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Elevate, don’t assimilate, to revolutionize the experience of scientists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour

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As early-career Black women, we argue that encouraging assimilation is not enough to address systemic racism and outline suggestions for how minoritized individuals can not only survive, but thrive, in ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Fig. 1: Strategies for BIPOC to thrive, not just survive, in EEB.

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The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy of Texas A&M University, University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University, Uniformed Services University, the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, the United States Government or the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.

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  1. School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    Samniqueka J. Halsey

  2. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, USA

    Lynette R. Strickland

  3. Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management, Department of Anesthesiology, Uniformed Services University, Rockville, MD, USA

    Maya Scott-Richardson

  4. Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Maya Scott-Richardson

  5. School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Tolulope Perrin-Stowe

  6. Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Lynnicia Massenburg

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Halsey, S.J., Strickland, L.R., Scott-Richardson, M. et al. Elevate, don’t assimilate, to revolutionize the experience of scientists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1291–1293 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01297-9

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