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The AOS took a broader look at eponymic birds in the wake of its Longspur decision, and its November announcement landed as a surprise across the natural sciences.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2024

The eponymic naming issue has been heating up in the bird world for a few years now.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2024

As I found when colleagues and I recently thought through new names for common eponymic birds in Maine, this is a process full of exciting questions: What makes a Barrow’s Goldeneye a Barrow’s Goldeneye?

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2024

Six months before the attack, Facebook, now known as Meta, had already banned private sales of guns on its eponymic social media site and on Instagram.

From Washington Post

First cartographers, then mathematicians, then anatomists, and then astronomers began to play the game, which was inherently competitive and immediately gave rise to priority disputes and, more slowly, to eponymic naming.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton