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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · Jun 9

Native Bio's notoriety keeps skyrocketing upwards. We have always been part of Indigenous Data discussions but now we are colleagues with Indigenous organizations around the Globe! #IDSov is here to stay. The notion is spreading to African American, South African and European populations!

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World Biodiversity Forum @worldbioforum.bsky.social · Jun 6

🌎 🌿 We are open! Shape the next World Biodiversity Forum WBF2026 and submit a proposal for a session, a workshop or a cultural event now. Under the theme of Leading Transformation Together, WBF2026 will take place in ☀️Davos, Switzerland from 14-19 June 2026. tinyurl.com/ycxtzv7k

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WarrenCM.bsky.social @warrencm.bsky.social · Jun 6

We’re hiring a Research Technician 2 in the Dept of #ForestConservationSciences at @forestry.ubc.ca!! 📣📣

The applicant will work with Isla Myers-Smith #TeamShrub, the Cardinal-McTeague lab, and some department services. Posted until August 10th 2025

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Forest and Conservation Sciences Technician

Staff - Union Job Category CUPE 116 Job Profile CUPE 116 Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 2 Job Title Forest and Conservation Sciences Technician Department Research | Myers-Smith Lab | Depar...

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WarrenCM.bsky.social @warrencm.bsky.social · Jun 6

I’m excited to attend Phyllosphere12 🌱🌿🧬🦠 - the 12th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology - in Okinawa, Japan 🇯🇵 graciously hosted by OIST www.oist.jp/conference/p...

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Rosie ʻAnolani Alegado @rosiealegado.bsky.social · May 20

One of the things I love about my job: forming a mutual aid network with other native academic aunties. #IndigeLab

Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · May 12

Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous data so it's safer.

www.theverge.com/features/664...

Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture

They’re worried about the loss of their research.

www.theverge.com

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Grist @grist.org · May 15

Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they’re disappearing.

Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

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#Indigenous #Climate #Trucking #Canada #Tribes #Environment

Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they're disappearing.

Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · May 2

Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change

Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 26

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse

The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · Apr 26

Audubon's work on conservation was also fraught. Audubon’s research benefited from information & specimens collected by enslaved Black men/Indigenous people. Instead of recognizing their contributions, he referred to them as “hands” traveling along with white men. theconversation.com/american-env...

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WarrenCM.bsky.social @warrencm.bsky.social · Apr 26

There’s still 5 days left to submit an application for Assistant Professor in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences!

If you were looking for your sign to apply, this is it! 🔥🪵🌲

#UBC #Forestry #ForestConservationSciences #TenureTrack #JobAlert @forestry.ubc.ca

WarrenCM.bsky.social @warrencm.bsky.social · Mar 19

Exciting Job Opportunity! UBC is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences. Accepting applications until April 30.

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Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences

Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences Department Dept Forest & Conservation Sciences | Faculty of Forestry (Ri...

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · Apr 12

“The US may have decided to turn protectionist, but the rest of the world does not have to follow the same path. We will identify other partners..to ensure resilience and maintain critical parts of the multilateral system while laying the foundations for a..new and different global system.” (~19:15)

@dreid63 @dreid63.bsky.social · Apr 12

@liberalca.bsky.social The Times of India headlines are always alarmist, but the speech here by Singapore’s Prime Minister Wong is measured and intelligent. How much trade do we do with Singapore, and are there ways to increase it? #tariffs #globaltrade

Singapore PM Wong ROARS At Trump Tariffs, Shockwaves In U.S. & Europe ; 'Not Scared Of...'

YouTube video by Times Of India

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · Apr 20

This is ominous.

I can’t see a single ship coming into or going out of the Golden Gate.

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Apr 20

Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m.

#richkid
#amateur

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Danielle Ignace @ignacelab.bsky.social · Apr 17

Ignace Lab PhD student, Miah Godek, has advanced to candidacy! 🎉 I was impressed by the depth and breadth of knowledge during the comprehensive exam. Miah is also co-advised by the awesome @warrencm.bsky.social and studying the impacts of fire on the below-ground community in the Okanagan Valley.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · Apr 6

And the final results are in.

Orr and Maloney in a blowout, with Orr on more than half the ballots cast — an impressive result on a crowded ballot, even in a byelection context.

ABC gets around 13% of the vote, slightly ahead of how Vision did in the 2017 byelection when they were in power.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Apr 5

This! Research shows that protests 1) raise awareness, 2) empower people (especially the disadvantaged), and 3) exert pressure on elites.

Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.

Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · Apr 5

Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.

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Judi Simcox @judisimcox.bsky.social · Apr 3

Yesterday we held the UW-Madison Indigenous Research Forum. I’m proud my postdoc Yowelunh McLester-Davis for organizing the conference, and to former Simcox lab undergrad Mariaya Jackson for winning second place award for a flash talk. My heart is full and ready to rise another day.

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · Apr 2

#NAISA video with from the 2024 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association in Norway. #NAISA2025 in Oklahoma will see reduced attendance due to international travel risks to the US. Hoping for hybrid capacity, not originally planned. I have one international panel, including Sámi speakers.

balvadis.bsky.social @balvadis.bsky.social · Jun 8

The conference made the indigenous Saami news.

www.nrk.no/video/766cba...

Urfolksforskere samlet i Bodø

Videoklipp fra NRK

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · Apr 3

Now go take this Land Back course.

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A Yellowhead School Online Course Land Back An open access online course about the ways Canada dispossesses Indigenous people of the land -- and the strategies communities are using to get it back. Th...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Mar 30

Istanbul. Over 2 million people joined the demonstration.

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Liam Brennan @liam-brennan.bsky.social · Mar 29

This morning, the Bay of Fundy and I greeted eachother with a smile. A partial solar sunrise eclipse painted bold colours across the horizon, decorated with the silhouette of a ring-billed gull flying over head.

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · Mar 29

As infuriating and abhorrent as this is, it's standard colonizer violence, which colonizer laws and doctrines will always work to justify.

How do colonizers come to terms with being treated as they've treated others? It must involve historical honesty and restitution.

JD Vance blasts Denmark in visit to Greenland with wife Usha as Trump administration eyes territory

A recent poll shows 85% of Greenlanders do not want to be part of the United States.

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Ryan Poling-Skutvik @rpslab.bsky.social · Mar 26

Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday.

Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice.

To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Mar 22

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

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Grist @grist.org · Mar 20

Sámi need better legal protections to save their homelands.

Indigenous territories are sacrificed for global climate goals.

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#Indigenous #Sámi #Climate #Norway #Sweden #Finland

Sámi need better legal protections to save their homelands

Indigenous territories are sacrificed for global climate goals.

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