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Maydianne Andrade
@widowweb.bsky.social
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Professor, FRCGS, she/her/they, Evolutionary Ecology researcher & Equity Activist. 🇨🇦 Solidarity with Indigenous peoples, 365 days. http://blackscientists.ca
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Jul 24
Thank you @aerinj.bsky.social !
Folks who want to learn more can also access online modules created by the Toronto Initiative for Diversity and Excellence at www.toronto-tide.ca/education-mo...
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Jul 12
Thank you, Stephen.
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Jul 12
A pleasure to have time and space to share data that can anchor these conversations in the evidence. Thanks to organizers for the invitation.
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Prof. Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe @ilafores.bsky.social · Jul 8
Starting day 2 with a 💥

President's Award for Societal Engagement by @widowweb.bsky.social

"I don’t think of you as Black” and other Misconceptions about Equity, Merit & Systems Change

📸Full house!

#CSEE2025 @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Jun 7
One of the reasons we founded @canblacksci.bsky.social - expertise from our community supporting interpretation of data impacting Black Canadians. We value this partnership with StatCan.
Nothing about us without us.
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canblacksci.bsky.social @canblacksci.bsky.social · Jun 5
New research from StatsCan & CBSN members reveals stark health gaps:
⚠️ Higher mortality from HIV/AIDS, diabetes, prostate cancer in Black adults
⚠️ Uterine cancer: low diagnosis, high death rates in Black women

📖 Read more: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-00...

#BlackInSTEMM #HealthEquity #CBSN #TBT
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · May 16
Great talk at #OE3C2025 Carleton U this morning. Prof Rassim Khelifa (Concordia) shares a broader lens on open science. Sharing here their pub with concrete advice for editorial boards.
scholar.google.ch/citations?vi...
Person in a pink t-shirt gives a talk at the front of a large lecture theatre. Behind them are two large screens showing a table from a paper on equitable practices for journal editorial boards.
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · May 16
So proud of this team of undergraduate researchers presenting their comparison of sibling cannibalism & survival of Redback spider juveniles from urban vs rural environments. #OE3C2025 Samia, Jenny, Lauren & (not present: Sakura) plus PhD student Isaiah Box as research mentor.
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CORE•COEUR #ResearchersVote #VotonsRecherche 🗳️ @core-coeur.bsky.social · Apr 28
Happy E-day 🇨🇦! We know that #research is at the core of #innovation and well-being for all. 🎯And #ResearchersVote.

On sait que la #recherche est au 💖 de l'innovation et du bien-être au 🇨🇦. Et nous #VotonsRecherche.💪

#CestNotreVote #ItsOurVote #Elxn45 #Elxn2025 #CanadaElections2025 #VoteScience
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CORE•COEUR #ResearchersVote #VotonsRecherche 🗳️ @core-coeur.bsky.social · Apr 19
At T-8 in #Elxn45, what can 🇨🇦 researchers do?

1. Declare an intention to #VoteResearch
2. Tag your candidates! 🎯

👉Info: core-coeur.ca

📢Que faire en ce T-8 d' #Elxn2025?
1. Déclarez une intention de #VoterRecherche
2. Étiquetez vos candidats! 🗳️

#VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote #VoteScience
Une image rectangulaire avec un fond bleu marine et un texte en majuscules coloré en bleu pâle, blanc, orange, qui se lit comme suit: On soutient la recherche dans les 343 circoncriptions. Un pied de page blanc comprend le logo de CORE-COEUR Coalition for Research Excellence, Coalition pour l'excellence en recherche, une mosaïque multicolore, largement jaune, avec un cœur partiellement orange et un cœur partiellement bleu. A rectangular image with navy blue background and bilingual text in all caps coloured pale blue, white, orange, which reads: We support research in all 343 ridings. A white footer includes the logo for CORE-COEUR Coalition for Research Excellence, Coalition pour l'excellence en recherche, a multicoloured mosaic, mostly yellow, with a partial orange heart and a partial blue heart.
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Apr 27
Took time out today to celebrate another great year with the spider lab @utsc.bsky.social
Group of people with arms in the air, smiling and cheering while in a bowling alley. A large sign shaped like a bowling pin is in the center of the group with black letters reading Spider Lab.
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Apr 16
....will span a range of taxa...
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Apr 16
@canblacksci.bsky.social hosts the monthly BE-STEMM seminar today, 4pm ET.
Dr. Omer's research on the Dynein motor and its adaptors will span. I heard Dr. Omer speak last year, a fantastic speaker with a delivery accessible for folks outside the field. Register: blackscientists.ca/be-stemm-eve...
Poster for the BE-STEMM seminar series shows a woman scientist and the date and time of the seminar, Wednesday April 16, 2025 at 4pm ET. Poster is white with multi-coloured border and the logo of the Canadian Black Scientists Network in the corner.
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Apr 16
Looking forward to meeting the C2MCI team!
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Maydianne Andrade @widowweb.bsky.social · Apr 14
Correlation confounded with causation fuels an assumption of incompetence when professionals do not meet expectations about 'what a professional looks like'.
Question: What does an observation of low representation tell us about the cause?
Answer: Nothing.

youtu.be/HX0R302lBMk?...
The 'DEI Hire' Critique is Flawed: Correlation is Not Causation
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