Nadia Drake
@nadiadrake.bsky.social
Science journalist, champagneophile, nap champ. Currently freelance, formerly National Geographic. 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈
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Missing my dad extra hard today — it's been three orbits since he left.
September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Missing my dad extra hard today — it's been three orbits since he left.
Meanwhile, check out the midpoint of this re-entry window. (Prediction is current as of 4pm US Eastern, and it will change, but if 2025 wants to be maximally chaotic…it’s on course) #kosmos482 aerospace.org/reentries/6073
May 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Meanwhile, check out the midpoint of this re-entry window. (Prediction is current as of 4pm US Eastern, and it will change, but if 2025 wants to be maximally chaotic…it’s on course) #kosmos482 aerospace.org/reentries/6073
“A lot of life’s interesting things are in the bits that don’t fit. The anomalies. The curiosities.” — Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#breakthroughdiscuss
#breakthroughdiscuss
April 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“A lot of life’s interesting things are in the bits that don’t fit. The anomalies. The curiosities.” — Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#breakthroughdiscuss
#breakthroughdiscuss
March 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Wow — this shot of a total solar eclipse is truly one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Shot from the moon's surface by @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social's Blue Ghost lander, it shows the sun about to emerge from behind the Earth. What a beautiful cosmic perspective! 💍
March 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Wow — this shot of a total solar eclipse is truly one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Shot from the moon's surface by @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social's Blue Ghost lander, it shows the sun about to emerge from behind the Earth. What a beautiful cosmic perspective! 💍
Beans SphereXed herself chasing a deer…
January 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Beans SphereXed herself chasing a deer…
I decided to stop in Florida on the way to #AAS245. This pic sucks but we had a great view of the Cape (and New Glenn!) on the way in. 🚀
January 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I decided to stop in Florida on the way to #AAS245. This pic sucks but we had a great view of the Cape (and New Glenn!) on the way in. 🚀
I closed out this year by picking up the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Writing (Features) from @agu.org (thank you!!) and this is what happens when you show up wearing a 🦖 necklace for your formal portrait with AGU president @lgraumlich.bsky.social. Win!! 🙌😂
December 23, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I closed out this year by picking up the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Writing (Features) from @agu.org (thank you!!) and this is what happens when you show up wearing a 🦖 necklace for your formal portrait with AGU president @lgraumlich.bsky.social. Win!! 🙌😂
On this date, 15 years ago, I defended my PhD, bailed early from my own party, and went to dance the role of the Sugarplum Fairy. Hard to believe it’s been so long since I last performed to that beautiful, melancholy score. Tchaikovsky captured the end of a good dream so perfectly.
December 10, 2024 at 8:13 PM
On this date, 15 years ago, I defended my PhD, bailed early from my own party, and went to dance the role of the Sugarplum Fairy. Hard to believe it’s been so long since I last performed to that beautiful, melancholy score. Tchaikovsky captured the end of a good dream so perfectly.
Hi from CA! Went for a (very long) walk in the redwoods yesterday and found this guy carved into a random rock along a trail to nowhere 👽🖖
November 27, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Hi from CA! Went for a (very long) walk in the redwoods yesterday and found this guy carved into a random rock along a trail to nowhere 👽🖖
We found an early draft of the message, done in pencil on graph paper, along with Dad’s calculations that went into crafting the symbols, and some of his correspondence about it all. I shared an image of the draft on social media. And the response was…immense. Surprisingly so. And beautiful.
November 20, 2024 at 3:23 PM
We found an early draft of the message, done in pencil on graph paper, along with Dad’s calculations that went into crafting the symbols, and some of his correspondence about it all. I shared an image of the draft on social media. And the response was…immense. Surprisingly so. And beautiful.
My Dad, Frank, designed the message. So, we went digging through some of Dad's old folders, looking for anything related to the message design and transmission (Hi, Mama D!).
November 20, 2024 at 3:20 PM
My Dad, Frank, designed the message. So, we went digging through some of Dad's old folders, looking for anything related to the message design and transmission (Hi, Mama D!).
Beans is ready 😎 #getmooned #eclipse2024
April 8, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Beans is ready 😎 #getmooned #eclipse2024
Taking my best girlie out for a drink
December 12, 2023 at 11:27 PM
Taking my best girlie out for a drink
I'm psyched to have two stories in National Geographic’s October ✨space✨ issue! One is a feature about looking for life on icy moons (and in Earth's darkest corners); the second is a Q&A with Brian May (it will rock you). The issue is gorgeous, go find one! www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/iss...
October 5, 2023 at 6:51 PM
I'm psyched to have two stories in National Geographic’s October ✨space✨ issue! One is a feature about looking for life on icy moons (and in Earth's darkest corners); the second is a Q&A with Brian May (it will rock you). The issue is gorgeous, go find one! www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/iss...
Taking some space to reflect on September 2, 2022. Miss you and love you forever, Dad. 💔
September 2, 2023 at 4:57 PM
Taking some space to reflect on September 2, 2022. Miss you and love you forever, Dad. 💔
I’d like to posit that it’s possible to take the search for alien life seriously without alienating (yep, did that) most your colleagues. Ask me
how I know.
how I know.
August 25, 2023 at 12:50 AM
I’d like to posit that it’s possible to take the search for alien life seriously without alienating (yep, did that) most your colleagues. Ask me
how I know.
how I know.
This sweet girlie ❤️
August 18, 2023 at 12:03 AM
This sweet girlie ❤️
Thinking about these lovebirds as I begin a new orbit around the sun. Love you forever, Mama and Papa D! ❤️
July 7, 2023 at 3:37 AM
Thinking about these lovebirds as I begin a new orbit around the sun. Love you forever, Mama and Papa D! ❤️