Melanie Stegman, Ph.D.

I've been asked for an intro. I'm currently a video game design professor in Baltimore. I love proteins and cells and insects... I love that everything living relies on every other living thing ...and on every other dying thing. I solve big problems with communication and experimentation.

Each Friday evening, @LizNeeley.bsky.social writes a debrief of the week’s events in #Science & #HigherEd - What's happened? What next & what to do? 🧪 The goal is to help you keep current— by staying focused instead of flooded. Jan 19-23, 2026 was Year 2, Week 4 bit.ly/4t5dPz2 #MeetingTheMoment

In July, I exported to the grid nearly 20 times the energy I imported ..in my small-ish all-electric house with rooftop solar, a battery, an air-to-air heat pump/air con, a Sunamp heat battery for hot water, & mech. ventilation (often left on in July as it filters the air) Well in credit all year

Many are woefully ignorant of our history… We Promised! We Have Not Honored Our Promise!

It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This feels gross. https://kotaku.com/this-feels-gross-2000717133

I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love. Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below! We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Have you always wondered what would happen if Hades had a wild night with Undertale and Hyper Light Drifter? You like to playtest stuff? Then try FULLY AUTOMATED ! The roguelite where no one has to die, probably. #gamedev #gaming #indiegame #games store.steampowered.com/app/1370830/...

It's SciAnts Sunday! Today we are continuing #ResidentEvilRequiem , chatting in game insect science, rabbit holes, and more! Come join the colony! 9pm EST #twitch #stem #TwitchPartner #live #livestream #twitchstreamer #sciants #scicomm twitch.tv/sciants_stre...

Second game that was reviewed today on th Science Game Center is Solve the Outbreak. www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/solve-... This game is by the Centers for Disease Control CDC. Yes, our scientists using the best learning technology we have: games! #immunology #infectiousdisease 🧪 #scicomm

Two new player reviews today at the Science Game Center. First one is Virtual Insect Collection by the Learning Games Lab at New Mexico State. www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/virtua... #scicomm #gamedev #insects #nativePlants Follow that link to the Science Game Center and review science games!

Join us for #StanceOnScience where we ask politicians where they stand on #SciencePolicy issues ahead of the midterm elections! #SciPol #MidtermElections #SciComm

New player review, the first for Outbreak Squad. A game by the Learning Games Lab at New Mexico State University. Read the review, link to the game and write your own review at the Science Game Center: www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/outbre... 🧪#infectiousDisease

After years of following and supporting #indiegames and #gamedev, it’s finally happening: Our game "Kernelbay" has a "Coming Soon" page on @steampowered.com and we're part of the Fishing Fest! 🎣 It would mean the world if you could wishlist & repost🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3686480/...

New player review www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/tami-s... #gamedev 🧪 Come read this review, maybe play this game yourself! It's from the Smithsonian's science education group. Search for more games by topic, player age or hardware at the Science Game Center.

I reviewed a game: Antibody One A sweet short game about microscopic things battling for their life, and yours. Play it! Review it on my little Science Game site, and tell your friends about it. Together we help science game find their audiences. 🧪 gamedev www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/antibo...

@repkweisimfume.bsky.social Please do press against our ridiculous actions in Venezuela. Please do press against the inhumane treatment of immigrants and all other Humans. Please do press for allowing more legal immigration. Please press for universal healthcare.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Baltimore

Skin Deep is nominated for the IGF EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN award! I'm so proud of what we made. Skin Deep's designers: - Suzanne Will @binarypartitioned.space - Tynan Wales - Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social Skin Deep credits: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre... IGF noms: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4

The Centipede Simulator demo is finally here! Play it now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3922090 #GameArt #Gamedev #3D #B3D #MadeWithUnity #Unity #indiedev #indiegame #Lowpoly #bugSky #insects

So we are taking over Venezuela? Please vote in the primaries and in November.

I do not support what my country is doing.

Since the Kennedy Center no longer exists: We need a Kennedy Center in exile. Maybe in Baltimore? Rebook all the cancelations. Make them charity concerts with full pay to the artists.

'We cannot have art institutions that lose money': Grenell defends Kennedy Center takeover | PBS News share.google/PScorhNb0QcY... This Grenell person looks a journalist in the face and say Reporters don't think about finances. Public broadcasting doesn't think about finances. #pbs #NPR #irm

www.reddit.com/r/frederickm... Datacenters and Electricity Baltimore Maryland Frederick

“Every part of the world seems to have a different interpretation of what it means to make a game. All connected by a love for creating them… I’m inspired by how wildly different every community is.”

🧩 Available now! The latest episode of the Stress Puzzle podcast with Dr. Danielle King and host @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social focused on the challenges of conceptualizing and measuring resilience. Listen now: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast/epis... #psychscisky #resilience #socialpsych #scicomm

#scicomm #booksky #art #sciart

Fall scenes in Baltimore City...

Baltimore City, in the beautiful Greenmount West neighborhood this morning.

We're firmly into autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's once again time to share one of my favourite chemistry infographics on the kaleidoscope of chemical colours found in autumn leaves! 🍂 www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a... #ChemSky 🧪

Whoever looked at animals and decided that they were not conscious, or that we were somehow qualitatively different? And why did we believe them?

Cleaning fee is ten aphids.

Desperate times call for creative measures. I will be selling at my first market in a week, and I do not have a color printer, plus my funds are limited. Doodling these plants takes me less time than to create a digital card to order prints. I think it works better for my branding, too.

Today in Baltimore, on Howard Street, on the same block as Current Space and a few blocks from Lexington Market I had the best vegan ice cream at my favorite place, Cajou. Cajou is French for cashew!

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This is important. These are just a few of many more scientists who have been affected by NIH cuts. Federal funded university research is where most breakthrough drugs & treatments are born, such as HIV-Descovy Diabetes-Ozempic Prostate Cancer- Xtandi And more. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...