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First Indigenous and independent genomic biodata repository, health research, education, and training center on sovereign land. 501 (C)(3) non-profit. www.nativebio.org / Tribal Data Repository d4itdr.org @Indigidata @SENAHD
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I’m here in DC at the NIH for the 3rd year Face to Face for Bridge 2AI. @nativebio.bsky.social is part of VOICEs, AIReadi and various national cores at the Bridge Center. I’m touched & a little concerned that lots of ppl know NativeBio & me personally. Satisfying work.

Meet the PI’s! Ann Mc Cartney earned her PhD in bioinformatics at Dublin City University. From her postdoc work w/ the Māori to create genomic work that were inclusive + responsive, she brings community centered informatics expertise to her Assistant Researcher position at UCSC Genomics Institute.

As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives: The most extensive research on Medicaid coverage to date found that it reduced the risk of death by 21 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/h...

Two of the best Indigenous Professors in the world, Megan Bang (Ojibwe) at Northwestern and Keolu Fox (Kanaka Maoli) from UC San Diego!

*drum roll* Introducing Data for Indigenous Implementations, Interventions, & Innovation (D4I) project! We're an Indigenous-led team building a Tribal Data Repository (TDR) & policies for Tribal Nations grounded in Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles. Meet some of our team & learn more d4itdr.org

Hello Tribal Leaders, Tribal scientists, researchers, academics and Tribal Lobbyists and Lawyers, please follow! bsky.app/profile/d4it...

Indigenous people just publishing all kinds of fire lately! Must be something in the milieu today that is causing such important scholarship to "flood the zone". You can judge for yourselves. We love it. www-tandfonline-com.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/doi/full/10....

The LoTempio Lab is fire. A very unique Genomics, ethics, law and philosophy lab, they know how to kick some neoliberal butt. www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

NativeBio is growing. Big warm hugs of gratitude to #massdesigngroup for helping us with plans and budgets. Please share so we can fund raise all we need to make our vision of #IndigenousDataSovereignty come true. massdesigngroup.org/videos#light...

Transforming institutional governance and ethics for Indigenous control of Indigenous data Visit our website to learn more: indigenousdatalab.org #indigenousdatasovereignty #indigenousdatagovernance #IDSov #IDGov #indigenousdatalab

NativeBio is growing. Big warm hugs of gratitude to #massdesigngroup for helping us with plans and budgets. Please share so we can fund raise all we need to make our vision of #IndigenousDataSovereignty come true. massdesigngroup.org/videos#light...

Here's an important article from Indigenous researchers in our Global Indigenous Network. www.theverge.com/features/664...

NIH’s key vaccine center slammed by contract cuts: Antibody and vaccine work is slowed after the National Institutes of Health loses as many as 2200 contract workers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

If you are of the mind and in the area, please go see NativeBio's Director of Research, Dr. Kali Dale (White Earth Ojibwe).

Trump restricts funding for controversial 'gain-of-function' research : Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

1/2 May 5th is MMIP (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples) Day of remembrance. Of course, NativeBio joins all Indigenous peoples of the Americas in this issue #1 because it's an issue not funded or focused on enough by Settler Colonial govts and their Trust Responsibility

Our new, official and glossy printed tri-fold.

Good Night World

The word is getting around about Indigenous Data Sovereignty #IDSOV and it can't come at a better time. Remember, @nativebio.bsky.social has been talking about this and taking action on it since 2012. digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Some photos of our work last week in Tampa (Bridge2AI) and OKC (Tribal Data Repository). It was a good week. The @nativebio.bsky.social team is amazing and we are moving fast (and not breaking anything, because we are indigenous and we know relationships are sacred).

@ncig2013.bsky.social Thanks so much for the shout out on the Book of Faces and other social media platforms. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

NativeBio is now a member of the Indigenous Journalist's Association because we interact with National and International Media all the time. We'd love to see IJA break some news FIRST! indigenousjournalists.org

NativeBio love our Indigenous Colleagues Nkwi Flores and Keolu Fox for contributing to the concept and practices of Indigenous Data Sovereignty. In these times of resource theft via extraction, papers like this are key paths forward. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40148325/

NativeBio love celebrating our Indigenous colleagues like Matt Anderson and Kat Milligan McClellan. This paper is "FIRE"! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Transparency and representation matter in medical research data. This is how we can make data collection and research ethical and impactful for everyone. nbcuacademy.com/dna-data-bio... Thanks to Iris Kim, Storytellers Associate Reporter at NBCU Academy, for an important article.

Cocoa does not have a single origin, but multiple roots converging into 1 story. An ecological origin in the Amazon & a complete cultural origin in Mesoamerica. These 2 dimensions the Amazon & the Mesoamerican do not contradict or compete. It demonstrates our shared Native & Agricultural Heritages.

The D4I team is doing great work with federal funding. Building for Tribes. d4itdr.org/d4i-tdr-team...

ML/AI is still a pie and the sky technically. That's nothing to say about Ethics, Law, Policy, Social Impact and non-biased representations or protections for unique populations!! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39938624/

Indigidata, the brainchild of @kstsosie.bsky.social & Matt Anderson (UW), launched & helped position us as an independent, Indigenous Institute. It proves that we can function w/out federal aid or Tribal resources to serve people w/ the utmost honesty & transparency www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_hd...

A long but important watch. Please watch. AmerIndigenous people are the canary in the coal mine. Been raising the alarm since 2007. Now you all can see why...look at the twin capitals of Silicon Valley and Wash. D.C. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXb...

April 17th 3:30 mountain. NativeBio's own Dr. Keolu Fox! "Epistemological Foundations continues the conversation around our knowledge practices and their implications at the Abundant Intelligences Research Program." abundant-intelligences.net/news/epistem...

Indigidata, the brainchild of @kstsosie.bsky.social & Matt Anderson (UW), launched & helped position us as an independent, Indigenous Institute. It proves that we can function w/out federal aid or Tribal resources to serve people w/ the utmost honesty & transparency www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_hd...

Even though I am a minor contributor to this work, I am very proud of what it says and whom it critiques. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33372659/

We can't stop! We won't stop! You hear me HillBilly Boy!? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/4 Response to a response to a response from PIMA and NIDDK to Manitoba & Chile...... @screendoorpictures.com @stefanmilo.bsky.social @jonmcgavock.bsky.social @usha.bsky.social @willowcoyote.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We won't stop, we can't stop. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39878726/

We are mighty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkU...

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Follow! These guys are true scholars. Only one’s telling the truth of the American Holocaust

Can't stop talking about the great "Circles" from last week at UW Madison hosted by Judith Simcox and Yowelunh McLester-Davis and at UCSF with Willow Coyote-Maestas. Native Bio was happy to have a large representation at both.

Just like earlier this week at Drs. Judith Simcox and Lauren W. Yowelunh McLester-Davis' UW Madison’s Circle event, I am at UC San Francisco at the invitation of Willow Coyote-Maestes. We have shared work. All of us have great ideas & big hearts. We are growing, we are working, we are influencing.

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Toxic algal bloom leads to strandings of dolphins, seals on Calif. coast ->New York Post | #Toxic | More info from EcoSearch