Lydia Jennings, PhD

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.

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.

Horrifying and unsurprising move by this administration to rollback tribal consultation: tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...

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!

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...

"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...

Yessss

PS This is a great time tp bring attention to our developing Guidelines for the Governance of Indigenous Data in Scholarly Publishing-- the first visible draft is here, but official (and citable) versions will be out in April: indigenousdatalab.org/wp-content/u...

I think about this for Indigenous authors as well, especially if they are pushing back on publishing standards, working with community to get peer review, etc etc.

It really adds on time! Its a lot of invisible labor, and something committees can often penalize candidates for.

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.

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).

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!

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 🫶🏽

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.

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.

He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data

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...

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.

*influencers

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 😂

As technological innovation and data optimization rise across agriculture and federal funding calls, Workshop Experts highlighted the need to explore how IDSov aligns with Indigenous food sovereignty.

This policy brief examines how interactions among Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov), Indigenous agriculture, and developing technologies like remote sensing, AI, and Machine Learning remain unexplored.

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...

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.

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...

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

“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

How lovely it was to see snow on the Santa Rita Mountains today 😍
#azwx

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.

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

1st paper of 2026 is out!

A just energy transition requires just-shoring critical materials

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tucson 😍

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 🫶🏽

Iconic

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.

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.