Hosted by WN. Flores and Sierra Hicks · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 17 episodes
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"Relational Science" is a thought-provoking podcast that delves into the intricate web of relationality in the realms of knowledge, data, information, and technology. Join PhD students WariNkwi Flores and Sierra Hicks as they engage in insightful dialogues with researchers, exploring systems of knowledge production and tackling pressing questions about our futures, pasts, and presents. New episodes are released monthly, and embark on a journey of discovery and understanding through the lens of biocomplexity systems, self-determination, sovereign praxes, and data & AI central dogma.
WN. Flores and Sierra Hicks hosts Relational Science, a science show with 17 episodes published.
What if glaciology — a field built on “untouched” landscapes and extractive exploration — could be remade through relationality? This episode of Relational Science takes listeners into a conversation rarely heard in the
What if Data Sovereignty is not a technical problem, but an over 200‑year story of return? A story of land, language, and the long arc of Indigenous occupation. That question anchors this conversation, which was recorded
What if IDSov coming home is a return of direction? A method? A governance framework? Over the three days on O’odham lands, that idea kept surfacing: Indigenous Data Sovereignty is not only about protecting data but also
What if Indigenous Data Sovereignty is not about the data at all — but about the story? The voice? The face? The obligations that bind us to one another across generations? That question sits at the center of this conver
What if data is not a resource to be managed, but a relative to be returned home? Across the Indigenous Data Sovereignty Summit, that question kept resurfacing. In plenaries, in hallways, in unconference circles, in the
What if meaning is not something we discover — but something we make? And what if data, intelligence, and governance are not technical domains at all, but philosophical ones? Recorded live from the USA Indigenous Data So
The sessions have ended for day 1. The room is still humming. And the conversation is only getting sharper. What happens when Indigenous Data Sovereignty becomes not just a legal framework — but a meeting place for globa
The summit has opened its doors — and from the very first session, something is shifting. What began years ago as a passionate, aspirational movement is now becoming operational. WarīNkwī K. Flores, co-host, is joined by
What if sovereignty and sustainability are not two different words — but one? In the Hawaiian language, Ea holds both. That single insight anchors this conversation, recorded live from the media center of the USA Indigen
We are on the ground at the USIDSN Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit 2026— and before the main doors open, we gathered in the circle. Day 0 was an Indigenous-only ethical space and a spatial justice: tribal
What does it mean to have authority over your data — not just ownership, co-ownership, but the living right to say who uses it, how, and when to stop? In this first part of the episode, WarīNkwī Flores and Sierra Hicks w
Our co-hosts, Sierra Hicks and WariNkwi Flores, continue their examination of Part II of the insights and foresights on the IEEE 2890-2025 Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples' Data, focusing on sect
How do you validate the origin of knowledge in the age of AI and Big Data? The answer may lie in the IEEE 2890-2025 Recommended Practices for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples Data. Join our co-hosts, WariNkwi and Sierra,
We yarn on the territorial and international perspectives of the so-called "COP30, the Indigenous COP" with the Post Growth Institute fellows from the UK and Brazil to discuss Indigenous participation in climate negotiat
We've embraced a temporal new path in our Data Kinship Series after a season filled with rich ceremonies, engaging conferences, and meaningful fieldwork. In this episode, we embark on an autoethnography of those transfor
The Data Kinship series continues! In this episode, Nkwi and Sierra apply Indigenous autoethnography by beginning with a reflexive discussion about their positionality, intentionality, and the tension of integrity (poten
In their second episode of Relational Science, WN and Sierra launch a three-episode Data Kinship series, beginning with the topic of appropriation at a listener's request. The newly minted podcast hosts discuss the relat
"Relational Science" is a thought-provoking podcast that delves into the intricate web of relationality in the realms of knowledge, data, information, and technology. Join PhD students WariN. Flores and Sierra Hicks as t
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