Lynda M. Kellam #DataRescue
@lyndamk.bsky.social
Director of data & digital scholarship at an ivy league univ | organizing a bunch of #data rescuers @datarescueproject.org | support #qualitative research & software | PhD in American history | thoughts are mine not my employer’s
@septaphilly.bsky.social Why do you have limited hours on the waiting rooms when their key card accessed. There’s no justification. It’s like you’re purposely making everyone miserable on the coldest day of the year. Plus an employee just screamed at me rather than trying to assist. Great job SEPTA
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
@septaphilly.bsky.social Why do you have limited hours on the waiting rooms when their key card accessed. There’s no justification. It’s like you’re purposely making everyone miserable on the coldest day of the year. Plus an employee just screamed at me rather than trying to assist. Great job SEPTA
Interesting discussion of future of data governance policy from the Massive Data Institute @copafs.bsky.social I agree with so much of what they are saying, but missing from this is a direct discussion of preservation (focus on gathering/dissemination). Does preservation play into these efforts?
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Interesting discussion of future of data governance policy from the Massive Data Institute @copafs.bsky.social I agree with so much of what they are saying, but missing from this is a direct discussion of preservation (focus on gathering/dissemination). Does preservation play into these efforts?
Looking forward to seeing more from @amstatnews.bsky.social
Join the American Statistical Association's federal statistics health project team for its release of "The Nation's Data at Risk: 2025 Report." A webinar will be held December 10 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Register for this impactful event: tinyurl.com/229r4ybt #STATSSKY #STATISTICS #FEDERALSTATISTICS
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Looking forward to seeing more from @amstatnews.bsky.social
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@amy-pienta.bsky.social, a data infrastructure leader at @icpsr.bsky.social, joined PSC for our latest coffee chat. A 1st-generation college student, her experience with older parents shaped her interests in retirement behavior and the sociology of aging. Her special power: MacGyvering.
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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On #GivingTuesday we encourage everyone to support their fave causes. Remember time is also helpful. Today tell someone that public data is a public good. Or share the day in the life post with your fam. Sometimes small actions can make a big impact.
www.datarescueproject.org/a-day-in-the...
www.datarescueproject.org/a-day-in-the...
Guest Post: A Day in the Life with Federal Government Data
Today, we have the fourth post in the series from Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams to help diverse audiences understand and support the federal statistical system. Everyone living in the Unite...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
On #GivingTuesday we encourage everyone to support their fave causes. Remember time is also helpful. Today tell someone that public data is a public good. Or share the day in the life post with your fam. Sometimes small actions can make a big impact.
www.datarescueproject.org/a-day-in-the...
www.datarescueproject.org/a-day-in-the...
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Guest Post on GovScape. It is a great example of how we can build on each other's systems and work to enable access to government information! Follow @govscape.bsky.social for more!
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-g...
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-g...
Guest Post: GovScape: A Public Search System for 10+ Million Government PDFs
This week's guest post is from Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, and Kyle Deeds, Assistant Professor at Boston University. Learn more about their recen...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Guest Post on GovScape. It is a great example of how we can build on each other's systems and work to enable access to government information! Follow @govscape.bsky.social for more!
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-g...
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-g...
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Thanks to @bloomberg.com and Molly Smith for including our work in this recent article. Check out our newer DRP Portal though: www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
It is much more user friendly than the old Tracker!
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
It is much more user friendly than the old Tracker!
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Economic Data Dashboards Flourish to Track the Trump Effect
Watch groups are on the alert for anything out of the ordinary in the official US government data.
www.bloomberg.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Thanks to @bloomberg.com and Molly Smith for including our work in this recent article. Check out our newer DRP Portal though: www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
It is much more user friendly than the old Tracker!
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
It is much more user friendly than the old Tracker!
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Listen to the Queen Bee this #MemeMonday and save a copy of the important data-- especially if you think it may be at risk for deletion or alteration! Here today, gone tomorrow-- so put a proverbial ring on it. Or just download a copy.
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Listen to the Queen Bee this #MemeMonday and save a copy of the important data-- especially if you think it may be at risk for deletion or alteration! Here today, gone tomorrow-- so put a proverbial ring on it. Or just download a copy.
Hope all the rescuers have a wonderful holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving from the DRP Steering Committee. ❤️
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hope all the rescuers have a wonderful holiday.
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Thanks to Jill Lepore and @newyorker.com for the mention of #SaveOurSigns but we are more than a hashtag.
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250
Ken Burn’s new documentary, “The American Revolution,” honors the dignity and meaning of the founding’s revolutionary ideals while taking an unsparing look at the war’s cruelties and costs, Jill Lepore writes.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/what-was-the-american-revolution-for
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/what-was-the-american-revolution-for
What Was the American Revolution For?
Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Thanks to Jill Lepore and @newyorker.com for the mention of #SaveOurSigns but we are more than a hashtag.
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250
Yesssss!! Great quote from
@quetzal1234.bsky.social and the UMN crew
@quetzal1234.bsky.social and the UMN crew
"The outpouring of support and participation that #SaveOurSigns has seen from all over the country demonstrates the power of crowdsourced projects in offering people a means to activate and engage around issues that matter to them." 💯💯💯
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Yesssss!! Great quote from
@quetzal1234.bsky.social and the UMN crew
@quetzal1234.bsky.social and the UMN crew
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Another wonderful write-up on the importance of accessing federal data. It isn't just the data that are at risk: the data need people to manage interfaces, provide updates, and mediate access, among other tasks, to be actually usable.
When government data vanishes, communities pay the price - Editor and Publisher
On Jan. 31, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly pulled dozens of public health datasets offline — a bureaucratic act with sweeping implications. Researchers, journalists and local…
www.editorandpublisher.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Another wonderful write-up on the importance of accessing federal data. It isn't just the data that are at risk: the data need people to manage interfaces, provide updates, and mediate access, among other tasks, to be actually usable.
I'm looking forward to more discussions & actions we can take with this new initiative. Safeguarding scientific data requires coordinated initiative across many sectors. @datarescueproject.org has been a critical component in building community responses, and there is still much to be done.
📢 Excited to share that COS has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data.
📰 Read more:
📰 Read more:
Center for Open Science Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data
The Center for Open Science (COS) was awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data.
www.cos.io
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I'm looking forward to more discussions & actions we can take with this new initiative. Safeguarding scientific data requires coordinated initiative across many sectors. @datarescueproject.org has been a critical component in building community responses, and there is still much to be done.
I'm looking forward to our Penn #GIS Day 2025 tomorrow. I love the local focus in many of the presentations!
guides.library.upenn.edu/GIS/gisday
guides.library.upenn.edu/GIS/gisday
Guides: GIS & Mapping: GIS Day
Guides: GIS & Mapping: GIS Day
guides.library.upenn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I'm looking forward to our Penn #GIS Day 2025 tomorrow. I love the local focus in many of the presentations!
guides.library.upenn.edu/GIS/gisday
guides.library.upenn.edu/GIS/gisday
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New guest post from @clairemkbowen.bsky.social and Aaron R. Williams. Always the best analogies!
www.datarescueproject.org/driving-whil...
www.datarescueproject.org/driving-whil...
Driving While Looking Through a Shattered Rearview Mirror
Today, we have the third post in the series from Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams. Check out their first blog post on the uses of public data from reducing lead exposure in consumer products t...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New guest post from @clairemkbowen.bsky.social and Aaron R. Williams. Always the best analogies!
www.datarescueproject.org/driving-whil...
www.datarescueproject.org/driving-whil...
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We're not as cool as Chappell Roan and the #PinkPonyClub, but the #DataRescuersClub is still pretty great. Volunteer today:
FAQ
Welcome to the Data Rescue Project! We are excited to have you join us. What is the Data Rescue Project? The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We're not as cool as Chappell Roan and the #PinkPonyClub, but the #DataRescuersClub is still pretty great. Volunteer today:
Up early this Sunday to attend the #ASIS&T conference in DC. Going to be chatting about public data in open infrastructure and the @datarescueproject.org
Looking forward to it but need so much coffee.
Looking forward to it but need so much coffee.
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Up early this Sunday to attend the #ASIS&T conference in DC. Going to be chatting about public data in open infrastructure and the @datarescueproject.org
Looking forward to it but need so much coffee.
Looking forward to it but need so much coffee.
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You can help make the Fifth National Climate Assessment easier to find. Watch this short video to learn how. #ClimateForUs
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
You can help make the Fifth National Climate Assessment easier to find. Watch this short video to learn how. #ClimateForUs
I get to be the greeter. Come say hi!
There is still time to register for our upcoming hackathon hosted by @rdapassociation.bsky.social ! Join us TOMORROW Nov.13, from 1-2pm Eastern.
Zoom registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Zoom registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I get to be the greeter. Come say hi!
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Can you believe this? The American Battle Monuments Commission, a U.S. gov. agency, ordered the removal of displays honouring the Black soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands. These men fought & died for freedom, & now their contributions are being erased. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Can you believe this? The American Battle Monuments Commission, a U.S. gov. agency, ordered the removal of displays honouring the Black soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands. These men fought & died for freedom, & now their contributions are being erased. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
On the walk to work I got the double shot of Mountain Goats This Year c/o @mikalarae.bsky.social and Killing in the Name of. Yeah been that kinda year.
Just happy to see the librarians live the spirit of "F* u I won't do what you tell me" even if many of our leaders won't.
Just happy to see the librarians live the spirit of "F* u I won't do what you tell me" even if many of our leaders won't.
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
On the walk to work I got the double shot of Mountain Goats This Year c/o @mikalarae.bsky.social and Killing in the Name of. Yeah been that kinda year.
Just happy to see the librarians live the spirit of "F* u I won't do what you tell me" even if many of our leaders won't.
Just happy to see the librarians live the spirit of "F* u I won't do what you tell me" even if many of our leaders won't.
Reposted by Lynda M. Kellam #DataRescue
X posts said the majority of SNAP recipients are not U.S. citizens. That’s a vast undercount, according to federal data. Almost 90% of SNAP recipients are U.S.-born citizens.
Majority of SNAP recipients are US citizens
X posts said the majority of SNAP recipients are not U.S. citizens. That’s a vast undercount, according to federal data. Almost 90% of SNAP recipients are U.S.-born citizens.
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
X posts said the majority of SNAP recipients are not U.S. citizens. That’s a vast undercount, according to federal data. Almost 90% of SNAP recipients are U.S.-born citizens.
Sooo much love for this and you.
Since it was a small group, and the presentation was not recorded, the @datarescueproject.org let me write up a short summary of my presentation:
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-t...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Sooo much love for this and you.
And to be clear that is a quote from Denice Ross. Very useful for perspective.
Lynda points out that even though a relatively small number of data sources have been shut down by the US Federal government, many more are affected through letting go of staff - death by a thousand cuts.
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
And to be clear that is a quote from Denice Ross. Very useful for perspective.