"Perseverance is especially important if you have an intuitive idea that seems really good to you and the experts in your field tell you it is nonsense. My advice is to always trust your own intuition.” - Geoffrey Hinton. More: lnkd.in/gazUUDi7 @nobelprize.org @nationalacademies.org

Visited the public library in Oslo yesterday. While I’m not particularly fond of the architecture I can appreciate the thought behind it. It’s a box with a “thing” pointing towards the opera house. #oslo #blackandwhite #photography #architecture #stunday #monochrome #cityscape

Deep Field, Antarctica. At Union Glacier Camp, a temporary city rises each season on moving ice. Every tent, every structure, every routine is designed for one purpose: to make human presence possible in a place fundamentally indifferent to it. Nothing is accidental. Everything is earned.

OK, 1) I did not know the Hercules beetle flew. 🤯 2) I did not realize that the underside of the mandible was fuzzy. 3) Lookit the size of that thing!

“I’ve always liked code that runs fast.” @jeffdean.bsky.social helped build the systems that make modern computing feel instantaneous. Speed, at his level, is not just performance. It's a way of thinking. More: explorers.com/jeff-dean/ @nationalacademies.org

Sometimes the dream is real. It lasts a few minutes, maybe less, and then it’s gone. Lofoten.

Paul Alivisatos, president of the U of Chicago. A scientist who never really left the lab. He still shows up, still asks questions, still leans into the unknown with real joy. The laughter, the curiosity, the sense that learning is not a phase but a way of being. More: explorers.com/paul-alivisa...

Professor @geochurch.bsky.social helped us learn to read DNA and has spent decades pushing toward writing it. His range is hard to hold in one frame. More: explorers.com/george-church/ @nationalacademies.org

In Antarctica, there are no roads. There are only decisions. It’s a reminder that some paths aren’t found. They’re made, one deliberate move at a time.

Paul Alivisatos helped define nanoscience, showing how matter behaves differently at the smallest scales. Now President of the University of Chicago. Thoughtful, humble, and endlessly curious. @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @nationalacademies.org explorers.com/paul-alivisa...

Margaret Cohen writes about the sea as both history and imagination, a place where literature, exploration, and human longing converge. A professor at Stanford, she traces how oceans have shaped the stories we tell about risk, discovery, and the unknown. explorers.com/margaret-coh...

Melody Jue studies the ocean not as scenery, but as a challenge to perception itself. In Wild Blue Media, she asks what happens when our ways of knowing break down underwater. I photographed her before her Long Now talk. explorers.com/melody-jue/ @nationalacademies.org

Standing on thin ice with the whole Arctic thinking about becoming water again. #Svalbard

Photos of Abandoned Structures in the High Arctic Old mining towns and research shacks lie in ruins in the Svalbard islands: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mes...

Isabella Kirkland paints life at the edge of disappearance. Each species rendered with precision, gathered into dense ecosystems that feel both abundant and fragile. A record of what exists before it changes again. @nationalacademies.org

Like Hoth, only real. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sitting in the white silence, all steel, geometry, and survival.

There are scientists who study stress. Robert Sapolsky lived inside it. Thirty summers in the Maasai Mara tracking baboons, watching status and survival play out in real time. What he found still lands hard. Experience becomes biology. More: explorers.com/robert-sapol...

Legendary climber, David Hamilton, returns to the safety of the tent. Frost lifts from his jacket and hangs in the air like smoke. Outside, the temperature is thirty below. The plateau stretches for hundreds of silent miles. South Pole, Antarctica.

"The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old." - Sylvia Earle

[email protected], founding executive editor of @wired.com and author of The Inevitable, has spent decades exploring how technology evolves. Known for the idea of protopia and for asking the best questions. Photographed at the @longnow.org. More: explorers.com/kevin-kelly-2/

This is Sylvia Earle at ninety. Still curious. Still working. Still reminding humanity that the ocean is the living system that makes life on Earth possible. For decades she has reminded us of something simple and profound. The fate of the sea is the fate of us. @nationalacademies.org

"No water, no life. No blue, no green." - Sylvia Earle

Legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle and her daughter, Liz Taylor, CEO of DOER Marine, photographed at DOER’s workshop where the next generation of submersibles is imagined and built. Two lives connected by family, and by the ocean that shaped them both. 🌊

Sylvia Earle has spent a lifetime exploring the blue heart of our planet. With more than 7,000 hours underwater, she has shown the world both the wonder and the fragility of the ocean that keeps us alive. Read more: explorers.com/sylvia-earle/

Sylvia Earle has spent her life exploring the deep ocean and revealing why it matters to life on Earth. NatGeo Explorer-in-Residence, leader of 100+ expeditions, and founder of @missionblue.bsky.social, she is still fighting for the sea at 90. explorers.com/sylvia-earle/ @nationalacademies.org

Great day making portraits with the inspiring Dr Sylvia Earle

The research vessel R/V Kinfish pressed against the frozen coast of Svalbard. From above the scale is almost hard to grasp. A tiny ship beside a continent of ice, glaciers flowing down from mountains into the Arctic Ocean. #SciArt #Photography

Nobel laureate @demishassabis.bsky.social is redefining discovery. From AlphaGo to AlphaFold, his AI systems are accelerating biology and medicine. I photographed him inside Google’s secretive X labs, where moonshots become science. explorers.com/demis-hassab... #SciArt @nationalacademies.org

Proud of this portrait of someone I really admire: @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social. @cenmag.bsky.social

A lone polar bear pauses on thinning sea ice, blue meltwater opening beneath his feet. The Arctic is no longer a frozen plain but a shifting puzzle, each step measured, each season shorter than the last.

Pamela Bjorkman has spent her career revealing how the immune system recognizes friend from foe. Her early structural work on the major histocompatibility complex reshaped immunology and laid groundwork for modern vaccines and antibody therapies. explorers.com/pamela-bjork... @nationalacademies.org

Nobel laureate David Julius in his office at Genentech Hall, April light pouring in over Mission Bay. Behind him a globe, a miniature Taj Mahal, family photos, and a small red pepper. Ordinary objects. One of them changed how we understand pain More: lnkd.in/g8EZ7Mqb #SciArt @nationalacademies.org

Engineering so precise it feels inevitable. The Golden Gate Bridge is not just steel and rivets but a solved problem suspended in wind and salt. Tens of thousands cross it daily without a second thought. When something works this well, it disappears into the fabric of life. #Photography

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Antarctic logistics is an act of precision at the edge of the world. At Union Glacier, ALE turns blue ice into runway, fuel into lifeline, weather windows into possibility. Tents snap in the katabatic wind. Every expedition begins here, balanced between risk, science, and raw white silence. #SCIART

This always gives me a small, quiet thrill. Visiting Coit Tower and standing in front of the mural painted by my grandfather, Frede Vidar. He died the year I was born, so I never met him, but time collapses a little in this room. Being here makes him feel close. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frede_V...

In a Mission Bay lab, neurosurgeons Alexander Ksendzovsky and Jon Pomeraniec are growing living neuron networks to compute. The Biological Computing Co is betting brain cells may one day outlearn and out-efficient silicon. Wetware, not wafers. More: explorers.com/the-biologic... #SciArt

Photographer Harry Benson sits like a man who has seen history blink. The Beatles screaming, presidents sweating, wars whispering in hotel corridors. His hands rest easy now, but you can feel the miles in them. A life spent close to the flame, eyes open, waiting for that decisive moment #Photography

Nobel laureate Frances Arnold has had an extraordinary journey from teenage rebellion in Pittsburgh to harnessing AI to evolutionary biology to create new kinds of chemistry. I sat down with her for a Lunch with the FT in the bistro of Stockholm's Nobel Prize Museum. www.ft.com/content/9923...

“The map is not the territory” - Alfred Korzybski. The real world is always stranger, rougher, and more alive than the diagram. Franz Josef Land, Russian High Arctic. #photography

“Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” David Whyte has spent decades exploring what it means to feel fully alive. He approaches ambition, friendship, loss, and courage not as ideas to analyze, but as realities to be inhabited. More: explorers.com/david-whyte/

Honored to make the author photo for @michaelpollan.bsky.social's new book, A World Appears. Michael is a true explorer of the inner landscape. It's a privilege to see my work paired with such a vital mind. Grab a copy. #MichaelPollan #Photography

Announcing our new executive director! Atmospheric scientist Amanda Staudt will join AMS in March 2026 as ED/CEO. We're happy to have her joining us to help further AMS's mission. Learn more about Amanda here: https://bit.ly/4pJF9Qh

Awesome story about @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social & @jhdcate.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/biological-c...

Edward Burtynsky photographs scale in every sense. Vast industrial landscapes that are beautiful yet quietly disturbing. Mines, waterways, systems of consumption that show how progress and damage are inseparable. A clear-eyed reckoning with the world we’ve built. More: explorers.com/edward-burty...

There are moments in science when the ground shifts beneath us. Walter Alvarez helped uncover the asteroid impact that ended the dinosaurs and reshaped Earth’s history. From a limestone outcrop in Italy came a world changing theory... #SciArt @nationalacademies.org explorers.com/walter-alvar...

Enrico’s flickers like a memory you’re not sure is yours. Somewhere up there is grace, or maybe just more fog. San Francisco holds its breath, waiting to see what comes next. #Photography

Jack Szostak hunts the moment chemistry becomes biology. Nobel work on telomeres, then a hard left into protocells and early evolution. Photographed in fading winter light, now at UChicago, chasing the first spark. @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social explorers.com/jack-szostak/ #SciArt

[email protected] stands at the junction of art and engineering, play and discipline. He reminds us that thinking is physical. That curiosity is a muscle. That the difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. He builds. He tests. He shares the joy of not yet knowing.