Christopher Michel
@christophermichel.com
Artist-in-Residence at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. https://linktr.ee/ChrisMichel
Portrait of Ann Druyan. Few people have done more to translate the vastness of the universe into something intimate, human, and urgent.
Her life’s work reminds us that science is not cold or distant, but a love story written in starlight. #SciArt
explorers.com/ann-druyan/ @nationalacademies.org
Her life’s work reminds us that science is not cold or distant, but a love story written in starlight. #SciArt
explorers.com/ann-druyan/ @nationalacademies.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Portrait of Ann Druyan. Few people have done more to translate the vastness of the universe into something intimate, human, and urgent.
Her life’s work reminds us that science is not cold or distant, but a love story written in starlight. #SciArt
explorers.com/ann-druyan/ @nationalacademies.org
Her life’s work reminds us that science is not cold or distant, but a love story written in starlight. #SciArt
explorers.com/ann-druyan/ @nationalacademies.org
Reposted by Christopher Michel
Gorgeous view of the NASA SpaceX Crew-11 reentry from my driveway in Southern California tonight!
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Gorgeous view of the NASA SpaceX Crew-11 reentry from my driveway in Southern California tonight!
New Heroes portrait of Dr. Abraham Verghese for the @nationalacademies.org. Dr Verghese is a physician, writer, and professor whose work bridges the worlds of medicine and literature with a rare depth of insight. More: explorers.com/abraham-verg...
January 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM
New Heroes portrait of Dr. Abraham Verghese for the @nationalacademies.org. Dr Verghese is a physician, writer, and professor whose work bridges the worlds of medicine and literature with a rare depth of insight. More: explorers.com/abraham-verg...
Dr Jill Tarter is an astrophysicist whose life's work has been defined by a singular, profound question: Are we alone in the universe? @nationalacademies.org @setiinstitute.bsky.social
More: explorers.com/jill-tarter/
More: explorers.com/jill-tarter/
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Dr Jill Tarter is an astrophysicist whose life's work has been defined by a singular, profound question: Are we alone in the universe? @nationalacademies.org @setiinstitute.bsky.social
More: explorers.com/jill-tarter/
More: explorers.com/jill-tarter/
Portrait of Neal Stephenson. His books have quietly rewired modern culture. Snow Crash gave us the vocabulary of the metaverse, avatars, and virtual real estate long before those ideas became commercial obsessions. More: explorers.com/neal-stephen...
January 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Portrait of Neal Stephenson. His books have quietly rewired modern culture. Snow Crash gave us the vocabulary of the metaverse, avatars, and virtual real estate long before those ideas became commercial obsessions. More: explorers.com/neal-stephen...
I’ve always been drawn to endless horizons. That thin line where the known world stops and possibility begins. Bolinas, 2025. #Photography
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I’ve always been drawn to endless horizons. That thin line where the known world stops and possibility begins. Bolinas, 2025. #Photography
The Golden Gate pulling the city toward the ocean. Fog thinning, traffic humming, Marin waiting on the far side. San Francisco breathing in both directions.
January 8, 2026 at 7:35 PM
The Golden Gate pulling the city toward the ocean. Fog thinning, traffic humming, Marin waiting on the far side. San Francisco breathing in both directions.
San Francisco is the most beautiful city I've ever seen.
January 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
San Francisco is the most beautiful city I've ever seen.
PSA: icebergs move!
January 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM
PSA: icebergs move!
Situational Awareness
January 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Situational Awareness
Reposted by Christopher Michel
New heroes portrait of @michellemonje.bsky.social. A physician scientist at Stanford who treats children with brain cancer and studies the disease at its source. @nationalacademies.org @nam.edu @hhmi-science.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New heroes portrait of @michellemonje.bsky.social. A physician scientist at Stanford who treats children with brain cancer and studies the disease at its source. @nationalacademies.org @nam.edu @hhmi-science.bsky.social
Reposted by Christopher Michel
❤️ beautiful post about my brilliant husband @deisseroth.bsky.social ❤️
New Heroes: @deisseroth.bsky.social has to be one of the most interesting scientists on the planet. Find out why:
glass.photo/cm/6S9GiVGAH... @nationalacademies.org
glass.photo/cm/6S9GiVGAH... @nationalacademies.org
On September 20, 2022, I photographed Karl Deisseroth at his offices and laboratory at Stanford. He has a mop of dark hair, deep, thoughtful eyes, and…
Christopher Michel on Glass
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March 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
❤️ beautiful post about my brilliant husband @deisseroth.bsky.social ❤️
Reposted by Christopher Michel
women of science are cool
December 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
women of science are cool
Reposted by Christopher Michel
role model for many more women to take on STEM and kick ass.
December 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
role model for many more women to take on STEM and kick ass.
Dr. Eva Nogales is a structural biologist whose pioneering work in cryo-electron microscopy has revealed the intricate architecture of cellular machinery. @nationalacademies.org
More: explorers.com/eva-nogales/
More: explorers.com/eva-nogales/
December 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Dr. Eva Nogales is a structural biologist whose pioneering work in cryo-electron microscopy has revealed the intricate architecture of cellular machinery. @nationalacademies.org
More: explorers.com/eva-nogales/
More: explorers.com/eva-nogales/
A new year begins the way all good things do.
Quietly.
Quietly.
December 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A new year begins the way all good things do.
Quietly.
Quietly.
Test shots with the new Leica M EV1. I'm a fan.
December 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Test shots with the new Leica M EV1. I'm a fan.
New Heroes portrait of @ardemp.bskyverified.social, a biologist who listens to the body at its most basic level, uncovering how we feel touch, pain, and temperature. His work revealed a hidden sensory language that shapes how we move through the world. @nationalacademies.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New Heroes portrait of @ardemp.bskyverified.social, a biologist who listens to the body at its most basic level, uncovering how we feel touch, pain, and temperature. His work revealed a hidden sensory language that shapes how we move through the world. @nationalacademies.org
New heroes portrait of @michellemonje.bsky.social. A physician scientist at Stanford who treats children with brain cancer and studies the disease at its source. @nationalacademies.org @nam.edu @hhmi-science.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New heroes portrait of @michellemonje.bsky.social. A physician scientist at Stanford who treats children with brain cancer and studies the disease at its source. @nationalacademies.org @nam.edu @hhmi-science.bsky.social
New heroes portrait of Dr @deisseroth.bsky.social for The @nationalacademies.org. More: explorers.com/karl-deisser... @nasonline.org @nam.edu
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New heroes portrait of Dr @deisseroth.bsky.social for The @nationalacademies.org. More: explorers.com/karl-deisser... @nasonline.org @nam.edu
@deisseroth.bsky.social is a psychiatrist, a neuroscientist, an engineer, a clinician, and a writer...but his main focus is how the brain generates experience. Karl is building maps of the mind. Not to conquer it, but to care for it. More: explorers.com/karl-deisser... @nationalacademies.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
@deisseroth.bsky.social is a psychiatrist, a neuroscientist, an engineer, a clinician, and a writer...but his main focus is how the brain generates experience. Karl is building maps of the mind. Not to conquer it, but to care for it. More: explorers.com/karl-deisser... @nationalacademies.org
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth thinks with his hands as much as his mind. When I photographed him, his fingers rose instinctively to his temples, not as affectation but as posture, the way some people lean forward when listening closely. He is a psychiatrist, a neuroscientist, an engineer, a…
Karl Deisseroth thinks with his hands as much as his mind. When I photographed him, his fingers rose instinctively to his temples, not as affectation but as posture, the way some people lean forward when listening closely. He is a psychiatrist, a neuroscientist, an engineer, a…
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth thinks with his hands as much as his mind. When I photographed him, his fingers rose instinctively to his temples, not as affectation but as posture, the way some people lean forward when listening closely. He is a psychiatrist, a neuroscientist, an engineer, a clinician, and a writer, but those labels only begin to describe what he has been doing for the past two decades.
explorers.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth thinks with his hands as much as his mind. When I photographed him, his fingers rose instinctively to his temples, not as affectation but as posture, the way some people lean forward when listening closely. He is a psychiatrist, a neuroscientist, an engineer, a…
Karl Deisseroth thinks with his hands as much as his mind. When I photographed him, his fingers rose instinctively to his temples, not as affectation but as posture, the way some people lean forward when listening closely. He is a psychiatrist, a neuroscientist, an engineer, a…
Portrait of @deisseroth.bsky.social & @michellemonje.bsky.social. Together they tell a story about how deep science is often built. Slowly. Carefully. In conversation. And sometimes, with the person you choose to build a life with. More: explorers.com/karl-deisser... @nationalacademies.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Portrait of @deisseroth.bsky.social & @michellemonje.bsky.social. Together they tell a story about how deep science is often built. Slowly. Carefully. In conversation. And sometimes, with the person you choose to build a life with. More: explorers.com/karl-deisser... @nationalacademies.org
Fun day making @nasonline.org portraits of two scientists I admire very much, @michellemonje.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social @nam.edu
December 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Fun day making @nasonline.org portraits of two scientists I admire very much, @michellemonje.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social @nam.edu