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!

I wrapped a @zotero.org demonstration into a reference chat with a student and they were SO excited about it. "I can't believe I wasn't using this before. This is going to save me so much time!" I also snuck password manager advice in there. 😎

Great breakdown of the decision by someone deep into copyright and fair use. We need better AI legislation but trying to make copyright do that work comes with lots of awful side effects. Glad to see this ruling isn't pushing that direction much.

I am an introvert. I am also currently president of a school board, so over the last two days I’ve presided over 9 ceremonies (8th grade promotion or high school graduation). I’ve shaken over 1,000 hands. The best days of the year, but I am TIRED. 😮‍💨

Been trying to resist adding printmaking to my crafting roster, but the #DHmakes timeline makes it increasingly difficult. This may be the final straw: openpressproject.com

They pay me to work here? Beautiful morning at @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social

Every year at the beginning of performance appraisal season, I have an existential crisis about my job and if I'm doing it right, doing enough, etc. I realize this is dumb, but here we are, right on schedule. 🥴

There’s a recent piece —maybe on wire cutter? About a journalist who wore one of the new AI enabled all day recorders. It records your every conversation & transcribes it all day. I just want you to know that once basic social trust is broken in this way? It’s over

Fantastic bike ride at Fort Ord National Monument today. Loved seeing the goats doing fuel suppression ! 🐐

Maybe of interest to the #DHmakes crowd ...

Please enjoy this amazing #pride flag made from ocean beasties. It was sent to me in an email, and a reverse image search sent me to OceanWise, which I think is the source? ocean.org/blog/interna... 🏳️‍🌈🌊🦑

I’m procrastinating recording a 10-minute talk, so I just spent 20 minutes cleaning my desk. 🤔

So stoked to be Brooke’s librarian! She wants to get into shenanigans with the Hopkins herbarium and I am HERE FOR IT. 🌊

I read a fantastic, insightful paper a couple of weeks ago and emailed the librarian who wrote it to tell them how much I appreciated the paper and them taking the time to write it. 🤝

When people talk about AI bullshitting I tend to think they're overstating the case, but I just had an experience with Chat GPT that was kind of shocking. I need to pull a few key points and stats from a dense academic paper. So I figured I'd let Chat GPT pull a few things out...

Pulling my thoughts together for what could be the first paper I've written in 10 years. These thoughts tie together what it means for me to be working as a librarian at a field research station during a time of unprecedented global change. How/where do I direct my efforts & why?

Really looking forward to visiting UC Santa Cruz tomorrow to give a talk for the Ocean Sciences seminar series! I'm going to talk about my various collections-as-data shenanigans & ask for feedback on how my work can better support research in the Monterey Bay area. 🦑🌊

I took a mental health break and made a bracelet with the LOC call number for this aerial photograph of @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social [ca. 1980]. Have plans for more! #DHmakes

I'm stressing out about a talk I'm working on - maybe I should take a break and make a bracelet with the call number from one of the collections I'm talking about. #DHmakes

Oh heck yeah. #DHmakes

Why is my job at a field station so interesting & rewarding? Because of the collections. 😍 Almost everything on this slide is unique to my library - found nowhere else. Most of it was uncataloged until I got here, none if it was digitized.

As I work on this presentation, I realize that I should probably turn this talk into a paper & it'll be my mid-career manifesto. There aren't very many field station librarians left, though. 😔