Paleonet: Update From the 2020 SVP Meeting

[Thomas Richard Holtz]

It has been (generally, with the exceptions noted in the article) an
amusing experience. New words are being added to my "Index of 'Banned'
Words", but the vendor has been responsive when the SVP program committee
contacts them with new terms to unban.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 3:07 AM N. MacLeod <n.macleod9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Subscribers may find this interesting/amusing. Organizers of virtual
> conferences in the next year or so may want to take special note.
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> https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyzamj/a-profanity-filter-banned-the-word-bone-at-a-paleontology-conference
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> Dr. Norman MacLeod
> Professor
> School of Earth Sciences & Engineering,
> Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing
> Jiangsu, 210023, P.R. China
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