Ariel Waldman
@arielwaldman.com
Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker.
📺 Creator + host of UNEARTHED on PBS (2026)
🚀 NatGeo Explorer + NASA advisor
🔬 Often filming tardigrades
🔗 https://arielwaldman.com
📺 Creator + host of UNEARTHED on PBS (2026)
🚀 NatGeo Explorer + NASA advisor
🔬 Often filming tardigrades
🔗 https://arielwaldman.com
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Ariel Waldman
@arielwaldman.com
· Sep 26
Hello! I’m Ariel.
I’m an Antarctic explorer + filmmaker who specializes in filming microscopic animals.
Previously, I advised NASA on advanced tech + human spaceflight. I live in San Francisco. 🧪
I’m an Antarctic explorer + filmmaker who specializes in filming microscopic animals.
Previously, I advised NASA on advanced tech + human spaceflight. I live in San Francisco. 🧪
Special discount until December 7! 🧪
Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison...
...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time.
20% off with code SCIENCE:
patreon.com/arielwaldman
Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison...
...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time.
20% off with code SCIENCE:
patreon.com/arielwaldman
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Special discount until December 7! 🧪
Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison...
...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time.
20% off with code SCIENCE:
patreon.com/arielwaldman
Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison...
...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time.
20% off with code SCIENCE:
patreon.com/arielwaldman
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Want to cozy up with some tasty books this season? I cooked up two new ones for you in 2025! Automatic Noodle (instant bestseller!) and the anthology We Will Rise Again co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social (out 12/2!). Have a feast! #booksky #blackfriday
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Want to cozy up with some tasty books this season? I cooked up two new ones for you in 2025! Automatic Noodle (instant bestseller!) and the anthology We Will Rise Again co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social (out 12/2!). Have a feast! #booksky #blackfriday
The geology of Antarctica always astonishes me. An entire continent cloaked in ice up to three miles thick except for a few small patches. So much history to uncover.
This photo is of me back in 2018 when I hiked up a lung-killer mountainside solely in pursuit of seeing some cool rocks.
This photo is of me back in 2018 when I hiked up a lung-killer mountainside solely in pursuit of seeing some cool rocks.
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The geology of Antarctica always astonishes me. An entire continent cloaked in ice up to three miles thick except for a few small patches. So much history to uncover.
This photo is of me back in 2018 when I hiked up a lung-killer mountainside solely in pursuit of seeing some cool rocks.
This photo is of me back in 2018 when I hiked up a lung-killer mountainside solely in pursuit of seeing some cool rocks.
Last month I presented my upcoming docu-series ANTARCTICA UNEARTHED to @berkeleylab.lbl.gov who are doing mind-bending particle physics work.
I always keep an eye out for opportunities to work with particle physicists 👀
I always keep an eye out for opportunities to work with particle physicists 👀
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Last month I presented my upcoming docu-series ANTARCTICA UNEARTHED to @berkeleylab.lbl.gov who are doing mind-bending particle physics work.
I always keep an eye out for opportunities to work with particle physicists 👀
I always keep an eye out for opportunities to work with particle physicists 👀
In the “valley of the dead”, it was thought that nothing could survive in this region of Antarctica known as the Dry Valleys. Penguins (like this one) and seals that accidentally navigated here perished under the extreme, Mars-like conditions and lack of food. 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In the “valley of the dead”, it was thought that nothing could survive in this region of Antarctica known as the Dry Valleys. Penguins (like this one) and seals that accidentally navigated here perished under the extreme, Mars-like conditions and lack of food. 🧪
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Incredible story of tracking down the real human behind AI slop stories, by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Incredible story of tracking down the real human behind AI slop stories, by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social
What it’s like to road trip in Antarctica.
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
What it’s like to road trip in Antarctica.
When you see Antarctica for the first time.
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
When you see Antarctica for the first time.
Let’s drop some science into your feed 🧪👇
Hope you’re staying healthy this cold and flu season! Have you ever wondered why one side of your nose might feel more congested than the other when you get sick?
It’s an unfortunate side-effect of the way your nose is built to process smells.
1/7 ⚛️🧪
It’s an unfortunate side-effect of the way your nose is built to process smells.
1/7 ⚛️🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Let’s drop some science into your feed 🧪👇
I have one of these and I love it n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/search_...
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I have one of these and I love it n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/search_...
I am eagerly waiting for Patreon to launch better discoverability of creators on their platform. Supposedly coming soon?
Anyway, here's me: patreon.com/arielwaldman
Anyway, here's me: patreon.com/arielwaldman
Been spending a little less money on dumb shit and a little more on various artists/journalists/podcasters.
Makes me feel like a network CEO putting together my own personal media company. Uplifting stuff, highly recommend going beyond social media to support people!
Makes me feel like a network CEO putting together my own personal media company. Uplifting stuff, highly recommend going beyond social media to support people!
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am eagerly waiting for Patreon to launch better discoverability of creators on their platform. Supposedly coming soon?
Anyway, here's me: patreon.com/arielwaldman
Anyway, here's me: patreon.com/arielwaldman
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Science is cool
We use distant black holes to know the position of Earth in space. If we invented GPS and didn’t use them to confirm our position, GPS would be inaccurate and unusable because we could not tell the precise positioning of Earth even though we’d know the relationship between your car and a satellite.
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Science is cool
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Sharing of flu samples from around the world with CDC is down 60% this year as of July, and other WHO labs have seen a dip too in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO.
That patchier view of influenza's evolution could mean a less effective flu shot next year.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
That patchier view of influenza's evolution could mean a less effective flu shot next year.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Why next year's flu shot might not be as good as it should be
America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.
www.npr.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sharing of flu samples from around the world with CDC is down 60% this year as of July, and other WHO labs have seen a dip too in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO.
That patchier view of influenza's evolution could mean a less effective flu shot next year.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
That patchier view of influenza's evolution could mean a less effective flu shot next year.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Slowly dawning on me that today is the first time since the start of the year that I’m not on a constant weekly big deadline. #filmmaking
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Slowly dawning on me that today is the first time since the start of the year that I’m not on a constant weekly big deadline. #filmmaking
Voted YES ✅
November 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Voted YES ✅
SCIENCE!
Doing #filmsound and #sounddesign for @arielwaldman.com leads to some rad field trips. This is the synchrotron called the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. #fuckyeahscience
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
SCIENCE!
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Krill fishing has just got even more political and horrifying
Ukrainian scientist, Leonid Pshenichnov, has been arrested by Russia for his work in Antarctica towards protecting krill from overexploitation
He faces life in prison for "high treason"
🦑🌊🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ukrainian scientist, Leonid Pshenichnov, has been arrested by Russia for his work in Antarctica towards protecting krill from overexploitation
He faces life in prison for "high treason"
🦑🌊🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing
‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Krill fishing has just got even more political and horrifying
Ukrainian scientist, Leonid Pshenichnov, has been arrested by Russia for his work in Antarctica towards protecting krill from overexploitation
He faces life in prison for "high treason"
🦑🌊🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ukrainian scientist, Leonid Pshenichnov, has been arrested by Russia for his work in Antarctica towards protecting krill from overexploitation
He faces life in prison for "high treason"
🦑🌊🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reposted by Ariel Waldman
Reposted by Ariel Waldman
What sucks about the soulless losers trying to destroy creative work is that, because they've never done anything creative in their life, they don't understand the basic fact that it's the process of learning how to communicate something that makes it so that you communicate something interesting.
It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...
October 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
What sucks about the soulless losers trying to destroy creative work is that, because they've never done anything creative in their life, they don't understand the basic fact that it's the process of learning how to communicate something that makes it so that you communicate something interesting.
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Pandas, snow leopards...and bacteria. A newly formed team of scientists is setting out to conserve the world's diversity of microbes. Here's my story: nyti.ms/47vEfRC
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Pandas, snow leopards...and bacteria. A newly formed team of scientists is setting out to conserve the world's diversity of microbes. Here's my story: nyti.ms/47vEfRC
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Scoop: Ron Conway, the prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Democratic donor, resigned today from the the Salesforce Foundation board. He told his close friend, Marc Benioff, he barely recognizes him anymore after his pro-Trump remarks in the @nytimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Venture Capitalist Resigns From Salesforce Foundation Over Benioff Comments
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Scoop: Ron Conway, the prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Democratic donor, resigned today from the the Salesforce Foundation board. He told his close friend, Marc Benioff, he barely recognizes him anymore after his pro-Trump remarks in the @nytimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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new protest song just dropped
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
new protest song just dropped