Watch Catherine Scott discuss how male Black Widows find females.

And read about it in the New York Times

(based on Scott et al 2019)

Catch Maydianne on CBC

Television:  The Nature of Things

Maydianne was the on-air host and knowledge translator for

First Animals (2019) (watch on CBC GEM)

where she joins ROM curator Prof. Jean-Bernard Caron on a field expedition to the Burgess Shale. Read about her experience here.

Also as a guest arachnologist on: The Great Wild Indoors (2017)

Radio: Ideas

As a panelist on CBC Ideas with journalists Adam Gopnik and Ivan Semeniuk to discuss : Imagining the World: Darwin and the idea of evolution

Stories on Latrodectus males mating with immature females

see: Biaggio et al 2016; Baruffaldi & Andrade 2017, 2020

Read BBC Earth Article on PhD student Luciana Baruffaldi’s research (2015)

Hear PhD student Catherine Scott on:

October 27, 2015;  11:30am, What She Said, Sirius radio   

 October 30, 2015; 2pm,  Science Friday, NPR:

Read Vice Article on life in the Andrade lab (2015)

Blast from the past! Maydianne on Nova Science Now