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   Ruth Mottram (ruth_mottram@fediscience.org)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 17:26:19 JST Ruth Mottram

   • Rewilding Magazine

   Nice piece, it's a difficult balance for scientists we are supposed to write impersonally, but does language we employ blunt message?
   https://spore.social/@rewildingmag/112007046787772384
   @rewildingmag - "Our words have a power that many of us are not yet using. They can paint the natural world as sensing, singing, worthy of life; and they can remind us that we are animals within it, grateful recipients of its gifts, who can offer something in return."
   #rewilding #language #nature #ecology
   https://atmos.earth/why-we-need-new-words-to-describe-the-natural-world/

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     Brian R. Pauw (doc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 17:26:28 JST Brian R. Pauw

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     • Rewilding Magazine

     @Ruth_Mottram @rewildingmag I’ve stopped writing impersonally in my papers. It’s not necessary, and the old papers didn’t do that either (case in point: Heisenberg’s paper is surprisingly readable!). Seems like somewhere along the line, someone came up with that “rule” and made scientists believe it, but it distances us from normal people unnecessarily.

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     Charlotte Cochard (ccochard@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 17:26:28 JST Charlotte Cochard

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     • Rewilding Magazine

     @doc @Ruth_Mottram @rewildingmag very good point!
     I tend to use a mix of both. Present the setup and data in the passive voice and the discussion in the active voice as the interpretation is a lot more related to the question we had set to answer and the ideas we have around a topic.
     (I also know that how we preserve data is subjective, but we do our best so that it's not too much so)