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Lydia Jennings, PhD

@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social
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Pascua Yaqui soil scientist, runner, science communicator, Indigenous data warrior & assistant professor. 🌵baby in NE😅 Learn more about me: nativesoilnerd.com See: Run to Be Visible, my 50 mile honor run: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLTUUPugIc

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Question-- as someone newish to New England, I noticed the trend that a lot of people call themselves "homesteaders." As a Native person, that term gives me big ick, and I think of the Homesteader Act of 1862 that was the forced removal of Indigenous Peoples from our homelands. I don't see people
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
To ensure that Indigenous peoples' rights and knowledge are recognized in scientific data and scholarly publishing, a team of Indigenous scholars led by professor @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social has established Guidelines for the Governance of Indigenous Peoples' Data in Scholarly Publishing.
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New Guidelines Created for Publishing Indigenous Data | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Scholars seek to ensure Indigenous peoples have governance rights to data.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
is paying extra for an assigned seat with an aisle worth it post running a marathon? lol.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Proud of this feature in @nativenewsonline.bsky.social about our recently (as of yesterday!) released Guidelines for the Publishing of Indigenous Data. Check it out!
nativenewsonline.net
Indigenous Scholars Establish Guidelines for Governance of Indigenous Data in Scholarly Publishing
Overview: Indigenous scholars led by Lydia Jennings have developed new guidelines to help ensure Indigenous peoples’ rights, knowledge and data sovereignty are respected in scientific research and sch...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
personal gripe, but I'd love to see a day where definitions about traditional ecological knowledge don't cite a non-Indigenous scholar (Berkes) who is seen as the main expert in Indigenous knowledges.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is a really moving and thoughtful interview
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Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him
Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
www.cpr.org/2026/06/29/f...
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Fort Lewis College gets $1.35 million grant to explore a 'more-than-human world' through an Indigenous lens
The college will establish a new humanities lab in a collaborative effort to connect the sciences with Indigenous ways of knowing.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Dr. Tiana Bruno and I share our experiences as early career Black & Indigenous scholars on practices and how we aim to shape the future of our fields. "Forging a Sustainable Future Together: Conversations in Black-Indigenous Ecological Solidarity" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm drowning in emails.... academics, how do you stay on top of them?! What's your strategy?
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Dimitris C. Papadopoulos @dcphq.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Online “Teachers on Tech” conversation, Tuesday, May 26, at 6 PM: “Indigenous Data: Challenges Of IP, AI, And Data Sovereignty” with Angelo Baca, RISD, and @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Lydia L. Jennings, Dartmouth College. Register via Zoom to RSVP. risd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: TEACHERS ON TECH: Indigenous Data. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
TEACHERS ON TECH: "Indigenous Data: Challenges of IP, AI, and Data Sovereignty" Angelo Baca, Assistant Professor, History, Philosophy, And The Social Sciences, RISD In conversation with: Lydia Jenn...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Looking forward to participating in the INVISIBLE IMPACTS SOCIETY & LONG-TERM ECOSYSTEM CHANGE symposium at @hubbardbrook.bsky.social next month! iisymposium.criticalecologylab.org
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Invisible Impacts: Society and Long Term Ecosystem Change
A virtual symposium bridging social analysis and long-term ecological data. June 2026.
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Jordan Chapman @jchapnocaps.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hi! I definitely recommend checking out Dr. Suzanne Pierre's work at the Critical Ecology Lab Also this paper is pretty good!: doi.org/10.1080/1461...
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Plantation Soilscapes: Initial and Cumulative Impacts of Colonial Agriculture in Antigua, West Indies
This paper examines physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils and sediments from landforms in eastern Antigua, West Indies, to better understand the long-term consequences of colonial ...
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Professor @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social says AI may help Indigenous communities with language preservation or synthesizing information, but cautions Indigenous data AI systems may be co-opting information without consent and data centers may pose risks to tribal lands and water resources.
teaonews.co.nz
War, climate change, and AI: What’s at stake at this year’s UN Indigenous forum
Delegates are arriving in New York this week for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples. Amid other challenges, the U.S. has made it increasingly difficult for delegat
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
remember, if its free, it means your data is for sale. what implications does this mean for communities fighting mining projects, pipeline projects, etc. when LLMs can perform attacks that would not have previously been possible, due to the lack of structured data or features.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Horrifying and unsurprising move by this administration to rollback tribal consultation: tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...
tribalbusinessnews.com
Interior NEPA rollback shifts procedures to internal handbook, raising tribal consultation concerns
The Interior Department finalized a rollback of its NEPA regulations, shifting procedures to internal guidance in a move tribal leaders say could weaken consultation and cultural protections.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Help! Next week I am doing the very very very long road trip back to NH from NM.... suggestions on sites/museums/towns to see along the way to break it up? Podcasts are always welcome too!
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"Calling it ‘imposter syndrome’ hides the fact that oppressive systems teach many of us to actively suppress and hate ourselves. It’s not imposter syndrome, it is the consequences of oppression" www.theeduledger.com/tenure/artic...
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Imposter Syndrome: A Buzzword with Damaging Consequences
Like many racially minoritized faculty who engage in work for equity and social justice, we are no strangers to the daily manifestations of systems of oppression and oppressive behavior in academia. R...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Great article for hiring committees and T&P committees.... But I'd also love to see breakdown by ethnic categories. I saw a talk a few years ago at WEPAN.org that said on average, papers led by a Black woman took 6 months to 3 years longer! (the longest she saw was 7!! years).
the-scientist.com
Peer Review Timelines Show Gender Gap, Large Study Reports
A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We are now offering the GBIF survey on Indigenous Data Sovereignty considerations in Spanish and Portuguese! We want to capture your thoughts, concerns are considerations across languages. Please share with your networks!
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It’s Monday. We gotta work. But damnit i will be watching that 13 min halftime show of pride, culture, and stunning visual storytelling on repeat. Thank you Benito for inspiring me through the month 🫶🏽
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Anti-choice extremists in Indiana are trying to force the release of records for the very few legal abortions in the state (146 in 2024). The purpose is to intimidate patients and providers and expose them to harassment, arrests, and violence.
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Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public
Abortion rights opponents want Indiana to use reporting rules to expose abortion providers and recipients to targeting.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
LOVE seeing the work on @nativebio.bsky.social and @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social highlighted in the NYT. More good news of Indigenous data champions! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...
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He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Appreciate having some of my work highlighted in this youth accessible publication! Thanks so much @snexplores.bsky.social and @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Looking forward to continuing to build this work out, as well as building new relationships.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I learned today that I cannot in fact take good videos of myself running, while running with my phone, and instead face planted. But damn was it a beautiful run! Proud of you influences for having better spatial awareness and making it look easy 😂
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Proud to share the second policy brief emerging from the Past, Present, and Future Indigenous Data Sovereignty Needs in Agriculture Workshop. indigenousdatalab.org/wp-content/u...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A fun article that highlights some of my past and present work with Indigenous communities around data and land relations. I also loved learning about the other projects using dance and music! www.snexplores.org/article/scie...
snexplores.org
Linking science to dance, culture and more expands who can take part
Through movement, sound, culture and community, some researchers are expanding the ways we learn, think about and communicate science and engineering.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I just spent the last half hour laying on the concrete in the sun, in all black, soaking up the sunshine like a damn lizard 🦎 I love the desert 🌵 😭 AZ winters are the bestttttt
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
“Just-shoring insists on a reordering of power in the extractive sector, centring the rights and interests of those whose lands and livelihoods bear its costs.” Professor @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social co-writes an opinion piece in @natenergy.nature.com on how to achieve global energy transition goals
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Client Challenge
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
How lovely it was to see snow on the Santa Rita Mountains today 😍 #azwx
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 09/01/2026
a study spanning multiple continents involving 50+ co-authors has found that the oceans added a record amount of heat in 2025—the energy equivalent of 12 atomic bombs going off in the ocean, one of the authors told me it's the eighth year in a row that the oceans have broken heat records like this
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The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter
For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
1st paper of 2026 is out! A just energy transition requires just-shoring critical materials www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The news has been heavyyyyyy today so I want to interrupt it with the beautiful morning I had running the trails in the rain with my fur bestie. Can you smell the creosote? Hear the land absorbing the water? The Sonoran desert in the rain is my favorite 🫶🏽
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Live Qurious @livequrious.com · 05/01/2026
Lake Mendota’s Sunken Fleet: A 5,200-Year-Old Secret of Indigenous Engineering Beneath Wisconsin's Lake Mendota lies a stunning secret: a 5,200-year-old canoe cache, revealing a sophisticated transport network of ancient Indigenous engineers.
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Lake Mendota’s Sunken Fleet: A 5,200-Year-Old Secret of Indigenous Engineering
Beneath Wisconsin's Lake Mendota lies a stunning secret: a 5,200-year-old canoe cache, revealing a sophisticated transport network of ancient Indigenous engineers.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
An Arizona Winter perfect day of movement! 10 mile run this am to desert waterfalls, 6 mile evening sunset hike with the best company & planning our future collaborations, then refueled with delicious tacos #AZLiving
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Just love it here 😭🫶🏽 Happy New Year from the Sonoran Desert
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The multi-billion-dollar fund doesn’t directly support the communities that bear the brunt of the health disparities wrought by lack of healthcare infrastructure in the US: Native Americans and Alaska Natives, who have the lowest life expectancy. nativenewsonline.net/health/feds-...
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Feds Announce $50 Billion to States for Rural Health, Tribes Barely Mentioned in Awards
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday awards to all 50 states under the Rural Health Transformation Program, a new initiative touted as the solution to the healthcare g...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The way I love Southern New Mexico 😍 Beautiful soils, few people, the Rio Grande, and hot springs! And green chile 🤤(obviously!) #nmtrue
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Christmas Eve’s Eve in Northern New Mexico and it’s in the 60’s. As someone escaping New England’s winters I am not mad about it, but it makes me worried for the lands that raised me & summer fire season. #climatechangeishere Also— what a glorious single track trail 😍 #NMtrue
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Rewatching Idiocracy and yikessss why is it so close to our political reality?! 😩😩😩 Also, they are all wearing crocs 🤣🤣
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Idiocracy Electrolytes GIF
ALT: Idiocracy Electrolytes GIF
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I'm in the South Florida Sun Sentinel talking about deep-sea mining! Deep-sea mining cannot ignore environmental concerns - www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/17/d...
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Deep-sea mining cannot ignore environmental concerns | Opinion
A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental concerns with little to show for it.
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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@landdesk.bsky.social This press release seems like it fits your beat. (Silverton is part of the Colorado Mineral Belt; I don't know if the group has worked down here.)
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Mike (1 of many) @chicagomike.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Since we're all thinking about 2026 (goodbyeeeeee 2025), here's one thing I am looking forward to in the New Year! Excited to connect with New England POC nerds!
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Wild to be in Tucson in December where it's been in 70s-80s and mosquitos are still out! I don't think I've ever experienced mosquitos in December here!
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Tribal Nations are increasingly using advanced economic tools to strengthen sovereignty and long-term self-determination. Foreign Trade Zones are one such tool. www.kosu.org/local-news/2...
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Citizen Potawatomi Nation blazes new path with foreign trade zone, helping companies navigate tariff changes
About an hour’s drive outside Oklahoma City is one of the first active foreign trade zones in Indian Country — an economic tool for tribes and companies seeking stability amid fluctuating tariffs. Mee...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
No student should have to worry about being a victim when pursuing education. No professor or teacher should have to navigate gun violence either (thinking of past incidents at the University of Arizona and UNC, Chapel Hill). We need change now.
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