🏳️‍🌈🇦🇶🏳️‍🌈 5/5 I'm so happy to celebrate all of my LGBTQIA+ friends who are helping shape this world we live in, and are demonstrating through their lives that a world of letting people be their genuine best selves is a better world for all of us. 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇶🏳️‍🌈
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🏳️‍🌈🇦🇶🏳️‍🌈 4/5 ...are as much a part of, and a significant builder of, Antarctican culture as anyone else has been over time. And that way - the way we are building our lives in the Antarctica I love - is resolution to be part of a world that's getting better, as the people we individually choose to be in this world.
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🏳️‍🌈🇦🇶🏳️‍🌈 3/5 There are no original people of Antarctica. There is no one here who really can make much of an argument that some people "belong" here more than other people. In fact, those of us working on this continent now, some of us for decades, from all over the globe...
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🏳️‍🌈🇦🇶🏳️‍🌈 1/5 May I say first, with all my heart, Happy Polar Pride Day, Antarctica fans. I'm going to blah blah for a bit below, but that's the most important thing. 🌈🌈🌈 Here's what's on my mind today, on this celebration that began continent-wide in 2019:
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🏳️‍🌈🇦🇶🏳️‍🌈 2/5 We are pretty new creatures in Antarctica, as humans - our record here is so recent. A few sightings, but more frequent, documented human contact to this continent is only a century - a bit more. My point is, the human historical record here is in its infancy.
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Checking in with some scenes from the Antarctic Peninsula this week. It's been stormy and busy, and, as always, beautiful. The R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer has arrived with more scientists and contract workers (like me). My penguin researcher friends are here, more water sampling grantees, and a fresh catch of #Krill, long-studied here. 🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶 #Antarctica #AntarcticPeninsula #PalmerStation #ThisPalmerLife #ThisAntarcticLife this is not the #SouthPole #Antartida #Antarctique #AntarcticaMastodon

Here are a few of my favorite things I've seen so far this Antarctica season, including our research vessel's 4- day trip across the Drake Passage and down the Antarctic Peninsula. I work at one of three US science bases, and this is my 16th season on the ice. Here all summer, and just getting to know the platform. Hi Mastadon! #antarctica #antarcticpeninsula #palmerstation #thispalmerlife #thisantarcticlife this is not the #southpole New here, not a #twittermigration