Biologists and science communicators are being conscientious and thoughtful about the history of their professions. “The dumbest shit” indeed.
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Biologists and science communicators are being conscientious and thoughtful about the history of their professions. “The dumbest shit” indeed.
I think it’s always good to see such things enacted, and it’s rarely done on such a broad scale. Common names are a big bucket of chaos for joe schmoe anyway*, so I’m all in favor of adopting anything more descriptive or in relation to field marks. I feel that the changes being broadcast so publicly will lead curious people to learn more about the history of birding, too- and hopefully lead to understanding why this sort of thing matters.
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Often broad species names, even. I’ve found that the general public has no idea of the difference between a mouse, mole, vole or shrew, and has even less of an idea that there are multiple species of all of them.
Same, on my 3a right now. Deeply considering just buying new old stock of the same phone as a backup. :'D