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Kim TallBear
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Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/LAX/YEG.
https://kimtallbear.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@ktallbear
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · Mar 1
Bluesky may not be great for this yet. But i'm gathering reports/policies from universities, institutions, agencies on verification of #Indigenous membership/citizenship if anyone has any leads. So far, i have (and I'll add as i go): 🧵
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joseph-yracheta.bsky.social
1/2 An important Commentary in Nature Genetics from people I know and respect. The landscape of the Belmont Report/Common Rule, Technological Prowess, Data Promiscuity and speculative markets around www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human Genome Diversity Project data use and implications for the governance of legacy genomic data - Nature Genetics
To inform deliberations around use of the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) and related legacy data, we conducted a literature review of HGDP-derived data use from 2010 to 2024. Our analysis sugge...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
kimtallbear.bsky.social
Another sorry, not sorry from a writer who has gained financially and social capital by riding for decades on a myth of speculative Cherokee ancestry. #pretendianism
Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous
King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
kimtallbear.bsky.social
Our University of Minnesota American Indian Studies department Dakota language instructor, Cante Maza sharing what Dakota people know, why "Minne" is part of so many place names in Minnesota.
Language expert shares why so many places in Minnesota start with "Minne"
YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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joseph-yracheta.bsky.social
Please Repost! We are in an era of huge gains in technology, discovery and data "sequestration". We need to be honest about what's happening and the terrible outcomes that could happen if we continue the 533 years of colonial extraction. www.science.org/content/arti...
How scientists are confronting the lingering imprint of colonialism
Science series to spotlight efforts to reduce parachute science, empower Global South countries
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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audreytruschke.bsky.social
Some of you may recall this post. I thought I'd provide an update on how planning for my analog course is going...

It's been a mix of expected and unexpected, but welcome, surprises --
audreytruschke.bsky.social Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · Oct 21
Fellow academics, I'm doing it. Going all in. Pulling the plug, literally.

This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide."

All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This week's 100 words. My day of the week in my weekly writing circle is Saturday.
Text layered over a photo of the Mississippi River as viewed from the Lake Street-Marshall Ave bridge of downtown Minneapolis. The left bank from the camera's view is Minneapolis and the right bank is St. Paul. Text reads: Riverside (11.22.25) Two Saint Paul city blocks from the Mississippi, I write in low-sky sun, late autumn, late afternoon. The trees have dropped their colourful wraps. They pose bare, brown, and bony. Soon they’ll be svelte and sparkle in tight coats of winter frost. In my aunt’s basement I write, and laugh every time I tell someone here’s where I live now. We eat her good cooking in the evenings, last night was bison and roots, creamy potatoes, candles in a tableside window. The Canadians think it is safer up there. My ancestors also came home in a year of graver danger.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Despicable
The bully-in-chief is targeting women in the White House press corps
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November 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Owámniyomni Okhódayapi just announced the Dakota-led design for the restoration of five acres at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls), adjacent to the Upper Lock on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Project construction is targeted to begin in spring 2026. Very exciting!

owamniyomni.org/design/
A river surrounded by natural grasses and flowers. The Stone Arch bridge is visible, as is the Minneapolis Mill District. A waterfall is visible in the distance.
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
kimtallbear.bsky.social
‘A world-saving mission’: Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis
When Allan Brooks asked A.I. chatbot, ChatGPT a simple math question for his son, he didn’t expect it to turn into a more than a three-week conversation that would send him down a mental spiral and ma...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Here's fresh and happy news just out today! NativeBio was a late and junior partner but very happy to be part of this important work.

nni.arizona.edu/news/u-nyu-a...
U of A, NYU and Harvard experts lead process to codify world’s first global standard on Indigenous Peoples’ data
nni.arizona.edu
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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choose.umn.edu/portal/grad_...
"University of Minnesota - Twin Cities American Indian & Indigenous Studies Ph.D. Deadline: January 2, 2026. Questions? Email AMINGRAD@UMN.EDU"
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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If you ask historians of medicine what keeps them up at night, many will not say a new plague or bioterrorism, they will answer, "antibiotic resistance."
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
kimtallbear.bsky.social
I have a weekly writing-friend circle. Each of us takes a day of the week and we write in a loop. My menopause mind has trouble remembering on time. My day is Saturday. I remembered to write this morning.
Reframe 1 and 2 (11.16.25) The second hardest thing was returning to the settlers’ “America.” But these waters and lands, beings that breathe here, exceed millions of Europeans’ re-namings—their straight marks and crooked justifications. The return is to an ancient terrain, to skies our ancestors studied, drew lines from to the Earth. The first hardest thing was leaving a “marriage.” But an ecology of intimacies exceeds, defies centuries of settler mappings of a man’s flesh-blood territory as “husband,” and a woman’s as “wife.” The turn was to a way of living together, sometimes, our child in the centre. A place the settlers don’t name.
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
kimtallbear.bsky.social
Very interesting.
Oglala Sioux Tribe leaves two major Native advocacy organizations - ICT
Tribal president says the National Congress of American Indians and Coalition for Large Tribes no longer serve the interests of direct-service tribes
ictnews.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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House Dem finally sworn into Congress after weeks of controversial delay www.rawstory.com/adelita-grij...
House Dem finally sworn into Congress after weeks of controversial delay
Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) was officially sworn into Congress on Wednesday afternoon, putting an end to weeks of delay that caused intense controversy and pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-L...
www.rawstory.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
kimtallbear.bsky.social
‘It shows such a laziness’: why I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT
It’s the ultimate ick: trying to form a deep, lasting connection with a person who outsources original thought
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The 2025 Bear Wars www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
Japan deploys the military to counter a surge in bear attacks
The deployment comes following a surge of bear attacks in Japan's northern Akita prefecture.
www.npr.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Abenakis in Quebec have the genealogical reports they’ve been waiting for in their ongoing issue with American groups claiming Indigenous ancestry.

The groups were recognized by the state of Vermont as Abenaki tribes in 2011 and 2012.
Results of genealogical report on American groups claiming to be Abenaki | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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The curtain has been pulled back on a scandal casting doubt on the true ancestry of an Abenaki chief.

The test results and who else was under the microscope, tonight on APTN National News.

Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM