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Izzy in Antarctica

@izzybluesky.bsky.social
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Pronouns: They/them Verbs: create, repair, modify, and destroy Machinist at McMurdo Station, Antarctica Any similarity between my name and this platform is completely coincidental Opinions are my own and may not reflect those of NSF, USAP, or ASC

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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Made it to Christchurch. First thing (after requisite training ofc) was to go tell jokes! 🇳🇿 Few more days here, then it's on south to go home 🇦🇶
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Marching orders in hand. 23 days to NZ, then on back to Antarctica five or so days later, ±wx. We are go for season IV!
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@cheatlines.co re the flightradar24 post: OMG it's The Very Thing!!! Also as soon as I saw this I thought to come here about it. But there you already were
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I built Van Gogh's Starry Night LEGO set around Thanksgiving time
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Field trip out to Willy Field to fabricate some ramps for Kenn Borek Air. Got to tour the Basler and Twin Otter aircraft that serve the continental interior. I don't usually get to leave 'town' so I relish every opportunity to do so. That Basler is one beautiful bird!🛩️
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
McMurdo themed book cover fan art in the library
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Jayden wrestling himself into the tube
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Alright, keep your sea crits
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A couple of shots from below. Getting down the pipe is tight, but the views are worth the claustro
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They installed the observation tube in the sea ice this year. This allows us to view the Southern Ocean from underneath the ice
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Seals at the start of pupping season
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Last sunset for the summer. 2025-10-20. When the sun rose again, it stayed up for close to 2800 hours
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Just got the greenlight from medical for McMurdo, Antarctica, Season IV. This time starting in August!
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I'm back from the The Frozen South. Gettin settled in. looking for some short term technical work. Plan on heading back in August
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
No Travel Allowed Condition ONE!!!
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Eventually, we had to evacuate the building as a group for safety
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
They called Weather Condition 1 intermittently throughout the day. This is the view from my garage! There's usually a 230m mountain visible from this vantage
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Condition 2 herbi. My first of the season
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Let's go to Antarctica today 🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
oh. THERE's the pre-deployment nerves! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
One week till I return south! 🇦🇶
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's official! I'm headed back to the ice! I will return to McMurdo Antarctica for my third season as the station machinist in a little over 3 weeks! Stay tuned for updates and pics!
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I frequently say that Antarctica has only two seasons: summer and winter. There is no spring or fall. Upon further reflection, this is true at the very Pole, but the northern coasts do experience a period where the sun rises and sets. These could be thought of as Antarctic "spring" and "fall"
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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Getting closer to #sunrise at the #southpole, with official sunrise still nearly three weeks away. Winterover Sim capturing a picture of the horizon behind the ceremonial South Pole with his rubber duck on top. #Antarctica
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We're just out there finding Heroic-Era ships now huh
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
@cheatlines.co new display names just dropped
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Tonight!!! Boulder, CO Science communication through the art of stand-up comedy I'll be talking about Antarctica
Picture of text: 
SCIENCE RIOT.
Scientists do standup.
A comedy show whure scientists explain their work in a way that you can actually understand (and even enjoy)
Saturday, May 31st
8pm
Dairy Arts Center
Real Science. Real Funny.
Follow us on Instagram 
@scienceriot_comedy
[QR code with a link to purchase tickets at the Dairy Arts Center]
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Boulder, Colorado! I'm doing a talk about Antarctica, but it's funny! Science Riot: Stand-up comedy as performed by scientists 5/31 Dairy Events Center Tickets still available. Get yours now! thedairy.org/event/scienc...
thedairy.org
Science Riot – Dairy Arts Center
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
@cheatlines.co
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Needless to say, I'm back on my shit!
Wooden workbench with a notebook and prototyping deck consisting of a small touchscreen, breadboard, and electronic hookup kit. Various hand tools on a pegboard in the background and electronic diagnostic tools scattered or the bench
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
For the first time in thirteen years travelling with my goggles I got stopped by the TSA for a suspicious object. They actually called in the explosives expert 💩 "Because you have a battery and a switch" Like find me someone in this line who doesn't lol
A TSA Explosives Expert and Security agent inspect my hat and electronic goggles in Houston International Airport. Faces obscured for privacy and security
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
With expanding enshittification, The smartest thing a smart TV can do is be a dumb computer monitor.
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
At 0120N, The Sun officially set at McMurdo for the first time since October 23
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@cheatlines.co have a Misty View of the Ross Sea a few miles away from McMurdo
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I built a LEGO model of Shackleton's Endurance in Antarctica, and recreated some of Hurley's historical photographs of the ship trapped in the pack ice. Model provided by Jay's Brick Blog jaysbrickblog.com/news/lego-th... #antarctica #lego #afol
Black and white photograph of Earnest Shackleton's three-masted barquentine, the Endurance, trapped in Antarctic Pack with light stratocumulus clouds in the background and ice boulders in the foreground, as photographed from the starboard side by Frank Hurley in 1914A color re-creation of the Hurley photograph of Earnest Shackleton's barquentine, the Endurance, in profile from the starboard side using a LEGO-built model of the shipAn aged color photograph of Earnest Shackleton's barquentine, the Endurance from the port bow with three foresails extended, trapped in Antarctic pack-ice, as photographed by Frank Hurley in 1914A color recreation of Hurley's port bow shot of Earnest Shackleton's barquentine, the Endurance, trapped in Antarctic ice with the foresails extended using a LEGO-built model of the ship. The background contains scattered stratoform and stratocumulus clouds against a pink and blue sky
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This has terrifying implications about the future of not just my program, but in our nation's scientific development in general. If I get sidelined over this, I will be despondent www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
politico.com
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Well, It's official. I'm not going to South Pole this winter. I'm devastated. I'm grateful for the two deployments that I have had, and will try again next season. But for now, back to CO for the off-season
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
iandunt.substack.com
How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Tourist season has begun. Encountered an excursion of passengers at Scott's Discovery hut last night. The beach was guarded by this Adelie Penguin
A cruise ship anchored in ice-free water off the coast of Ross Island, Antarctica with the Royal Society Mountains in the background as a lone Adelie Penguin looks on from the volcanic beach
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Kowalski, analysis! Four penguins roamed thru town today, causing a "traffic" jam. Lookin like they escaped from Madagascar
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Docent, at a zoo: here we have the Ursus Arctos Me: ooh I know that one - bear of the Arctic. A Polar Bear! Docent: no, this is the brown bear. A polar bear is Ursus Maritimus. ...
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Pour one out for a surreal one today
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Weddell Seal snorkeling before a dive #Antarctica #Seal #wildlife #SeaPuppy #McMurdo
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Those little black dots off in the distance are Emperor Penguins 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
ADHDnD
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
All-vinyl Izzy's Metal Shop radio show last night Izzy's Vinyl Shop It was a blast to play
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Happy First Night of Hanukkah from Antarctica!
Selfie with a Menorah with the first night's candles lit in the McMurdo Galley
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Izzy in Antarctica @izzybluesky.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Happy Holidays from the littermates of McMurdo Antarctica
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