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.
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
@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.
“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 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
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...
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
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
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
[email protected] is one of neuroscience's most remarkable young investigators. His assembloids, organized clusters of brain cells that form recognizable regions and connections, have solved an old problem. More: explorers.com/sergiu-p-pas...
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
[email protected] is one of neuroscience's most remarkable young investigators. His assembloids, organized clusters of brain cells that form recognizable regions and connections, have solved an old problem. More: explorers.com/sergiu-p-pas...
Dr. Rocco Mancinelli is a microbiologist researching how life adapts to extreme environments and what those adaptations reveal about life beyond it. He studies microorganisms that thrive in conditions once thought inhospitable: high salt, intense radiation, and cold. explorers.com/rocco-mancin...
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Dr. Rocco Mancinelli is a microbiologist researching how life adapts to extreme environments and what those adaptations reveal about life beyond it. He studies microorganisms that thrive in conditions once thought inhospitable: high salt, intense radiation, and cold. explorers.com/rocco-mancin...
New Heroes portrait of NASA's Lynn Rothschild. Dr Rothschild has spent her career asking one of the most profound questions in science: what is life, and where else might it exist? explorers.com/lynn-rothsch...
October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New Heroes portrait of NASA's Lynn Rothschild. Dr Rothschild has spent her career asking one of the most profound questions in science: what is life, and where else might it exist? explorers.com/lynn-rothsch...
October 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Late afternoon in Kalaw, Myanmar. One of those special moments when the world arranges itself to be remembered. #Leica M9 #Photography
October 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Late afternoon in Kalaw, Myanmar. One of those special moments when the world arranges itself to be remembered. #Leica M9 #Photography
Pam Melroy, a retired Air Force colonel and astronaut, is one of only two women ever to command a space shuttle. She left NASA in 2009 after three missions and more than 900 hours in orbit, later taking on leadership roles in aerospace and government. @astropam.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Pam Melroy, a retired Air Force colonel and astronaut, is one of only two women ever to command a space shuttle. She left NASA in 2009 after three missions and more than 900 hours in orbit, later taking on leadership roles in aerospace and government. @astropam.bsky.social
Good morning, Copenhagen
September 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Good morning, Copenhagen
Sometimes, the dream is real. #Svalbard #Photography
September 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Sometimes, the dream is real. #Svalbard #Photography