Alondra Nelson, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey, has announced her resignation from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. In an op-ed for Time Magazine, Nelson detailed the hostile environment at the Library of Congress since January 2025, the month President Trump commenced his second term. “We’ve also seen civil servants fired and accused of not making the mark, vendors’s contracts ignored, and grants and fellowships cancelled,” she wrote, detailing rising political interference and a breakdown in the integrity of US knowledge institutions. Normalization