Adapted from https://sammykatta.com/diversity
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.
Science is important, but we also believe in advocacy. Aleeza helped to lead these initiatives:
COVID-19
2022 - Data collection and advocacy for additional resources in early learning and childcare (website)
RESEARCH FUNDING
2025 Open letter from Manitoba academics to the Provincial Government on the importance of increasing research funding (pdf)
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.
Science is important, but we also believe in advocacy. Aleeza helped to lead these initiatives:
COVID-19
2022 - Data collection and advocacy for additional resources in early learning and childcare (website)
RESEARCH FUNDING
2025 Open letter from Manitoba academics to the Provincial Government on the importance of increasing research funding (pdf)
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