2-min video about Muwekma Ohlone Tribe's cultural burning at 'Ootchamin 'Ooyakma (Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve) on their homeland in the San Francisco Bay Area, and how it is helping Stanford students learn: youtu.be/YuIj9DxqX88?...
We at Stanford University are grateful to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and the North Fork Mono Tribe for this collaboration on Muwekma Ohlone land.
news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
“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)
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606
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
www.scj.go.jp/ja/int/kaisa...
Best papers of 2025 in ecology and evolutionary biology (and related fields) according to members of Peay and Fukami labs at Stanford University
web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/pap...
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
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reflections on the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe's youth campout at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)
jrbp.stanford.edu/news/voices-...
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
soundcloud.com/user-1741316...
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)
jrbp.stanford.edu/news/chochen...
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)
jrbp.stanford.edu/news/trail-t...
For some of the ongoing efforts related to this assistant professor position in TEK available at Stanford, please refer to this article:
jrbp.stanford.edu/news/third-a...
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):
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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"
jrbp.stanford.edu/news/third-a...
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
www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/envir...
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
doi.org/10.1007/s116...
From McAllister et al. 2023
doi.org/10.20417/nzj...
From Goode et al. 2022
www.pepperwoodpreserve.org/wp-content/u...
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
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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."
