📄Yatu lab led paper proposing online open-ended surveys as a “middle way” Using interpretivist analysis, we rethink triangulation and crystallization within large datasets to honor student voice, with implications for relational research in schools doi: doi.org/10.59455/qie... #AcademicSky

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On the 10-year anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, my research in the Yatu Lab continues to engage with Calls to Action 10, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, and 23, which focus on Indigenous education, language revitalization, health equity, and Indigenous-led health systems #Indigenous

As research on Indigenous rights, equity, diversity, and inclusion is being halted in the U.S., scholars in Canada have a responsibility to respond. This winter break, I am prioritizing research and writing. Silence is not a neutral position 👩🏽‍💻✍🏽 #AcademicSky

Some may not see the challenges we face. Denialist groups, motivated by hate, are anticipated to target UBC in the new year. The Longhouse will serve as a secure refuge for Nenqayni students, staff, and faculty. Campus Security is alerted. Stay calm, grounded, and safe 🙏🏽 #AcademicSky #indigenous

From one museum to the next 🙄 #IndigiSky #Indigenous

Meow 😸 #proflife

Anyone doing Nenqayni research in community? Grant due Feb. 16 #AcademicSky #Indigenous

This is mental health promotion 🧠♥️ #AcademicSky

I’m serving as an expert on the CSA Group committee developing PRV STD-16: School-Based Substance Use Prevention, Education & Intervention (K–12). The draft standard is now open for public review until Dec 6 2025. Review and comment here: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/Details... #AcademicSky

Doom scrolling Hurricane Melissa and realizing this is how we now witness climate change: through live feeds and endless refresh 😔 Prayers JAH 🇯🇲💚🙏🏽 #AcademicSky

I was getting ready to speak at the World Congress on Adolescent Health next week. But Hurricane Melissa — the largest storm in the world right now 🌏, fueled by our warming oceans and climate change — has put everything on hold. Sending love, prayers, and strength to Jamaica 🙏🏽💚🇯🇲 #AcademicSky

AI like Grok can ‘learn’ fast but so can spreading misinformation and systemic bias. Grok isn’t neutral. Unchecked AI on social media can amplify bias and inequality faster than any human ever could. Which platform will be next? #AcademicSky

ICE recruitment ads on Spotify? Not for us. Yatu Lab is looking for podcast platforms that reflect our values and support our communities ✊🏽 Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions! #AcademicSky

Wrapped up the day reviewing feedback on our Nenqayni early childhood partnership grant. Now deciding whether to push for the tight deadline or wait for the next funding cycle #AcademicSky #Indigenous

Some good news 🎉 One of my grad students in the Yatu lab was awarded a small Truth and Reconciliation grant! She’ll be creating podcasts to share racialized early childhood educators’ voices and their decolonizing learning journeys. Stay tuned 😄 #AcademicSky #Indigenous

Reviewed two new BREB ethics applications today — one on student attendance in Vancouver’s inner-city schools (led by a paediatric resident doing meaningful community work) and another exploring ungrading practices in high school classrooms #AcademicSky

Today was devoted to research budgets. It’s slow-going work, but progress is being made. Dinner was ramen with an egg and leftover turkey—a modest, satisfying way to end the day 🍜 #AcademicSky

I just sent 8 emails to people who asked if I could supervise their PhDs. It’s so hard saying no — they’re all amazing students — but I don’t have the capacity right now. I’m trying to hold spots in my Yatu Lab for folks whose research really aligns with my own projects 📚 #AcademicSky

Exciting news 🤩 My book chapter on Nenqayni young peoples’ experiences with online hate got accepted with just minor revisions! It’ll be published in a textbook called Psychology Applications & Developments XI. Working on reviewers’ feedback now #AcademicSky #indigenous

I missed this webinar but want to watch it later when things slow down. It’s part of the Faculty of Education Dean’s distinguished speakers series. Dr. Leanne Simpson recently wrote the book, Theory of Water (great read) 👀 #AcademicSky #education youtu.be/k2hwpNTJ0m0n

Today I prepare dinner, not to celebrate the colonial history of Thanksgiving, but to give thanks in my own way — for family, friends, community, and the land and waters that sustain us 💙 Thanksgiving is not Nenqayni, yet gratitude remains central to our lives 🫶🏽🧡 #AcademicSky

Grant writing season 👩🏽‍💻 Three deadlines next week. Projects span early childhood education across BC, substance use standards in schools across Canada, community wellness research cluster in BC public health, and Nenqayni water-based healing. Collaboration in full swing 🫶🏽 send snacks #AcademicSky

Every year, one white man in teacher education program repeats the script: tired of apologizing, denies colonialism, claims no privilege. And every year, we faculty debrief—unpacking, soothing, strategizing. Same dance: cleaning up what colonial denial leaves behind 🙄 #AcademicSky

Very first Yatu Lab 🌊 Rooted in the Nenqayni Chi’h word for ocean/deep water, we’re building a space for youth, communities, educators, and researchers to connect. Our first session flowed from nerves to lively talk on AI in grad research—Yatu’s spirit of curiosity + connection alive🩵 #AcademicSky

A new Nenqayni water-based book is available 🌊 Eye spy a chapter by Tl’etinqox voices you may know 😉 Bring water, story, and healing into your classrooms and research 🩵 #AcademicSky #Indigenous indigenous-message.org/anthologies-...

The semester opened with the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education welcome back BBQ—smoky wildfire sunshine, colleagues’ travel stories, and reflections on the publishing challenges that await in the year ahead 📚✍🏽 #AcademicSky

My field notes have two sides: one for what happens, one for what it means. This double-entry shift is changing how I carry research, teaching, and committee work 📓🌜🌊 #AcademicSky

Check out our new pub: From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery - Oeggerli - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ecology #tek #wildfire #climatechange #conservation

This study examines how colonization has harmed the inlet’s lands and waters over time. As one Chief shared: to understand the mental health of the people, look at the health of the river and ocean #AcademicSky #Indigenous

Honouring Linda Williams Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), who passed to Spirit World. She dedicated 40+ years to NITEP Indigenous Education, generously sharing wisdom, guidance, and care. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her 🦅🪶✨

Join us July 15 at xʷc̓ic̓əsəm for a symposium on Indigenous Data Sovereignty in a World of AI, featuring speakers from SFU’s Indigitalization Lab. 10am–1pm with lunch provided. All welcome! 🧠🌿 🦅 #AcademicSky

🎨 Calling all budding artists (and their grown-ups)! HELP is once again collecting kiddo artwork for our next round of bookmarks & greeting cards. Scribbles, sketches, masterpieces—all welcome! Submit by July 31: [email protected] 🖍️ #AcademicLife #UBC #KnowledgeToAction

Grateful to join Indigenous researchers, community leaders, and Elders on Health Research BC’s first Indigenous Health Research Peer Review Panel. Together, we’re shaping a system where Nenqayni knowledge and people are respected—not just included. #AcademicSky 🔗 healthresearchbc.ca/news_article...

NITEP, the Indigenous Teacher Education Program in UBC’s Faculty of Education, is pleased to share the attached job opportunity: Part-time Lecturer (50%) and Prince Rupert Field Centre Coordinator Applications due by July 18, 2025 #academicsky #teachereducation

Finished reading Rez Rules by Chief Clarence Louie - a bold, unapologetic look at Nenqayni leadership, economic development, and rez realities. Written with sharp wit & hard-earned insight, it challenges readers to rethink governance, responsibility, and what real community change takes #AcademicSky

Not everything requires a response; some statements hold the line, speak for themselves, and carry the weight of histories. Spotted during the WestCAST conference at SFU #AcademicSky

A glimpse at new language in our faculty’s strategic plan—part of a shift toward decolonization as relational accountability and structural change in the university. What language are you seeing in your areas—does any of it feel like decolonization? #AcademicSky

The day after LapuLapu, I led a presentation on wellness as connection at Professional Development Day. Educators gathered to reflect, reconnect, and affirm that collective care is foundational to education. As students reclaim space, teachers continue to hold space for belonging #AcademicSky

This paper critically examines the concept of online addiction, questioning pathologizing frameworks and calling for a deeper analysis of the social, cultural, and structural forces shaping digital life #AcademicSky

I came across the Certificate Program in Community-Based Research from the Centre for Community-Based Research — the courses are online. Looks like a great learning experience for anyone interested in equity-driven, community-led research #AcademicSky www.communitybasedresearch.ca/what-we-do/c...

Co-authored a study analyzing 600+ Canadian news articles on youth substance use. Found big gaps: youth voices missing, structural context ignored, upstream solutions rare. Wrote a blog post unpacking what we found + why it matters. #AcademicSky Blog here: yatu8.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/y...

We’re seeing a shift in conference locations shaped by structural forces—travel restrictions, policies, and commitments to equity and inclusion. These factors are redefining where academic communities can gather ethically and safely. Vancouver is lovely 😉🇨🇦 #AcademicSky www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Theory of Water frames water as Indigenous internationalism both hyper-local and global. For many Nenqayni, the fight for water rights & river personhood is urgent as local challenges like declining water levels, landslides, and salmon runs need action now #AcademicSky

Looking for ways to bring Indigenous perspectives into early childhood education? Check out this free online course from UBC’s HELP and Faculty of Education: Nurturing Childhoods Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing. Learn more: opl.educ.ubc.ca/nurturing-ch... #AcademicSky

Come learn with us at this free online course on Indigenous Water Rights! Led by two kind instructors — one with the steady care of a grandmother, the other with chill energy from the South. Nenqayni guest speaker #academicsky May 6–June 8, 2025 Sign up: pacificpeoplespartnership.org/engage/event...

I sewed my ribbon skirt this spring in Vancouver and wore it today for the first time. I’m leading an arts-based Healing Circle at Point Grey Secondary to support educators after the Lapu Lapu Festival tragedy. Green for mental health, care, and visibility 💚 #AcademicSky

Due to the police investigation at Lapulapu Festival, tomorrow I’ll be leading a Healing Circle at another high school in Vancouver. Preparing to hold space for educators. If you have grief resources for teachers, I would be grateful if you shared them 🙏🏽 Grief work is community work🫶🏽🧡 #AcademicSky

Had a meaningful chat with Behavioural Ethics on participatory action research and emerging autoethnographic approaches. We reflected on ethical boundaries in lived research, Indigenous protocols, co-authorship with community, and making space for relationality #AcademicSky

Humbled to receive a Crow Language Dictionary—an important example of digital language revitalization. Tools like this support intergenerational teachings and cultural resurgence. A powerful resource for Indigenous-led research and education dictionary.crowlanguage.org #AcademicSky