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This Friday 10/17!

#GavinJones #EECBSeminarSeries #FWCS #OregonState

Great interactive map to check out, to know where you are:
native-land.ca

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay2025

FYI
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Academic Freedom Under Pressure: New survey data about the state of higher education. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining... Join us for a discussion of new survey data that compares faculty sentiment about academic freedom from September 2024 through June 2025. As institutional funding, areas of research, and the princip...

fyi:

Academic Freedom Under Pressure: New survey data about the state of higher education

10/8/25 08:00AM (Pacific)

...webinar brings together experts in freedom of expression to discuss their experiences and the support systems needed to protect academic freedom

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“The number of necessary troops is zero.”

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson

How to Stop LinkedIn From Using Your Data to Train Its AI Models:

www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert We Are All Jimmy Kimmel | The Easy Way Or The Hard Way | Trump Urges NBC To Cancel Fallon And Mey…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGL...

See more information on website: www.2026isisa.kr

The Sustainable Development Institute at the College of Menominee Nation is hiring a Climate Change Advocate. Applications are currently being accepted and the position is open until filled. Please share this opportunity widely.

www.menominee.edu/about-cmn/ca...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

"What if we honored Manoomin (wild rice) as a being rather than just a species? What if we frame THEM as our teacher? As our partner?
Check out this new paper “Plants as partners: honoring the personhood of Manoomin in research, restoration, and education”"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Know a Trailblazing Woman Scientist? Nominate Her for Our 'Cutting-Edge Women in Science' List If you're a member of the scientific community, tell us who deserves the spotlight. Deadline: Sept. 15.

thestoryexchange.org/know-a-trail...

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) node:field_teaser]

The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) is open! Apply by October 15th.

fellowships.si.edu/SIFP

We highly encourage students from
Tribal College to apply,students at two-year and four-year Tribal Colleges are eligible regardless of plans to transfer."
No GPA Requirement.
Paid opportunity.
Housing included.

Learn more here:
conservationleadership.ucsc.edu

Delta Independent Science Board & California Sea Grant seeking a postdoctoral scholar. postdoctoral scholar, employed by the University of California SD, works directly with the Delta ISB
Review begins 8/27/25 open until filled
deltacouncil.ca.gov/pdf/isb/flye...

"The "20th ISISA World Islands Conference," to be held in Sinan County on July 7, 2026, is accepting abstracts until the end of November.
...brings together scholars and researchers from around the world on islands from various fields, so we encourage you to present and network."
www.2026isisa.kr

Some really great points in this clip: www.facebook.com/share/v/1DMT...

These female divers spend more time underwater than any other humans At an average age of 70, these women divers in South Korea still forage in the sea up to 10 hours a day and spend more than half of that time underwater.

#Haenyeo!
www.sciencenews.org/article/fema...

The Carolina Dynamical Oceanography Lab at UNC Chapel Hill is recruiting! We study polar and coastal oceanography across scales.

"Recruiting a graduate student and a postdoc in topics spanning ice-ocean interactions and coastal ocean dynamics, and I would be very grateful if you could share these opportunities with those in your network.

details here: unc-ocean-dynamics.github.io/recruitment/

Thank you so much!
Ken Zhao "

Chief Devon Parfait: Stories from a fragile coastline Discover the story of Chief Devon Parfait as he navigates his tribe's challenges and fights for a hopeful future.

apeaceofmymind.org/2025/08/21/c...

Good!

And shame on the universities eliminating those programs in advance.

2025 Pacific Regional Conference 2025 Pacific Regional Conference October 14-16, 2025 in Auburn, WA The 2025 Pacific Regional Conference will be hosted by hosted by Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and held on October 14-16, 2025,...

NAFWS has reached out and let me know they have a call open for their upcoming conference in WA. Students interested in presenting take a look! Please consider sharing, encouraging, and supporting students to participate.

www.nafws.org/product/paci...

“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.”

― Qwatsinas, Nuxalk Nation

Good Morning & welcome to marvellous marmalade Monday

The situation you find yourself in today isn’t the full story — it’s just the opening chapter.
Your present circumstances don’t limit what’s possible; they simply mark the place from which you begin your journey.

Scholarships

Deadline Fri, August 8, by 10 PM MT
Native students studying Natural Resources! NAFWS Scholarship awards funds ranging from $1,000 to $2,500 for the Fall 2025 semester.
Enrolled citizen of a U.S. Federally Recognized Tribe & full-time student in natural resources.
Link: www.nafws.org/youth-early....

Academics worldwide spend over 100 MILLION HOURS on unpaid peer reviews for academic publishers = over 15 thousand years, according to landmark 2021 study.
That’s an estimated monetary value of the time US-based reviewers spend on reviews of over $1.5 b
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/we-m...