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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh, hello there, bristle worm 👀 These little dudes have metallic jaws, detachable rear ends, and, of course, bristles. And they're the star of the first "Bio Wonders" article from @knowablemag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Two images of bristle worms that look like thin branching cacti, a third image is a white worm with a cupped speckled butt

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“But though puzzles remain, recent studies show that not only are paternal RNA fragments transferred to a fertilized egg, but also that they are capable of inducing changes in the offspring at the doses found in sperm.” Do you take after your dad’s RNA? via @knowablemag.bsky.social: buff.ly/7C6h08H

An illustration shows strands of RNA used to make drawings of items such as a bicycle, running shoe, hand holding a cigarette and an ice cream cone.

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“We view the library as a comprehensive learning environment that can serve disciplines from music to video to journalism to marketing. Alongside traditional books and learning areas, these tools are integral to modern education.” How the University of Arkansas Built a 21st Century Library... [1/2]

The view from the central lightwell of the new Mullins Library. Photo courtesy of Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.

Students at work in the new makerspace. Photo courtesy of Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“Currently, 44% of U.S. adults worry a great deal about global warming or climate change, among the highest in the full trend since 1989, along with 46% measured in 2020 and 45% in 2017.” via Gallup news.gallup.com/poll/708050/...

Trends in Concern About Global Warming or Climate Change, by Political Party
I'm going to read you a list of environmental problems. As I read each one, please tell me if you personally worry about this problem a great deal, a fair amount, only a little or not at all. How much do you personally worry about global warming or climate change?
% Worry a great deal

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“The thousands of responses we analyzed across a variety of formats and repositories included expressions of gratitude and even love.” From "Open Access Research Matters to the Public. We Can Prove It." in Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

flow chart of different types of people and responses

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I just registered to go to a town hall about light rail and this was the captcha, send help

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Chronic resource constraints make archivists' jobs harder. Will AI intensify the crisis or offer a way out?🧵 1/2 In Katina, @jstor.bsky.social's Emilie Hardman writes: “The question is not whether scholars and students will encounter AI-mediated discovery for archival materials. They already do...

Illustration of people walking, with shadows that contain networks reminiscent of AI

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

“Perhaps the most useful perspective is not about who is in the diamond OA community, but who is served by it, and how.” In Katina Magazine (@chashub.bsky.social), @oaspa.bsky.social's Malavika Legge reflects on the Third Global Summit on Diamond #OpenAccess: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Global Summit Diamond Open Access: Benafluru 2026 with illustration of a tree and an elephant with a global OA symbol on the elephant

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

15 years years since Fukushima. 40 years since Chernobyl. "Nuclear energy" presents both opportunity and rirks. @annualreviews.bsky.social has pulled together a collection from the journals & @knowablemag.bsky.social exploring the topic. Check it out: www.annualreviews.org/page/nuclear...

Annual Reviews: Nuclear Energy, Risks and Impact

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Friends! We’re so close! If you’ve been thinking about supporting @knowablemag.bsky.social, today is the day — YOU could be the one getting us over the finish line Ever dollar is an investment in public understanding of science. Let’s end the year on a high note 👉 secure.qgiv.com/for/knowable...

Thermometer showing we are 89% of the way there

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Absolutely obsessed with this "combing" contraption, which measures the force required to run a comb through hair. Tho it looks like a little hair guillotine to me. From “The science of green hair care”, via @knowablemag.bsky.social: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

A device that measures the force required to comb through a mass of hair held with a clamp.

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

A heartening milestone: @knowablemag.bsky.social's end-of-year fundraiser has passed $10K in donations! 🎉 🥳

Every dollar counts. Thank you for investing in making science accessible to all. Thermometer reader: $10.8K, or 43% to a $25K goal

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

“Humanities researchers are right to be worried. Anyone who is serious about the values of the open movement should want to understand their perspective.” | For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair? via Katina Magazine @chashub.bsky.social katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

An engraving, showing in the foreground, a scowling winged figure, with a cherub-like figure beside her, with scales, an hourglass, a bell, and a grid of numbers behind them, and a creature carrying a banner reading “Melencolia” in the corner

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Oops, forgot to add my ribbon. (PS - registration opens at 2, I just managed to get my badge a bit early)

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I’m so excited to attend my first Charleston Conference! I’ll be posting from the @chashub.bsky.social Bluesky and LinkedIn accounts. Come say hi 👋 #Charleston2025 #chsconf2025

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My purr-fect little bratty boy 😻

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Remarkable art at Tacoma’s Stewart Heights Park #NoKings

Gigantic trump puppet and enormous octopus tentacles

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Wow can’t wait for the next installment in the Machiavelli-verse

Email from ThriftBooks with the subject line Pre-Order the Latest From Niccolò
Machiavelli

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Friends, we need 34 more which is also my new age. Look at these illustrious followers. Won’t you be one of them? For my birthday? 😃 👉🏼 @knowablemag.bsky.social 👉🏼 @revistaknowable.bsky.social

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"People think they’re more alone in supporting climate-positive action than they really are. That’s a problem because our research shows that the strongest unique predictor of intention to take high-impact climate action is whether a person believes that other people are already taking that action."

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"How America’s Fire Wall Against Disease Starts to Fail" www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... via @katherinejwu.com @theatlantic.com

At one extreme, the new administration could, in theory, simply disband the committee altogether, Schwartz told me, and have the government unilaterally lay down the country’s vaccination policies. At another, the CDC director, who has never been beholden to the committee’s advice, could begin ignoring it more often. (Trump’s choice to lead the CDC, the physician and former Florida congressman Dave Weldon, has been a critic of the agency and its vaccine program.) Most likely, though, the nation’s new health leaders will choose to reshape the committee into one whose viewpoints would seem to legitimize their own. The effects of these choices might not be obvious at first, but a committee that has less academic expertise, spends less time digging into scientific data, and is less inclined to recommend any vaccines could, over time, erode America’s defenses—inviting more disease, and more death, all of it preventable.

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

OK, I couldn't decide which bit to excerpt, so I'm going to share this one too:

Losing your house in a vast cataclysm is a catastrophe that’s always going to provide more questions than answers, more rumors than facts, and more uncertainty than settled knowledge. As such, it’s rife with the possibility for exploitation, scams, fraud, and tumbling down rabbit holes of disinformation and conspiracy theory."

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Coal is on the way out -- but "staggering" demand for electricity may be slowing its demise. ✍️ Emma Foehringer Merchant @floodlightnews.org 🔗 floodlightnews.org/coal-was-on-...

Anxiety around unprecedented load growth began in earnest only a couple of years ago spurred by large data centers used to fuel artificial intelligence models, cryptocurrency and other energy-intensive industries. The numbers around data center growth have been described as “staggering.” In a December report, the Department of Energy projected that U.S. energy use from data centers could double or even triple by 2028.

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

*IS, in fact Clearly when I post late in the day, the self-copyediting goes out the window. Also, here's a crisper screenshot of our pretty and overflowing thermometer 😍

Screenshot of thermometer showing we passed out $20K goal

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Just a totally random, not-at-all connected-to-the-news-cycle reminder that @knowablemag.bsky.social is *not* cutting fact-checking. Fact-checking in fact, a non-negotiable part of our work And one very cool fact... we hit our goal for our end of year fact-checking campaign! 🎉

Thermometer showing we reached over 102% of our goal

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Researchers used to think severe childhood irritability was an early manifestation of bipolar disorder. But turns these children tended to develop depression & anxiety, instead. —via "Severe irritability in children and teens: A new understanding" by Katarina Zimmer, @knowablemag.bsky.social 🔗 👇

A graph from 1993 to 2002 showed antipsychotic prescriptions (among kids and youth to age 20) rising steeply and then starting to level off

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Pleased to report that we have *crossed* the 70% threshold. Tho there's still 30% to go! Would appreciate help in getting the word out about our end of year fundraiser secure.qgiv.com/for/knowable...

thermometer showing that we are 70% of the way to our goal, with $14,020 raised

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

People will share misinformation that sparks “moral outrage,” study finds arstechnica.com/science/2024... via @arstechnica.com

It turned out that most people could discern between true and fake news. Yet they were willing to share outrageous news regardless of whether it was true or not—a result that was in line with previous findings from Facebook and Twitter data. Many participants were perfectly OK with sharing outrageous headlines, even though they were fully aware those headlines were misinformation.

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I initially drafted a *very* inappropriate skeet to go with this, but, well, this how far we (@knowablemag.bsky.social) are to our end of year fundraising goal, and YOU can be the one to prevent teenage brain syndrome from overtaking me: secure.qgiv.com/for/knowable...

Thermometer showing we are 69% of the way to achieving our goal

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

TIL: Instead of A Christmas Carol, we could have had a political pamphlet 👀 🔗 daily.jstor.org/annotations-... ✏️ @liztracey.bsky.social 🗞️ @jstordaily.bsky.social

The publication was intended to help get Dickens out of debt but also to communicate to readers what he had learned from government reports on child labor and a visit to a the Field Lane Ragged School in London. First thinking he would write a political pamphlet, he instead began to write A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.

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Katie Fleeman @fleemanator.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hello world! Long-term lurker/liker, first-time poster. I'm the audience manager at Knowable Magazine, based in the greater Seattle area. I'm a crafter (knitting, crochet, you name it..) and a hoarder of books. Most importantly, I am cat-mom to the cutest cat-boy, Little Ray.

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