My book 'SYSTEMIC: How Racism Is Making Us Sick' is now out in the US, as well as the UK, & I've had the pleasure of speaking to lots of interesting people on both sides of the Atlantic about the health harms of racism & what we can do to tackle this urgent public health crisis🧵

Ho'omaika'i! Incredible job -- We're looking forward to seeing what you do next Dr. Crane 🤓🍾

Perfect reading for #IndependenceDay nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl…

One month go to to get those submission in 👀

Thank you Nature Methods Madhura Mukhopadhyay for highlighting our research: Development of Multiplexed Orthogonal Base Editor (MOBE) systems! 🧬Komor Lab UCSD Chem Biochem UC San Diego School of Physical Sciences nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our latest study presents open access RNA-seq data from cell lines from 731 people from 26 globally diverse populations, addressing a persistent ancestry bias in our field. We hope this resource enables more equitable advances in personalized medicine. nature.com/articles/s4158…

A synbio conference in Hawaii in December organized by Tae Seok Moon - what’s not to love?! Get along to this!

One vision of Indigenous futurism is alternative history. A time line where Captain Cook never makes it to Hawai‘i, Cortés never arrives at Tenochtitlan in search of gold, and the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María are still trees planted in the earth nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl… Dr./Prof. Keolu Fox

This is rich - one of the primary reasons scientists don't have a lot of time to think is that @nature and its ilk have promoted a culture where the primary goal of science is to produce bloated Nature papers that require lots of time and money, but little thought, to produce.

I always love talking to the next generation of women and leaders in data science! On a Future of AI panel with amazing technologists across disciplines, with the Henry Luce Foundation at the University of Chicago

If you're looking for a great book for your course this semester on structural racism and health, I highly recommend Layal Liverpool's excellent SYSTEMIC. But also, I am super excited that Dr. Liverpool highlighted at length Dr./Prof. Keolu Fox myself NativeBio Data Consortium and IndigiData as examples of

If NVIDIA ever fails, it’s bc they got stuck at CUDA and never moved on to WUDA and SHUDA.

I’m grateful to the many researchers who spoke with me about what the future of Indigenous microbiome research should look like, particularly the Indigenous researchers who trusted me to share their histories and work nature nature.com/immersive/d415…

Huge thanks to the staff @nature and Sam Jones for putting this piece together (the art + interviews are world class). Interested in learning more? Please check out NativeBio Data Consortium for more information 🧬❤️ nature.com/immersive/d415…

I love this nature article by Sam Jones, PhD on careful considerations to human microbiome research, especially on consent, benefit sharing, commercialization, avoiding stigma, questioning data ethics norms, and calling question to health and digital equity for Indigenous peoples.

Latest lab note drop for Pono STEAM kits: experiment.com/u/VXpcQQ Mahalo Justice Toshiba Walker, PhD & Dr./Prof. Keolu Fox for supporting this journey.

Just read a 384 page book from cover to cover. Proud to say it’s my own. Writing is such a dissociative process. Grateful to my editorial team for believing in what the manuscript could inspire about how all hope is not lost when it comes to climate crisis + racial justice!

science.si.edu/life-on-a-sust… If you are interested in developing a postdoctoral fellowship proposal with me (I am a research associate) and others at the Smithsonian to study climate change impacts on carnivores using genomics, please reach out!