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
I currently have a blog post in my drafts tentatively titled “GenAI gives me the ick”, and this newsletter from @felienne.bsky.social is going to have to be linked to and quoted in it.
www.felienne.nl/2026-02/#all...
h/t @phdtoothfairy.bsky.social
www.felienne.nl/2026-02/#all...
h/t @phdtoothfairy.bsky.social
AI in week 2
Al mijn argumenten tegen LLMs in een handig overzicht, kunnen we tegen de AI-lawine in controleren, en nog maar weer eens over samenvatten | All of my arguments against LLMs combined, can we check the...
www.felienne.nl
February 2, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I currently have a blog post in my drafts tentatively titled “GenAI gives me the ick”, and this newsletter from @felienne.bsky.social is going to have to be linked to and quoted in it.
www.felienne.nl/2026-02/#all...
h/t @phdtoothfairy.bsky.social
www.felienne.nl/2026-02/#all...
h/t @phdtoothfairy.bsky.social
During this talk I gave one brief anecdote of a question asked of a reference librarian (“can birds fly?”) but a week too late I’ve stumbled across an even better one! “Oranges and peaches”
livinginthelibraryworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/oran...
livinginthelibraryworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/oran...
February 2, 2026 at 12:25 AM
During this talk I gave one brief anecdote of a question asked of a reference librarian (“can birds fly?”) but a week too late I’ve stumbled across an even better one! “Oranges and peaches”
livinginthelibraryworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/oran...
livinginthelibraryworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/oran...
If you work in tech and want to read something valuable and important about agents, read Benn's latest.
Hint: this isn't actually about AI agents, in the end.
benn.substack.com/p/gas-town
Hint: this isn't actually about AI agents, in the end.
benn.substack.com/p/gas-town
Gas town
The agents are everywhere.
benn.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:01 PM
If you work in tech and want to read something valuable and important about agents, read Benn's latest.
Hint: this isn't actually about AI agents, in the end.
benn.substack.com/p/gas-town
Hint: this isn't actually about AI agents, in the end.
benn.substack.com/p/gas-town
A week ago I delivered my talk at @datadaytexas.bsky.social: "Think Like a Librarian: Fresh Perspectives from a Time-Honored Tradition".
While my co-speaker Amalia Child couldn't make it due to the winter storm, I'm glad I was still able to present and bring a librarian's perspective to data folks.
While my co-speaker Amalia Child couldn't make it due to the winter storm, I'm glad I was still able to present and bring a librarian's perspective to data folks.
February 1, 2026 at 12:23 AM
A week ago I delivered my talk at @datadaytexas.bsky.social: "Think Like a Librarian: Fresh Perspectives from a Time-Honored Tradition".
While my co-speaker Amalia Child couldn't make it due to the winter storm, I'm glad I was still able to present and bring a librarian's perspective to data folks.
While my co-speaker Amalia Child couldn't make it due to the winter storm, I'm glad I was still able to present and bring a librarian's perspective to data folks.
A proper winter snow this weekend 🩵
January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
A proper winter snow this weekend 🩵
Reposted by Jenna Jordan
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr
A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.
n.pr
January 31, 2026 at 10:14 AM
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr
The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org
Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
openvisualizationacademy.org
Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
January 31, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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!