hts2jFinally had the courage to take a look at the White Sage fire scar north of the Grand Canyon. Devastating to see a familiar landscape so radically changed. #wildfire #grandcanyon19 Mar 2026 01:16 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhetcq3hts2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhbvczqfzs2hFor more about this book, here's an interview with the author in @highcountrynews.org. I love the parting question: what does it mean to embrace the ephemeral? #lakes #ecology #womeninstem https://www.hcn.org/issues/58-3/what-can-we-learn-from-salt-lakes/?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2026-03-16-Newsletter [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Mar 2026 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbvczqfzs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mhbi7jwmik2pNice to see The Feather Wars on bookshelves. I had fun blurbing this one. It's an intriguing history of the early days of the #conservation movement for protecting birds and full of oddball characters. #books #birds17 Mar 2026 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbi7jwmik2phttps://bsky.app/profile/melissasevigny.bsky.social/post/3mh5iwoozxs2eA little more peace and quiet... Paria Riffle on the Colorado River.16 Mar 2026 03:22 +0000at://did:plc:sxdpculd3h6ejtzeq77544aw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh5iwoozxs2e