“But though puzzles remain, recent studies show that not only are paternal RNA fragments transferred to a fertilized egg, but also that they are capable of inducing changes in the offspring at the doses found in sperm.”
Do you take after your dad’s RNA? via @KnowableMag: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/epigenetic-effects-of-sperm-on-offspring
“We view the library as a comprehensive learning environment that can serve disciplines from music to video to journalism to marketing. Alongside traditional books and learning areas, these tools are integral to modern education.”
How the University of Arkansas Built a Twenty-First Century Library, via Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/university-of-arkansas-twenty-first-century-library
Ameet Doshi and colleagues analyzed the over 1,000 monographs made openly available by the University of Michigan’s Fulcrum open access publishing platform, receiving comments from over 7,800 people.
The response? Doshi writes,
“The thousands of responses we analyzed across a variety of formats and repositories included expressions of gratitude and even love.”
From "Open Access Research Matters to the Public. We Can Prove It." in Katina Magazine.
“As for you and I, these are the coolest summers we will live through. Every other summer in the rest of our lives will be warmer. We will not see the recovery in our lifetime, and that’s something to swallow. But it’s our job to ensure that he can.”
— Climate change researcher Andy Reisinger
The world has veered way off-target of its climate goals. Can we rebound? via @KnowableMag: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/world-way-off-target-of-climate-goals-whats-next
Chronic resource constraints make archivists' jobs harder. Will AI intensify the crisis or offer a way out? In Katina, Emilie Hardman writes:
“The question is not whether scholars and students will encounter AI-mediated discovery for archival materials. They already do. Instead, we should be asking whether primary source materials will be legible within that ecosystem & how archivists can act within that ecosystem as professionals with important contributions to make.” https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/like-it-or-not-ai-has-arrived-in-archives
“Perhaps the most useful perspective is not about who is in the diamond OA community, but who is served by it, and how.”
In a new Katina Magazine article, OASPA’s Malavika Legge reflects on the Third Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, offering up the "ABCs."
-A is for Auto-Rickshaw and APC
-B is for Moving “Beyond Economics”
-C is for Capacity, Criteria, and Conditions
And more.
Check it out: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/abcs-of-diamond-oa-third-global-summit
March was the 15 year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. April marks 40 years since Chernobyl. And "nuclear" remains a hot button issue: From the opportunities of nuclear energy to the risks of nuclear warfare.
Annual Reviews has pulled together a collection of articles from across the journals and from Knowable Magazine exploring the topic from various discipline and angles.
Check it out: https://www.annualreviews.org/page/nuclear-impact-risk
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Absolutely obsessed with this "combing" contraption, which measures the force required to run a comb through hair. Tho it looks like a little hair guillotine to me.
The science of green hair care, via @KnowableMag: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2025/science-of-green-hair-care
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