My aunt's an ecologist that worked for the feds as a researcher her whole career and I don't think she ever knew anyone that was involved with colonial crackdowns on land defense actions.

There's still a colonial relationship between settler science and the land probably but it's way more indirect than knowing anyone who's putting boots on necks.

Unless you go private practice, where instead of research you'll be rubber stamping EISes that let settler corps continue to do whatever they want.