"As botanists drop a racist plant name, some fear scientific confusion" www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/s... Meanwhile, for the Maerua genus shown as an example: 167 species in CoL 179 species in IPNI 74 species in Kew It's not like taxonomy was wonderfully clear; now, slightly less racist. Good.
The International Botanical Congress voted to change a scientific name belonging to hundreds of plant species because it was offensive in southern Africa.
#IBC2024 folk COVID is currently circulating with a number of folk who attended the nomenclature session falling ill. Worth considering putting a mask on.
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Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full prof 🐡🧪👩🏻🔬#histsci 🧵1/n
And (quite a bit) afterwards, enjoy #UpAllNightWednesday for me! I’m missing my botany fam 🌿.
🧪One last bump for this request. I spoke with a lovely computational chemist this morning, but where are my ecologists? Cancer biologists? Geneticists? Climate change scientists? I know y'all here on Bluesky aren't living under a rock. How have your personal experiments with Chat-GPT gone?
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The SafeEvolution initiative is recruiting new EvoAllies for the Evolution meetings. The goal of the program is to improve the climate at the meetings, making them more welcoming for everyone (1/2).
We are recruiting new EvoAllies for the Evolution meetings as part of our SafeEvolution initiative. The goal of the program is to improve the climate at the meetings, making them more welcoming for ev...