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

[Dirk Ahrens]

Hi All,

maybe it could fit the discussion…
I recently observed, that amateur papers (e.g. on beetles and butterflies) decreased quite a significant bit recently in ZooKeys, a journal that they made BIG??
Any ideas about that?

Cheers
Dirk


> Am 07.08.2021 um 10:02 schrieb Lyubomir Penev via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>:
> 
> 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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