Priority effects drive fungal and nematode emergence from insect larvae Abstract. Priority effects, in which species arrival history influences community assembly, are increasingly recognized to affect host–parasite systems. Ho

Now accepted for publication. Accepted manuscript can be accessed here: academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...

TEK Stories 2026 Podcast by the students who took the course Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Land Stewardship at Stanford University in Winter 2026

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Indigenous Stewardship for Sustainability This conference gathers Indigenous scholars, culture practitioners, and allies to address the impacts, challenges, and opportunities of land stewardship and land return to local Indigenous communities...

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UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

Biologist and environmentalist Paul Ehrlich has died The longtime Stanford professor, a giant in his field of evolutionary and population biology, also led the effort to establish Jasper Ridge Biological Pres

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Without acknowledgment: Stanford’s indigenous community speaks out against institutional erasure The decision to discontinue land acknowledgements has sparked debate about the University’s commitment to its Indigenous community and raised broader questions about institutional support for Native s...

“With Stanford’s vision, we could model what decolonial partnership looks like for the world.”

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Golden eagle at Jasper Ridge ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)
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Preserve staff:

"I can't quite believe this, but here is a video of a bald eagle that swooped in and took a stick from a branch right next to where the golden eagles are working on their new nest. They didn't seem bothered and continue working on the nest in the background."

Bald eagle captured by the camera trap that is monitoring a golden eagle nest at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma), a few miles from the university's main campus (@stanfordjrbp.bsky.social) (video by Trevor Hebert)

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Cultural burning returns to Jasper Ridge YouTube video by Stanford

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?...

Cultural burning returns to Jasper Ridge Muwekma Ohlone Tribal members conducted a cultural burn at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, providing a learning opportunity for a Stanford course on environmental stewardship.

We at Stanford University are grateful to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and the North Fork Mono Tribe for this collaboration on Muwekma Ohlone land.

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“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)
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UC Board of Regents approves dismissal of tenured ecology professor - Daily Bruin The UC Board of Regents approved the dismissal of a tenured UCLA professor Wednesday. Priyanga Amarasekare, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor who began at UCLA in 2005, was initially suspe...

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Muwekma Ohlone Tribe perspectives open the 2025-2026 Community Lecture Series | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) Community Lecture Series opened the academic year 2025-2026 with two inspiring women from the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. These speakers provided p...

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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

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Best papers of 2025 in ecology and evolutionary biology (and related fields) according to members of Peay and Fukami labs at Stanford University

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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

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Reflections on the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe's youth campout at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)

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TEK Stories 2025 Listen to TEK Stories 2025 by Tadashi Fukami #np on #SoundCloud

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

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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)

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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)

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For some of the ongoing efforts related to this assistant professor position in TEK available at Stanford, please refer to this article:

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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):

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Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025

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Poster at Botanical Society of America conference www.xcdsystem.com/botany/progr...