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

[Lyubomir Penev]

A small but important correction, Frank:  this is not "my survey" but a
joint endeavour of CETAF, IUCN, and Pensoft.

Indeed, the more data the more reliable conclusions and hopefully impact on
policies!

Best regards,
Lyubo

На пт, 6.08.2021 г., 6:46 ч. PM Frank T. Krell via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> написа:

> 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
>
>
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