Katie Fleeman

🩸 Not all blood is red! Horseshoe crabs bleed blue, thanks to copper-rich hemocyanin, while icefish don’t use an oxygen-carrying protein and bleed ghostly white. ✍️ @claudiasteiner.bsky.social: knowmag.org/4jMCSEV

#ResourceReview: Earlier Latin Manuscripts digitizes and expands E. A. Lowe’s foundational Codices Latini Antiquiores (CLA) and its later supplements, allowing researchers to explore the corpus in new ways. ✍️ Sofia Fagiolo, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

“The largest news publishing trade association in the United States is calling on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to suspend the implementation of the company’s new commercial terms of service, set to go into effect on October 30.” | via Nieman Lab

🦜 Near Patagonia's El Cóndor lies the largest known colony of burrowing parrots: It accounts for 71 percent of the species’ global breeding population. ✍️ Valeria Román: knowmag.org/4yyPYJi

JOB ALERT: STAT is hiring a biotech reporter www.statnews.com/careers/biot...

In this #OpenAccessWeek reflection, Katina editors grapple with the costs of knowledge, invisible and visible, asking who pays, who benefits, and how we can invest in a future that treats knowledge as a public good. #OAWeek ✍️ The Open Knowledge Editorial Committee at Katina Magazine

Until we acknowledge the harm caused by the systematic exclusion of entire regions from participating in the access, production, and dissemination of knowledge, the true cost of knowledge will remain obscured. ✍️ Reggie Raju, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

🗣️ “Meetings are the broccoli of work — widely disliked, but probably good for us anyway.” - David Deming, et al. With a new trove of data from virtual meetings, scientists are making progress in figuring out how to make work gatherings better. ✍️ Lesley Evans Ogden: knowmag.org/4hWfXnN

“Open access has transformed who can read knowledge. The next step is to invest just as deliberately in the people, communities, and institutions that allow trustworthy knowledge to exist in the first place.” —Muhammad Sarwar, Katina Magazine ( @chashub.bsky.social) #OpenAccess #OAWeek

On this week’s episode of the Against the Grain podcast, guest host Michael Upshall sits down with Phillip Ball, celebrated British science writer who has authored books on topics ranging from quantum physics and systems biology to alchemy and invisibility.

What happens when aging doctors continue practicing as their abilities decline? As physicians age, debates about mandatory testing or retirement intensify. via @KnowableMag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

What happens when aging doctors continue practicing as their abilities decline? “It’s becoming a bigger issue with each passing year,” said neuropsychologist Victor Del Bene, who has warned of a “looming public health crisis.”

🩺 The physician workforce is aging. How can society tell when a doctor is too old to practice safely? ✍️ Katherine Ellison: knowmag.org/4s9J244

🐳 Colder oceans are full of animals that need to fatten up to survive, but a key source of lipids — a tiny, oil-stuffed critter called a copepod — is feeling the heat, affecting a vital food web. ✍️ @lelanargi.bsky.social: knowmag.org/3TMThhW

Climate change is threatening C. finmarchicus, a fatty copepod that props up life in the cold northern ocean + is essential food for endangered right whales, who suck it up like spaghetti. My latest for @knowablemag.bsky.social bit.ly/472XNvP

Hot neutrino news this week: The Physics Nobel prize has been awarded to the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from beyond our solar system. Neutrinos are still a very hot topic and a source of ongoing mystery: how much do they weigh, and how and why do they have mass at all? Read all about it:

In rare cases, brain inflammation can cause psychosis. When antipsychotics are replaced with immune-suppressing drugs, patients can recover completely. But how do we identify these cases? ✍️ Georgia Michelman: knowmag.org/4e0LmnV

The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Virology is now online. The most read article is "Studying the Deep Evolution of Viruses in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Structure Prediction" by @spyroslytras.bsky.social @mghafari.bsky.social and @grovearmada.bsky.social 👉 arevie.ws/3TnyXnd

In recognition of #WorldFoodDay, our new article collection brings together insights into plant defense, food quality, and human health, highlighting the role plant science plays in protecting our food systems. Explore the ‘Rooted in Research’ article collection: arevie.ws/4iVasIe #PlantResearch

“Transmissible cancers show us the imperfections in our models of the world in which things are cleanly separated into species and non-species, or even individuals and not-individuals,” says biologist Michael Metzger. ✍️ Nala Rogers: knowmag.org/4rRPvAl

The UK Print Book Collection has grown rapidly since its 2025 launch. In this interview, representatives of participating organizations explain how it works, why it’s succeeded, and where they hope to go from here. ✍️ Christina Kamposiori, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

To protect academic libraries from institutional leaders looking for cost savings, we must invest seriously in strategic positioning. Here’s how. ✍️ John Cox, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Take a peek into a pitcher plant's deadly plumbing 🪰 ☠️ ✍️ Georgia Michelman, for our new #BioWonders column: knowmag.org/4yNCZEe

“Open access has transformed who can read knowledge. The next step is to invest just as deliberately in the people, communities, and institutions that allow trustworthy knowledge to exist in the first place.” — Muhammad Sarwar, Katina Magazine #OpenAccess #ScholComm

“But if more inclusive kinds of governance have been there all along, then all of a sudden, those lessons from history become much more relevant.” —Archaeologist Gary Feinman, in @knowablemag.bsky.social

important news!! www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...

AskHistorians is one of my favorite subreddits -- in large part, because of its careful moderation by volunteer humans. Which sounds exhausting. Which is why it's nice to read some hope from one of the sub's mods: www.techpolicy.press/millions-of-... h/t @sarahagilbert.bsky.social

🪱 Enter the weird and wacky world of bristle worms. From bio-metallic jaws to detachable butts, these creatures have all sorts of tricks for living the life aquatic. ✍️ Sandy Ong: knowmag.org/4deh2G4

🪢 “It’s only called the Stone Age because all we find is stone, not because there was only stone.” - archaeologist Nicholas Conard ✍️ Benjamin Taub: knowmag.org/4h7xNnH

EBSCO, ProQuest, and JSTOR have recently added to the generative AI features available on their platforms. Here’s what libraries need to know. ✍️ Aster Zhao, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

"AI won’t make its grand entrance into the clinic tomorrow. But it’s being hailed as the new frontier in psychiatric care, one that could enable early, accurate detection and personalized monitoring of illnesses based on indistinct symptoms."

🗣️ Researchers are testing AI tools that identify subtle signatures of schizophrenia in speech patterns. ✍️ Astrid Landon: knowmag.org/4ytvGRU

The world’s scholarly knowledge system is extraordinarily vulnerable to commercial capture and political interference. Governments, funders, and policymakers must act to protect it. ✍️ Mark Huskisson and Johan Rooryck, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Hello! Knowable Magazine is hiring a Temporary Editorial Assistant. Check it out 👇 #journalismjobs #scicomm #sciencejournalism

Details and application: www.annualreviews.org/page/about/c...

📣 We're hiring! Knowable Magazine seeks an organized, detail-oriented & self-motivated Temporary Editorial Assistant. Ideal candidate: 💡 excellent proofreading skills 💡 great communication skills 💡 experience with digital publishing tools 💡 strong administrative capabilities 💡 interest in science

Collections-based decolonization has become a priority for many academic and research libraries. Findings from Research Libraries UK illuminate the practical requirements of this work. ✍️ Christina Kamposiori, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

👀 Some more social media legislation news from Australia. To learn more about previous efforts, check out our reporting on social media minimum age laws (linked below 👇)

🐝 Air pollution can alter plant odors and warp insects’ senses, disrupting the process of pollination. ✍️ @katarinazimmer.bsky.social: knowmag.org/4i5ddGt

📚 Today is #ReadABookDay. Revisit our 2021 story on the benefits and detriments of e-books for kids. ✍️ Cypress Hansen: knowmag.org/4ycqmSL

Technologies that keep tabs on employees hold a strong appeal for corporate leadership... Leaders may believe that close surveillance can help identify top performers, increase efficiency or improve safety... In practice, though, such benefits are elusive.” —Chris Woolston, @knowmag.bsky.social

Coherent Digital aggregates a uniquely wide variety of primary source documents, with a focus on born-digital and at-risk content. Here’s a guided tour of the platform. ✍️ Billie Cotterman, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

👀 Latest: How AI is supercharging workplace surveillance ✍️ Chris Woolston: knowmag.org/4r8le01

Watch the whole conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUc5...

In a wide-ranging interview, @nishamody.bsky.social talks AI, false urgency, and how and why to draw boundaries at work. ✍️ Elaina Norlin, Katina Magazine: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...