It's almost slime mold Saturday! Here's an advance viewing. Story by @timvernimmen.bsky.social for us folks at @knowablemag.bsky.social --and also for you! 🧪

A very good, and sobering, story by @janeqiu.bsky.social about the infectious disease risks posed by fur farming. 🧪 Thank you Jane!

Electrides are mighty weird materials. I enjoyed getting to know them a bit. So might you! And your friends! By Rachel Brazil for @knowablemag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

The Winter Olympics are coming - well, here from @knowablemag.bsky.social are results from the teeny-tiny Olympic Games of the microbial world! Art by @makinaro.com and prose by Amber Dance. 🧪https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/welcome-to-the-microbial-olympic-games

Agree, this was a great piece by Katya about Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and the scourges they transmit. Thanks to Louis Lambrechts and the other interviewees!

For her 2025 #PulitzerStaffPicks, Alexandra Waddell, Digital Content Coordinator & Research Assistant at the Pulitzer Center, selected "The Pernicious Infections Infiltrating Ukraine’s Front Lines," by @richardastone.bsky.social for @knowablemag.bsky.social. 👉 bit.ly/YIStories25

Gotta love bats!

A fun comic by Amber Dance and @makinaro.com --about the physiology of the long journey of the sperm to the egg, with plenty of hat tips to #LOTR --we at @knowablemag.bsky.social are glad to publish it! 🧪Please share around! knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

"At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website." --epidemiologist @kkjetelina.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

It was a pleasure to work with writer Andrea Teagle on this @knowablemag.bsky.social article about progress toward a functional cure for HIV. 🧪https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/lasting-remission-hiv-with-broadly-neutralizing-antibodies

Who knew that whales blasted snot through their blowholes, or that drones could collect the viscous fluid and teach us so much about whales in the process? Written by @gennarotomma.bsky.social for us at @knowablemag.bsky.social -- and a very fine story it is 🧪

Here's your Wednesday whale snot story knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

who wore it better, Roald Amundsen or the Squirrel of the Day?

What a fun fun article by the (great great) @rachelscience.bsky.social about the rise and scientific legacy of the diminutive weed Arabidopsis thaliana, for @knowablemag.bsky.social. I'm very partial to the art too, by Shaw Nielsen. Please read, enjoy, share knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪

Happy Halloween! Here are some topical stories from the eerie vaults of @knowablemag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Congrats to Lesley, and fingers crossed! Great piece.

More than 11 million tonnes of meat is consumed in cities in the US every year, according to an analysis in Nature Climate Change. This equates to 329 million tonnes of carbon emissions, which is comparable to emission levels from US domestic fossil fuel use. go.nature.com/3Jo8DEh 🧪

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. 📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Yale Climate Connections.

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

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Amazing whale photos. My mother would have loved them. (All our lives, we called her Whale. The reasons are lost in the mists of time.) 🧪

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

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. 🧪

A great piece by Elie Dolgin on the use of epigenetics clocks in conservation. Really interesting, a pleasure to edit and I do love the banner art! 🧪

Congrats to Amber Dance for this award. We're very lucky to have her as a contributor to @knowablemag.bsky.social. Head over to there to read more of her work, from secrets of tiger scat to worm therapy to the evolution of animals to everything you need to know about bird flu...🧪

Such beautiful piece of art that we were proud to have accompany a @knowablemag.bsky.social article. Hooray for artists! And hooray for the great taste of our treasure of an art director, Lisa Modica. 🧪

Associate Dean @leighgoodmark.bsky.social featured in the @knowablemag.bsky.social article "Can a strategy shift reduce intimate partner violence?"

Good news for a Friday. Some really great writers and artists are FOLIO: finalists for items they've created for @knowablemag.bsky.social, which makes us very happy. Please explore their fine work!

Ahoy everyone --if you like what we at @knowablemag.bsky.social publish, please add us to your preferred sources. I'm about to do it myself! Cheers and thank you. Rosie

Using pollen to make paper, sponges and more Reengineered, the powdery stuff could become a range of eco-friendly objects | Knowable Magazine knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... #chemistry #pharmacology #science #SciChat

How the cavefish lost its eyes — again and again 👀 Mexican tetras that got swept into pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. They lost their eyes in multiple ways — and gained some nifty traits too. @timvernimmen.bsky.social's recent report is now available in Spanish👇

Pollen power is nothing to 🤧 at

PS- If you’re a #SeattleWorldCon attendee who is not *yet* a Knowable fan, here is a shameless plug: If you’re looking for research-backed, accessibly written, paywall-free science journalism to inform your worldbuilding… we’ve got you. For example, some articles relevant to the Hugo finalists 🧵

fabulous, fabulous Amber

Great article by Bob Holmes on cancer research that benefits both dogs and people. 🧪

if you're interested in the neuroscience and psychology of adolescents, have we got the email course for you! Put together by @knowablemag.bsky.social it's totally free. Please take a look and share with others. TIA! 🧪https://mailchi.mp/annualreviews/teen-brain-bootcamp

Mindboggling! Thanks to @ivanamato.bsky.social for this story!

Another wonderful piece by Amber Dance for @knowablemag.bsky.social , this time on what neurodegeneration may have to do with retrotransposons 🧪

Cells in the developing eye of a fly- stained glass #BlueskyArtShow

Worm therapy explored, courtesy of Amber Dance, to the delight of us here at @knowablemag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

“Almost all fungi have viruses — they’re extremely common. They’re so cool.”

Stay in the know: This #FollowFriday, add fact-checked science journalism to your feed with Knowable Magazine's staff and special contributors #StarterPack 💯 go.bsky.app/FJypk93

Attending AHCJ Health Journalism 2025 in Los Angeles? We’d love to say hello! Editor in Chief @eva-emerson.bsky.social and Executive Editor @rosiemestel.bsky.social will both be in attendance and participating in Friday's PitchFest. #HJ25

There may not be mushroom in a mushroom, but hey viruses are tiny and lots of them infect fungi. Some cause distortions/discolored mushroom caps! Others are helpful little things. Read about it at @knowablemag.bsky.social tx to Amber Dance + editor extraordinaire @rachelscience.bsky.social 🧪

Let's help Katie Fleeman have the best birthday EVER!

Sea cucumbers. What's not to adore? 🧪 A lovely piece by @katarinazimmer.bsky.social

Banking seeds can help safeguard endangered plants, but the b-ggers can be beyond fussy, as @katarinazimmer.bsky.social explains in this article for @knowablemag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪

Thermogenic plants: something to delight in! New-found respect for cycads. by @rachelscience.bsky.social for our @knowablemag.bsky.social

#caturday greetings

Not to be missed! The always interesting @scifri.bsky.social features, among other things, an interview with writer Bob Holmes on the importance of interjections in conversations (mmhmm, huh? etc) --based on an article he wrote for @knowablemag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...