Ran a little craft night at YarnLab last night, getting to know my new punch card bulky knitting machine with help from @thalassalib.bsky.social. Not too shabby! #DHmakes

'The most interesting question [is] whether the article itself is still the right unit of scientific communication, and whether the infrastructure we’ve built around it is actually serving science or just serving a publishing system .' scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/31/w...

Couple of recent projects on my Brother KH965i knitting machine. 🧶

Just me and Bob hanging out @csumb.bsky.social library.

I have been stocking my library restroom w/ period supplies for years. No other bathroom at the marine station offered supplies, despite this being a common amenity on main campus. I kept asking. Proud to say that 5 (!) restrooms are now fully stocked & have adopted my "official" signage. 💯🦑🌊

The anticipation of blocking! I’ll sew up the side seams of this boxy little thing tomorrow. ✨🧶

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This bums me out so much. The Channel Islands have species & subspecies that aren't found anywhere else. Santa Rosa is where the oldest dated human remains in North America were found and has huge cultural significance to the local Chumash. Looks like over a third of the island has already burned. 😔

Here's Hadden (2nd from the back) with her staff on a trip to the coast in June, 1920. Were all early California librarians this hardcore? Was it part of the gig? Source: ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/c... 📚

Look at this absolute legend, Monterey County's first librarian, Anne Hadden (ca. 1916). She delivered books via donkey all over the area in the early 1900s. What a badass.

What are the youths up to with page margins? Are 1-inch margins old-fashioned now? Asking for a friend.

In between rain showers, I got out for some tide pooling with @brookeweigel.bsky.social & her class. Left foot soaked, totally worth it. 🦑

Very pleased to share my first specimen, Megapanis gregjubyi. It was used on the bag of alfalfa for our guinea pigs. Standard pencil for scale - this is a large occlupanid!

I just discovered HORG today - it's the absolute best thing I've seen in a long time. Moving forward, I'm not sure how I'll resist keying out all the Occlupanids I come across ... www.horg.com/horg/

When it is this gorgeous outside, you will absolutely catch me eating lunch outside the library and soaking up a little sun.

Listening to Data Rescue Project give the keynote at #RDAP26 and really enjoying it. Plus, this meme: Learn more about their work at www.datarescueproject.org

I was out test-driving cars yesterday and took this photo of my car sandwiched between these massive trucks. Absurd.

A mile down the coast from Hopkins Marine Station is a very popular beach, both for locals and tourists. Sometimes I wonder if anyone notices the building across the water and is curious about what it is. 👀 Hi, it’s me, I’m over here peddling books and data! 👋 📚

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. 🤘🦑