Attending Axe-Con this week, a great virtual conference about tech accessibility. It starts early on the west coast, meaning that my kid got to watch Haben Girma’s keynote with me over breakfast. She was such a good speaker that even my 10-year old was interested!

“Librarians like to say that an hour in the library is worth a month in the laboratory, quips @kbriney.bsky.social “ Featuring quotes from many more #datalibs as well! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm really looking forward to my favorite conference of the year. It's virtual and inexpensive, so if you're interested in research data management and sharing, you should definitely attend!

The recording of my "Accessible Data for Everyone" workshop is now available for anyone who wasn't able to attend: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Happy Love Data Week! My webinar today was about the Data Departure Checklist authors.library.caltech.edu/records/kynw... that @kbriney.bsky.social and I created. It's a customizable word document to help you offload remembering what all you need to get back from a research team colleague📚

Luckily markdown is a fairly easy language to learn, and there many tool options, but it's definitely not the low barrier to entry that opening a TXT file is. Really appreciate this thought provoking post!

This #LoveDataWeek, I'm thinking about making our shared data more accessible. This involves rethinking the README.txt as the default recommended documentation file. Is there a better file format that .txt? I've written up a few thoughts: dataabinitio.com?p=1235

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Well deserved recognition for this amazing project.

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

ICE are an existential threat to you to your family to your neighbors to your city to your state to your country.

On May 13, 1985 in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania State Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a Black neighborhood. 11 people were killed, 5 of whom were children. As we see ICE terrorize communities, understand that saying “this isn’t who we are” is false.

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

Well this looks terrible. Don't even talk to me about AI anything until, at the very least, it stops hallucinating information and making up citations. Until then, this librarian is going to sort these tools into the slop pile.

"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference" "there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies" "2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year" A win!

👀 Check out this timely article published in C&RL discussing "The Missing Path: Data Librarianship at Mid-Career". Thank you Megan Sapp-Nelson @sappnelson.bsky.social and Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social for sharing your insight into #datalibrarianship! 📝 crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

This. A handful of Americans have the power to stop this NOW, and they are refusing to.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

It’s good to be reminded, in the midst of so many people being fundamentally evil, that there also many people that are fundamentally good.

I took a mental health day today, turned off all news, and wrote over 4,000 words for my new book. And I learned how to cite sources that reference specific page numbers using Zotero. That's probably not a typical mental health day, but honestly I'm feeling really great right now.

Between the breakdown of our constitutional rights (see: Minnesota) and NSF just dropping new DMSP requirements (effective today, on a platform that's not working at the moment), I can't even. It's already ridiculous that I'm supposed to work like normal right now and then work implodes.

I developed a new workshop, "Accessible Data for Everyone," for Love Data Week 2026. It's about making data accessible to people with disabilities. Anyone is welcome to sign up. The class is on Feb 10 at 2pm PST online. Register here: libcal.caltech.edu/event/16205574

Do I need more yarn? No. Do I want all the colorways in this collection? Yes. dyemadyarns.com/collections/...

Love coming across new libraries that are sharing Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research as a resource, especially along with other great resources like this one from @kbriney.bsky.social! www.uwyo.edu/libraries/se...

Scientists too.

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

I'm looking at my achievements for 2025 and laughing at myself because I published a bibliography with @hedgielib.bsky.social of data management books for researchers in May, and promptly made that list out-of-date in December (with the publication of my new book). Good job me.

My family watched the full (correct) version of A Muppet’s Christmas Carol and my kid totally fell asleep during the song “The Love Is Gone.” 🤦🏻‍♀️

I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)

New on the blog! Kristin Briney talks to us about The Data Management Workbook 📖 Read the full interview ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3p6mk445 #datamanagement #dataanalysis #statistics #researchdata

Looking for a science-based holiday gift for kids? Check out "X-ray Crystallography Adventures! Cat & Elephant's Sugar Crystal Mystery" Filled with 21 pages of colorful hand-drawn illustrations, this book is perfect for kids 4-12 or anyone who loves crystals. Available at meitneriumpress.com

I thought I would change things up in the car so I turned on the all-Christmas-music radio station. I immediately got Wham!’ed. Of course. 🙄

Looking at a new book on research data management and I think it might have been written by AI: www.amazon.com/Operational-... Publisher says it "offers enterprise risk leadership tools designed and customized by AI and machine learning..." So is this our first AI-generated RDM book?

I just finished teaching the Responsible Conduct of Research course, the class in which I debuted the original version of The Data Management Workbook a couple years ago. Very fitting on the publication date of the book.

GO GET YOURSELF A COPY!!! These activities are wonderfully useful and pragmatic.

It’s publication day for “The Data Management Workbook”! 🎉 If you want to improve your data management but don’t know how, this is the book for you. It contains 24 hands-on exercises to customize data management strategies to fit in your research workflows. 📚 pelagicpublishing.com/products/the...

Ideally timed for the 2025-12-25 market. Congratulations @kbriney.bsky.social!

Published today! The Data Management Workbook by Kristin Briney 📖 This practical workbook from the author of Data Management for Researchers is useful for both experienced researchers and those creating a data-management plan for the first time. Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3bkdjce6

Listen to the Queen Bee this #MemeMonday and save a copy of the important data-- especially if you think it may be at risk for deletion or alteration! Here today, gone tomorrow-- so put a proverbial ring on it. Or just download a copy.

I decided to start a sweater for my holiday break knitting. I’m currently working on the back of an Intricate Pullover by Norah Gaughan. I love this Sustainawool yarn from Ewetopia. I’ve made good progress but have a long way to go…

I! M! L! S! "The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect." www.ala.org/news/2025/11...

Planning my knitting projects for the holiday break next week and debating between: 1) lacy shawl; 2) super simple scarf; or 3) cabled sweater. The shawl is already started and I have yarn for the other two. I think I need the easy scarf + one complex project. Paging @hedgielib.bsky.social...

I can't believe that my new book, The Data Management Workbook, comes out in less than 2 weeks. I'm very grateful to @cbahlai.bsky.social for writing this wonderful endorsement for it. Christie is not only a great scientist, but also an advocate for data management and open science.

I make a Data Sources Catalog for every project I work with and I can't tell you how often the project team refers to this document to remember what measures are being collected and when. I highly recommend summarizing your plan in a simple format like this. datamgmtinedresearch.com/dmp#dmp-cata...

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr