Katie Fleeman

How Four Smaller Institutions Are Investing in Open Access Despite limited budgets, liberal arts colleges can make meaningful contributions to open access publishing. Here’s how.

“At the institution level, liberal arts colleges believe in the power of the collective. This is both aspirational and pragmatic.” | via Katina katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Webinar: Emerging Accreditation Challenges - What Academic Libraries Need to Know EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.

WEBINAR: What do academic libraries need to know about emerging accreditation challenges?

🕛 Wed Oct 29, 12pm EDT
📚 Hosted by @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social & @everylibrary.bsky.social

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Don’t forget to join us this Friday at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the Charleston Micro-Conference! @buchmesse.de

This event (part of the Publishing Perspectives Forum) is free and open to all registered Frankfurt Book Fair attendees. #fbm25

Las infecciones perniciosas que se infiltran en el frente de batalla ucraniano Médicos y científicos están librando una guerra en la sombra en la nación asediada: las bacterias resistentes a múltiples antibióticos. Estos microorganismos mortales están llamando ahora a las puerta...

Plus, it just published in Spanish today in @revistaknowable.bsky.social

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An important story from @richardastone.bsky.social in @knowablemag.bsky.social 👇

The Pernicious Infections Infiltrating Ukraine’s Front Lines Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door. The Pulitzer...

While Ukraine is resisting Russia's invasion, on the frontlines, doctors and scientists are fighting another war, one against antibiotic-resistant "superbugs".

Grantee @richardastone.bsky.social spoke with those containing the deadly bacteria.

Story for @knowablemag.bsky.social. bit.ly/47phkY7

How Libraries Can Shape the Next Era of Open Education Libraries have played a key role in open education from its inception. By taking these steps, they can help to secure its long-term future.

“As trusted experts in copyright and licensing, as well as established providers of new and emerging digital tools, libraries are uniquely positioned to understand technology and negotiate for open values in its implementation.” | via Katina katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Tracking down the hidden pollutants that make wildlife sick A new technique for detecting unknown and unlooked-for chemicals is revealing dozens of contaminants in alligators, sea lions and condors

“They can give us a really interesting, localized perspective on what they’re being exposed to.” New techniques are helping scientists detect unknown or unlooked for chemicals contaminating "sentinel " species | via @knowablemag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Property crime and violent crime have different solutions — here’s why Addressing poverty helps to curb thefts and burglaries, but offenses like assaults and shootings need more innovative approaches

“Governments should of course continue the hard work of reducing poverty and improving living conditions, but they should know that they don’t have to work miracles to prevent violence. The biggest obstacle to stopping violence is hopelessness.” — Economist Jens Ludwig to @knowablemag.bsky.social

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% and their risk of death by 64%." | via @sciam.bsky.social

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

“This particular origami, which we named Lacrygami — humans did not invent it, nature invented it,” says Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash.

—via @knowablemag.bsky.social
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2025 Charleston Micro-Conference At the Frankfurt Book Fair. Friday, October 17, 9am-11am

Join us at the Frankfurt Book Fair (@buchmesse.de) on Oct 17 for a Charleston Micro-Conference! Free and open to all FBM registered attendees. arevie.ws/CharlestonMi... #fbm25

The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door.

“Tens of thousands of soldiers and nearly 14,000 civilians in Ukraine have succumbed to often grisly injuries from shelling, drone explosions & missile attacks. Survivors must contend with another, invisible threat: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics.” | via @knowablemag.bsky.social

The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door.

Im honoured to have contributed to this article: “Drug-resistant bacteria spread and strengthen amid the chaos of Ukraine's war”

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A hopeful EV story from @knowablemag.bsky.social

Fascinating and important look at the other arms race in Ukraine — a battle against multi-drug resistant infections on the front. @knowablemag.bsky.social story by the inimitable @richardastone.bsky.social, edited by @rosiemestel.bsky.social.

Powerful piece by @richardastone.bsky.social about the rise in multidrug resistant bacteria in Ukraine's war-wounded and the threats the bugs also pose to non-soldiers and other countries. Very glad to see it in @knowablemag.bsky.social Thank you @pulitzercenter.org for funding Rich's travels. 🧪

When Focusing on Terminology Becomes a Hurdle to Open Access Outreach Conversations about open access can be riddled with distracting language. But what if we treated these failures to communicate as opportunities to learn more?

“Beginning a conversation with—pun definitely intended—an open mind can help you discover what your community members value, enabling you to focus on what liberates open access, rather than what constrains it.” via Katina Magazine #OpenAccess #OpenSource #OpenData katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door.

Drug-resistant bacteria are spreading and strengthening amid the chaos of the war in Ukraine. Read this important piece by @richardastone.bsky.social (reported from the field w help from @pulitzercenter.org); edited by the terrific @rosiemestel.bsky.social

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Turns out that the technology for better EV batteries is already here, get all the deets from our new explainer

The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door.

Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door. ✍️ Richard Stone

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Exclusive: RFK Jr cancelled mRNA research — but the US military is still funding it The Department of Defense is continuing to bankroll projects to develop vaccines against deadly pathogens.

“Yet not all large-scale research into mRNA vaccines in the United States is being dismantled. Nature has learnt that, even as the US Department of Health and Human Services... pulls back, the country’s military continues to bankroll parts of the same research.” | via Nature

Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again, Page 1 of 1

“The return on investment will come in improved child health and a diminished burden of chronic illness in adults.’” | Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again via Annual Review of #Virology www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @annualreviews.bsky.social

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’ - Inside Climate News One of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear X-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke, Spada is alarmed by what he found.

“In moments of doubt, Spada returns to the lab. Not because it always offers answers, but because it allows him to keep asking questions. ‘The world is full of problem solvers... That’s how I stay hopeful.’” | via @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...

The Politics of Our AI Overlords - JSTOR Daily Fears of AI often focus on domination by algorithm-powered capitalism, but science fiction once used societies ruled by computers as analogs for communism.

“The leaders of many tech companies today seem increasingly convinced that superintelligent, society-transforming machines are on their way. This is, of course, not a new idea.” | via @JSTORDaily.bsky.social daily.jstor.org/the-politics...

“The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night For now, though, email newsletters have "completely changed" 404's business "almost literally overnight."

“We said, if we don’t aggressively move people from social media platforms that we don’t control to platforms that we do control, this business isn’t going to work and we aren’t going to have jobs anymore.” @jasonkobler.bsky.social @404media.co | via @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...

Will your next EV have a solid-state battery — and improved performance? Superionic materials have spawned hope for a new generation of power packs for electric cars, with a promise of greater range, faster charges and more safety. But scaling up won’t be easy.

“Indeed, the challenge is no longer to prove that solid-state batteries are feasible. That has long since been done in any number of labs around the world. The big challenge now is figuring out how to manufacture these devices at scale, and at an acceptable cost.” | via @knowablemag.bsky.social

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

The clock is ticking: How epigenetics could help save wildlife from collapse In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population health, resilience and risk

“When an animal’s biological age runs higher than its chronological one, it can signal physiological strain — a kind of molecular distress flare that may go off before any other visible signs of problems.”

Highlighting research in Canada too.
🧪 #Canada #Stress
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