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. 🧪
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Each day, we've been sending out videos showcasing each chocolatier's creation along with a little bit from me about the many amazing moons in our solar system that I curated for the calendar. It's a delightful way to treat yourself and learn something new each day.
What’s your favorite moon?
What’s your favorite moon?
December 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Each day, we've been sending out videos showcasing each chocolatier's creation along with a little bit from me about the many amazing moons in our solar system that I curated for the calendar. It's a delightful way to treat yourself and learn something new each day.
What’s your favorite moon?
What’s your favorite moon?
This legitimately happened to me in 2009 and so I offer my real-life runner-up:
“And what do you do?”
(I knew 🥴)
“And what do you do?”
(I knew 🥴)
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This legitimately happened to me in 2009 and so I offer my real-life runner-up:
“And what do you do?”
(I knew 🥴)
“And what do you do?”
(I knew 🥴)
This news is all over my timeline, but it might not be making its way into yours, so I’m making sure it is.
It is a very bad development for both science and maintaining a safe society.
It is a very bad development for both science and maintaining a safe society.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
This news is all over my timeline, but it might not be making its way into yours, so I’m making sure it is.
It is a very bad development for both science and maintaining a safe society.
It is a very bad development for both science and maintaining a safe society.
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One of my good friends gave me a Dandelion Chocolate advent calendar (for the second year!) Imo, the people at Dandelion are geniuses. The calendar, itself, is gorgeous, the chocolates are delicious, and the daily astronomy lesson with @arielwaldman.com is a delight.
December 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of my good friends gave me a Dandelion Chocolate advent calendar (for the second year!) Imo, the people at Dandelion are geniuses. The calendar, itself, is gorgeous, the chocolates are delicious, and the daily astronomy lesson with @arielwaldman.com is a delight.
ICYMI
I wrote about what it’s like to emerge from 10 months of documentary editing. www.patreon.com/posts/142691...
Emerging from 10 months of editing | Ariel Waldman
Get more from Ariel Waldman on Patreon
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December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
ICYMI
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I wrote about what it’s like to emerge from 10 months of documentary editing. www.patreon.com/posts/142691...
Emerging from 10 months of editing | Ariel Waldman
Get more from Ariel Waldman on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I wrote about what it’s like to emerge from 10 months of documentary editing. www.patreon.com/posts/142691...
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When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
Have stumbled into the part of Instagram that is loudly proclaiming “THIS IS NOT AI” while shlepping the same photoshop slop that has existed for decades.
December 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Have stumbled into the part of Instagram that is loudly proclaiming “THIS IS NOT AI” while shlepping the same photoshop slop that has existed for decades.
I wrote about what it’s like to emerge from 10 months of documentary editing. www.patreon.com/posts/142691...
Emerging from 10 months of editing | Ariel Waldman
Get more from Ariel Waldman on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I wrote about what it’s like to emerge from 10 months of documentary editing. www.patreon.com/posts/142691...
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TL;DR:
✔️ Get a cool (signed!) sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here until December 7: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
✔️ Get a cool (signed!) sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here until December 7: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
TL;DR:
✔️ Get a cool (signed!) sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here until December 7: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
✔️ Get a cool (signed!) sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here until December 7: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
TL;DR:
✔️ Get a cool (signed!) sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here until December 7: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
✔️ Get a cool (signed!) sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here until December 7: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
TL;DR:
✔️ Get a cool (signed!) sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here until December 7: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
✔️ Get a cool (signed!) sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here until December 7: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
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TL;DR:
✔️ Get a cool sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
✔️ Get a cool sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
TL;DR:
✔️ Get a cool sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
✔️ Get a cool sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
Thank you so much! Excited to have you join the journey! ❤️🎉
And joined - looks amazing!
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Thank you so much! Excited to have you join the journey! ❤️🎉
TL;DR:
✔️ Get a cool sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
✔️ Get a cool sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
TL;DR:
✔️ Get a cool sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
✔️ Get a cool sci-fi book
✔️ Support public media content
✔️ Give hope to an independent filmmaker
20% off here: www.patreon.com/138950/join 🧪
Partnering with a chocolate company on a space-themed adventure calendar is indeed a dream job ☺️
so excited for folks to learn about 25 moons in our solar system while enjoying a daily treat!
www.dandelionchocolate.com/products/adv...
so excited for folks to learn about 25 moons in our solar system while enjoying a daily treat!
www.dandelionchocolate.com/products/adv...
@arielwaldman.com Amazing to open my gorgeous Dandelion advent and find your name inside!
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Partnering with a chocolate company on a space-themed adventure calendar is indeed a dream job ☺️
so excited for folks to learn about 25 moons in our solar system while enjoying a daily treat!
www.dandelionchocolate.com/products/adv...
so excited for folks to learn about 25 moons in our solar system while enjoying a daily treat!
www.dandelionchocolate.com/products/adv...
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I love this book!!!! Get one!
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 10:05 PM
I love this book!!!! Get one!
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 🧪👇