Where my thoughts are right now 🇺🇦

Is it ominous that a spotted lanternfly flew onto my shoulder upon arrival at National Airport? 🤔

Just what my heart needed this weekend. Less Than Jake, Fishbone, & local pride festivities with our community. ❤️🤘🏻🎺🎷 🌈

I'm looking forward to a day when most nuclear policy things I read stop invoking bad parallels in the fashion & design worlds.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

I'm loving Miley being a more mature adult in the room than so many other national figures rn www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/m...

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Brilliant.

100%

Today's reminder to check your registration, #vote often, be ready to troubleshoot. No change in my ID, address, registration etc for several years. I consistently vote. Yet due to a small error the poll workers had to call the Board of Elections to be sure I could vote. Grateful for them doing so 🇺🇸

So cool

Highly recommend following the BEACON initiative, and congrats to the team for continuing to push new tools for #bio info sharing & forecasting:

Hype doesn't help policy makers make hard decisions in pursuit of maintaining effective deterrence. Thx @DefenseNews for posting our piece highlighting 3 misleading themes bubbling up in DC & 3 areas of agreement on #nuclear policy that we can lean into more. www.defensenews.com/opinion/2025...

Well, I need a new nemesis #bird 🪶

The #science & #tech base in the United States, and the people who drive it, are some of our most important national security assets. Keeping the National Labs well resourced & driven toward bold visions must remain a top priority. (& thanks to Sandia for an educational display that can be photo'd!)

And now Draper, just wow! 🇬🇧

Though now, I hope, Rune prevailing after that is even more symbolic 🇩🇰 🎾

So fun to think about a nation I love with my teammate @jacksondupont.bsky.social. Georgia's collaborative approach to all things #bio has shaped global security for decades. The politics of both our nations will now deeply influence whether & how that is sustained in the years ahead.

Brilliantly stated by @andrewfacini.com. We need to attract & retain top talent in #nuclear matters to pursue any strategy. An essential requirement for US strength & security no matter what.

I'm off work today so I can be a bit political, though part of why I'm on Team @benwikler.bsky.social is b/c we'd be better off if both parties embraced a lot of the things he is fighting for.

I might have inched it a tad closer, but that's part of what's great about @thebulletin.org & this annual process. It gets us all thinking & talking. Great to see friends today after the announcement & sending gratitude to the Bulletin team for all you do 👏🏻

Only thing on my watch list for today. #GoBucks!!!

Cheers to these government agencies for soliciting public input on very complex policy topics 👏🏻 The need to understand & manage risks/optimize benefits from data usage and AI applications in #bio and #chemistry is only growing -- and quickly.

Tim's quote at the end of this is one I hope sticks. It was quite a moment, but we knew even back then that too many policy makers would continue trying to cut chem & bio weapons elimination innovation and resources. Great to see this article drawing attention to its importance.

Lake Michigan is looking lovely. Nicely birdy for early January. But so little ice even after a few sub-freezing & snowy days in northern IL & southern WI. 🪶

After several days of seeing Lake Erie fully iced over to the next visible lands, I was convinced we must be having a better year for Great Lakes ice extent. Wow did our little sliver fool me. This is devastating. www.weather.gov/cle/GreatLak...

Even when ❤️ is consumed with work & family, at times the soul needs additional tonics. Ending '24 with a much needed account of nature, adventure, bravery, & very cold places. Starting '25 up-skilling on fostering nature in my highly dynamic, beautiful, & at times very cold place.

And moonrise wrap up near Wyandot Wetlands. 36°f, light westward wind. Time for data compiling! Happy Christmas #Bird Count to all who celebrate

Happy counting to all joining a Christmas #Bird Count today! 21°f, nice clear sky at first light here at Sheldon's Marsh on Lake Erie OH. 🪶

Heart is full today for all Syrians at the end of the absolutely horrific Assad regime. Many times I stared across the border to see smoke rising from Daraa & other towns, knowing the brutality and oppression people faced or had to flee. Today is all yours.

This piece has it all, as they say. #Bio & #chemical weapons + #nuclear doctrine, and why that's not a great mix. The high risks of tactical nuclear weapons in blurry conflict scenarios. The need for deep humility in all of these matters. A must read: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/m...

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I guess it's time for work, not just birds, on this platform. Going to start with this: our #AI safety institute is doing incredible work on all things AI+ #bio & #chem. They have a great RFI out. Yet the day before deadline, many of the responses are...artwork: www.regulations.gov/docket/NIST-...

Not my best pic of this lifer beauty. In Seoul her attitude shines.

I dipped again on American Dipper. In Dipper habitat. But found a fancy Northern Flicker frolicking in a snowy stream.🪶

I had a good run, but I'm sad to report that I'm no longer this year's top @Team_eBird-er in Lichtenstein. Congrats to this fine fellow birder!

Pretty much the coolest gulls. Can't wait to see their new name. 🪶

When you work on nuclear weapons risks & your sibling runs a historical theater, some years your worlds collide a bit. 🎄

Despite all work & no #birding time in Beijing this week, I caught incredible bird motifs everywhere 🕊️

Great #birds in Portugal & an amazing 17 lifers. Richard's pipit, booted eagles & common redshanks among my faves of the trip 🪶

The Culinary Vegetable Institute having an all-vegetarian food truck at the farmers market is next level amazing.

Is leftover homemade vegetable pot pie acceptable for lifer pie?

On 10/25 I had an almost-day off on a work trip. Upon my near-midnight hotel arrival I saw lots of snowy plovers tracked nearby, then dreamed that I found them & they ran up and kissed me on the cheek. Not quite how it went down, but still an adorable lifer on the 4th bday of my daughter, Snowy.

And who says birding is too competitive these days...

This weekend I asked a local farmer pal when a certain veg would come in. It's in the ground, he said. Then very kindly explained the extraordinary labor & workflow that went into harvest schedules. Support places that properly value their people & help us all to do the same. 🍅🍆🥔🫑