Lori Wollerman Nelson

Little friend is helping in the garden

Birding this weekend to see some birds that are on their way elsewhere as spring approaches

Saw my first swallow of the year yesterday (Tree swallow). Spring is coming!🪻🌷

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

Walking to work today helps me stop thinking about the shitshow for a while

United Farm Workers just sued Border Patrol. The details in the complaint are harrowing www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...

Clouds over campus today #WSUTC

Watching a Netflix show and the main character tries to kill the bad guy by biting his throat out. Did not see that coming

Close up of a label on preserved jelly fish specimens from the 1800s

Close up of Red crossbill specimens

Iridescent purple feathers on the throat of a Costa’s hummingbird specimen

Wonderful tour of the Conner Museum at WSU today - thanks Jessica!

More lovely photos from the Palouse. Taken at Kamiak Butte County Park

Beautiful winter skies over the Palouse

Watched The Are Murders and thinking Sweden in the winter looks like a nice place to be even with, you know, all the murders

Just treat them like they’re large women. Problem solved

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Obviously autocorrect is not my friend

Chronic-what-clear of Narnia

Followed by Dick in a Box. Super appropriate

Watching the SNL 50 music thing and remembering just how weird Devo is. And Pedro Pascal is super into it and Brendan Fraser knows all the words and Paul Rudd just looks uncomfortable in his preppy rag wool sweater

If you are in/around the Tri-Cities (WA), don’t miss this. Four more chances to see it! Matinee today at 2 pm and 3 performances next weekend! The actor playing the mayor is especially delightful

Screenshot showing a bird that describes my year on ebird. It’s a swift.

Looked at ebird’s summary for my submissions in 2024. I didn’t get outside last year as much as I wanted, for birding or anything else so this made me feel good.

Nothing is quite like taking down Christmas decorations only to discover that a cat vomited under the tree at some point in the past 3 weeks

Black cat sleeping on a sofa

And the old girl naps away

Black and white cat under a Christmas tree

Black and white cat playing in Christmas wrapping paper

Ornaments removed from our tree by the cats

Black and white cat sitting among wrapped gifts under the Christmas tree

The tree and presents are more fun for the cats than the people

Happy had the high ground

Calm waters on the Yakima

I think that Canvas should count down how many assignments I have left to do, not count up how many I have done. All I care about is how many more I have to grade before I am freed from grading jail.

Ozzie and Happy are leaves on the wind

A North Carolina town is suing utility Duke Energy over climate change A small North Carolina town is suing Duke Energy for costs from climate change, claiming the utility knew its fossil fuel power plants were heating the planet and deceived the public.

The small town of Carrboro, North Carolina is suing one of the country's largest electric utilities, Duke Energy, over climate change -- here's my story for @npr.org

www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...

WSU Tri-Cities is hiring! We are looking for a staff member to manage and prepare science labs and for a NTT teaching faculty member, mainly for anatomy and physiology courses. Go to wsu.edu, click Quicklinks, and select Jobs to find the job descriptions and application portal.

Why does grading take so long? It’s the worst