Non-academics hear "travel plans" and picture a beach. 🏖️ I picture a hotel ballroom and a 15-minute talk. 🏨 Don't mind me, just living vicariously through everyone else's vacation dreams 😭
Krystal Tsosie
@kstsosie.bsky.social
Indigenous geneticist & bioethicist. Thinking about who owns DNA—and who benefits. Data sovereignty, genomics & AI ethics.
The only crypto I’m into is cryptozoology… but only for the Indigenous Bigfoot swag 🦕😀
SAR, Santa Fe. In 1971, eminent names in anthropological genetics like Howells, Livingstone, Crawford, Turner met right here in this same space. All men. Zero Indigenous scientists. My, how the fields are changing. Hi! Yá’át’ééh!👋🏽 #Indigenous #science #STEM 🧬 📸
folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI
Don't miss the ASHG annual meeting abstract submission deadline, just one week away! This year's meeting will be held in Montreal, October 20–24. The deadline is earlier than in previous years, so be sure to submit and share your research: ashgmeeting.ashg.org/programs/abs... #ASHG26 #ASHG2026
Where in the world is Dr. Krystal Tsosie? 🕵🏽♀️ One of the southernmost university cities in the world… which feels like a clue in itself. Somewhere between genomes and geographies… the signal gets a little too specific. 📍Dunedin, New Zealand, for a University of Otago talk (allegedly) 🌿📚
An excellent and very important article on the risks of missing the forest of social kinship through the trees of aDNA work!
Krystal Tsosie@kstsosie.bsky.social · 4mo agoDNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A wonderful article pointing out issues with pushing DNA primacy when looking at human population history. Thanks @kstsosie.bsky.social ! Definitely incorporating this into my existing social justice unit next time I offer my population genetics class.
Krystal Tsosie@kstsosie.bsky.social · 4mo agoDNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
DNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
If you’re not willing to confront preventive health inequity, you have no business doing precision health—full stop.
Please join us on Thursday, April 16 at noon (AZ time!) for our next CEMinar with Dr. Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
Where in the world is Dr. Krystal Tsosie? 🕵🏽♀️ Students say I’m traveling for “conferences”… but the cover story is getting suspicious. 📍Banff, for an #Indigenous Knowledges conference (allegedly)
Long story short, I came to the #aaba2026 conference and fell in love with a floof: 🐶 💜
Krystal Tsosie@kstsosie.bsky.social · 5mo agoFirst full American Association of Biological Anthropologists (@bioanth.org) meeting and I’m loving it—engaging, collaborative, and so welcoming (for me and my PhD student). Also: therapy dogs! We should make boop-able dog noses a standard feature of all conferences. 🐶 #aaba2026
First full American Association of Biological Anthropologists (@bioanth.org) meeting and I’m loving it—engaging, collaborative, and so welcoming (for me and my PhD student). Also: therapy dogs! We should make boop-able dog noses a standard feature of all conferences. 🐶 #aaba2026
I’m starting to enjoy making students sweat during progress check-ins. Is this a mid-career milestone? 😆 (To be clear: the goal is better science through sharpened reasoning, not suffering.) #AcademicLife
📣 SING USA 2026 applications are open! The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop will be July 19–24, 2026 at UW–Madison. ⏰ Apply by March 13 (midnight Hawaiʻi time) Learn more & apply: sing.nativebio.net Please share with Indigenous students! #Indigenous #Genomics
Great insights here from #ASU professor @kstsosie.bsky.social on the importance of context, ethics, and humanity in the pursuit and application of #science and #technology . #Genetics #Genomics #Bioethics #GeneticEngineering www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
At AAAS, professor Krystal Tsosie argues the future of science must be Indigenous-led
Krystal Tsosie, an expert in Indigenous genomics, bioethics, and data governance, will deliver a talk titled The Future of Science Is Indigenous at the American Association for the Advancement of Scie...
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“We fund sequencing instead of remediation.” Powerful speech by @kstsosie.bsky.social @aaas.org on how science needs to focus not on speed but on perseverance and accountability. We can learn so much from Indigenous scientists like Dr. Tsosie. We need more of them.
Krystal Tsosie@kstsosie.bsky.social · 6mo agoForgot my ID at check-in — thankfully this event sign vouched for me 🙂 If you’re at the @aaas.org meeting tomorrow (Fri 2/13, 4–5 PM) at Phoenix Convention Center, see why “The Future of #Science is #Indigenous” Genomics, #AI, #health — what we build matters. How we build it matters more. #AAASmtg
📬 Read the latest issue of EBP Life and meet the people making it happen. 🌍 Read it here 👉https://gqr.sh/kx7m @mblaxter.bsky.social | @crawfordaj.bsky.social | @kstsosie.bsky.social | @scaioc.bsky.social | @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social | @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social |
Important perspectives here from @kstsosie.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/indige...
On Indigenous Data Sovereignty: an interview with Dr. Krystal Tsosie
In this month's issue, we sit down with Indigenous geneticist and bioethicist Krystal Tsosie to discuss representation and ownership in the age of data. Edited by William Dwyer.
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Some members of the Tsosie Lab for #Indigenous #Genomic #Data Equity & #Justice are so happy to present @sacnas.bsky.social in Columbus, OH #NDiSTEM2025! Here's for an amazing Friday lineup across #IDSov. Hope to see you soon! @d4itdr.bsky.social @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social #SACNAS #STEM
This was one of my favorite parts of #ASHG25. Should have been a plenary! "Data for us, by us" So many underrepresented minorities could learn from this model. I dream of eventually turning @beyondxandy.bsky.social into something similar for trans people d4itdr.org
D4I Tribal Data Repository | Data for Indigenous Interventions, Innovations, and Implementations
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@d4itdr.bsky.social · 10mo agoCheck out our D4I session tomorrow at ASHG! #DataSovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Tribal #Data #Conference #ASHG #ASHG25 #ASHG2025
Check out our D4I session tomorrow at ASHG! #DataSovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Tribal #Data #Conference #ASHG #ASHG25 #ASHG2025
"Consequently, the Indigenous data sovereignty movement formed to protect collective interests in data governance and ensure that benefits derived from data are directed back to Indigenous peoples" Heck yeah! @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social @kstsosie.bsky.social
Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 10mo agoA Tribal data repository to advance Indigenous health and sovereignty www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eLiqc)
Out today via @natgenet.nature.com, the first federally funded #Tribal #data repository, a revolutionary approach to data management and applied/operationalization of IDSov @d4itdr.bsky.social. Also, if you are at #ASHG25, come see us this morning in 205ABC www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Welcome to #ASHG25! As our President Sarah Tishkoff just noted, next year for the first time the ASHG exec cmte will be all women. Glad to have anyone and everyone participating in this society now and in the future.
For those interested in #Indigenous #Genomics and #ASHG25 in Boston, here are some interested posters/talks/events coming out of the Tsosie Lab, @nativebio.bsky.social, and @d4itdr.bsky.social. For those looking for Friday plans, attend our Ancillary Event, debuting a #Tribal #data repository!
