Johanna Sam
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Hunilht'ih. Sid Johanna Sam sets’edinh. Sid Tŝilhqot’in deni nesdlin. UBC ʔesgul tasalh. Associate Professor chu Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar benadast'in. Sid Musqueam nen Vancouver 🇨🇦 ŝidah as. Deni tsin nadint'i 🩵🐦⬛
I’m serving as an expert on the CSA Group committee developing PRV STD-16: School-Based Substance Use Prevention, Education & Intervention (K–12). The draft standard is now open for public review until Dec 6 2025. Review and comment here: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/Details...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I’m serving as an expert on the CSA Group committee developing PRV STD-16: School-Based Substance Use Prevention, Education & Intervention (K–12). The draft standard is now open for public review until Dec 6 2025. Review and comment here: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/Details...
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Doom scrolling Hurricane Melissa and realizing this is how we now witness climate change: through live feeds and endless refresh 😔 Prayers JAH 🇯🇲💚🙏🏽
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October 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Doom scrolling Hurricane Melissa and realizing this is how we now witness climate change: through live feeds and endless refresh 😔 Prayers JAH 🇯🇲💚🙏🏽
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I was getting ready to speak at the World Congress on Adolescent Health next week. But Hurricane Melissa — the largest storm in the world right now 🌏, fueled by our warming oceans and climate change — has put everything on hold. Sending love, prayers, and strength to Jamaica 🙏🏽💚🇯🇲
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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I was getting ready to speak at the World Congress on Adolescent Health next week. But Hurricane Melissa — the largest storm in the world right now 🌏, fueled by our warming oceans and climate change — has put everything on hold. Sending love, prayers, and strength to Jamaica 🙏🏽💚🇯🇲
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AI like Grok can ‘learn’ fast but so can spreading misinformation and systemic bias. Grok isn’t neutral. Unchecked AI on social media can amplify bias and inequality faster than any human ever could. Which platform will be next?
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Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
Brace for another wave of x refuges
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
AI like Grok can ‘learn’ fast but so can spreading misinformation and systemic bias. Grok isn’t neutral. Unchecked AI on social media can amplify bias and inequality faster than any human ever could. Which platform will be next?
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ICE recruitment ads on Spotify? Not for us. Yatu Lab is looking for podcast platforms that reflect our values and support our communities ✊🏽
Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions!
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Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions!
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October 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
ICE recruitment ads on Spotify? Not for us. Yatu Lab is looking for podcast platforms that reflect our values and support our communities ✊🏽
Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions!
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Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions!
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Wrapped up the day reviewing feedback on our Nenqayni early childhood partnership grant. Now deciding whether to push for the tight deadline or wait for the next funding cycle
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October 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Wrapped up the day reviewing feedback on our Nenqayni early childhood partnership grant. Now deciding whether to push for the tight deadline or wait for the next funding cycle
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Some good news 🎉 One of my grad students in the Yatu lab was awarded a small Truth and Reconciliation grant! She’ll be creating podcasts to share racialized early childhood educators’ voices and their decolonizing learning journeys. Stay tuned 😄
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October 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Some good news 🎉 One of my grad students in the Yatu lab was awarded a small Truth and Reconciliation grant! She’ll be creating podcasts to share racialized early childhood educators’ voices and their decolonizing learning journeys. Stay tuned 😄
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Reviewed two new BREB ethics applications today — one on student attendance in Vancouver’s inner-city schools (led by a paediatric resident doing meaningful community work) and another exploring ungrading practices in high school classrooms
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October 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Reviewed two new BREB ethics applications today — one on student attendance in Vancouver’s inner-city schools (led by a paediatric resident doing meaningful community work) and another exploring ungrading practices in high school classrooms
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Today was devoted to research budgets. It’s slow-going work, but progress is being made. Dinner was ramen with an egg and leftover turkey—a modest, satisfying way to end the day 🍜
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October 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Today was devoted to research budgets. It’s slow-going work, but progress is being made. Dinner was ramen with an egg and leftover turkey—a modest, satisfying way to end the day 🍜
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I just sent 8 emails to people who asked if I could supervise their PhDs. It’s so hard saying no — they’re all amazing students — but I don’t have the capacity right now. I’m trying to hold spots in my Yatu Lab for folks whose research really aligns with my own projects 📚
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October 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I just sent 8 emails to people who asked if I could supervise their PhDs. It’s so hard saying no — they’re all amazing students — but I don’t have the capacity right now. I’m trying to hold spots in my Yatu Lab for folks whose research really aligns with my own projects 📚
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Exciting news 🤩 My book chapter on Nenqayni young peoples’ experiences with online hate got accepted with just minor revisions! It’ll be published in a textbook called Psychology Applications & Developments XI. Working on reviewers’ feedback now
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October 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Exciting news 🤩 My book chapter on Nenqayni young peoples’ experiences with online hate got accepted with just minor revisions! It’ll be published in a textbook called Psychology Applications & Developments XI. Working on reviewers’ feedback now
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I missed this webinar but want to watch it later when things slow down. It’s part of the Faculty of Education Dean’s distinguished speakers series. Dr. Leanne Simpson recently wrote the book, Theory of Water (great read) 👀
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October 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I missed this webinar but want to watch it later when things slow down. It’s part of the Faculty of Education Dean’s distinguished speakers series. Dr. Leanne Simpson recently wrote the book, Theory of Water (great read) 👀
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Today I prepare dinner, not to celebrate the colonial history of Thanksgiving, but to give thanks in my own way — for family, friends, community, and the land and waters that sustain us 💙 Thanksgiving is not Nenqayni, yet gratitude remains central to our lives 🫶🏽🧡
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October 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Today I prepare dinner, not to celebrate the colonial history of Thanksgiving, but to give thanks in my own way — for family, friends, community, and the land and waters that sustain us 💙 Thanksgiving is not Nenqayni, yet gratitude remains central to our lives 🫶🏽🧡
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Grant writing season 👩🏽💻 Three deadlines next week. Projects span early childhood education across BC, substance use standards in schools across Canada, community wellness research cluster in BC public health, and Nenqayni water-based healing. Collaboration in full swing 🫶🏽 send snacks
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October 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Grant writing season 👩🏽💻 Three deadlines next week. Projects span early childhood education across BC, substance use standards in schools across Canada, community wellness research cluster in BC public health, and Nenqayni water-based healing. Collaboration in full swing 🫶🏽 send snacks
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Every year, one white man in teacher education program repeats the script: tired of apologizing, denies colonialism, claims no privilege. And every year, we faculty debrief—unpacking, soothing, strategizing. Same dance: cleaning up what colonial denial leaves behind 🙄
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October 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Every year, one white man in teacher education program repeats the script: tired of apologizing, denies colonialism, claims no privilege. And every year, we faculty debrief—unpacking, soothing, strategizing. Same dance: cleaning up what colonial denial leaves behind 🙄
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Very first Yatu Lab 🌊 Rooted in the Nenqayni Chi’h word for ocean/deep water, we’re building a space for youth, communities, educators, and researchers to connect. Our first session flowed from nerves to lively talk on AI in grad research—Yatu’s spirit of curiosity + connection alive🩵
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September 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Very first Yatu Lab 🌊 Rooted in the Nenqayni Chi’h word for ocean/deep water, we’re building a space for youth, communities, educators, and researchers to connect. Our first session flowed from nerves to lively talk on AI in grad research—Yatu’s spirit of curiosity + connection alive🩵
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A new Nenqayni water-based book is available 🌊 Eye spy a chapter by Tl’etinqox voices you may know 😉 Bring water, story, and healing into your classrooms and research 🩵
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Access Our Anthologies on Water | Indigenous Message on Water
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September 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A new Nenqayni water-based book is available 🌊 Eye spy a chapter by Tl’etinqox voices you may know 😉 Bring water, story, and healing into your classrooms and research 🩵
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The semester opened with the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education welcome back BBQ—smoky wildfire sunshine, colleagues’ travel stories, and reflections on the publishing challenges that await in the year ahead 📚✍🏽
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September 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The semester opened with the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education welcome back BBQ—smoky wildfire sunshine, colleagues’ travel stories, and reflections on the publishing challenges that await in the year ahead 📚✍🏽
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My field notes have two sides: one for what happens, one for what it means. This double-entry shift is changing how I carry research, teaching, and committee work 📓🌜🌊
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August 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
My field notes have two sides: one for what happens, one for what it means. This double-entry shift is changing how I carry research, teaching, and committee work 📓🌜🌊
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Check out our new pub: From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery - Oeggerli - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ecology #tek #wildfire #climatechange #conservation
From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery
This study reanalyzes post-wildfire vegetation trajectory data with Indigenous plant classification systems co-developed with St'át'imc communities, revealing that conventional “native/non-native” pl...
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August 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Check out our new pub: From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery - Oeggerli - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ecology #tek #wildfire #climatechange #conservation
This study examines how colonization has harmed the inlet’s lands and waters over time. As one Chief shared: to understand the mental health of the people, look at the health of the river and ocean
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August 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This study examines how colonization has harmed the inlet’s lands and waters over time. As one Chief shared: to understand the mental health of the people, look at the health of the river and ocean
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Honouring Linda Williams Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), who passed to Spirit World. She dedicated 40+ years to NITEP Indigenous Education, generously sharing wisdom, guidance, and care. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her 🦅🪶✨
August 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Honouring Linda Williams Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), who passed to Spirit World. She dedicated 40+ years to NITEP Indigenous Education, generously sharing wisdom, guidance, and care. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her 🦅🪶✨
Join us July 15 at xʷc̓ic̓əsəm for a symposium on Indigenous Data Sovereignty in a World of AI, featuring speakers from SFU’s Indigitalization Lab. 10am–1pm with lunch provided. All welcome! 🧠🌿 🦅
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July 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Join us July 15 at xʷc̓ic̓əsəm for a symposium on Indigenous Data Sovereignty in a World of AI, featuring speakers from SFU’s Indigitalization Lab. 10am–1pm with lunch provided. All welcome! 🧠🌿 🦅
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🎨 Calling all budding artists (and their grown-ups)! HELP is once again collecting kiddo artwork for our next round of bookmarks & greeting cards. Scribbles, sketches, masterpieces—all welcome! Submit by July 31: communications@help.ubc.ca 🖍️ #AcademicLife #UBC #KnowledgeToAction
July 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🎨 Calling all budding artists (and their grown-ups)! HELP is once again collecting kiddo artwork for our next round of bookmarks & greeting cards. Scribbles, sketches, masterpieces—all welcome! Submit by July 31: communications@help.ubc.ca 🖍️ #AcademicLife #UBC #KnowledgeToAction
Grateful to join Indigenous researchers, community leaders, and Elders on Health Research BC’s first Indigenous Health Research Peer Review Panel. Together, we’re shaping a system where Nenqayni knowledge and people are respected—not just included.
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Health Research BC launches first Indigenous health research peer review panel – Health Research BC
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June 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Grateful to join Indigenous researchers, community leaders, and Elders on Health Research BC’s first Indigenous Health Research Peer Review Panel. Together, we’re shaping a system where Nenqayni knowledge and people are respected—not just included.
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