MG
@megarnson.bsky.social
Seattle-area science communicator. I work with govt environmental scientists to make their work more accessible, usable, and enduring. Really into birds, books, baseball, and baking.
Amazing weather and salmon spotting at Seattle's Carkeek Park today, including these chum spawning right near the mouth of Piper's Creek.
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Amazing weather and salmon spotting at Seattle's Carkeek Park today, including these chum spawning right near the mouth of Piper's Creek.
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Josh Naylor staying with #Mariners, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
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Josh Naylor staying with #Mariners, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
📰 SeattleSports.com + Seattle Sports App
November 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Since it's too cloudy to see them tonight, I'm instead remembering how transcendent--overwhelming!-- the northern lights were from the hill next to my house in May 2024. So happy so many other people are getting to experience this right now.
#AuroraBorealis
#AuroraBorealis
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Since it's too cloudy to see them tonight, I'm instead remembering how transcendent--overwhelming!-- the northern lights were from the hill next to my house in May 2024. So happy so many other people are getting to experience this right now.
#AuroraBorealis
#AuroraBorealis
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Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice
Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Chonk indeed! We meet this moon snail (held by a naturalist from the Seattle aquarium) at low low tide a few years ago. 🐌😍
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Chonk indeed! We meet this moon snail (held by a naturalist from the Seattle aquarium) at low low tide a few years ago. 🐌😍
100% looks like an accurate bird drawn by @tommysiegel.bsky.social
Coming through! Important ptarmigan stuff to do!
#birds 🌿
#birds 🌿
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
100% looks like an accurate bird drawn by @tommysiegel.bsky.social
✅ DONE
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October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
✅ DONE
Quality PNW afternoon. Went to look for salmon with my daughter at Longfellow Creek in West Seattle. We saw a couple of fish, talked about beavers and 6PPDQ (she was captivated by one of my related work projects last spring), and snooped under a very low bridge to scope out these tracks...
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Quality PNW afternoon. Went to look for salmon with my daughter at Longfellow Creek in West Seattle. We saw a couple of fish, talked about beavers and 6PPDQ (she was captivated by one of my related work projects last spring), and snooped under a very low bridge to scope out these tracks...
And here's that big baby barred owl on the ground, not for the first time I later learned. I still can't believe I didn't have my camera... #birds
October 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
And here's that big baby barred owl on the ground, not for the first time I later learned. I still can't believe I didn't have my camera... #birds
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The Bread Carrier, by Pablo Picasso, 1905
October 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The Bread Carrier, by Pablo Picasso, 1905
Hahahaha Geno really putting the OMG in GOMs
October 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Hahahaha Geno really putting the OMG in GOMs
Just found this cute note in a book my daughter brought home from the library 😻 When I translated it, she wanted to take credit and then immediately confessed she doesn't know Spanish yet.
#HolaMamáTeAmo #HiMomILoveYou
#HolaMamáTeAmo #HiMomILoveYou
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Just found this cute note in a book my daughter brought home from the library 😻 When I translated it, she wanted to take credit and then immediately confessed she doesn't know Spanish yet.
#HolaMamáTeAmo #HiMomILoveYou
#HolaMamáTeAmo #HiMomILoveYou
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Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.
September 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.
Right in the perfect middle of the baseball / photography Venn diagram
Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect
September 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Right in the perfect middle of the baseball / photography Venn diagram
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We teamed up with Society of Behavioral Medicine to share how all of us—scientists, health professionals, and the public—can help combat misinformation 🧠.
This post highlights their toolkit with 10 practical tips to help identify and prevent the spread of misinformation.
This post highlights their toolkit with 10 practical tips to help identify and prevent the spread of misinformation.
September 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We teamed up with Society of Behavioral Medicine to share how all of us—scientists, health professionals, and the public—can help combat misinformation 🧠.
This post highlights their toolkit with 10 practical tips to help identify and prevent the spread of misinformation.
This post highlights their toolkit with 10 practical tips to help identify and prevent the spread of misinformation.
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I used to work on documentaries. I am very into #birds. This doc is so, so good and it's just right there on YouTube for anybody to watch! You don't even have to care about birds to enjoy it (but if you don't already, you might after watching.)
I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate:
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube
Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.
slate.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I used to work on documentaries. I am very into #birds. This doc is so, so good and it's just right there on YouTube for anybody to watch! You don't even have to care about birds to enjoy it (but if you don't already, you might after watching.)
Anyone missing a beloved #birds field guide?
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
September 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyone missing a beloved #birds field guide?
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“Who me? As a tripod fish, I deal with stress and fear by transforming into an eyeless abyssal predatory elder god. What about you?”
🎥 Huge thanks to @frida.yolotzin for letting me use the baby tripod fish video, and @schmidtocean for permission to share the adult video.
🎥 Huge thanks to @frida.yolotzin for letting me use the baby tripod fish video, and @schmidtocean for permission to share the adult video.
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“Who me? As a tripod fish, I deal with stress and fear by transforming into an eyeless abyssal predatory elder god. What about you?”
🎥 Huge thanks to @frida.yolotzin for letting me use the baby tripod fish video, and @schmidtocean for permission to share the adult video.
🎥 Huge thanks to @frida.yolotzin for letting me use the baby tripod fish video, and @schmidtocean for permission to share the adult video.
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Hey safe streets nerds! Do you work flexible hours? Have a cool retired parent looking to stay active? Become a school crossing guard! Look at all those unfilled positions! Make it easier for your neighborhood kids to walk and bike to school! www.seattleschools.org/news/crossin...
September 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Hey safe streets nerds! Do you work flexible hours? Have a cool retired parent looking to stay active? Become a school crossing guard! Look at all those unfilled positions! Make it easier for your neighborhood kids to walk and bike to school! www.seattleschools.org/news/crossin...
Evergreen (a day later)
I now understand why Mariners fans post every evening like they are dying of kidney stones
September 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Evergreen (a day later)
