describer

“Unlikable” is a completely subjective description, revealing as much about the describer as the described, and it is leveled almost exclusively at women.

The brother of Akram, the hostage-taker, claimed he had “mental health issues,” and Siddiqui’s lawyer once describer her as in “total psychic pain.”

"It's kind of unfair against taxonomy, because every time someone uses a species name, normally the describer and year is given, but it's not counted as a citation."

“It’s kind of unfair against taxonomy, because every time someone uses a species name, normally the describer and year is given, but it’s not counted as a citation.”

While science historians recognize Colden's work, there have been no notable revisions to botanical history, like revising a species' history and naming her as its describer, and there is still no genus named for her.