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Danica Pawlick-Potts

@danicapawlick.bsky.social

Indigenous researcher thinking about data ethics, libraries, & Indigenous data sovereignty. PhD Student in LIS @ FIMS, Western University

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Andrew Ba Tran @abtran.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

The Smithsonian holds nearly 31,000 human remains in storage but has never publicly released a full inventory. We spent months obtaining the documents and turning handwritten and typed memos into a searchable database: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/12/2023

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

'Resisting Artificial Intelligence Through Anti-Fascism and Indigenous Data Sovereignty': I was really happy to have this great conversation with Jeff Doctor of databack.animikii.com, made possible by the BC Museums Association museum.bc.ca vimeo.com/892756845/c9... ✊

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