It adds: “We enter into this work to emphasise that language is incredibly powerful and can produce harm.
“We also hold that language can create a sense of inclusion and safety and it is our hope that this article contributes to larger conversations about inclusion in the sciences.”
Their website highlights the need to “learn, understand, and reflect on words that may change meaning over time”.
They deemed that terminology used within the community can “create environments conducive to microaggressions”, reinforce oppressive systems, discriminatory tropes, and offensive terms, and “inadvertently send messages about who belongs and who does not belong in EEB”.
