Thanksgiving eve dinner! Happy Thanksgiving, #IndigenousSTEM friends! 🍎🐡⚒️🧪

Christmas cactus blooming like it’s an early Xmas! Pesto in background is not impressed.

It’s the season for Scary Stories (Tee by @ntvsclothing ). Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪🍎⚒️

25+ years (and 3 boxes of biz cards) at Swinomish doing Geology, Environmental, and Indigenous Science work. And as department director for 12 years! Thanks to all those who've helped along the way and my Tribe for putting their faith in me to protect our homeland!

Pesto smelling the flowers!

Important new piece by Indigenous scholars—including ecologists @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social and @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social (who is here at #ESA2025 this week)—who set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

Check out Volume 2 Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report. With @kjrm.bsky.social, we contributed a short narrative on Kukutali Preserve for Ch 7 Indigenous Lead Conservation as an example of leading the work at the first co-owned/managed Tribal State park in the nation. 🧪⚒️🍎 #IndigenousSTEM

We gave away 1st Salmon Ceremony children’s books written by my late father, Raymond Mitchell, at the Swinomish 1st Salmon Ceremony-Blessing of the Fleet on Thursday and joining our table was a Swinomish Archives display of past ceremonies! #IndigenousSTEM 🧪🍎🐡⚒️

Camas in my garden going big blooming flowers now! The bulbs are a traditional food for indigenous people in the Coast Salish region. I’ve been growing it for years to collect seeds to propagate for restoration plantings. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪🍎🐡⚒️

Anneka (my Daughter) and I will be reading our Swinomish children’s books (The Enormous Camas & Time of Salmonberries) at the Mount Vernon Library Commons tomorrow, this Saturday, April 26th, 1 PM! Come join us!

Happy Earth Day! #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🍎🐡

pədx̌ʷi”w̓áac, pud-hway-WAHTS, Moon of Whistling Robins signals the music of springtime as the robins return to build nests to lay their eggs. This Swinomish 13 Moon is time when spring plant shoots and fern roots are gathered, halibut are fished, and canoes and baskets made. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🍎🐡

Great to catch up with friends who helped us learn about camas to start our Swinomish Camas Project! Each presented our own projects at Cascadia Prairie Oak Partnership conf. I gifted them my daughter’s book “The Enormous Camas” whose idea came on first trip with them in 2019. 🧪🐡🍎⚒️ #IndigenousSTEM

Tulips in my planting bed getting ready to show all their colors! Many Skagit Valley fields are either well into bloom or nearly there.

waqwaqus, is the Moon When Frog Talks. It is when the pacific tree frogs come out and chorus the beginning of spring! This Swinomish 13 Moon is a time of herring, smelt, and halibut fishing as well as gathering the first nettle shoots for food. 🧪🐡⚒️🍎 #IndigenousSTEM

Spring is coming!

The paper on our indigenous science work at Swinomish has just arrived in the published book "Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge"! Thanks @ecohugger.bsky.social for getting this published! & thanks @kjrm.bsky.social for helping with all the work! #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🍎

📣We have a new paper out on our work developing a wetland rating system that incorporates Tribal cultural values and functions to create a more robust and culturally relevant wetland rating system. 🌿 Congrats to all my co-authors who have worked on this project! 🧪🍎🐡⚒️ #IndigenousSTEM tr.ee/H7-fgZHJvt

Happy 3rd birthday to Pesto aka Smols! He got a pack of 100 toy springs! May he not lose them like the old original pack of 20 that are nowhere to be found in the house. #IndigenousSTEM

səxʷpupuhigᵂəd (suhw-POO-POO-ee-gwud), Moon of the Windy Time, 2nd moon of the Swinomish 13 Moons cycle. A time to hunt water fowl, elk, and deer; make tools and baskets like those made from ironwood. Cloud & Wind hat pin beaded by forest.valley.craft! #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🍎⚒️🧪

Great day at Swinomish DEP’s Between Two Worlds (BTW) Indigenous Science class screening and discussing the MARCH POINT movie done by Tribal youth and former LaConner High students Nick Clark, Cody Cayou, and Travis Tom in 2005-2008 as part of Native Lens. (1/3)(redo w/pix)🧪🍎⚒️🐡 #IndigenousSTEM

170 yrs ago our ancestors signed away most of their land but reserved the rights to continue harvesting natural resources in ceded lands. Times after Treaty of Point Elliott marked changes to our way of life but our resource protection and storytelling traditions are well alive. #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🍎🧪⚒️

The Return of Science Facts just in time for the inauguration! Started in 2020 during COVID and waned for a bit, it’s re-installed by the busy-ish sidewalk in our front yard with quick facts about nature, geology, chemistry, indigenous science, astronomy, plants, etc. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪🍎⚒️🐡

pədx̌aʔx̌aʔ - Moon of the Sacred Time, the last and beginning moon of the Swinomish 13 Moons cycle; a time to reflect, recharge your spirituality, and plan for the next year. This moon encompasses, Xmas, New Year's, and my Bday!! My hat pin beaded by forest.valley.craft! #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🍎⚒️🧪

Please pass the word! We are hiring an Environmental Grants Administrator! This position will coordinate and administer grants for the Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection. Full job description: tr.ee/bWEMMwmpgQ More details in ALT text. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🍎🐡

What happens to pencil thin green onions that you forget and turn slimy in the fridge then you plant them in the garden? They just get bigger (and unslimy)! A lot bigger. #IndigenousSTEM

Attn Grad Students! Apply to join us for 2 weeks of learning paleoclimate science in the beautiful eastern Sierras this summer! Application deadline is January 10th!!

Soft cat paws but also quite pokey in bits. #IndigenousSTEM

#ThankYouJimmyCarter RIP, Mr. President #IndigenousSTEM

Another great time giving out the 3 new children’s illustrated books at the Swinomish Community Dinner this week! They are authored by 3 generations of the Mitchell family! 🧪🐡🍎⚒️ #IndigenousSTEM

📚Hot off the presses! We just got our newest books to give out to Swinomish Tribal members at today's holiday distribution. Books are: 1st Salmon Ceremony; Time of Salmonberries; Enormous Camas. The stories come from 3 generations of the Mitchell Family. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪🐡🍎⚒️

I haven’t been to AGU for a few years, but the poster hall is always mind boggling huge and full of great science!

Reduce, Reuse, recycle! The insulation blanket around our dishwasher is made from recycled Levi’s 550s! i had to replace the heat pump and flipped these blankets up and found the label remnant. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪🐡🍎

At the EPA Region 10 - Regional Tribal Operations Committee (RTOC) quarterly meeting in Seattle today as the W.WA Tribal rep. Met all the R10 Tribal coordinators (there’s 1 in each R10 division) + grant coordinators. Discussed ways to better reach our region’s Tribes & watched Fish Wars movie.

Updated Indigenous Scientists in the USA Starter Pack! Great list of #IndigenousSTEM people! many who are also artists 🐡, geoscientists ⚒️, and educators 🍎!

🧪 Updated Indigenous Scientists Starter Pack! (hope this posts, my previous reskeet got hidden(?) by me, so just for me? - still getting up to speed on BSky tools 🤷‍♂️)

Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added? go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY

Guess what time T-day dinner was ready yesterday? When the Homepod heard the smoke alarm going off! 😆 home integration at work for just the last part of reducing the gravy in the big turkey pan, got a tad smoky. #IndigenousSTEM

This year’s Turkey Day eve dinner, our family tradition!

Re-upping this skeet from last year about my appearance on the Heritage Voices Podcast alongside Lumbee archaeologist Dr. Seth Grooms. Great convo about #Indigenous cultural preservation and community engaged research. 🧪🌎⚒️

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Looking for a way to not over eat for the holidays? Crack an unbreakable crown and get temp plastic one. Ouch! Whatever the super porcelain material for tooth crowns is, it took couple drill bits to remove At least my kids will be home to do all our family traditions this wknd. #IndigenousSTEM

First of 3 children’s books that are indigenous written and illustrated to be given out to our Tribal Community for the holidays. A story by my late Father - about our First Salmon Ceremony, a tradition related to our fishing heritage and cultural resilience. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪

The geologist me likes cool looking pebbles and thinking about sediment transport processes moving them back and forth on our Reservation beaches. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪

Swinomish Dept of Environmental Protection (DEP) had a great Environmental Learning Series workshop this week on harvesting and canning rose hip jelly!

Always great to visit our Swinomish monument, Lone Tree, dadčulqid, an ancient Doug fir, >250 y.o. that’s watched over our peoples. In 2015 when a wind storm knocked out major branches, I started a prj to propagate replacements from its cones so there will always be Lone Tree(s)! #IndigenousSTEM 🧪

Great AM FRI speaking to this yr’s Leadership Skagit cohort about leading Swin DEP with indigenous science and ‘western’ science to protect our natural resources. It’s a tough act to follow our knowledgeable former chairman, Brian Cladoosby (pictured) but still learning from him! 🧪 #IndigenousSTEM

Wow-one of the most interesting comments I've gotten for #SciComm: "Schimel’s book, “Writing Science” and BIOL 735 have served as invaluable resources. They have transformed writing from a vague, iterative, hope-for-the-best process into an algorithmic approach to creating easily digestible works."

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...