Always so fun to poke through the herbarium. 🥰 You can visit it virtually here, with 8,000+ images! www.gbif.org/dataset/1154...

I was feeling gratitude this morning, and now it’s turned into the most glorious day we’ve had this year. Here’s a moment of Zen at the tide pools w/ a guest appearance from one of our black oystercatcher pairs. This also never gets old.

Being the first one in the library, turning on all the lights and getting ready for the day … it never gets old. ❤️📚

We 3D print very serious work things in my library. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ 🇮🇪

It took me ~5 minutes to find an obscure taxonomic description from 1902 at BHL & then use an LLM to obtain a very serviceable translation from German into English. The resources available to me as an academic librarian are surreal - what will it look like in 10 years? 5 years? 📚

Tourists, all I am asking for is the barest amount of hustle as you cross the street in front of me.

Seeing this post about felt nudibranchs reminded me of my daughter's assignment for freshman-level art class: a watercolor painting of an animal you'd find in Monterey Bay. She picked my favorite nudi, the Hopkins Rose. 🦑

@thalassalib.bsky.social saw this thought of you www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/wool...

This is the way. 🌊🦑

Excited to launch this resource for students & researchers who use historical observational data from around @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social - a curated set of materials, including transcribed datasets. This will continue to grow as we extract more data! exhibits.stanford.edu/hms-sentinel 🌊🦑📚

The ever-present cognitive dissonance of flying internationally for a conference that largely revolves around studying the impacts of climate change on our Earth system.

"Q: What did you learn about how people came to librarianship as a profession? A: I think the common thread is service. We all want to help people so much." Whew, that really resonates with me. 🥹 I see it in myself, in my colleagues @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social, and beyond. 🫶📚

The expert who surfaced these recordings? My fabulous colleague @ajester.bsky.social, Director of Research Data and Library Services at WHOI! Libraries and archives are more important than ever, y'all. 🌊📚

When a reporter reaches out to me, you can bet I'll be talking about the importance of curating historical observational data (except she quoted me for something else here lol). "[Hopkins Marine Station] library’s archive includes a rich data set of student research papers going back to the 1940s."

Is this scarf available for purchase to folks not attending the conference? 🥺🙏 #OSM26

A quick note for @fernadern.bsky.social on how to make the welted scarf. This is the pattern I made up for a mid-gauge knitting machine: CO 26L - 27R. K 19 rows. *Sk11, L3, Sk11, L3, Sk11, L3, Sk11. K15 rows. Sk4, L3, Sk11, L3, Sk11, L3, Sk11, L3, Sk4. K15 rows.** 1/3 🧶

Getting some really cool texture with this welt pattern on my mid-gauge knitting machine. Should make for a smooshy scarf. 🧶

The dog emoji 🐕 is literally my dog Peanut.

I don’t think my brain could process this if I saw it in real life. Absolutely unreal.

Ask and you shall receive 🤘 Gemini makes tabular data extraction work *quick*. This species list ranges over 131 pages and it only took me a few hours to extract and verify the results. I'll turn this into a dataset for our digital repository so others can use it, too.

Graduate student comes into my office and asks if I have digital copies - spreadsheets, maybe? - of a couple of older studies done at Hopkins b/c he’s working in the same area and doesn’t want to have to transcribe everything. My friend, you came to the right person. This is my whole jam, dude. 🦑

Working on getting some photos ready to upload to Stanford Digital Repository and a set that captures pelagic red crabs washed up on our beach in April 1985 made me think of @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social. 🦀 🌊🐙

IMLS, are you okay Bro? 📚

The 2026 @effinbirds.com desk calendar is off to an apropos start. Going to try to launch every workday with a chuckle.

Who needs paint when you have bleach? Except for touch-ups, of course. (This is my 15-yo and her eyes.)

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

libraries are for everyone and i mean *everyone* 📚

Bruce Robison wrote a wonderful retrospective on his career that I didn't mean to read at work but I couldn't stop. Bruce's career is sprinkled all through our library collections. Here's a few photos we're working on uploading to the digital repository. 🤩 Paper🔗: doi.org/10.1093/ices... 🌊

I love how being a librarian means I'm learning new things *all* the time. I've got a PhD in oceanography, but this morning I was answering a reference question & learned about ocean spiciness & how seawater can be "spicy" or "minty." 😍 TY to the person who asked about velocities of deep currents. 🌊

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Hell yes here for this. 🤘🦑

We saw a bumper sticker on the way to school this morning that said "LEGALIZE UPDOG" and I am still laughing about it.

A photo from this morning of waves hitting the beach with my library in the background. The sea is angry today, my friends. 🌊

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Hell, I live in Monterey and even I'm considering purchasing a Lenny Kravitz scarf. Let's all prioritize comfort this year.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Hell yeah, @montereybayaquarium.org, send me that otter content! 🦦🌊🦑

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

I am “I better print transparencies of this talk for the overhead projector in case the technology fails” years old.

Photos and data from nearly 20 years ago, back when we put CTD casts on floppies! 😂 Found the disks in my garage - an apparently safe storage method …

The tsunami warning yesterday was a good reminder to have an emergency plan, whether it's your house or it's your library or lab. What would you take with you to safer ground? Here's what I took home from Miller Library ... 1/ 🌊🦑📚

Watch how seismometers recorded the passing earthquake waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Each dot in this animation is a seismic station—red 🔴 means the ground moved up, blue 🔵 means it moved down. More ➡️ https://loom.ly/6Eo_fYc

After one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded (M8.8), we have been extremely lucky on the California coast to experience only a small tsunami. Looking at the tide gauge data in Monterey, the first wave peaked around 12:50 AM (<1 ft) and we saw the highest wave at 4:30 AM (1.1 ft). 🌊

Dispatch from @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social - it’s a gorgeous day & the kelp beds are bigger than I’ve ever seen them. They wrap all the way around the station toward Lovers Point. 🌊🦑

Saw a sign in England last week that said, "You aren't stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic." 🤯

Mordecai is business in the front, party in the back.

We thought learning Icelandic was a fun challenge, but Welsh takes it to a whole other level. Hats off to y’all. 🫡

UK camper van 🚐 trip update. I’ve been to yarn shops in Glastonbury, Bath, & Conwy (Wales). I’ve missed a couple on my list b/c we passed through when they were closed. 😔 Off to the Lakes District & then York. England & Wales are *so* lovely so far.

I’m in England & I’ve been taking pictures of lots of things I want to upload to @inaturalist.bsky.social, but we’re caravanning around & haven’t had WiFi, so now there’s a queue. Hitting a pub tomorrow for lunch - that’ll be my chance. 10 new “lifer” birds ID’d via Merlin though!