Tadashi Fukami

“As most Indigenous peoples acknowledge, the people do not own the land, the land owns the people (Black 2010).”

Indigenous laws of nature, from Hankins et al. 2025 Fire Ecology doi.org/10.1186/s424...

Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris)
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UC Board of Regents approves dismissal of tenured ecology professor - Daily Bruin The UC Board of Regents approved the dismissal of a tenured UCLA professor Wednesday. Priyanga Amarasekare, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor who began at UCLA in 2005, was initially suspe...

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Muwekma Ohlone Tribe perspectives open the 2025-2026 Community Lecture Series | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) Community Lecture Series opened the academic year 2025-2026 with two inspiring women from the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. These speakers provided p...

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International Conference on Science and Technology for Sustainability 2025 - Strengthening research capability and promoting international talent mobility and circulation: a focus on early career researchers who will lead the academia of the future

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Best papers of 2025 in ecology and evolutionary biology (and related fields) according to members of Peay and Fukami labs at Stanford University

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In these field experiments we did earlier this year in the town of Iijima, we found that spraying nectar yeast and bacteria to buckwheat fields increased insect pollination and seed set.

New preprint: "Priority effects drive fungal and nematode emergence from insect larvae," introducing our new study system at 'Ootchamin 'Ooyakma (Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve), led by Amaury Payelleville

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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.

doi.org/10.1007/s002...

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
doi.org/10.20417/nzj...

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)