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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 28/09/2026

They're stealing the entire universe from our pocketbooks.

Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 23/09/2026

I single-handedly delivered 14 trailers and 6 episodes separately to 4k broadcast, 1080p broadcast, 4k streaming, 1080p streaming, and 4k VOD for my PBS series and despite being highly detail-oriented it nearly broke me. Mind you, almost no one does this ever as one person, but it’s a lot!

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 23/09/2026

Extremely similar. In my scenario I turned down taking a bus 40 miles (!) away to a hotel and decided to “sleep” in the airport. Reading through that, I feel validated in my choice!

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 23/09/2026

Oh I had a very similar experience in New Jersey last year.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 23/09/2026

Delivery is so complicated that I’m surprised it doesn’t happen all the time. Alternatively I’d propose tiny errors no one can notice do happen all the time.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 23/09/2026

Given that in-person interactions typically illicit a higher yield of donations (both in quantity and amount donated), what do you recommend as an alternative? Asking since I’m actively seeking funders for my work 🙂

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 21/09/2026

Available to watch for free on the PBS streaming app until the end of the month! Alternatively you can watch LIFE UNEARTHED on Apple TV and Amazon. 🧪 🦠

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 21/09/2026

Available to watch for free on the PBS streaming app until the end of the month! Alternatively you can watch LIFE UNEARTHED on Apple TV and Amazon. 🧪 🦠

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 17/09/2026

Your tax dollars are being stolen from working Americans trying to improve the country in all 50 states. They’ve “cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the 🤡 took office…health, nutrition, the environment & disaster relief making largest share of cuts” apnews.com/article/trum...

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 September."

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It can be hard to appreciate the vastness of just one (1) light-year. The most distant human-made object has been hurtling into space for almost 50 years, and its distance from Earth is just about to reach 1/365th of a light-year.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 04/09/2026

I believe in diversifying where critical Space and Earth Science data can come from, but not when done at the expense of critically wounding the only entity (NASA, NSF, NOAA) that can sustain decades of investment for the benefit of and ownership by the people.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 04/09/2026

Here’s what I make of it: Whether it’s Ds investing in private space to route around Rs’ fed funding cuts or Rs investing in it to enable said cuts, the outcome is the same: It gives the fed gov’t a disillusioned reason to gut budgets & kill long-term research aka the backbone of science.

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New in PNAS today: we projected how climate change will reshape the body size of marine life across the entire ocean. 23,329 mollusc species, every ocean basin. The headline everyone expects is "life shrinks." The real answer is far stranger. 🧪 #marinelife www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Nonuniform resizing of marine life under climate change | PNAS

Global warming is often predicted to drive universal declines in animal body size, but empirical evidence remains equivocal. This is particularly t...

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 31/08/2026

"There are... four hundred...twenty...three... callers ahead of you." 😳 Or, what happens when a website breaks in the state of California.

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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Look at that hockey stick!

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

OMB's proposal to remake federal grantmaking was flooded with comments Now, they are withdrawing some from the public record — including some that point out Russell Vought's connection to the federally funded research that led to Trikafta www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...

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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website

Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 25/08/2026

Ah yes welcome brave soul to my world. Being inspiring is highly incompatible with being hirable in my experience, I’m sorry to say. Freelancing is often an easier sell.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 23/08/2026

Airborne diseases like Covid are so tricky because transmission depends on so many crazy factors. One person with Covid may not have any detectable viruses in their breath. A single swab from another person may pick up 10 billion viruses! Review: paijournal.com/index.php/pa...

A chart showing the enormous variability in factors such as viral load that influence transmission of Covid

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Colleen Durkin @cadurkin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

On Tuesday the Monterey County Board of Supervisors is voting to approve funding for >100 new license plate surveillance cameras and a 10 year contract. Comments can be emailed by Monday, or you can attend the meeting and speak in person. When did we consent to constant surveillance by the police?

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 20/08/2026

I'm suggesting educating yourself more about how PBS is a decentralized organization, unlike Fox or CNN. Also, understanding that journalism is a human endeavor like all others, and shirking off all journalists because some specific ones pissed you off 10 years ago is just self-serving your ego.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 20/08/2026

So you’d like to punish your local decentralized station and local journalists as part of a decade long retribution campaign, got it.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 20/08/2026

U.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport Iranians in 2025, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship between the U.S. and Iranian governments despite tensions mounting between the countries. to.pbs.org/46bLlcx

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ICE and Iran worked together to deport Iranians from U.S., newly released emails show

Hundreds of emails exchanged between U.S. immigration officials, which were obtained by the National Iranian American Council and made public Tuesday, offer the most transparent play by play yet of ho...

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 20/08/2026

Here’s a good reminder to donate to your local PBS station.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I needed something spectacular, and here it is: a view of the August 12 solar eclipse as seen from South Korea's Danuri satellite, in orbit around the Moon. You can see the lunar shadow sweeping across Greenland. 🔭🧪 www.mt.co.kr/amp/tech/202...

The Korean lunar orbiter Danuri succeeded in capturing the total eclipse observed on the European continent on the 12th (local time). The part of the shadow that touches the surface of the moon (top left) is a total solar eclipse. /Photo: Korea Aerospace Research Institute

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 17/08/2026

Hoping to film some next year! 🤞

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/08/2026

"The message is that COVID vaccine and flu vaccine will be available, they're covered by insurers, they're recommended by medical societies. People should get them and get them for their kids.” -Claire Hannan, MPH, Association of Immunization Managers

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 14/08/2026

Hear, hear! Thank you for writing this and calling out the importance of interconnectedness between disciplines. Much of my work for years has been focused on infusing more serendipity into science. So important right now to illustrate that support for science can/should be diverse in nature.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 13/08/2026

We’d have POTUS Elizabeth Warren then (which would be great).

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 12/08/2026

I’m at #SCAR2026 too; I do find it hopeful that the event is getting larger! Thanks for sharing your poster on here as well.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“The American Revolution was made possible with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting”

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 10/08/2026

Definitely worth giving my lunch break up for. If you can, watch Ariel's series LIFE UNEARTHED - episode 1 is the tiny critters in Antarctica. #SCAR2026

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 09/08/2026

I am - I'll be at the screening tomorrow!

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 08/08/2026

My seat neighbor today even unfurled a large plastic trash bag to place her purse in under the seat.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 08/08/2026

It is a special kind of weirdness to be someone who masks on every flight and every time be seated next to someone who meticulously wipes down every inch of their seat (though rarely the seatbelt) but doesn’t wear a mask.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 08/08/2026

Special screening at #SCAR2026 announced! The @scar-antarctic.bsky.social Open Science Conference is the largest gathering of Antarctic researchers. I’ll be screening an episode from my PBS series, LIFE UNEARTHED, and doing a Q&A in person after! Monday, August 10 at 1pm Room: Central Park A

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 08/08/2026

See you there! I’ll be screening my Antarctic docu-series on Monday at #SCAR2026 - please consider attending!

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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hey my #science friends and followers, please consider getting the word out about this #astrosky #scicomm #nasa #climate

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“NSF has now pulled back $300 million from two of its divisions: mathematics and physical sciences, and computer and information science and engineering. Programme officers…at the NSF, have pulled back 150 proposals that have already passed peer review to free up the money”

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 17/07/2026

Oh I remember because I had been keeping my shit together all year up until that day and then that day just flattened me like a house of cards.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 14/07/2026

This is from the North American Monsoon which is on schedule and can affect NorCal from time to time with lightning and moisture. What’s more attributable to being messed up is recording the highest July tide for SF ever which is more directly linked to climate change.

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