SICB scientists around the world are stepping up in their research, communication, and teaching to build a scientific community that is actively anti-racist. This work is not confined to a single month of the year, but in celebration of February as Black History month, SICB would like to offer this collection of resources to support efforts to make the scientific community more diverse, equitable, just, and inclusive.
SICB+ Resources:
Available HERE for SICB+ members until March 16, 2023
Alex Troutman Symposium talk NFWB: Navigating Fieldwork While Black. Part of S9: Envisioning a Diverse, Inclusive, and Safe Future for Field Biology
Dr. Beronda Montgomery Plenary Address: Lessons About and From Plants – Insight for Human Thriving
Dr. Tyrone Hayes Plenary Address: Right Back Where I Started: Enamored with Anurans
Media and Training opportunities:
Kendall Moore – Can We Talk, Can we Talk 2 (documentary films) https://www.kendallmooredocfilms.com/
Webinars on inclusion and equity in academic biology (by SABER – the Society for the advancement of Biology – in collaboration with Arizona State University)
https://saberbio.wildapricot.org/Diversity_Inclusion
National Coalition Building Institute (offers training opportunities): https://ncbi.org/
Podcast: Seeing White
Training Resources from Field Inclusive
Journal Publications, Chapters, and Conference Presentations
Puritty C et al. (2017) Without inclusion, diversity initiatives may not be enough. Science 357: 1101-1102. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6356/1101
Chaudhary VB, Berhe AA (2020) Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab. PLoS Comput Biol 16(10): e1008210. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008210
Schell, C.J., Guy, C., Shelton, D.S. et al. (2020) Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1285–1287. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1266-7
Cronin MR, Alonzo SH, Adamczak SK, Baker DN, Beltran RS, Borker AL, Favilla AB, Gatins R, Goetz LC, Hack N, Harenčár JG. (2021) Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments. Nature ecology & evolution. Sep;5(9):1213-23.
Trisos CH, Auerbach J, Katti M. (2021) Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution. May 24:1-8.
Wilga CA, Nishiguchi M, Tsukimura B. (2017) Broadening participation in the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology. Jul 1;57(1):7-17.
Giles S, Jackson C, Stephen N. (2020) Barriers to Fieldwork in Undergraduate Geoscience Degrees. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 1:77-78. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0022-5?proof=trueMay
Ahmad AS, Sabat I, Trump-Steele R, King E (2019) Evidence-based strategies for improving diversity and inclusion in undergraduate research labs. Frontiers in Psychology, June 18. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01305/full
Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 22, Issue 4: special issue on race and STEM education: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cree20/22/4
Books
Whistling Vivaldi – How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. Steele, Claude. 2011. https://wwnorton.com/books/Whistling-Vivaldi/
Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action. Marybeth Gasman and Thai-Huy Nguyen. 2019. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674916586&content=bios
Lessons from Plants. Beronda Montgomery. 2021. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241282
Resource collections from other organizations:
CalState COAST: https://www.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/research/coast/Pages/Combating_Systemic_Racism.aspx
RacialEquityTools: https://www.racialequitytools.org/home
