I filmed a full PBS nature documentary entirely by myself with no film crew in Antarctica.
Am I doing this right? I guess it's not so random. mailchi.mp/arielwaldman...
Thank you!
Thank you! <3
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Thank you! It has been a long road indeed. Hope to see you sometime this year!
It’s true! 👀
Antarctic microscopist @arielwaldman.com presents research and footage to the National Geographic Explorers Festival. Includes tardigrades! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Ej...
2016.
My point is he is the OMB.
Today I hope you learn that Vought literally is the head of OMB…
Not fun being right.
This is directly affecting my work being greenlit or not :/
A year ago today, 168 of my NSF colleagues were fired suddenly & illegally. Half got their jobs back after an intense legal fight, but none of this is over for our small/mighty agency. Even while there are so many things happening everywhere all at once & it’s exhausting, I’m glad to keep pushing.
Welp.
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FDA's decision not to accept Moderna's flu vaccine filing has sent shock waves through pharma. "When there’s uncertainty about the path to approval & the reliability of the process, that really has pretty serious consequences,” one player told @jasonmast.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...
Not to detract from the rest of Mark's point, but a recurring theme from reporting last year I encountered was the damage done by uncertainty.
Without long term assurances, PhD offers were rescinded, new grants were scaled back at NSF & NIH. At Harvard people left before the grants came back.
One Boston Children’s Hospital researcher said, “This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
ICYMI: #FDA has refused to review #Moderna's mRNA #flu vaccine licensure application, suggesting the company should have used a different comparator vaccine in its Phase 3 clinical trial. Moderna suggests the regulatory agency moved the goalpost. www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/f...
Whether it’s Hank Green, Khan Academy, PBS, or NPR, I think our media and educational content should be a non-profit, public good.
Going to clicks, ad revenue, and investor returns always gets in the way of the mission. And we all lose out.
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creepy awesome sea slime strikes again 🦐
The three commas to me are convincing of satire; literally pulled from Silicon Valley tv show.
Awesome!
Congrats on the series! I hope @erictopol.bsky.social makes an appearance!
This is true because most of us on Bluesky lived through an era of just posting about what we were having for lunch that day or blogging about a conference we attended.
cc @mikamckinnon.bsky.social
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
As of tomorrow, the US will be out of #WHO. It's leaving the organization with a large unpaid bill — 2 years of unpaid membership dues, including from the last year of the Biden administration. www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/t...
It's that time of year again: we're looking for our next Antarctic team!
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
