After 7.5 years service, ~1,000,000 miles traveled by ✈️ and 🚙, I sadly say goodbye to my most trusted companion, my green Samsonite suitcase. This little guy was with me when traveling through community, countless countries, and my graduate training. Bon voyage to the great suitcase heaven 🫡

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Don't miss the ASHG annual meeting abstract submission deadline, just one week away! This year's meeting will be held in Montreal, October 20–24. The deadline is earlier than in previous years, so be sure to submit and share your research: ashgmeeting.ashg.org/programs/abs... #ASHG26 #ASHG2026

Where in the world is Dr. Krystal Tsosie? 🕵🏽‍♀️ One of the southernmost university cities in the world… which feels like a clue in itself. Somewhere between genomes and geographies… the signal gets a little too specific. 📍Dunedin, New Zealand, for a University of Otago talk (allegedly) 🌿📚

An excellent and very important article on the risks of missing the forest of social kinship through the trees of aDNA work!

A wonderful article pointing out issues with pushing DNA primacy when looking at human population history. Thanks @kstsosie.bsky.social ! Definitely incorporating this into my existing social justice unit next time I offer my population genetics class.

DNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you’re not willing to confront preventive health inequity, you have no business doing precision health—full stop.

Please join us on Thursday, April 16 at noon (AZ time!) for our next CEMinar with Dr. Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...

Where in the world is Dr. Krystal Tsosie? 🕵🏽‍♀️ Students say I’m traveling for “conferences”… but the cover story is getting suspicious. 📍Banff, for an #Indigenous Knowledges conference (allegedly)

Long story short, I came to the #aaba2026 conference and fell in love with a floof: 🐶 💜

First full American Association of Biological Anthropologists (@bioanth.org) meeting and I’m loving it—engaging, collaborative, and so welcoming (for me and my PhD student). Also: therapy dogs! We should make boop-able dog noses a standard feature of all conferences. 🐶 #aaba2026

I’m starting to enjoy making students sweat during progress check-ins. Is this a mid-career milestone? 😆 (To be clear: the goal is better science through sharpened reasoning, not suffering.) #AcademicLife

📣 SING USA 2026 applications are open! The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop will be July 19–24, 2026 at UW–Madison. ⏰ Apply by March 13 (midnight Hawaiʻi time) Learn more & apply: sing.nativebio.net Please share with Indigenous students! #Indigenous #Genomics

Great insights here from #ASU professor @kstsosie.bsky.social on the importance of context, ethics, and humanity in the pursuit and application of #science and #technology . #Genetics #Genomics #Bioethics #GeneticEngineering www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

“We fund sequencing instead of remediation.” Powerful speech by @kstsosie.bsky.social @aaas.org on how science needs to focus not on speed but on perseverance and accountability. We can learn so much from Indigenous scientists like Dr. Tsosie. We need more of them.

Forgot my ID at check-in — thankfully this event sign vouched for me 🙂 If you’re at the @aaas.org meeting tomorrow (Fri 2/13, 4–5 PM) at Phoenix Convention Center, see why “The Future of #Science is #Indigenous” Genomics, #AI, #health — what we build matters. How we build it matters more. #AAASmtg

The badge game at the @aaas.org American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting is next level! These are among the most creative I’ve seen at a scientific meeting. 🧬 #AAASmtg

📬 Read the latest issue of EBP Life and meet the people making it happen. 🌍 Read it here 👉https://gqr.sh/kx7m @mblaxter.bsky.social | @crawfordaj.bsky.social | @kstsosie.bsky.social | @scaioc.bsky.social | @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social | @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social |

As U.S. official #public #health policy continues its regression toward anti- #science, I’m once again wondering whether a plague doctor mask counts as business casual for the start of the semester, right as the undergrad viral onslaught begins. I’m sure someone will have feelings about the mask.

Important perspectives here from @kstsosie.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/indige...

Some members of the Tsosie Lab for #Indigenous #Genomic #Data Equity & #Justice are so happy to present @sacnas.bsky.social in Columbus, OH #NDiSTEM2025! Here's for an amazing Friday lineup across #IDSov. Hope to see you soon! @d4itdr.bsky.social @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social #SACNAS #STEM

This was one of my favorite parts of #ASHG25. Should have been a plenary! "Data for us, by us" So many underrepresented minorities could learn from this model. I dream of eventually turning @beyondxandy.bsky.social into something similar for trans people d4itdr.org

Check out our D4I session tomorrow at ASHG! #DataSovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Tribal #Data #Conference #ASHG #ASHG25 #ASHG2025

"Consequently, the Indigenous data sovereignty movement formed to protect collective interests in data governance and ensure that benefits derived from data are directed back to Indigenous peoples" Heck yeah! @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social @kstsosie.bsky.social

Out today via @natgenet.nature.com, the first federally funded #Tribal #data repository, a revolutionary approach to data management and applied/operationalization of IDSov @d4itdr.bsky.social. Also, if you are at #ASHG25, come see us this morning in 205ABC www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welcome to #ASHG25! As our President Sarah Tishkoff just noted, next year for the first time the ASHG exec cmte will be all women. Glad to have anyone and everyone participating in this society now and in the future.

For those interested in #Indigenous #Genomics and #ASHG25 in Boston, here are some interested posters/talks/events coming out of the Tsosie Lab, @nativebio.bsky.social, and @d4itdr.bsky.social. For those looking for Friday plans, attend our Ancillary Event, debuting a #Tribal #data repository!

INTERNATIONAL SURVEY ON TREE OF LIFE My PhD student Jocelyn Cheé-Santiago (Binnizá) is leading an online survey on scientific practices re: biodiversity, biocollections, conservation. If you work in these areas, we'd appreciate your insights. 10-15 mins. Details asu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

When Indigenous peoples build our own #Tribal #data repositories, we self-direct #health #research & create #education resources to train next-gen of #Indigenous science From PhD student, Karina Hernandez-Hernandez (P’urhépecha) it is “hope-giving” news.asu.edu/20250917-sci... @d4itdr.bsky.social

A preview of cool emerging #genomics and #Indigenous #science media… but this is my second interview of the day in this blue blazer! 🎥

Is "consumer genetics privacy" an oxymoron? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org "A databank [23andMe] of this type and magnitude requires heightened protection for privacy and security."

If you are attending the ASHG Annual Meeting in Boston this year, and you would like to hear about advances in Indigenous digital sovereignty and Tribal Nation-led health research, please sign up for our limited seating engagement on Friday, Oct 17th. Lunch provided: tinyurl.com/5aj9544f

In my Bio & Soc class, UGs act as reviewers/editors as a mock peer review. They see -difficulty finding responsive reviewers (& w/o COI) -variable quality reviews -issues matching reviewers to article Goal is to unveil realities of science evaluation (& hopefully train better reviewers). This helps

🌟 Exciting! I’m presenting at the Featured Symposium entitled "Authentic Engagement Beyond the Lab: Engaging Communities in the Future of #Genetic #Medicine" #ASHG25! October 15 in Boston! Plus two of my students are presenting posters! See you then! Register: meetings.ashg.org/event/ASHG25...

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

British Sir Francis Galton rocking a Canadian tuxedo for American Eagle. He wants you to know that he, too, has great jeans. (Yes, this was the result of five minutes with an #AI image generator.)

This pretty much sums up a lot of my time on too many committees related to policy, ethics, equity, innovation, research, and healthcare in governmental and academic settings: #Indigenous #academia #policy

#PhD students: pls don't make heavy asks of faculty time/expertise for your dissertation if you cannot include them on your committee. Use your existing committee, drop unhelpful members, or ask someone with service commitment (DGS). Heavy asks can be disproportionate to untenured faculty, esp. WOC.

How does an #Indigenous scientist organize her bookshelf? With these FUN category labels (magnetic)! - Anthropologists We Actually Like - Dismantling Power Paradigms (data #feminist, #science communication, #decolonizing works) - SH*# Non-Natives Say About Native #DNA - On Race, Racism, and Racists

Science Girl Summer from the D4I team!!! #Datasovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data

We are grateful to all who made our IndigiData #Indigenous #data #science workshop on "Indigenous #Health & #Artificial #Intelligence" a reality! This was our largest workshop yet. Held on the lands of the Ak-Chin Maricopa Tribal Nation in central Arizona. @d4itdr.bsky.social @nativebio.bsky.social

Dr. @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social spoke to our IndigiData #Indigenous data and informatics workshop on wastewater epidemiology and the Pathogen Data Network, held at the Ak-Chin Water Reclamation Facility in central AZ. @nativebio.bsky.social @d4itdr.bsky.social

Meet the PI’s! Krystal Tsosie (Diné/Navajo Nation) is a professor at Arizona State University and a co-founder of NativeBio Data Consortium. Her work incorporates community engaged models to produce equitable research that directly benefits Tribal communities.

⏳Only 4 days left to nominate! Do you know someone who has contributed through research, mentoring, advocacy, or leadership to the field? Give them the recognition they deserve! Nominate them for our professional awards before May 9! 🏆👉 www.ashg.org/membership/a... #ASHG

ASHG is concerned about the research cuts in the proposed U.S. FY26 budget, forecasting substantial reductions to the NIH and other agencies. We urge the U.S. Congress to reject this proposal and maintain support for life-saving biomedical research. Read More: www.ashg.org/publications... #ASHG

Happy to give my talk, “Considerations for precision oncology and artificial intelligence for #Indigenous #genomic #data #sovereignty and #health disparities” at the American Association for #Cancer Research #aacr25 in Chicago! #ai

As a scientist, I appreciate the effort in signage/marketing. But I also wish the coffee shop was at Gate 27 instead. (Or even 58 for atomic weight, or 2 or 3 for valence…) At OKC airport.

For those concerned about DNA ownership by corporations like 23andMe BUT do not understand impacts of funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health: Absent NIH funds, researchers will have to seek industry $$ to conduct research. Even more of your genomic data will be co-opted by corporations.