Today was a great day. I saw Renee Christine play live, I had a delicious arepa from a local restaurant that won a Michelin bib gourmand for dinner, I started my first weaving project (a 30 day kit from a local artist)… AND I just found out that A Shop For Killers season 2 premiers today!!

My Hario Switch arrived this week, which means that I am now in my coffee pour over era. Previously the only method I had to make coffee was my trusty moka pot, but now I have the combined powers of immersion and percolation (and a hybrid of the two!) Technically I could also use it to make tea!

I'm headed back to Las Vegas this fall for #dbtSummit! This year I'll be facilitating a peer exchange with Eric Guroff called "Building dbt projects in rough terrain: creating a trailguide for dbt pioneers"

I have a new book recommendation for all of my #dataBS peeps: There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org Imagine: if null values existed in the real world as black holes embodied as cryptids and there is an X-Files type of Organization devoted to finding and containing them...

Reminder that today is the last day that you, too, can join the fight for American science... simply by submitting a comment on the internet. I just submitted my comment (yes, on the last day, I'm a procrastinator). I kept mine short and sweet (if you can call quoting 1984 sweet), and so can you!

Avengers Assemble: Epic Endgame Battle

ALT: Avengers Assemble: Epic Endgame Battle

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New blog post is up! jennajordan.me/blog/my-care... I wrote this one primarily for the students out there who are actively (or soon to be) job searching, consolidating some of the advice that I have given to many people over the years... advice that I wish I could have given to myself a decade ago

I wrote a post for the Computational History Substack: “Why Computational Historians Need Wikidata” If we all use Wikidata we get teamwork without teams. @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/computat...

Why Computational Historians Need Wikidata

Over the past several months I extracted several hundred thousand biographical statements from two Victorian reference works, the Colonial Office List and the India Office List, printed almost every y...

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I’m afraid I really do need you to immediately go watch this gorgeous FMV: www.youtube.com/watch?v=89r2... And then go watch Veil of Shadows, which remains my most favorite and top rated Cdrama ever since I started binging through them this year. It’s on Netflix, no excuses.

Veil of Shadows | Ji Ling ☽ ⭒.* Heart of Darkness *.⭒ ☾

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Why yes I did drug Bella yesterday and today. Repetition proves trazodone gives her stinky toots.

Not me about to publish a blog post about personal websites, discovering that somehow the layout for my blog posts is broken, deciding to finally update to the latest version the theme, only to discover that they have just completely overhauled the theme...

In the summer we go to camp.... Out-Of-Pocket's Data Camp, that is. They had the s'mores and everything! Last year's inaugural Data Camp was so fun the Ratio PBC team came back to Boston for seconds, and the OOP team really hit it out of the park this year. 1/8

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · last mo.

A surfeit of sources: An annotated bibliography of data management books for librarians iassistquarterly.com/index.php/ia... Newest from @kbriney.bsky.social and I ! We examined over 30 books that cover data management for a librarian audience. Find your favorites!

I love working remote, but I also love the opportunity to get together in person with the people I work with to bond and have fun and work through problems while in the same physical space together. But every time I travel and see my colleagues in person instead of through a screen, I’m reminded…

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Hating AI is good, actually

LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.

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So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

For Game of Thrones fans that are also army, this outfit plus a glorious new hairdo during the BTS world tour made Jimin Targaryen instant headcannon:

I will always be here for a good “the map is not the territory” reference

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

Finally: 5️⃣ models are not (of the) data! > This confusion [of] map and territory, theory and observations, [is at the root of] damaging issues in contemporary theorising, especially when under the influence of the technology industry’s logic doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The effect of regime type on civil war recurrence. Honestly these are still the topics that most fascinate me - constitutional design and peace/conflict - and thus these are the types of datasets I return to over and over again for projects.

Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In honor of me reading all of these thesis proposals, what was *your* senior thesis about?

Ever since finishing Pursuit of Jade I’ve been watching the first few episodes of so many Cdramas trying to find one that will suck me in as hard as Pursuit of Jade did. And now more than a few episodes in… Veil of Shadows is definitely the answer.

New favorite Vicki post alert!! Craft matters. Mastery matters. People, as always, are the whole point. Also so much here for my digital humanities homies to nerd out about!

Vicki@vickiboykis.com · 4mo ago

Last week, I gave a keynote at appliedml.us/2026/ on machine learning and engineering. Like a lot of us, I've had questions and anxiety around software development today. The talk covers why good engineering is still important (and 🌷). vickiboykis.com/2026/04/20/b...

Happy National Library Workers Day! I caught up with my library school cohort friends (not because of the day, it’s an every Tuesday thing, we’ve got a discord and everything) and more people really need to check out the programming at their local libraries. So much effort goes into it!

@hadley.nz I’d be super interested to hear any further thoughts you had on data dictionaries vs data contracts, sounded like you had more to say there!

Isabella Velásquez@ivelasq3.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interested in data cleaning, data dictionaries, Parquet files, Claude, or ALL OF THE ABOVE? Join the Data Science Lab tomorrow at 12 pm ET with @hadley.nz to learn how these form a ✨match made in heaven✨ Register here: pos.it/dslab

Look at the baaaaaaby

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Y’all my podcast debut is this week on Catalog & Cocktails with @juansequeda.bsky.social and @timgasper.bsky.social! Pre-recorded with Amalia Child joining me, streaming on LinkedIn at 11am ET this Wednesday and then available wherever you get your podcasts www.linkedin.com/video/event/...

I’ve got some fun conference travel planned for this year 😁 jennajordan.me/appearances/ Including my first international trip since pre-COVID times!

✨ reference interviews ✨

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.

"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.

Larry Ferlazzo@larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Absolute banger of a post today - go read about the importance of process knowledge with a glorious tumbler post as the centerpiece

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4mo ago

And of course, the people who value process knowledge the *least* are the AI bros who think you can replace skilled workers with a chatbot trained on the things they *say* and *write down*, as though that somehow captured everything they *know*. eof/

"’Human in the loop’ is necessary, but the current process itself makes the loop stultifying, and encourages the human to take themselves out of the loop. That process is straight up dangerous. The temptation to let it rip is always there, and I didn't even have a boss pressuring me to ship code.”

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/