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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 24d

Excited to release TEK Stories 2025, a podcast series made by the undergraduate students who took the "Catching up with Traditional Ecological Knowledge" class in Winter 2025 at Stanford University

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TEK Stories 2025

Listen to TEK Stories 2025 by Tadashi Fukami #np on #SoundCloud

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 24d

Evening lecture on Indigenous language revitalization
by Bernadette Quiroz, a member of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, to be held on Nov 18, 2025, at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)

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Chochenyo: A Language Reawakened | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 29d

Evening lecture on tribal sovereignty and cultural revitalization
by Chairwoman Charlene Nijmeh of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, to be held on Oct 21, 2025, at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)

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The Trail of Truth Continues | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Aug 22

For some of the ongoing efforts related to this assistant professor position in TEK available at Stanford, please refer to this article:

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Aug 8

Important article by Tara McAllister and her co-authors. We at Stanford University is encouraged by this paper as we launch a new faculty search in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (applications by Sept 30, 2025):

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Aug 6

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025

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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor in Traditional Ecological Knowledge

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Jul 26

Poster at Botanical Society of America conference www.xcdsystem.com/botany/progr...

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Jul 8

Story about a recent conference at Stanford University, "Environmental Justice through the Lens of Indigenous Peoples"

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Jun 27

This virtual program will cover general aspects of applying to Biology PhD programs, from cell, molecular and organismal biology to ecology and evolution, helping students craft application materials, navigate graduate interviews, and choose the program best fit for them. Apply by July 21, 2025.

The Stanford Biology Preview Program @stanfordbpp.bsky.social · Jun 24

Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!

At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!

Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · May 31

Conference on Environmental Justice through the lens of Indigenous Peoples, held this week at Stanford University

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Environmental Justice Through the Lens of Indigenous Peoples: Research Agendas to Address Unanswered Questions Conference

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · May 22

New paper where we suggest bacteria in the honeybee stomach may be more interesting to study than generally thought.

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Bacteria in Honeybee Crops Are Decoupled from Those in Floral Nectar and Bee Mouths - Microbial Ecology

Bacteria in the honeybee gut are a well-recognized factor affecting bee health. However, the primary focus of this research has been the hindgut, while the crop, or honey stomach, is assumed to be dom...

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Apr 11

Grateful to be part of this Univ of Toronto EEB event

Atwood 2025 @eebatwood.bsky.social · Apr 9

📢 ONE MORE DAY!! 📢

Meet Dr. Tadashi Fukami, our #Atwood2025 Memorial Lecturer! 🐦🌺🦠 Who else is excited for his talk?! 🙋‍♀️

Learn more about Dr. Fukami’s work here: web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/

Atwood details here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

Dr. Fukami (pictured here wearing a beige hat and a plaid shirt) is a community ecologist studying patterns of community assembly while practicing two-eyed seeing.

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Feb 13

From Reo and Ogden 2018
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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Feb 6

From McAllister et al. 2023
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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Feb 4

From Goode et al. 2022
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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Jan 28

New review article in @newphyt.bsky.social on nectar bacteria--their evolutionary origin, dispersal mode, effects on nectar chemistry and plant–animal interactions, community assembly, agricultural applications, and their use as model systems in ecological research

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Tiny but mighty? Overview of a decade of research on nectar bacteria

An emerging focus of research at the intersection of botany, zoology, and microbiology is the study of floral nectar as a microbial habitat, referred to as the nectar microbiome, which can alter plan...

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Dec 12

Best papers of 2024 in ecology and evolutionary biology, as chosen by Guzman, Peay, and Fukami labs at Stanford University: web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/pap...

Best papers

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Dec 5

In her book Tending the Wild, Kat Anderson writes: "the basketry craft, all over California, was more than a mechanical exercise, and baskets were more than utilitarian objects. They were absolutely central in the worldviews, cultures, and everyday lives of native people in California."

Basket weaving comes to Jasper Ridge with Corine Pearce | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Dec 5

Corine Pearce, a Native California basketweaver from the Redwood Valley Little River Band of Pomo, taught us that master basketweavers make holes, or da:w (door in Pomo), intentionally. Holes in baskets become spirit doors that connect people across generations.

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Basket weaving comes to Jasper Ridge with Corine Pearce

YouTube video by Trevor Hebert

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Dec 4

From "Meditation on Pedagogy: (Un)Translating Jasper Ridge" by AJ Naddaff, an essay from the "Ecology and Natural History of Jasper Ridge" class at Stanford University (4/4)

Student project feature from the latest BIO/EARTHSYS 105 cohort | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Dec 4

This is not what a lot of good scholars say about TEK [Traditional Ecological Knowledge]: indigenous science should be considered an independent way of looking at nature – we should look at them as separate but complementary and there is a lot of potential at Jasper Ridge.” (3/4)

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Dec 4

On the other hand, beginners of a new language might translate. If you have a Spanish word, then you translate it into English, try to understand it, and then try to speak in Spanish. (2/4)

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Dec 4

On TEK: “If you are multilingual and are truly fluent, you do not mix two languages; when you speak in English, you think in English and when you speak in Arabic, you think in Arabic. You become almost a different person because there is an entire culture associated with one language. (1/4)

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Nov 26

Podcast interview, where Robin Wall Kimmerer talks about her new book, “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”

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Overcoming the Scarcity Mindset | Robin Wall Kimmerer

YouTube video by Ten Percent Happier

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Nov 24

My attempt to list key concepts from Wildcat's book, "On Indigenuity":

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