[Taxacom] FW: Red List of Insect Taxonomists in Europe

[Frank T. Krell]

Dan Janzen wrote me and Lyubo following our quibble about town and institution in Lyubo's taxonomists survey:
" Frank, Lyubo, what is this “institution” stuff?  As you  both know very well, a huge portion of the taxasphere work from home.Those of us users very much need those people as well as those in institutions, as well as we need ALL for our efforts to open the taxasphere silo to the wider world."

Yes, the role of non-institutional taxonomists is paramount, will likely grow, and is rather neglected by the increasing legal red tape. I am lucky to be in an institution and can do taxonomy as one of my duties, but it took me leaving my country twice and moving to another continent to continue to afford it.
Lyubo, one of the important outcome of your efforts would be to determine what percentage of active taxonomists are not paid by an institution for their taxonomic work. This is probably not so easy to determine, particularly if you have people with an institutional address, but the institute wants them to do other things and they do their taxonomy in their free time. We might also have to reach out to local listservers or regional societies to reach people outside the Anglosaxon sphere. I would be very interested in hard data on this.

Anyway, all taxonomists should do this little survey https://red-list-taxonomists.eu/ I hope that nor all Americans will be at the University of Hawai'I by default 😊.

Cheers

Frank


Dr. Frank-Thorsten Krell
 
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