📢The Turtle Island Indigenous Science Conference will be hosted by First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv), University of Regina (University of Regina), and File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council Centre from 21-23 May 2024. For more information: event.fourwaves.com/2024tiisc/pages

Dhoombak Goobgoowana lands with a heavy historical thud to further expose the deep genealogy of acute racism that pervades one of Australia’s oldest and most internationally revered academic institutions. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Shifting focus from Western science. Scientists and educators spotlight Indigenous voices this month in the High Peaks. Calling for respect of traditional knowledge and history, and its inclusion in the broader scientific conversation. adirondackexplorer.org/stories/highli… via Adirondack Explorer

Empiricists NEVER actually engage with the reality of Indigenous sciences, just their biased view of it. Another in a conga line of Matauranga Maori critics has a crack: thecollegefix.com/dawkins-founda… via @collegefix

Exhibition at Huygens building sheds light on non-Western roots of science - Vox Magazine voxweb.nl/nieuws/exhibit…

“TOO many times our people are spoken to and about with deficit language and not with strong strength-based language that is filled with aspirations and solutions. This use of deficit language has to change and we have to call it out when we hear and read it." #ChangeTheNarrative

Last week, our Lab taught Indigenous high school students from AZ Tribal Nations on ecological data. Our STEAM activity profiled Indigenous scholars (and themselves as STEM leaders!) through art. 🖼️ Here’s mine. “When I grow up, I want to be Associate Professor.”

Our Science Week 2024 Teacher Guide is coming soon! This guide is based around the theme for 2024 Science Week 'Species Survival, More Than Just Sustainability'. Thank you to Australia Post and Wingaru Education for partnering with us to deliver this guide.

Fascinating Great post, great point. Resmaa Menakem takes this further in his books, addressing the reality that pple alive today still carry the trauma of slavery in their bodies, & this impacts inter-race relations now.

Stellar Indigenous scholars on this committee. Proud for them stepping down when the process wasn't co-production, but extraction and tokenization. That's exerting soverignty. Also, lol that NASEM didn't think a tribal casino was an appropriate venue. science.org/content/articl…

How Indigenous knowledge is saving Australia’s great desert skink. Cross-cultural monitoring boosts knowledge and care for vulnerable species! …nklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/67851/how-indi…

Activist and scientist Charitie Ropati is on a mission to amplify Alaska Native voices. Familiar with the marginalization of Native peoples, Ropati developed a historically accurate, Native-centric subcurriculum. (worldwildlife.org)

A recent film shows First Nations’ & Māori perspectives on kaitiakitanga (guardianship) and interconnectedness of living things. All work together to monitor disease and to breed more disease-tolerant species to protect native trees in NZ and Australia! teaonews.co.nz/2024/04/09/ind…

Relations with rivers, mountains, flora & fauna are just as important as human ones, owing to the intrinsic links between living and non-living entities. Māori retain responsibility for ensuring our data is used in an ethical way that benefits everyone, teaonews.co.nz/2024/08/03/mao…

Fascinating take on white fragility and the utter inability some have to ever consider they might be unintentionally racist. Or just plain racist. I'm the victim here!! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/so…

Aerospace engineering major Nicole McGaa is Oglala Lakota and trying to reconnect with culture while making space travel safer for humans. In doing, she connects to her Indigenous values of excellence in engineering, and caretaking, and community. news.mit.edu/2024/nicole-mc…

Mob have a lot to say about STEM. Indigenous STEM is vast and includes astronomy, weather knowledge, medicinal plant knowledge and animal classification systems. ‘Definitions are often very western. This excludes us.’ theconversation.com/definitions-ar… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Thaïs Bernos collaborates with the Cree Nation of Mistissini to find innovative ways to manage the fisheries in line with their values. My role in the FISHES project is to establish the link between Indigenous and Western science. concordia.ca/news/stories/2…

Indigenous students struggle to navigate post-secondary education as these institutions require skills, knowledge and ways of knowing that are not intuitive and stem from a colonial orientation. So writing courses must include culture. theconversation.com/how-a-first-ye… via The Conversation Canada

Australian Government releases five new national science priorities and recognises the value of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems. themandarin.com.au/252350-nationa… via The Mandarin themandarin.com.au/252350-nationa… via The Mandarin