Taxacom: new perspectives paper on the status of taxonomy

Sat Sep 30 13:10:15 CDT 2023

Taxacomers,

After decades of crowded & leaky conditions, with political weirdities 
upsetting plans for new buildings, the New Brunswick Museum is planning 
a new facility, and asking for comments at https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frevitalizenbm.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C9768e5dd20d645bdced908dbc1e082be%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638316945080440473%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QAUJ95%2BmEPb50YWTSqOYjE35c1%2BQbrUPnXUuv8kPfW0%3D&reserved=0 - 
<heritage at nbm-mnb.ca>

It would help if there could be a big call for generous housing and 
facilities for the natural history collections. I've appended my 
submission to the process.

fred schueler
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On 30-Sep-23 1:00 p.m., Frank T. Krell via Taxacom wrote:
> Today a Perspective paper was published that I coauthored with my 
> European friends and colleagues Ivan Löbl (Geneva), Bernhard Klausnitzer 
> (Dresden), and Matthias Hartmann (Erfurt) on the current situation of 
> biodiversity science/taxonomy. You probably won't mind that it is a bit 
> entomology biased, but we tried to include other perspectives, too. A 
> lot of this has been said over and over, but I think we make good 
> points, and it apparently needs to be said over and over again and 
> again. 
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F374328672_The_Silent_Extinction_of_Species_and_Taxonomists-An_Appeal_to_Science_Policymakers_and_Legislators&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C9768e5dd20d645bdced908dbc1e082be%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638316945080440473%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ThpqbZretf%2FLeK4iYAL66w08dgcfNbH2m5%2B2ruPLKfc%3D&reserved=0 Frank

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On 30-Sep-23 9:20 a.m., Frederick W. Schueler wrote:

 > I know this isn't a widely held understanding of the role of museums, 
but the NBM, especially through BiotaNB, comes as close to it as any 
institution, and it would be nice to see it embodied in the new facility 
with the same explicitness that the aboriginal relation to the land and 
river are to be.

 > If we're going to live on the land & waters for the long term, we're 
going to have to regard ourselves as servants of, or at least 
collaborators with, the other species which make up the ecosystems of 
our territory, and that, accordingly, as the places where all species 
are equally valued for their own sakes, regional, provincial, or 
national natural history museums are the primary legitimate institutions 
of human sovereignty over a jurisdiction. I'm not sure how this would be 
expressed architecturally, but the idea would be to consider the natural 
history specimens colleagues rather than curios, and the collections a 
parliament of New Brunswickers, rather than just things that might be of 
interest.

 > There's some more on this at - 
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fquietcuratorialtime.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Fquiet-curatorial-time.html&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C9768e5dd20d645bdced908dbc1e082be%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638316945080440473%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=V35Sf%2B%2Bi6bozbJETmVr3e%2BDSZ%2FktUe4I98rj7T9MC6Q%3D&reserved=0

 > hopefully,

 > fred schueler, Ph.D.
 > Research Associate, NBM.
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