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Meghan Cope (she/her)

@mcope.bsky.social
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Geography prof @ University of Vermont. Striving for thriving, socially just, healthy cities. Also: early 20th C. US geographies of childhood, qualitative research methods, geo-humanities. #MappingAmericanChildhoods blog.uvm.edu/mcope-childhoods

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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@vtdigger.bsky.social you on this? Disgusted at my town's police, but proud of my clergy neighbors. 🙏
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TONIGHT: Submit your comment now to help stop NSF from implementing harmful grantmaking changes that would give political appointees veto power over peer review and allow the government to cancel active grants mid-project with minimal justification. (1/2) #GeoSky #GISChat @agu.org
Call urging Congress to block OMB’s proposed rule limiting federal grantmaking, featuring AGU’s warning that removing scientific review could let research benefits go unrecognized, with the AGU logo and tagline "Advancing Earth and Space Sciences" on a teal background.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wow, $750,000 to... um... take pictures of 150 objects from a thinly veiled racist organization (SAR). No wonder they couldn't find my puny summer (2025) stipend to make story-maps of child migrant workers in early 20th c. US. 🙄
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Prof. Sarah Mills @sarah-mills.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New co-authored paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social - "Digital geographies of/and childhood and youth" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Mmmm... so close
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just finished my required CITI "Responsible Conduct of Research" training and had really mixed emotions reading about the ideals of ethical scholarship, meaningful peer review, and good mentoring in contrast to the practices of the current federal administration. 😭
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One of my students did a term project related to this blog.uvm.edu/mcope-childh...
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Cars – Corby | Mapping American Childhoods
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Of course it is -- this applies to EVERYTHING. A man could swing a wet noodle at a housefly and be seen as innovative while a woman would be seen as ridiculous, dumb, Incompetent. 🙄
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
While you'd never know it from this coverage by @vermontpublic.org, I was a co-author on this paper, providing the urban geography/history perspective. doi.org/10.1029/2026...
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Soil Lead Risks Associated With Urbanization Histories in Springfield MA and Hartford CT, USA
Due to legacy leaded products, soil Pb is generally higher in older urban centers triggering substantial implications for environmental equity. By integrating a gridded soil Pb analysis of about 150 ...
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New article alert! Comics-based research pub in GeoHumanities with my student/artist/friend, Sadie Holmes. @criticalchildhood.bsky.social @geohumsig.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @shcy.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2373...
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Making Comics for Critical Historical Geographies: Mothers’ Letters to the U.S. Children’s Bureau in the 1910s and 1920s
In this paper we use graphic-novel style illustrations of early twentieth century American mothers’ writings to visualize the stories of an often-overlooked population. Inspired by others’ weavings...
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
What did YOU do in ~2007 to cause birth rates to crash? Wrong answers only. I moved my family from Buffalo to Vermont in late 2006 -- clearly a major contributor, well beyond the bursting housing bubble and resulting economic crash. 🙄 www.npr.org/2026/06/12/n...
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Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?
Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Proud to know Wilmer and to see my state doing the right thing. 🤛
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SHCY @shcy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
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Call for Papers: SHCY 2027 in Montreal! - Society for the History of Children and Youth
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I wish them the best, but in bike racing DFL stands for Dead F*cking Last 😳
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sending this to everyone I know. Best piece I've read on the challenges of AI and I've always appreciated the work of T.H. Marshall, so it's great to see such an apt application of his framework.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
And it's worse for suburban / rural teens, as my colleague, Brian H.Y. Lee and I found in Vermont www.jstor.org/stable/45388...
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Mobility, Communication, and Place: Navigating the Landscapes of Suburban U.S. Teens on JSTOR
Meghan Cope, Brian H. Y. Lee, Mobility, Communication, and Place: Navigating the Landscapes of Suburban U.S. Teens, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Vol. 106, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: G...
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Congratulations, @ckeegan.bsky.social -- can't wait to read this!
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Curious about AI+Research in Geography? Join us for a webinar April 30th with guest expert, Prof. Bing Zhou of @utkgeography.bsky.social Sign up by April 29!
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Rae Baker @cityisthelimit.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Qualitative Research Specialty Group of @geographers.bsky.social seeks contributions for a special issue, "Adapting qualitative methods: Methodological solidarities in an era of political extremes, AI, and institutional restrictions". Abstracts due April 24th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Zoning policy and sewer allocation regulations are having their moment
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Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Have you ever considered yourself something of a "map head"? We're currently hiring for two positions! Learn more and apply online: www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/
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SHCY @shcy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Society for the History of Children and Youth offers annual grants to scholarly event organizers. SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2026–27. The application deadline is May 1. Find more information here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...
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Event Grants - Society for the History of Children and Youth
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Umm, @welch.senate.gov, I think you have the wrong Markwayne. 😳 Come back to Vermont so we can remind you what it means to have a backbone and stand up for what's right. - An angry constituent
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Loughborough University PR @lboropr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A new opinion piece authored by Professor Sarah Mills @lborogeog.bsky.social looks at the rise of prediction markets, letting anonymous users gamble on uncertainty. Read more 👇 www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre...
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Everything can be a bet now – the rise and risks of prediction markets
An opinion piece authored by Professor Sarah Mills, Professor of Human Geography, from the School of Geography and Environment, for The Conversation platform.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Scheduling a video meeting of an international group in April so I looked up when various holidays are to avoid inconveniencing my colleagues ... AI doesn't know there is more than one Easter, lists only Orthodox. 🐰
An inaccurate list of major religious holidays for April 2026
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Great, yet terrifying project, but I think it's missing the sex trafficking/porn layer. pedo-crypto-klepto-techno-petro-broligarch racist fascist war machine @michaelemann.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Support local journalism and avoid @bostonglobe.com paywalls by reading about this case here: vtdigger.org/2026/02/04/u...
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Ugandan minister Steven Tendo, who faced brutal torture abroad, detained by ICE - VTDigger
Tendo, who fled his native country to seek asylum and has lived in Vermont since 2021, was detained outside a health care facility in Shelburne where he works, advocates said.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Anyone else seeing towns and cities passing anti-ICE resolutions? Symbolic, of course, but unanimous vote by the Selectboard in my town of 10,000 (where ICE has back office ops), Williston, VT. We need to map these! vtdigger.org/2026/01/21/w...
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Williston passes resolution opposing ICE - VTDigger
After months of opposition to two ICE facilities in Williston, the town took a strong – if symbolic – stand.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Honestly, @murray.senate.gov looks like she's barely containing her rage
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Fixed it for you, Senator @durbin.senate.gov
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Proud of my kids' school district and my state (Vermont) for sticking up for trans youth 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️ vtdigger.org/2026/01/15/c...
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Champlain Valley schools face federal investigation over transgender athlete policy - VTDigger
Student and advocacy groups are pushing back on what they see as further federal attacks on trans youth.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Maybe this will freeze ICE in MN? 🥶 I hope their masks freeze to their nostril hairs. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Arctic cold and snow return to Minnesota
A pattern change brings much colder temperatures with occasional snow Thursday into the upcoming weekend.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Why did you do this, @welch.senate.gov ?? We Vermonters want to know. How can you support Feeding Chittenden one minute and vote for a traitor the next?
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I've always liked the @brennancenter.org -- I use their reports every time I teach electoral geography in my Intro to Human Geography course. Now I like them even more for backing up my Sec of State. 👍
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Taking a moment to imagine what this approach would look like at a national scale, not just for infrastructure, but also housing, child- and elder-care, schools, food security... Important to dream the future we want!
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This is lovely, but I can't help noting that if the 1% paid meaningful levels of taxes we could make collective decisions to fund such things publicly and not have to depend on donations from good folks like Steves. Of course, we could also fund supportive *housing*.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hmm, this G/ATOR thingy sure would be more useful in Ukraine than Trinidad 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
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Trinidad Has Become a U.S. Staging Ground in Its Conflict With Venezuela
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
There's a bat 🦇 in our department seminar room and a Microsoft glitch kicked all my students out of our course Teams channel so I had to manually re-add them. How's your morning going? 🤪
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Geography professor -- "so you know all the capitals?" 😬 (I'm actually terrible at trivia)
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 29/11/2025
Due to outdated privacy laws, the Trump administration can easily turn powerful surveillance tools against anyone and everyone, with scant safeguards. Now, ICE says that it plans to make this risk a reality for the swath of Americans who oppose the president’s agenda. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Oh, but the real problem of antisemitism is suggesting we maybe don't help kill babies in Gaza.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Really not sure how I feel about this 😬 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/m...
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Are You Resigned to a World of Bad News? Or Do You Need Some ‘Cope’?
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Repping our professions - me on the right, and my daughter, who is a medical assistant at a GYN clinic while she applies to med school. #nokings
Two women at a protest, the younger one holds a sign saying "Gender affirming health care saves lives". The other woman, dressed in academic regalia, has a sign saying "Proud to teach DEI".
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Glad to see Vermont legislators' bipartisan calls for resignation. Let's see swift action against ALL the participants in this disgusting exchange. @politico.com vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...
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Vermont governor calls for Orleans County senator’s resignation over leaked ‘racist, bigoted and antisemitic’ group chat - VTDigger
Political leaders on both sides of the aisle have moved to denounce Sen. Sam Douglass’ remarks and call for his resignation.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Um, no, it was the scientists, professors, and students, actually. 🙄
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Jon Stewart: Authoritarian governments a threat, not comedy
Comedian Jon Stewart says speculation about the future of comedy amid increased audience cultural sensitivity is ignoring a true and enduring threat: authoritarian governments around the world.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Local friends, join me in Essex Junction, Vermont!
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Brilliant, as always. And I would add that NSF now stands for "No Such Funding"
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Fixed the headline: STUDY PROVES THAT $333 PER MONTH IS A PIDDLING AMOUNT www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Imagine the outcry if a country baited stray dogs with food and "killed nearly 100 of them". Israel does this to hungry humans day after day and the world shrugs. 😡 Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say www.npr.org/2025/07/20/n...
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Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say
Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.
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