The MicroStats lab is actively working at being anti-racist and anti-bias group, to remove the oppression of oppressed people. We continually strive to support and promote equity, diversity and inclusion from under-represented groups in science.
In addition to the fantastic resources compiled at https://www.shutdowstem.com, here are some of the things we are currently reading, thinking, and talking about, as a Canadian evolutionary genetics and statistics lab.
In addition to the fantastic resources compiled at https://www.shutdowstem.com, here are some of the things we are currently reading, thinking, and talking about, as a Canadian evolutionary genetics and statistics lab.
- Statement from the Genetics Society of Americas - http://genestogenomes.org/racism-is-everyones-problem/
- Statement from the Society for the Study of Evolution - https://www.evolutionsociety.org/
- Africville and the history of environmental racism in Canada: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-author-ingrid-waldron-on-africville-and-the-history-of-environmental/
- Angela Davis, How Does Change Happen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6RHtEbiOA&app=desktop
- Story Collider, Justice: Stories about Righteous Determination (Part 2 is from Geneticist C. Brandon Ogbunu, how contemplates the role race has played in his academic career after he is confronted by the police.) https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2019/12/3/justice-stories-about-righteous-determination
- African Americans in evolutionary science: where we have been, and what’s next. https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-019-0110-5
- Understanding our eugenic past to take steps towards scientific accountability, http://genestogenomes.org/understanding-our-eugenic-past-to-take-steps-towards-scientific-accountability/
- An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin’s time. Aamina H. Malik, Janine M. Ziermann & Rui Diogo, Journal of Biological Education, 2018, 52:1, 3-17, DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2016.1268190 (pdf)
- Illuminating Women’s Hidden Contribution to Historical Theoretical Population Genetics. Samantha K Dung, Andrea López, Ezequiel L Barragan, Rochelle-Jan Reyes, Ricky Thu, Edgar Castellanos, Francisca Catalan, Emilia Huerta-Sánchez and Rori V. Rohlfs. Genetics, 2019, 211: 363-366. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301277
- 5 Steps to Take as an Antiracist Data Scientist https://towardsdatascience.com/5-steps-to-take-as-an-antiracist-data-scientist-89712877c214
- Truth and Reconciliation