Amanda Whitmire

Whaaaattttt???? I thought I had seen all of their cams but didn’t know about this! I don’t see it on their website. 😭

This is the correct response. ❤️

A watercolor painting of a Hopkins Rose nudibranch in a black frame hangs on a white wall.

Update. I went to the school district’s art show last night and, at some point, she added a blue background to the painting. I bet her teacher made her, lol. She was proud to see it up on display. 🥰

Oh my GOSH! I've seen blown glass nudibranchs but never anything out of natural stone. These are amazing - thank you so much for sharing. I'll show them to my daughter.

Three framed artworks on a wall. The top one is a charcoal drawing of an octopus, partially completed to look like it’s fading away. Under that are two 10”x10” watercolor paintings, one of a jellyfish and the other is a closeup of an octopus.

I’m excited to see what’s in the future for her for sure. I’m so happy that our public school has this amazing art program! Here are a couple more watercolors (bottom) from her same class, on display at the school district art show. These kids are impressive!

That’s very nice of you to say. 🥹 She’s 15, a freshman in high school. This is her first formal art class, but she’s been creating constantly since about kindergarten.

Let me tell you how many times I've been on that journey since I finished grad school. You'll love it when you are old enough to realize, "wait, I could be this student's mom ..." 😭.

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. 🦑

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

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

Yessss, I saw this yesterday and got distracted before I could repost it. This is *extremely* my jam, love it SO much. 😭

I would 100% leave this in a different tide pool (at the marine station) every day for a week and see what's what. Put it on a float off of Agassiz Beach. Let it swing in the breeze outside my office (facing the beach). So many fun little things to try! 🧐

This is the way. 🌊🦑

My Apple Watch bit the dust and I was on the fence about getting a replacement (Apple or otherwise). This *seriously* tips the scales. 😍

For a second I wondered if this was the same professor that farmed all his work out to ChatGPT for two years, accidentally deleted all of it, then wrote a column in Nature under his real name to share cautionary tale about not making backups. Not the same guy, but definitely vibing.

Screenshot of a website titled: Hopkins Marine Station: Sentinel of Monterey Bay. There is a search bar at the top of the page, along with a menu that includes "Research Topics," "Browse," and "About" links. The text on the page says: For decades, researchers at Hopkins Marine Station (HMS) have monitored changes in the natural world. This vital work often relies on repeat studies to track processes like shifts in biodiversity, but such studies are difficult to conduct when historical materials are scattered and hard to find or stuck in pre-digital formats. In collaboration with HMS researchers, this exhibit unearths these valuable materials and datasets. We present them as "Research Topics" (see menu at top right) organized by specific taxa, habitats, locations, and ongoing time-series. In most cases, we also present datasets in actionable digital formats, ready for current and future researchers to build upon. Peruse collections of our materials related to common flora and fauna of the Station at the "Explore our collections" page. Visit the "Browse" page to see curated collections of content, including all of the available datasets, and the "About" page for more information about this project.

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.

I've got one coming home to me! YES.

"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. 🫶📚

It's a *really* cool story! Ashley recognized the importance of these recordings, and how fragile they are, so she applied for grant funding to get them digitized with one of the few people left who has the equipment to do it. So rad. Librarians! 🤘

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. 🌊📚

Okay, if they are for sale there, I can totally find someone to ferry one home for me. Wasn't sure if it was just conference swag. TY!

Right?! This scarf is a very legit overlap of my textile hobbies and professional life. "Need" is not too strong a word here.

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

Oh my, that is fantastic! I haven’t been to an Ocean Sciences meeting since back when they held it in Honolulu every year (a zillion years ago). This would have been a *great* year to return! 😭

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van Alt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van. They look exactly alike and are pointing at each other.

Ha ha! Believe me, I *completely* understand.

Would love to see it if you give this a try! I’ll add the pattern (such as it is) to Ravelry when I’m done with the scarf.

Notes:
"Sk11" means skip 11 stitches. These are needles you don't bother with while doing the welts.
"L3" means lift 3 stitches from 10 rows below current row. See photos for more info. In last photo, this is how I set up the lifted row before I start. Have fun!

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A 3-prong knitting tool is pointing to the first row of stitches below the current row. Count down 10 rows with this row as row 1.

At the 10th row down, place your tool through the loops to pick up three stitches.

Lift these three stitches up and place them on the needles you counted down from.

This is the set up for "K4, L3, K11, L3, K11, L3, K11, L3, K4"

Repeat from * to ** until the scarf is as long as you want. Sk11, L3, Sk11, L3, Sk11, L3, Sk11.
Knit 4 more rows.
Bind off as preferred.

Notes in next post.

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The back side of a welt stitch scarf, showing a geometric pattern where alternating sets of 3 stitches are lifted up 10 rows.

The front side of an in-progress welt stitch scarf, draped over the knitting machine bed. The knitted fabric is bunched up in waves where the welts are fastened on the reverse side of the work.

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.**
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