Jenna Jordan
@jennajordan.me
Data engineer in practice, data librarian at heart.
Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums.
Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling
https://jennajordan.me
Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums.
Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling
https://jennajordan.me
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Jenna Jordan
@jennajordan.me
· Nov 9
One of my favorite things that I did in the old place was curate a list of Data Librarians.
#datalibs are one of my favorite communities, and I hope this starter pack can help us find each other again in this new place.
Please reply or DM me with more folks to add to the pack!
go.bsky.app/DPpUuPm
#datalibs are one of my favorite communities, and I hope this starter pack can help us find each other again in this new place.
Please reply or DM me with more folks to add to the pack!
go.bsky.app/DPpUuPm
Published: Volume 15 Issue 1 📕 Our 8th Special Issue for RDAP highlights works related to #RDAP25 Summit. These 12 articles showcase how data librarians continue to adapt to changing circumstances and expectations. Look back at #RDAP25! publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/news/32
January 31, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Reposted by Jenna Jordan
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.
www.technologyreview.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Abigail Haddad back with yet again another banger of a blog post that everyone who is still hanging on to STATA, SAS, SPSS, MATLAB, etc needs to read and internalize.
Especially relevant for #civictech
open.substack.com/pub/presento...
Especially relevant for #civictech
open.substack.com/pub/presento...
Please Switch to Python
Or R. Or Anything. Just Not Stata, SAS, SPSS, or MATLAB.
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Abigail Haddad back with yet again another banger of a blog post that everyone who is still hanging on to STATA, SAS, SPSS, MATLAB, etc needs to read and internalize.
Especially relevant for #civictech
open.substack.com/pub/presento...
Especially relevant for #civictech
open.substack.com/pub/presento...
👀 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...
crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
The Missing Path: Data Librarianship at Mid-Career | Sapp-Nelson | College & Research Libraries News
The Missing Path: Data Librarianship at Mid-Career
crln.acrl.org
January 26, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Reposted by Jenna Jordan
#Knitters FYI
In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against #Nazi occupation of their country. Within 2 years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal to wear, make, or distribute.
(And lots of Norwegians in Minnesota).
In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against #Nazi occupation of their country. Within 2 years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal to wear, make, or distribute.
(And lots of Norwegians in Minnesota).
The hottest pattern on Ravelry right now:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #MeltTheICE #KnittersFightNazis
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #MeltTheICE #KnittersFightNazis
Melt the ICE Hat pattern by YarnCultMN
n the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal ...
www.ravelry.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Now, at last, the finale to the finale… the data town hall hosted by @joereis.bsky.social and Matthew Housley… time for some friendly debate!
January 24, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Now, at last, the finale to the finale… the data town hall hosted by @joereis.bsky.social and Matthew Housley… time for some friendly debate!
Last talk of the day before the town hall, Paul Blankley argues in “Agents are eating the semantic layer” that LLMs have graduated beyond needing semantic layers - let the LLM write the sql with the context that is captured by the semantic layer.
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Last talk of the day before the town hall, Paul Blankley argues in “Agents are eating the semantic layer” that LLMs have graduated beyond needing semantic layers - let the LLM write the sql with the context that is captured by the semantic layer.
My talk is done, phew! Next up is fellow North Carolinian Thais Cooke, talking about the human layer of data
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
My talk is done, phew! Next up is fellow North Carolinian Thais Cooke, talking about the human layer of data
Last talk before mine… Shachar Meir is telling a room full of data professionals how they can become a $1M data professional
January 24, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Last talk before mine… Shachar Meir is telling a room full of data professionals how they can become a $1M data professional
I’m absolutely delighted to see @hannes.muehleisen.org talk for the first time in person. He is somehow using duckdb for his slides (of course), and talking about the joy of sql… if properly implemented.
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I’m absolutely delighted to see @hannes.muehleisen.org talk for the first time in person. He is somehow using duckdb for his slides (of course), and talking about the joy of sql… if properly implemented.
DDTX attendees are lucky to be able to hear the legendary Bill Inmon speak - today about how to fix how decidedly disappointing LLMs have been in producing business value with an LLM preprocessor.
January 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM
DDTX attendees are lucky to be able to hear the legendary Bill Inmon speak - today about how to fix how decidedly disappointing LLMs have been in producing business value with an LLM preprocessor.
Conference knitting today is a honey cowl!
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Conference knitting today is a honey cowl!
Kicking off the first session of @datadaytexas.bsky.social is @juansequeda.bsky.social with his learnings from 20 years of building knowledge graphs and ontologies
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Kicking off the first session of @datadaytexas.bsky.social is @juansequeda.bsky.social with his learnings from 20 years of building knowledge graphs and ontologies
Reposted by Jenna Jordan
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Pretty much the entirety of data & knowledge communities online right now:
January 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Pretty much the entirety of data & knowledge communities online right now:
I finally found some brown beech mushrooms after striking out at multiple grocery stores and asian markets, which means tonight I cooked a new soup recipe I’ve had open in a tab for weeks:
www.justonecookbook.com/kabocha-miso...
www.justonecookbook.com/kabocha-miso...
Kabocha Miso Soup かぼちゃの味噌汁
Hearty and flavorful, this plant-based Kabocha Miso Soup is filled with naturally sweet kabocha, umami-rich mushrooms, and nutty sesame seeds!
www.justonecookbook.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I finally found some brown beech mushrooms after striking out at multiple grocery stores and asian markets, which means tonight I cooked a new soup recipe I’ve had open in a tab for weeks:
www.justonecookbook.com/kabocha-miso...
www.justonecookbook.com/kabocha-miso...
Last year Amalia Child and I attended @datadaytexas.bsky.social together, and this year we are headed back... as co-speakers!
Join us this weekend (along with a decent chunk of the data community) in Austin for the final edition of #DDTX.
Join us this weekend (along with a decent chunk of the data community) in Austin for the final edition of #DDTX.
January 19, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Last year Amalia Child and I attended @datadaytexas.bsky.social together, and this year we are headed back... as co-speakers!
Join us this weekend (along with a decent chunk of the data community) in Austin for the final edition of #DDTX.
Join us this weekend (along with a decent chunk of the data community) in Austin for the final edition of #DDTX.
Tonight we are drinking some Siberian rose tea with local barrel aged honey. It is delish!
January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Tonight we are drinking some Siberian rose tea with local barrel aged honey. It is delish!
The hottest pattern on Ravelry right now:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #MeltTheICE #KnittersFightNazis
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #MeltTheICE #KnittersFightNazis
Melt the ICE Hat pattern by YarnCultMN
n the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal ...
www.ravelry.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:16 AM
The hottest pattern on Ravelry right now:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #MeltTheICE #KnittersFightNazis
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #MeltTheICE #KnittersFightNazis
I have now made this soup recipe 3 times in the past few weeks, with my brand new Dutch oven (Christmas gift). This recipe is so good! (And I’ve gotten better at making it each time)
Note: I omit the chili because I am me, I have negative spice tolerance.
munchingwithmariyah.com/hearty-tusca...
Note: I omit the chili because I am me, I have negative spice tolerance.
munchingwithmariyah.com/hearty-tusca...
Hearty Tuscan White Bean Soup | Munching with Mariyah
This Tuscan white bean soup is packed with herbs, shallots, garlic, beans, and all the good stuff you crave in the winter.
munchingwithmariyah.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I have now made this soup recipe 3 times in the past few weeks, with my brand new Dutch oven (Christmas gift). This recipe is so good! (And I’ve gotten better at making it each time)
Note: I omit the chili because I am me, I have negative spice tolerance.
munchingwithmariyah.com/hearty-tusca...
Note: I omit the chili because I am me, I have negative spice tolerance.
munchingwithmariyah.com/hearty-tusca...
Reposted by Jenna Jordan
Before I opened the bookstore, I worked in Serials Cataloging at the Perry Casteñeda Library for 5 years. This stuff is close to my heart. @jennajordan.me and Amalia Child at @datadaytexas.bsky.social
datadaytexas.com/2026/session...
datadaytexas.com/2026/session...
January 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Before I opened the bookstore, I worked in Serials Cataloging at the Perry Casteñeda Library for 5 years. This stuff is close to my heart. @jennajordan.me and Amalia Child at @datadaytexas.bsky.social
datadaytexas.com/2026/session...
datadaytexas.com/2026/session...
Now is an interesting time to be in the middle of a Terra Ignota re-read…
@adapalmer.bsky.social how closely are we progressing along the timeline (which I think I remember reading exists in a google calendar somewhere)?
@adapalmer.bsky.social how closely are we progressing along the timeline (which I think I remember reading exists in a google calendar somewhere)?
January 8, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Now is an interesting time to be in the middle of a Terra Ignota re-read…
@adapalmer.bsky.social how closely are we progressing along the timeline (which I think I remember reading exists in a google calendar somewhere)?
@adapalmer.bsky.social how closely are we progressing along the timeline (which I think I remember reading exists in a google calendar somewhere)?
Reposted by Jenna Jordan
Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
www.techpolicy.press
January 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"
Feed cleanse: Bella taking a cozy lil nap
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Feed cleanse: Bella taking a cozy lil nap
Reposted by Jenna Jordan
Excited to be talking about dbt with @mchow.com at @posit.co's Data Science Lab tomorrow (1/6) at noon Eastern!
If you're a data scientist or analyst curious about dbt/analytics engineering, this will be an accessible introduction
Register:
pos.it/dslab
If you're a data scientist or analyst curious about dbt/analytics engineering, this will be an accessible introduction
Register:
pos.it/dslab
Data Science Lab
pos.it
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Excited to be talking about dbt with @mchow.com at @posit.co's Data Science Lab tomorrow (1/6) at noon Eastern!
If you're a data scientist or analyst curious about dbt/analytics engineering, this will be an accessible introduction
Register:
pos.it/dslab
If you're a data scientist or analyst curious about dbt/analytics engineering, this will be an accessible introduction
Register:
pos.it/dslab