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12 neighborhood datasets — dollar stores to healthcare to civic orgs — updated from 1990 through 2022. Decades of NETS data now covering the post-pandemic period. Find it on @icpsr.bsky.social
📊 www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/nanda/...
#OpenData #NeighborhoodData #SDoH @um-src.bsky.social

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New from NaNDA: Broadband Availability by Census Tract & ZCTA, 2025 🗺️📶
doi.org/10.3886/ICPS...

Our 2014–2020 broadband dataset is one of our most-used (1,356 downloads, 5 publications) — and now it's updated. Neighborhood-level internet access data, free at @icpsr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social

Stop ICE’s Aggressive Attacks on Immigrants and Citizens (UPDATED 1/24) ⭑ 5 Calls

5calls.org/issue/ice-ra...

New data: need libraries data for US neighborhoods? Nanda just dropped our latest dataset: library counts and density from 1992-2021

📚New NaNDA drop: US neighborhood libraries data (1992-2021)

30 years of library counts & density at neighborhood level.

Perfect for studying community change, educational access, infrastructure patterns.

doi.org/10.3886/ICPS... @icpsr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social #imls #libraries

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

NIH funding cuts are hitting hard 🏥
The White House taking back promised NIH funding and canceling ongoing health research mid-study.
NIH returns >250% of investment while tackling cancer, diabetes, dementia.
See your community's impact: scienceimpacts.org
#NIH #HealthResearch #SciencePolicy

They did this to a sitting United States Senator for simply asking a question for the 40 million Americans he represents. While national news camera were rolling.

Imagine what they're doing to the most vulnerable among us.

We'll see you at a NO KINGS protest this Saturday. ✊🏽

Share this far and wide! DM me for deets.

NO KINGS Ann Arbor · Mobilize **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Ann Arbor” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

A Safe Space Between Books | Penguin Random House Librarian Mychal reflects on men’s mental health, the weight of outdated expectations, and the quiet power of community spaces like libraries.

My friend Cree Myles was kind enough to allow me to approach the necessary topic of mental health via Penguin Random House’s All Ways Black 💚

penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/a-safe-space-between-books/

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The Independent Databases Archiving the Trump Administration Non-governmental organizations and individuals are stepping in to keep public records as the Trump White House takes unprecedented steps to eschew transparency.

Just the @datarescueproject.org getting highlighted in @timemagazine.bsky.social No big deal.

Teaming up to preserve at-risk public data, from FEMA to the Dept. of Ed., this collaboration is putting transparency back in the spotlight. @iassistdata.bsky.social @icpsr.bsky.social

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations

White House releases major mental health report. Citations are a mess—fake PDFs, misattributed authors, and more.

Could’ve asked a librarian.🤷‍♀️

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🎵 What if data could SING?

Join Will Clary at #IASSIST2025 as he explores how sonification transforms complex datasets (including
@datarescueproject.org efforts) into engaging auditory experiences.

📅 June 5, 2:45-3:45 PM
🎯 "The Crash of Sound Waves"
@iassistdata.bsky.social #Sonification

STATEMENT: President Trump Fires the Librarian of Congress and Now Congress Must Push Back

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause! Read @everylibrary.bsky.social statement here. www.everylibrary.org/trump_fires_...
PLEASE contact your congressional representatives now and remind them that LC is a legislative branch agency and the president does not have authority over it.

Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.

An expert on the Library of Congress tells Rolling Stone that Trump’s takeover attempt is “dangerous,” given that the Library’s sub-agencies provide confidential legal advice to members of Congress and help police misconduct by lawmakers. 

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s removal of copyright chief a ‘power grab’ that followed AI copyright report, top Dem says Major AI firms like OpenAI, which Elon Musk co-founded, are facing ongoing lawsuits over alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted materials in their model training.

Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.

It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

Trump Fired Librarian of Congress Over D.E.I.

I guess facts were too inclusive. Dr. Carla Hayden—first Black person, first woman, and an actual librarian—was just fired for doing the work.

Sketch portraits of the scientists highlighted in the article.

#ScienceIsPeople 🧪

As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended.
Here are five of their stories
www.science.org/content/arti...

A Michigan research professor explains how NIH funding works − and what it means to suddenly lose a grant President Trump’s sudden cuts to hard-won federal grants are disrupting research and forcing scientists to face difficult choices.

Chasing NIH grants is like fighting for the last slice of cake at a research potluck. @bradytwest.bsky.social from @um-src.bsky.social nails the stress and stakes of soft-money work. If you care about public health research, read this.

#WeareDEI

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Big shout out to the librarians who are creating guides to alternate locations for data and data rescue efforts on their library websites! I just noticed these were added to our doc! @americanuniversity.bsky.social
American Univ: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

I'm a panelist in this webinar on Monday! Check it out.

Trans Rights are Human Rights 🏳️‍⚧️

I’m fueled by metadata, mischief, and the occasional existential crisis☕🍷.

When I’m not wrestling rogue datasets, I’m lifting🏋️‍♀️heavy things at the gym , hanging out with my perfectly chaotic pets 🐱🐈‍⬛🐕, and embracing life as a 🏳️‍🌈queer, 🧮spreadsheet-loving nerd.

🌍 As a former Frictionless Data Fellow, Secretary of the Research Data Access and Preservation Association, and always a champion for open, equitable research, I’m all about breaking barriers, demystifying data, and draining the inefficiency out of bad workflows.

📚 Armed with an MLIS from the University of Denver (plus a Research Data Management certificate), I’ve done a lot—from running makerspaces to leading library access departments to advocating for better data practices.