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Katie Fleeman
@fleemanator.bsky.social
740 followers 2.9K following 300 posts
Audience engagement at @knowablemag.bsky.social, Katina Magazine, @chashub.bsky.social and the @annualreviews.bsky.social group | Cat mom to the Little Ray
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“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
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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
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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My newest friend
APS astronaut duck
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The collection — it grows
Ribbons — first timer ; ask me about my TBR pile
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Oops, forgot to add my ribbon. (PS - registration opens at 2, I just managed to get my badge a bit early)
First timer
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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
Katie with her registration badge
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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My purr-fect little bratty boy 😻
Picture of true worlds cutest cat
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Remarkable art at Tacoma’s Stewart Heights Park #NoKings
Gigantic trump puppet and enormous octopus tentacles Back of the puppet which says Con
October 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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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
August 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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
Picture of our profile which has 966 followers
May 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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"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."
April 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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"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.
January 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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."
January 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Coal is on the way out -- but "staggering" demand for electricity may be slowing its demise.

✍️ Emma Foehringer Merchant @floodlightnews.org
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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.
January 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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*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
January 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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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
January 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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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
December 20, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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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
December 20, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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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. (the last sentence is highlighted)
December 18, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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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
December 18, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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TIL: Instead of A Christmas Carol, we could have had a political pamphlet 👀

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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.
December 18, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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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.
Cat stuck on a chair
December 11, 2024 at 8:24 PM