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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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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Except not in Vermont, in my town, where these awful arrests happened (no billboards here)
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There are gender implications too-- Strava heat maps only include data from users who allow public following and, because many women runners and cyclists don't want that, the data are skewed toward (white) male activity.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Huh. In the US 'fatbike' refers to mountain bikes with very wide tires and wheels so you can ride on snow, powered only (or mostly) by pedaling. For us, the vehicle in the drawing is an "e-moto".
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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 · 22/08/2026
Oh, no! I'm so sorry, @katgeographic.bsky.social Emailed you. ❤️
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
*fund*
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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 · 15/08/2026
Woonerven
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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
Thanks for these informational posts, @welch.senate.gov but they would be much more effective if you paired them with an *action you are taking to fix things* or even an action we -- your Vermont constituents -- can take. See posts by @murray.senate.gov for examples.
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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 · 30/07/2026
You might be interested in one of my student's term project on this topic from my class, Historical Geographies of Childhood 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 · 28/07/2026
Woodcock ❤️
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Not my two Gen-Z kick-a$$ feminist daughters! 😤
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Whippersnapper.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bah, paywalls 😭
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
'Every accusation...' and all that
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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 · 03/07/2026
We Vermonters are frustrated too -- no longer feelin' the Barn... uh, Bern.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Designed by Le Cowbusier?
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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 · 17/06/2026
Burned my tongue so many times on those
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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 · 27/05/2026
AG of my tiny state going up against them... and winning www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Supreme Court rejects Meta's appeal in Vermont social media addiction case
The Supreme Court has rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users, a decision that comes as social media companies increasingly face legal scrutiny.
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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 · 12/05/2026
Aztec Telescope
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Cure-all
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I did this. Left tenured R1 for untenured small state univ to save my soul, be closer to elders, and raise my kids in a place I love. Never looked back!
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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 · 29/04/2026
Hmm. Need to read the full piece, but I'm skeptical. My quick take (having grown up in the CT River Valley and now a Vermont geographer) is that it's the *river* - with its rich ag lands, wealth, and colleges - not the bridges per se.
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Urban geographer here, been to Lyon a few times (living in Vermont, love the Montreal-Lyon flights!). Great architecture, public spaces, and transit/ bike lanes. Climb the stairs and steep side streets to Vieux Lyon for views and don't miss the Jardin des Curiosites. maps.app.goo.gl/cycsmAYA89oM...
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I was studying abroad that year (1987-88) and was very grateful to have missed it all.
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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 · 21/04/2026
Vermont does this. ☹️
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Beautiful! But it's CLEMATIS (no "n")
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
And P-R next week...a sweep of all 5 Monuments for Pogacar? 🤔
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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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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
And it's not just Paris! I just got back from a conference in Angers and spent time in Nantes as well -- even old industrial cities and small towns are getting bike/ped makeovers. 😍
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
My mom (American living in France) and me (just visiting) representing her tiny village this morning. #NoKings
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Must have been a cloudy day
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
🕟 Just a social construct anyway
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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 · 12/03/2026
Shout out to North Hadley, MA syrup too!
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