Christopher Michel
@christophermichel.com
Photographer of inspiring humans. Artist-in-Residence at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. https://linktr.ee/ChrisMichel
I met @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social in the soft morning light at Berkeley. She moved through the lab with this calm clarity, like someone who has spent years listening closely to the secrets inside cells. A scientist who changed the future and still greets you with warmth and curiosity.
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I met @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social in the soft morning light at Berkeley. She moved through the lab with this calm clarity, like someone who has spent years listening closely to the secrets inside cells. A scientist who changed the future and still greets you with warmth and curiosity.
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@katecrawford.bsky.social — AI “is rooted in land, H2O, energy, &labor. It reshapes environments &communities long b4 it produces a single line of output…
to understand the future of AI, we have to understand the physical &political worlds that sustain it…Clarity is the beginning of accountability”🧪
to understand the future of AI, we have to understand the physical &political worlds that sustain it…Clarity is the beginning of accountability”🧪
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders.…
Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders.…
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders. She investigates the industries that dig, smelt, ship, refine, and assemble the materials that make computation possible. Born in Australia and now based in the United States, she has worked inside major research labs, universities, and museums, and her writing and art have reshaped how people understand the cost of modern technology.
explorers.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@katecrawford.bsky.social — AI “is rooted in land, H2O, energy, &labor. It reshapes environments &communities long b4 it produces a single line of output…
to understand the future of AI, we have to understand the physical &political worlds that sustain it…Clarity is the beginning of accountability”🧪
to understand the future of AI, we have to understand the physical &political worlds that sustain it…Clarity is the beginning of accountability”🧪
Héctor D. Abruña welcomed me into his sprawling battery labs at Cornell, where every bench feels alive with experiments, students, and the quiet hum of future energy systems. He talks about fuel cells with real joy. Pure enthusiasm layered on decades of deep electrochemistry @nationalacademies.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Héctor D. Abruña welcomed me into his sprawling battery labs at Cornell, where every bench feels alive with experiments, students, and the quiet hum of future energy systems. He talks about fuel cells with real joy. Pure enthusiasm layered on decades of deep electrochemistry @nationalacademies.org
Héctor D. Abruña
Héctor D. Abruña has spent his life chasing the quiet chemistry that can change the world. He works on fuel cells and next generation batteries, but the heart of his science sits in something more elemental. He studies how electrons move across surfaces, how molecules behave when…
Héctor D. Abruña has spent his life chasing the quiet chemistry that can change the world. He works on fuel cells and next generation batteries, but the heart of his science sits in something more elemental. He studies how electrons move across surfaces, how molecules behave when…
Héctor D. Abruña
Héctor D. Abruña has spent his life chasing the quiet chemistry that can change the world. He works on fuel cells and next generation batteries, but the heart of his science sits in something more elemental. He studies how electrons move across surfaces, how molecules behave when coaxed into new configurations, how small shifts in structure can open the door to cleaner energy.
explorers.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Héctor D. Abruña
Héctor D. Abruña has spent his life chasing the quiet chemistry that can change the world. He works on fuel cells and next generation batteries, but the heart of his science sits in something more elemental. He studies how electrons move across surfaces, how molecules behave when…
Héctor D. Abruña has spent his life chasing the quiet chemistry that can change the world. He works on fuel cells and next generation batteries, but the heart of his science sits in something more elemental. He studies how electrons move across surfaces, how molecules behave when…
@kevinkelly.bsky.social has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@kevinkelly.bsky.social has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future.
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle pragmatism, always looking for patterns in how inventions change us. Beyond his writing, he is an avid traveler, photographer, and collector of stories from the edges of the world. His work reminds people that the future is not something that happens to us. It is something we build, choice by choice, imagination by imagination.
explorers.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders.…
Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders.…
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders. She investigates the industries that dig, smelt, ship, refine, and assemble the materials that make computation possible. Born in Australia and now based in the United States, she has worked inside major research labs, universities, and museums, and her writing and art have reshaped how people understand the cost of modern technology.
explorers.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders.…
Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders.…
“There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.”
Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter for the @nationalacademies.org @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter for the @nationalacademies.org @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.”
Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter for the @nationalacademies.org @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter for the @nationalacademies.org @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg arrived a few minutes late to our session at Cornell, still wearing his bike helmet and running shoes. He had pedaled across campus through the cold November air. His office looked like a storm had passed through and decided to stay. Boxes everywhere. Old computers…
Paul Ginsparg arrived a few minutes late to our session at Cornell, still wearing his bike helmet and running shoes. He had pedaled across campus through the cold November air. His office looked like a storm had passed through and decided to stay. Boxes everywhere. Old computers…
Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg arrived a few minutes late to our session at Cornell, still wearing his bike helmet and running shoes. He had pedaled across campus through the cold November air. His office looked like a storm had passed through and decided to stay. Boxes everywhere. Old computers stacked beside piles of journals. Books leaning in crooked towers. Loose papers spilling across the floor.
explorers.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg arrived a few minutes late to our session at Cornell, still wearing his bike helmet and running shoes. He had pedaled across campus through the cold November air. His office looked like a storm had passed through and decided to stay. Boxes everywhere. Old computers…
Paul Ginsparg arrived a few minutes late to our session at Cornell, still wearing his bike helmet and running shoes. He had pedaled across campus through the cold November air. His office looked like a storm had passed through and decided to stay. Boxes everywhere. Old computers…
Paul Ginsparg changed how science is shared. In 1991, in a small Cornell office filled with chalk dust and curiosity, he built ArXiv, the first open-access preprint server. His idea rewired the global flow of knowledge. Physics first, then the world.
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Paul Ginsparg changed how science is shared. In 1991, in a small Cornell office filled with chalk dust and curiosity, he built ArXiv, the first open-access preprint server. His idea rewired the global flow of knowledge. Physics first, then the world.
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
"Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry." New Heroes portrait of @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate & Cornell Professor Roald Hoffmann for the @nationalacademies.org &
@nasonline.org.
@nasonline.org.
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry." New Heroes portrait of @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate & Cornell Professor Roald Hoffmann for the @nationalacademies.org &
@nasonline.org.
@nasonline.org.
Portrait of mathematician Steven Strogatz at Cornell. Strogatz studies the mathematics of connection, from the rhythm of fireflies to the beating of the heart. @stevenstrogatz.com
More explorers.com/steven-strogatz
More explorers.com/steven-strogatz
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Portrait of mathematician Steven Strogatz at Cornell. Strogatz studies the mathematics of connection, from the rhythm of fireflies to the beating of the heart. @stevenstrogatz.com
More explorers.com/steven-strogatz
More explorers.com/steven-strogatz
“The speed limit on light, that might sound frustrating, is what allows us this privileged view of most of the universe’s past, helping us sketch the evolution of the whole cosmos.” ― Lisa Kaltenegger. Portrait of Cornell's Lisa Kaltenegger for the @nationalacademies.org. #NewHeroes
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“The speed limit on light, that might sound frustrating, is what allows us this privileged view of most of the universe’s past, helping us sketch the evolution of the whole cosmos.” ― Lisa Kaltenegger. Portrait of Cornell's Lisa Kaltenegger for the @nationalacademies.org. #NewHeroes
Kavita Bala
Kavita Bala, Cornell’s provost, brings both warmth and precision to every conversation. When you meet her, the first thing you notice is her smile, open and deeply kind. Beneath that warmth is a strong sense of purpose. She stepped into the provost role at a time of great change, when…
Kavita Bala, Cornell’s provost, brings both warmth and precision to every conversation. When you meet her, the first thing you notice is her smile, open and deeply kind. Beneath that warmth is a strong sense of purpose. She stepped into the provost role at a time of great change, when…
Kavita Bala
Kavita Bala, Cornell’s provost, brings both warmth and precision to every conversation. When you meet her, the first thing you notice is her smile, open and deeply kind. Beneath that warmth is a strong sense of purpose. She stepped into the provost role at a time of great change, when universities were adapting to new pressures and research funding was increasingly uncertain.
explorers.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Kavita Bala
Kavita Bala, Cornell’s provost, brings both warmth and precision to every conversation. When you meet her, the first thing you notice is her smile, open and deeply kind. Beneath that warmth is a strong sense of purpose. She stepped into the provost role at a time of great change, when…
Kavita Bala, Cornell’s provost, brings both warmth and precision to every conversation. When you meet her, the first thing you notice is her smile, open and deeply kind. Beneath that warmth is a strong sense of purpose. She stepped into the provost role at a time of great change, when…
Geoff Coates
Geoff Coates is one of the world’s leading polymer chemists, known for finding purpose in the smallest bonds. On a rainy afternoon in Olin Hall at Cornell, we talked about chemistry, entrepreneurship, and the early inspiration he drew from his father, who was also a chemist. In the…
Geoff Coates is one of the world’s leading polymer chemists, known for finding purpose in the smallest bonds. On a rainy afternoon in Olin Hall at Cornell, we talked about chemistry, entrepreneurship, and the early inspiration he drew from his father, who was also a chemist. In the…
Geoff Coates
Geoff Coates is one of the world’s leading polymer chemists, known for finding purpose in the smallest bonds. On a rainy afternoon in Olin Hall at Cornell, we talked about chemistry, entrepreneurship, and the early inspiration he drew from his father, who was also a chemist. In the lab, he still keeps and sometimes wears his father’s old lab coat, a small gesture that ties his work to its beginnings.
explorers.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Geoff Coates
Geoff Coates is one of the world’s leading polymer chemists, known for finding purpose in the smallest bonds. On a rainy afternoon in Olin Hall at Cornell, we talked about chemistry, entrepreneurship, and the early inspiration he drew from his father, who was also a chemist. In the…
Geoff Coates is one of the world’s leading polymer chemists, known for finding purpose in the smallest bonds. On a rainy afternoon in Olin Hall at Cornell, we talked about chemistry, entrepreneurship, and the early inspiration he drew from his father, who was also a chemist. In the…
Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg’s office in Cornell’s Physical Sciences Building feels like an extension of his mind. Books, papers, and boxes rise in uneven stacks, every surface covered with the traces of long-running projects and passing curiosities. The blackboards behind him are dense with…
Paul Ginsparg’s office in Cornell’s Physical Sciences Building feels like an extension of his mind. Books, papers, and boxes rise in uneven stacks, every surface covered with the traces of long-running projects and passing curiosities. The blackboards behind him are dense with…
Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg’s office in Cornell’s Physical Sciences Building feels like an extension of his mind. Books, papers, and boxes rise in uneven stacks, every surface covered with the traces of long-running projects and passing curiosities. The blackboards behind him are dense with equations, not rewritten each day but slowly added to over time, layer upon layer, as ideas evolve. He laughs about being a “kind of” hoarder, admitting that he has meant to sort through it all for years.
explorers.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg’s office in Cornell’s Physical Sciences Building feels like an extension of his mind. Books, papers, and boxes rise in uneven stacks, every surface covered with the traces of long-running projects and passing curiosities. The blackboards behind him are dense with…
Paul Ginsparg’s office in Cornell’s Physical Sciences Building feels like an extension of his mind. Books, papers, and boxes rise in uneven stacks, every surface covered with the traces of long-running projects and passing curiosities. The blackboards behind him are dense with…
New heroes portrait of Lisa Kaltenegger for the @nationalacademies.org. Kaltenegger is among the world’s leading experts on exoplanets, those distant worlds orbiting other stars. explorers.com/lisa-kaltene...
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
New heroes portrait of Lisa Kaltenegger for the @nationalacademies.org. Kaltenegger is among the world’s leading experts on exoplanets, those distant worlds orbiting other stars. explorers.com/lisa-kaltene...
Roald Hoffman
Roald Hoffmann carries the calm focus of someone who has spent a lifetime listening to the quiet language of matter. His office in Baker Laboratory at Cornell feels like a reflection of his mind, filled with carvings, masks, paintings, poems, books, and models of molecules. Every…
Roald Hoffmann carries the calm focus of someone who has spent a lifetime listening to the quiet language of matter. His office in Baker Laboratory at Cornell feels like a reflection of his mind, filled with carvings, masks, paintings, poems, books, and models of molecules. Every…
Roald Hoffman
Roald Hoffmann carries the calm focus of someone who has spent a lifetime listening to the quiet language of matter. His office in Baker Laboratory at Cornell feels like a reflection of his mind, filled with carvings, masks, paintings, poems, books, and models of molecules. Every object seems placed with intention, each holding a small story about curiosity and creation.
explorers.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Roald Hoffman
Roald Hoffmann carries the calm focus of someone who has spent a lifetime listening to the quiet language of matter. His office in Baker Laboratory at Cornell feels like a reflection of his mind, filled with carvings, masks, paintings, poems, books, and models of molecules. Every…
Roald Hoffmann carries the calm focus of someone who has spent a lifetime listening to the quiet language of matter. His office in Baker Laboratory at Cornell feels like a reflection of his mind, filled with carvings, masks, paintings, poems, books, and models of molecules. Every…
I photographed @nobelprize.bsky.social
laureate Roald Hoffmann at Cornell’s Baker Lab on a windy fall afternoon. We spoke about chemistry, art, and the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
Cornell University (2025). #RoaldHoffmann #Cornell #Chemistry #NobelPrize #NewHeroes
laureate Roald Hoffmann at Cornell’s Baker Lab on a windy fall afternoon. We spoke about chemistry, art, and the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
Cornell University (2025). #RoaldHoffmann #Cornell #Chemistry #NobelPrize #NewHeroes
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I photographed @nobelprize.bsky.social
laureate Roald Hoffmann at Cornell’s Baker Lab on a windy fall afternoon. We spoke about chemistry, art, and the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
Cornell University (2025). #RoaldHoffmann #Cornell #Chemistry #NobelPrize #NewHeroes
laureate Roald Hoffmann at Cornell’s Baker Lab on a windy fall afternoon. We spoke about chemistry, art, and the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
Cornell University (2025). #RoaldHoffmann #Cornell #Chemistry #NobelPrize #NewHeroes
Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…
Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall afternoon at Cornell, she sat surrounded by papers, notes, and journals. The light came through the window in soft bands as she lifted a golden model of a fly and smiled.
explorers.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…
Portrait of Ann Druyan for the @nationalacademies.org. I photographed Ann Druyan on a crisp autumn day in Ithaca, at the home she once shared with Carl Sagan. We spoke about the Voyager Golden Record, the message she and Carl sent into the stars. @carlsagandotcom.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Portrait of Ann Druyan for the @nationalacademies.org. I photographed Ann Druyan on a crisp autumn day in Ithaca, at the home she once shared with Carl Sagan. We spoke about the Voyager Golden Record, the message she and Carl sent into the stars. @carlsagandotcom.bsky.social
Ann Druyan
Ann Druyan has spent her life expanding the boundaries of wonder. When I met her on a bright, wind-stirred afternoon in Ithaca, the trees along the slope behind her home flared red and gold, and the air carried that particular autumn light that makes everything feel newly seen. It was…
Ann Druyan has spent her life expanding the boundaries of wonder. When I met her on a bright, wind-stirred afternoon in Ithaca, the trees along the slope behind her home flared red and gold, and the air carried that particular autumn light that makes everything feel newly seen. It was…
Ann Druyan
Ann Druyan has spent her life expanding the boundaries of wonder. When I met her on a bright, wind-stirred afternoon in Ithaca, the trees along the slope behind her home flared red and gold, and the air carried that particular autumn light that makes everything feel newly seen. It was the house she once shared with Carl Sagan, the place where…
explorers.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ann Druyan
Ann Druyan has spent her life expanding the boundaries of wonder. When I met her on a bright, wind-stirred afternoon in Ithaca, the trees along the slope behind her home flared red and gold, and the air carried that particular autumn light that makes everything feel newly seen. It was…
Ann Druyan has spent her life expanding the boundaries of wonder. When I met her on a bright, wind-stirred afternoon in Ithaca, the trees along the slope behind her home flared red and gold, and the air carried that particular autumn light that makes everything feel newly seen. It was…
Portrait of photographer Sam Abell
November 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Portrait of photographer Sam Abell
Portrait of Astronaut Vic Glover
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Portrait of Astronaut Vic Glover
Robert Farese
Bob Farese Jr. has always lived between identities. Trained as both a physician and a scientist, he’s someone who listens as intently as he investigates. You can sense it when he speaks;quiet, deliberate, with a kind of inward momentum that doesn’t announce itself but builds as he…
Bob Farese Jr. has always lived between identities. Trained as both a physician and a scientist, he’s someone who listens as intently as he investigates. You can sense it when he speaks;quiet, deliberate, with a kind of inward momentum that doesn’t announce itself but builds as he…
Robert Farese
Bob Farese Jr. has always lived between identities. Trained as both a physician and a scientist, he’s someone who listens as intently as he investigates. You can sense it when he speaks;quiet, deliberate, with a kind of inward momentum that doesn’t announce itself but builds as he connects ideas. His laboratory work focuses on lipid metabolism and its role in disease.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Robert Farese
Bob Farese Jr. has always lived between identities. Trained as both a physician and a scientist, he’s someone who listens as intently as he investigates. You can sense it when he speaks;quiet, deliberate, with a kind of inward momentum that doesn’t announce itself but builds as he…
Bob Farese Jr. has always lived between identities. Trained as both a physician and a scientist, he’s someone who listens as intently as he investigates. You can sense it when he speaks;quiet, deliberate, with a kind of inward momentum that doesn’t announce itself but builds as he…