Tadashi Fukami

Reflections on the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe's youth campout at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)

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TEK Stories 2025 Listen to TEK Stories 2025 by Tadashi Fukami #np on #SoundCloud

Excited to release TEK Stories 2025, a podcast series made by the undergraduate students who took the "Catching up with Traditional Ecological Knowledge" class in Winter 2025 at Stanford University

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Evening lecture on Indigenous language revitalization
by Bernadette Quiroz, a member of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, to be held on Nov 18, 2025, at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)

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Evening lecture on tribal sovereignty and cultural revitalization
by Chairwoman Charlene Nijmeh of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, to be held on Oct 21, 2025, at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)

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For some of the ongoing efforts related to this assistant professor position in TEK available at Stanford, please refer to this article:

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Important article by Tara McAllister and her co-authors. We at Stanford University is encouraged by this paper as we launch a new faculty search in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (applications by Sept 30, 2025):

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Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025

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Poster at Botanical Society of America conference www.xcdsystem.com/botany/progr...

Story about a recent conference at Stanford University, "Environmental Justice through the Lens of Indigenous Peoples"

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This virtual program will cover general aspects of applying to Biology PhD programs, from cell, molecular and organismal biology to ecology and evolution, helping students craft application materials, navigate graduate interviews, and choose the program best fit for them. Apply by July 21, 2025.

Conference on Environmental Justice through the lens of Indigenous Peoples, held this week at Stanford University

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Bacteria in Honeybee Crops Are Decoupled from Those in Floral Nectar and Bee Mouths - Microbial Ecology Bacteria in the honeybee gut are a well-recognized factor affecting bee health. However, the primary focus of this research has been the hindgut, while the crop, or honey stomach, is assumed to be dom...

New paper where we suggest bacteria in the honeybee stomach may be more interesting to study than generally thought.

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Grateful to be part of this Univ of Toronto EEB event

From Reo and Ogden 2018
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From McAllister et al. 2023
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From Goode et al. 2022
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Tiny but mighty? Overview of a decade of research on nectar bacteria An emerging focus of research at the intersection of botany, zoology, and microbiology is the study of floral nectar as a microbial habitat, referred to as the nectar microbiome, which can alter plan...

New review article in @newphyt.bsky.social on nectar bacteria--their evolutionary origin, dispersal mode, effects on nectar chemistry and plant–animal interactions, community assembly, agricultural applications, and their use as model systems in ecological research

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Best papers of 2024 in ecology and evolutionary biology, as chosen by Guzman, Peay, and Fukami labs at Stanford University: web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/pap...

In her book Tending the Wild, Kat Anderson writes: "the basketry craft, all over California, was more than a mechanical exercise, and baskets were more than utilitarian objects. They were absolutely central in the worldviews, cultures, and everyday lives of native people in California."

YouTube video by Trevor Hebert Basket weaving comes to Jasper Ridge with Corine Pearce

Corine Pearce, a Native California basketweaver from the Redwood Valley Little River Band of Pomo, taught us that master basketweavers make holes, or da:w (door in Pomo), intentionally. Holes in baskets become spirit doors that connect people across generations.

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From "Meditation on Pedagogy: (Un)Translating Jasper Ridge" by AJ Naddaff, an essay from the "Ecology and Natural History of Jasper Ridge" class at Stanford University (4/4)

This is not what a lot of good scholars say about TEK [Traditional Ecological Knowledge]: indigenous science should be considered an independent way of looking at nature – we should look at them as separate but complementary and there is a lot of potential at Jasper Ridge.” (3/4)

On the other hand, beginners of a new language might translate. If you have a Spanish word, then you translate it into English, try to understand it, and then try to speak in Spanish. (2/4)

On TEK: “If you are multilingual and are truly fluent, you do not mix two languages; when you speak in English, you think in English and when you speak in Arabic, you think in Arabic. You become almost a different person because there is an entire culture associated with one language. (1/4)

YouTube video by Ten Percent Happier Overcoming the Scarcity Mindset | Robin Wall Kimmerer

Podcast interview, where Robin Wall Kimmerer talks about her new book, “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”

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My attempt to list key concepts from Wildcat's book, "On Indigenuity":

On Indigenuity: Learning the Lessons of Mother Earth | Fulcrum Books Mother Earth is calling on us to act—the collective wisdom of thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge can guide us. Indigenuity, or Indigenous ingenuity, stems from an ancient idea and practice tha...

In our TEK book club at Stanford, we've just finished reading "On Indigenuity" by Daniel Wildcat. One message is that we need "cultural climate change," as "one cannot fix or solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them."

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Controlled burn revives rare plant in Bay Area preserve after 100 years The western bewildering bushmallow is endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area. It returned for the first time in over 100 years thanks a Stanford controlled burn.

“As the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe continues its push for federal recognition, events like these show the importance that Indigenous knowledge plays in addressing modern issues.”

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Honored to collaborate with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe on a youth campout held at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) at Stanford University

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Looking forward to this conversation at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma)

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