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kate fishman
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writer & journalist 🤠
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"We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community"
A poignant piece @NEJM about the Minneapolis devastation
"We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily."
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
January 30, 2026 at 12:21 AM
“History is rhyming, not repeating.” Michael Kleber-Diggs on the echoes of 2020 in Minnesota:

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Letter From Minnesota: “Normalcy is Impossible Here. Normalcy is Violence.”
One mile south of my street, there is a street where neighbors do laundry for an entire apartment building whose tenants cannot safely do their laundry. I’m told most of the clothes they gather are…
lithub.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
"I like to give them low stakes opportunities to start cultivating what they want to say and how they want to say it."
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Why does AI suck at making clocks?
'Telling time is a very human thing.'
www.popsci.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Plugging again for @minnesotareformer.com, which is free to read with no paywalls or ads. You don't even have to "make an account."

It's still a small team, but worth adding to your list of media.
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 AM
excited to have finally covered work by @projectceti.bsky.social, a group i’ve followed with interest for years.
January 8, 2026 at 6:32 PM
wrote about an intriguing endeavor in acoustic interspecies translation—and tricky marriages of tech and nature—for @atmosmag.bsky.social to kick off 2026! 🐋
atmos.earth/science-and-...
We Are One Step Closer to Understanding Whales. What Now? | Atmos
An AI model originally trained to make music can turn any sound—including human speech—into sperm whale clicks.
atmos.earth
January 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
it’s the most wonderful time of the year (when defector watches christmas movies) 🎊
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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the usual useful list:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
October 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I have been thinking A LOT lately about the flowering of art and culture under the New Deal, when the government decided it actively wanted to invest in job creation and creativity, so it's both sad and typical of the Trump admin to destroy that legacy.
There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.
A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put...
newrepublic.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
so glad the navigator’s in the world—thanks for the chance to be a part of it!
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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And now for some backstory -- Bringing the Science Reporting Navigator into the world (out TODAY at @theopennotebook.bsky.social) was a true journey.

www.theopennotebook.com/science-repo...
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
it’s Science Reporting Navigator day! 🎉

this incredible toolkit from @theopennotebook.bsky.social & @rjionline.bsky.social will help journalists fold science into all kinds of reporting.

as a former local reporter, it was a joy to play a small part in bringing this resource to life. check it out!
Every Story is a Science Story. That’s why, with @rjionline.bsky.social, TON has been hard at work developing a free tool to make it easier for journalists on any beat to strengthen their stories by incorporating science. And today, that tool - the Science Reporting Navigator - is live! 🧪
Introducing the Science Reporting Navigator - The Open Notebook
The Science Reporting Navigator stands ready to walk you through complex reporting scenarios to integrate science into any beat. The Open Notebook and the Reynolds Journalism Institute are thrilled to...
www.theopennotebook.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!
September 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
all this to say—jaws has been everywhere this summer, and this theatergoing experience reminded me why.

i’m thinking about the Beloved and Complicated Shark Movie with extra nerdy gratitude today! ❤️
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
but writing this piece let me dive into the bizarre, complicated afterlives that art can have, through the lens of a story that’s bled into so many parts of our lives and culture. (puns in this thread intended, with regrets and apologies).
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
last year i wrote this piece for atmos about jaws’ legacy in shark science and the power of art, and through this whole anniversary summer it’s been so obvious that i should resurface it, and i’m so shit at social media that i haven’t done it!

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Jaws Just Turned 50. It Created a Monster—And a Golden Era of Shark Science. | Atmos
The myth of a killer shark was a debut novel’s legacy. Since then, a whole lot of curiosity has changed the story.
atmos.earth
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
a half century on, the jump scares, sobering town politics, and wacky characters still hit. it was such an unexpected pleasure to sit in a theater and feel that energy with a bunch of strangers.
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
though i’ve watched this movie more than a dozen times easily, i realized in talking with my friend that i don’t think i’ve ever watched it by myself!

at its core, it’s a movie about people that always makes me feel connected to whoever’s watching it with me.
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
yesterday i watched jaws in a theater with my partner, his mom (who was seeing it for the first time since it came out 50 years ago!), and my dear friend who’d never seen it at all 🦈
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
out this week with high country news: a feature on the importance of studying "dead things" on LA's beaches.

www.hcn.org/articles/mee...
Meet LA’s detective for dead marine mammals - High Country News
A day in the life of a scientist studying the aftermath of the city’s deadly algal blooms.
www.hcn.org
July 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.
Urgent! Every Dollar Counts!
We grow science with words, and are the only Asian American-run science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, led by Gen-Z! The Xylom needs to raise $7,500 by the end of the month to stay afloat. Please…
fundrazr.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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One of the most underreported aspects of life for Black undocumented migrants can be summed up in one statistic: They’re deported at a rate four times more often than their numbers would suggest.

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5% of Undocumented Migrants Are Black. They're 20% of Potential Deportations.
Research exposes how racial disparities in policing have created a pathway from routine life to permanent family separation for Black migrants.
capitalbnews.org
June 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM