Put Up Your Dukes: Science and history call forth institutional leaders of vision and courage via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/put-up-your-…

Saving Systematics: Clarity of Vision: Actions to save a science... and a planet via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/saving-syste…

Saving Systematics: Courage of Purpose: Unless taxonomists defend, explain and promote taxonomy, no one else will via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/saving-syste…

Saving Systematics: Mission to Planet Earth: An exhaustive, planetary-scale account of species—and their characters—is earth's last, vast unexplored frontier via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/saving-syste…

Saving Systematics: Professionals: Roles for amateurs exist in taxonomy, but professionals are essential via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/saving-syste…

Saving Systematics: Professionals: There are important roles for amateurs in taxonomy, but an essential one for professionals via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/saving-syste…

Saving Systematics: Taxonomy does not exist to identify species: Those content with minimalist taxonomy and DNA barcodes are welcome to know as little as they wish, so long as taxonomi...via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/saving-syste…

Needs and misdeeds: As we focus on species identification, most remain little-known, or entirely unknown via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/needs-and-mi…

A tale of two utopias: Ecologists' expectations meet scientific limitations of nomenclature via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-tw…

Removing the roadblocks and disincentives in taxonomy's way: Biodiversity conservation requires taxonomic knowledge. Taxonomy requires clarity of purpose and intellectual free...via ayrshare.com qwheeler.substack.com/p/removing-the…

Much ado about very little: Molecular-based taxonomy is useful, but not very informative [Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/much-ado-abo…

Much ado about very little: Species exploration: molecular data more utilitarian than informative [Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/much-ado-abo…

Optimism, Obstinance and Opportunity: The positive side of the extinction crisis [Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/optimism-obs…

Species Identification, Character Illiteracy, and Romance Novels: I have never read a Karen Marie Moning book—assuming that I’m pronouncing her name correctly, it’s an amusing, and apt,...[Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/species-iden…

Species Identification, Character Illiteracy, and Romance Novels: DNA-based taxonomy is like a card catalog guiding us to books we have never read... [Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/species-iden…

DNA barcodes, morphology, and a damned dog: Making species identifiable is not making species known [Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/dna-barcodes…

2058: A Terrible Parable: Imagine it’s the year 2058... [Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/2058-a-terri…

2058: A Terrible Parable: Unless we change course, returning support to taxonomy as an independent science, we risk a future of biodiversity decimation and permanent ignorance… [Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/2058-a-terri…

Great necessities, baffling priorities, and taxonomic leadership: Perhaps the reasons for prioritizing DNA sequences, rather than pursuing them alongside traditional sources of evi...[Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/great-necess…

Dewey, or don't we?: Do we re-embrace taxonomy's grand vision to explore the diversity and history of life, or do we resign to permanent ignorance, using DNA to identify species about which almost noth...[Sent with Free Plan] qwheeler.substack.com/p/dewey-or-don…