Rosie Mestel
Executive editor of Knowable Magazine, Los Angelino, expat Brit, servant to Nutmeg the cat. Science, plants, art, music.
- 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!
- Great read! Congratulations @katarinazimmer.bsky.social on your insightful @knowablemag.bsky.social piece exploring the remarkable biology of the Aedes aegypti #mosquito knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Rosie MestelFor 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...
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- 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...
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- 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.
- Reposted by Rosie MestelMore 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 🧪
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- Reposted by Rosie MestelToday 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.) 🧪
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- 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. 🧪
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- 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
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- 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...
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- 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... 🧪
