Jen Fehsenfeld

January 9, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Worth reading..

Move fast and create things

I guess that means that Unitarian Universalist churches can stop worrying about all of the pro Democrats bumper stickers in their parking lots…

Is that even constitutional. Also, free speech = enough money

“To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations.”
- Alondra Nelson

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

Flood Congress for Mahmoud Khalil! Please RSVP for Congressional Days of Actions for Mahmoud Khalil!

Code Pink is flooding congress to lobby congress members to make statements on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil tomorrow, Wed. 3/12 and Thurs. 3/13. More details in the link. Please join if you can and share widely. Hope to see folks there. www.codepink.org/congress4mah...

I have no words

This can’t go well…

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I’ll be downloading Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) files tonight…after that, I’ll look into other data

‘Mind-boggling’: US CDC orders gender-related terms cut from scientific papers Mandate from health agency is response to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on ‘woke ideology’ and has big implications for researchers.

They’ve already started censoring published research from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My educated guess is that a lot of folks are rushing to use National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases before the Trump administration tries to monetize them and/or starts removing citations and items that refer to things they don’t like.

So there’s this…

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

Make no mistake. This is a major Constitutional crisis. Musk doesn't have legal authority to just close entire agencies. He's also endangering people's privacy w/his actions on Friday. Who knows what these unelected, not-vetted children will do with our private info. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

This is HORRIFIC. #killMeta

Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started a...

You'll be shocked to hear I wrote a thing, and doubly shocked that it is not nice about Silicon Valley. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Hello world…