Bri 💝
LightNews LightNews
banner
breezybrik.bsky.social
Bri 💝
@breezybrik.bsky.social
1.5K followers 930 following 170 posts
Books Editor & Rights Manager @ SciAm

Say hi & tell me what to read next 📗 brianne.kane@sciam 📚 muckrack: bri-kane 🤭 insta: bri4dayz

🚨All views are my own and do not represent my employer
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Bri 💝
meghanbartels.bsky.social
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. What does that mean, a week before NASA is aiming to launch Artemis II to send humans around the moon--with a heat shield that some worry isn't up to the task? 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/40-y...
40 years after Challenger disaster, NASA faces safety fears on Artemis II
Many of the team behind NASA’s Artemis II mission were children 40 years ago, when the space shuttle Challenger disaster reshaped spaceflight
www.scientificamerican.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
minovskyarticle.bsky.social
My local bookshop understands their audience.
Sign in People's Book in Takoma Park featuring the illustration of the werewolf ripping off its shirt in anguish which reads WE ARE SOLD OUT OF THE GAY HOCKEY BOOKS
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
leebillings.bsky.social
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Seismic networks meant to monitor earthquakes can also help track dangerous space debris as it falls to Earth. Very cool work, using the uncontrolled reentry of debris from China's Shenzhou-15 mission as a test case.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/soni...
Sonic booms can protect Earth from dangerous space junk
Scientists are using technology developed to study earthquakes to address an out-of-this-world risk
www.scientificamerican.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
breezybrik.bsky.social
Check out my interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on @sciam.bsky.social youtube channel to learn how AI like Gr*k can be prompted to share CSAM and what Hao learned when they spoke to the content moderators who are training and moderating AGIs around the world today youtu.be/Jd8ZTI2Ft0w?...
Tech author Karen Hao: 'The Sam Altmans of the world are going to be fine" | Science Quickly Podcast
YouTube video by Scientific American
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
gizmodo.com
The 'Clone Wars' and 'Rebels' creator will share 'Star Wars' duties with Lynwen Brennan.
Dave Filoni Is Taking Over Lucasfilm From Kathleen Kennedy
The 'Clone Wars' and 'Rebels' creator will share 'Star Wars' duties with Lynwen Brennan.
gizmodo.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
breezybrik.bsky.social
Congratulations to me personally for living long enough to see another Min Jin Lee book later this year ❤️📚

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief...
Cardinal to Publish New Novel by Min Jin Lee
Ben Sevier at Grand Central Publishing landed North American and audio rights to American Hagwon, with Cardinal publisher Reagan Arthur to edit. Cardinal called it the third book—after Lee’s last two ...
www.publishersweekly.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
publisherswkly.bsky.social
The Independent Press Top 40 is a new weekly bestseller list that ranks the most popular fiction and nonfiction titles from indie publishers, as sold by American Booksellers Association member stores.
Independent Publishers Caucus Launches Bestseller List with ABA
The Independent Press Top 40 is a new weekly bestseller list that ranks the most popular fiction and nonfiction titles from indie publishers, as sold by American Booksellers Association member stores.
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
ajcousins.bsky.social
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
chicagotribune.com Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 28d
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target
Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.
trib.al
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
breezybrik.bsky.social
Getting the reading schedule in order 🥰 everyone’s banging down my door asking for office ARCs 😇 plotting, planning, spreadsheets galore babe
January 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
katewong.bsky.social
This is such a cool finding--the oldest direct evidence of poisoned arrows. Poisoned hunting weapons were a game-changing innovation for our ancestors. Absolutely incredible that researchers found traces of plant toxins on these tiny arrowheads from 60,000 ago 🤯🏹 🧪
Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known
www.scientificamerican.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
megelison.bsky.social
Books to look forward to in the coming year, including "The Children" by Melissa Albert, which I need to pre-order. And also mine! The one that's like Clone High x The Village!
26 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward To In 2026
We are so lucky to have such an incredible year ahead of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative works from a mix of established and debut authors. In an unsurprising bit of kismet, a lot of thes…
lithub.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
laurenjyoung.bsky.social
Update on the GLP1 beat: Novo Nordisk released more info on the treatment and price of its Wegovy pills, which rolled out to U.S. pharmacies today. Expert insight @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/wego...
January 6, 2026 at 12:14 AM
breezybrik.bsky.social
Check out my interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on @sciam.bsky.social youtube channel to learn how AI like Gr*k can be prompted to share CSAM and what Hao learned when they spoke to the content moderators who are training and moderating AGIs around the world today youtu.be/Jd8ZTI2Ft0w?...
Tech author Karen Hao: 'The Sam Altmans of the world are going to be fine" | Science Quickly Podcast
YouTube video by Scientific American
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
andreatweather.bsky.social
And, finally, our favorite interviews we did this year (including with @maryroach.bsky.social, @erictopol.bsky.social and @karenhao.bsky.social)

(by @breezybrik.bsky.social)
12 of the Best Interviews Scientific American Did in 2025—on AI, Headaches, and More
From an interview with author Mary Roach to a chat with cardiologist Eric Topol, here are 12 of the most eye-opening conversations we had this year
www.scientificamerican.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
sciam.bsky.social
From an interview with author Mary Roach to a chat with cardiologist Eric Topol, here are 12 of the most eye-opening conversations we had this year
12 of the Best Interviews Scientific American Did in 2025—on AI, Headaches, and More
From an interview with author Mary Roach to a chat with cardiologist Eric Topol, here are 12 of the most eye-opening conversations we had this year
www.scientificamerican.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
sciam.bsky.social
Looking for something to read? Check out Scientific American's 10 best nonfiction books of 2025
Scientific American’s Best Nonfiction of 2025
The 10 best nonfiction books of 2025, from the history of replaceable body parts to our AI future
www.scientificamerican.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
sciam.bsky.social
The Scientific American team is full of avid readers--here are 67 books our staffers loved this year
The Scientific American Staff’s Favorite Books of 2025
Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction
www.scientificamerican.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
breezybrik.bsky.social
I’m stuck in bed with the flu thinking about The Great Shadow 🤧🤒

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT HERE 👀📚

www.scientificamerican.com/article/exce...
Excerpt—The Great Shadow, by Susan Wise Bauer
In an exclusive excerpt of her new book The Great Shadow, historian Susan Wise Bauer explores how sickness is distinct from injury and has shaped the way we think about ourselves and our world
www.scientificamerican.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
breezybrik.bsky.social
I’m stuck in bed with the flu thinking about The Great Shadow 🤧🤒

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT HERE 👀📚

www.scientificamerican.com/article/exce...
Excerpt—The Great Shadow, by Susan Wise Bauer
In an exclusive excerpt of her new book The Great Shadow, historian Susan Wise Bauer explores how sickness is distinct from injury and has shaped the way we think about ourselves and our world
www.scientificamerican.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
breezybrik.bsky.social
Congratulations to all my NYer readers with the day off ❤️ reading during the first snow of the year is magical 📚 I’m finishing Bora Chung’s Midnight Timetable and drinking my weight in hazelnut coffee ☕️ wbu??
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
breezybrik.bsky.social
One of our Best Nonfiction of 2025 tackles the biggest issue of our modern era: the reality, and consequences, of AI and AGI 🤖 check out my conversation with @karenhao.bsky.social on her book EMPIRE OF AI and what our AI future actually looks like
sciam.bsky.social Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · Dec 12
In this episode of the pod, listen to journalist Karen Hao unpack the rise of AI “empires,” their ideological roots, and the hidden environmental and societal costs of OpenAI’s quest for artificial general intelligence
From Colonialism to Code—How AI Companies Are Rewriting Global Power Structures
Journalist Karen Hao unpacks the rise of AI “empires,” their ideological roots, and the hidden environmental and societal costs of OpenAI’s quest for artificial general intelligence.
www.scientificamerican.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
breezybrik.bsky.social
You read @sciam.bsky.social for great science—now treat yourself to our best fiction of 2025 including science fiction, fiction informed by science, and aliens! www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025
The 10 best fiction books of 2025 explore far-off planets, future climate catastrophes, and more
www.scientificamerican.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
breezybrik.bsky.social
It’s the happiest time of the year ✨Books Lists Season✨ here’s @sciam.bsky.social list of nearly 70 staff favorite reads this year
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Scientific American Staff’s Favorite Books of 2025
Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction
www.scientificamerican.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Reposted by Bri 💝
sciam.bsky.social
The 10 best fiction books of 2025, explore far-off planets, future climate catastrophes and more.
Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025
The 10 best fiction books of 2025, explore far-off planets, future climate catastrophes and more
www.scientificamerican.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM