Thread by @I_am_the_Story

⭐️The words “male” and “female” should be phased out in science because they reinforce ideas that sex is binary, scientists have suggested.
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1. The terms were gathered as part of the EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Language Project, founded by a collaboration of scientists in the US and Canada who claim some terminology is not inclusive, and could be harmful.
#Gender #culture
eeblanguageproject.com

2. The initiative, the EEB Language Project was launched by like-minded scientists across the United States and Canada, including three University of British Columbia researchers—Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor, Dr. Alex Moore and Dr. Danielle Ignace.
#Gender #Male #Female #Culture #Biology

3. “The project started as a Twitter conversation among a few people discussing potentially harmful terminology,” says Dr. Gaynor, an author on the paper who studies the impact of human activity on biodiversity.
#Gender #Male #Female #Family #culture
science.ubc.ca/news/grassroot…

4, The EEB Language Project will provide resources and support action to reconsider harmful terminology at the levels of individuals, institutions and broader scientific communities.
#Gender #Male #Female #Family #culture
eeblanguageproject.com/repository

4(a) This crowdsourced effort includes a repository of words that are identified by community members as harmful, with suggested alternatives, which is meant to serve as a starting point for dialogue.
#Gender #Male #Female #Family #culture

5. Haley Branch, a PhD candidate with UBC Botany, published a complementary paper in the American Naturalist in July outlining the roots of ableism in evolutionary research and how it limits the potential of the field.
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6. One can join this crowdsourcing of harmful terms by clicking on link (eeblanguageproject.com/repository) and submit the harmful term and its replacement!!!

7. EEB Language Project : Top 24 Harmful Terms:
(eeblanguageproject.com/repository)
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7(a). EEB Language Project : Top 24 Harmful Terms:
(eeblanguageproject.com/repository)
#Gender #Male #Female #Family #Culture

7(b). EEB Language Project : Top 24 Harmful Terms:
(eeblanguageproject.com/repository)
#Gender #Male #Female #Family #Culture

8. A look at literary references cited on EEB Language project website show no doubt that Pure science and research were only bastion left out of Leftist wokeism but it seems like "No More"!!!
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9. And here is the research paper which started this (I must say without remorse) a leftist woke approach to destroy the very basics of human society by creating a so called non-harmful linguistic universe for present and future usage!!!!
cell.com/trends/ecology…

10. People behind this project
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eeblanguageproject.com/team

10(a). People behind this project
#Gender #Male #Female #Family #Culture
eeblanguageproject.com/team

10(b). People behind this project
#Gender #Male #Female #Family #Culture
eeblanguageproject.com/team