Lydia Jennings, PhD

1) this is awful, I haven’t heard about this, thank you for sharing and 2) omg you are also in NH?! It’s rough out here as women of color (speaking as a Native woman from the Southwest). it’s comforting that you are also out here!

I think here on the East coast the trail design lack switch backs that we have in a lot of west coast regions, so the straight up mountain summit makes it challenging. Or course, areas like the cascades have direct routes and elevation, which is also why they are so challenging!

lol, this is def west coast elitism! I had just having this discussion with friends because I also had this attitude— it’s only 4000 ft, these are baby mountains… but when you start to hike a lot of the big peaks in the white mountains, they are surprisingly challenging.

lol it’s mostly not warm here; that’s not my ideal environment 😆

New Hampshire summer has been my favorite season so far… this desert girl is made for warm weather and outdoor adventures on mountains and rivers 😍

One zombie factoid is so pervasive in my field that I knew a corrective footnote in my book wouldn’t suffice. So last year I published a whole article debunking & explaining how it undermines #Indigenous knowledge. It’s bad already; LLMs will make it worse. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... #pocosin

Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.

Ugh

A reminder that abstracts are due tomorrow!

Thank you!

Thanks Meg! Excited to see what paths we can foster in this work. Glad to see GBIF’s investment in it as well.

Important and timely change to @gbif.org to recognize the needs and knowledge of indigenous communities for biodiversity data.

Excited to be the Chair of the newly established Indigenous data governance task force with the charge of asserting Indigenous rights and governance authority into one of the largest biodiversity repositories in the world. I’m joined by an amazing international team!

The Potential and Perils of Financializing Climate Risk Governance: Insights for Urban Policymakers | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy In this roundtable discussion, Savannah Cox speaks with three experts about the financialization of climate risk governance: Kelly Hereid, a climate scientist at Liberty Mutual, Madison Condon, an ass...

Many thanks to @savannahcox.bsky.social for bringing @kellyhereid.bsky.social, Emma Colven, and me together to talk about financialized climate risk governance for this new (full of hits!) special issue of City Climate Policy & Economy:

Thank you for amplifying this thread— I see I should have written a paper about it instead 😂

Last week we had a pretty amazing class kayaking with a Passamaquoddy knowledge holder to talk about water relations with the Connecticut River, as well as New England Indigenous fishing and hunting rights. Summer class on the river is the way to go!

Abstracts are due July 30th!

Please consider submitting to our “Indigenous Science to Action” session- I’ve had the distinct pleasure being part of this session since 2019, of working and meeting with both Indigenous and Indigenous allied scholars.

Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

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‘Ayahuasca tourism’ is a blight on Indigenous peoples and our environment | Nina Gualinga and Eli Virkina The popularity of ‘healing’ through psychedelics is fueling exploitation of Indigenous peoples and threatening biodiversity, say Nina Gualinga and Eli Virkina, both Indigenous women of the Ecuadorian ...

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YouTube video by APTN News Ojibwe artist Cedar-Eve unveils mural dedicated to Montreal’s Two-Spirit community | APTN News

Ojibwe artist Cedar-Eve unveiled a mural dedicated to Montreal’s Two-Spirit community.

It was completed in 2024, but it was officially presented to the community on Wednesday to coincide with Pride Month and Indigenous Peoples History Month.

The majority of DOGE's "work" is to use LLMs to search federal grants for the keywords "LGBTQ," "BIPOC," and similar, and then to cancel those grants.

They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:

Currently in DC trying the quickest in my capacity to get out before tomorrow’s… parade. It just so happens a storm is rolling in and all flights are delayed. Is god speaking?

Concerned about #Deep #Sea #Mining?
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In VT/NH, the air quality has been super funky due to the wildfires in Canada. A reminder that ecosystems don’t care about political borders and that climate action for clear air is all our responsibility!

Mining camps 'like a frat house’: The silencing of Native women in mining boomtowns In Arizona, ‘green’ mining supporters don’t want to hear about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Mining camps ‘like a frat house’ — The silencing of Native women in #mining boomtowns.

In #Arizona, where the Apache Stronghold is fighting to #saveOakFlat, ‘green’ mining supporters don’t want to hear about #MMIWG.

New from @odetteauger.bsky.social:

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If Indigenous peoples are effectively unable to ever say no to resource extraction, then what we're really dealing with here is a settler veto #bcpoli #onpoli #cdnpoli #mbpoli #skpoli

Just a quick snippet of the incredible final projects my students submitted to our “Resource extraction & Indigenous led solutions” course 😍 Students did everything from papers, podcasts, video series to art projects. In awe of their brilliance and vision for Indigenous led futures!

I made the mistake of putting that distance alert on my phone and it turns out i am going blind because the alert constantly pops up that I hold my phone too close 🫠🤓

I love supporting young leadership— cheering for Deja Fox! 🦊