Christine Parthemore
@clparthemore.bsky.social
Mama bear, birder, Buckeye, globalist, native plant guru. Also CEO @ Council on Strategic Risks & nuclear, biosecurity & counter-WMD expert. All views mine alone.
Where my thoughts are right now 🇺🇦
August 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Where my thoughts are right now 🇺🇦
Just what my heart needed this weekend. Less Than Jake, Fishbone, & local pride festivities with our community. ❤️🤘🏻🎺🎷 🌈
June 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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.
June 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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.
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.
June 15, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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.
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.
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 🇺🇸
May 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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 🇺🇸
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!)
April 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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!)
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.
January 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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.
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. 🪶
January 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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. 🪶
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.
January 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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
December 14, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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. 🪶
December 14, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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. 🪶
Not my best pic of
this lifer beauty. In Seoul
her attitude shines.
this lifer beauty. In Seoul
her attitude shines.
November 25, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Not my best pic of
this lifer beauty. In Seoul
her attitude shines.
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.🪶
American Dipper. In
Dipper habitat.
But found a fancy
Northern Flicker frolicking
in a snowy stream.🪶
February 9, 2024 at 8:50 PM
I dipped again on
American Dipper. In
Dipper habitat.
But found a fancy
Northern Flicker frolicking
in a snowy stream.🪶
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!
Congrats to this fine fellow birder!
February 8, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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!
Congrats to this fine fellow birder!
Pretty much the coolest gulls. Can't wait to see their new name. 🪶
February 8, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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. 🎄
December 25, 2023 at 11:03 PM
When you work on nuclear weapons risks & your sibling runs a historical theater, some years your worlds collide a bit. 🎄
The Culinary Vegetable Institute having an all-vegetarian food truck at the farmers market is next level amazing.
November 25, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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?
November 8, 2023 at 3:17 AM
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.
Not quite how it went down, but still an adorable lifer on the 4th bday of my daughter, Snowy.
October 29, 2023 at 8:40 PM
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.
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...
October 20, 2023 at 1:53 AM
And who says birding is too competitive these days...