BLUE
Profile banner
JR
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
@jrossibarra.bsky.social
evolutionary genomics of maize. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof. not a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. (he/him)
1.7k followers1k following1.7k posts
JRjrossibarra.bsky.social

Well said. Taxonomy is frequently a confusing mess. We've been battling over whether there is one i or two i's in the Andropogon gerardi that my student works with. The teosintes I work on have species that should be subspecies and subspecies that were in a different genus. Less racism is a win.

1

MJmossmatters.bsky.social

Yeah the "it will be chaos!" crowd conveniently forgets the time we needed to change the scientific name of /tomato/ and somehow science still continued. Also - it's Erythranthe guttata *flees before the monkeyflower mafia gets me*

2
Profile banner
JR
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
@jrossibarra.bsky.social
evolutionary genomics of maize. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof. not a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. (he/him)
1.7k followers1k following1.7k posts