What I expect is for Northwestern faculty to write a strongly worded letter. Have some no confidence votes. And that’s fine. I get it. But this is one you could win.

No grades get turned in. No tuition gets paid. This is winnable.

I understand why faculty in Texas are unwilling to risk trying to exercise wildcat labor power in the face of an anti-labor state. In Illinois faculty have lots of power to use if they’re willing to be brave. Students will, I expect, stand with you. But you are going to have to be the leaders.

Anyway shout-out to the authors who used a drawing of a lacewing in a conceptual figure about yucca moths for an article I reviewed years ago, and the lions hunting Lovecraftian zebras in slides for a talk at the last Evolution meetings

And sometimes the taxonomic resolution doesn’t need to be super-fine, that’s okay too! But you need to show you know when that’s the case

Or, like, actually create the image you need; I’m cool with something hacked together from the PowerPoint drawing tools, if it looks like you took the time to make a cartoon of a bee that’s distinguishable from a bee-mimicking fly

Oh, you’re not confident about the taxonomy of the OA-licensed photos you find on the first page of an image search? Sounds like you need to do more reading