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!

🌎 🌿 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

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 ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcsta...

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...

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

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. grist.org/indigenous/i... #Indigenous #Climate #Trucking #Canada #Tribes #Environment

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/...

“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

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...

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

“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)

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

Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m. #richkid #amateur

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.

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.

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.

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.

#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.

Now go take this Land Back course. learnonline.yellowheadinstitute.org

Istanbul. Over 2 million people joined the demonstration.

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.

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.

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/

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.

Sámi need better legal protections to save their homelands. Indigenous territories are sacrificed for global climate goals. grist.org/global-indig... #Indigenous #Sámi #Climate #Norway #Sweden #Finland

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Exciting Job Opportunity! UBC is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences. Accepting applications until April 30. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

Looking for a postdoc in 🇨🇦? Liber Ero Fellowship liberero.ca * Applied conservation science * Leadership training * Open to int’l applicants * Due Nov 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): 🧵

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

Yes the return of Buffalo makes me happy but so does the return home of Swift Foxes to the southern grasslands of Saskatchewan and Alberta. 📷 Nature Conservancy of Canada

Deadline this week! Apply for the Spring 2025 intake of the Indigenous Internship Program at MOA! The program provides training opportunities for Indigenous people working in museums, or who would like to. ⁣⁣Deadline to apply: March 16. https://f.mtr.cool/amzmftuvrn

It also marks the first time an Indigenous North American filmmaker has received an Oscar nomination. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

AGU congratulates AGU members Catherine V. Davis, Sean Michaletz(@seanmichaletz.bsky.social) & Courtney J. Sprain for being honored as 2025 Sloan Fellows. The 2025 Sloan Research Fellows are a group of 126 exceptional early-career scientists and scholars who represent the brightest in their fields.

This week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a title lands agreement with the Haida Nation, acknowledging historic injustices and providing recognition of Haida Aboriginal title to lands on Haida Gwaii. Our Truth & Politics panel weighs in.

Canadians on here actually being like "I can't believe how bad things are getting in the US" without acknowledging Alberta just passed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws and are about to vote Doug Ford back into power. Wakeup because the far right are in inside the building

Meet new #UBCForestry prof. Dr. Zelalem Taye.🌱 In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth, Dr. Taye shares how his childhood in Ethiopia shaped his passion for biodiversity, the groundbreaking research he's leading, and his vision for mentoring future scholars. 📖 Read: forestry.ubc.ca/news/in-the-...

‘It is not violence or the secret police, it is collaboration and cooperation - knowing or naive, well meaning or not - that keep autocracy going.’ - Mary Beard

Further confirmation that there is no enforcement mechanism for these orders. Musk and co. are going to keep going until someone physically stops them.

ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.

1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears www.theguardian.com/environment/...

READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stalin attacked the arts. Hitler attacked the arts. Castro attacked the arts. There’s a map for where this is heading.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Calling it resegregation as @karenattiah.bsky.social has argued is the only way to describe this

Alfred McCoy's 2017 "In the Shadows of the American Century." End of $US dollar as global reserve currency ~2030, economic/social unrest, can't pay massive debt, will "slash bloated military." By 2050, "The world pays next to no attention while the American Century ends in silence."