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How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geoscience

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  1. Department of Geological Sciences, Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Robyn Pickering

  2. National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institute of Chemistry of Clermont-Ferrand, University Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Barbara Ervens

  3. European Geosciences Union, Munich, Germany

    Barbara Ervens, Lisa Wingate, Anouk Beniest & Giuliana Panieri

  4. European Research Council (ERC), Brussels, Belgium

    Claudia Jesus-Rydin

  5. INRAE, ISPA, Villenave D’Ornon, France

    Lisa Wingate

  6. Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Anouk Beniest

  7. Iziko Museum of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

    Nkosingiphile Mazibuko & Amy Sephton

  8. Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway Department of Geosciences, Tromsø, Norway

    Giuliana Panieri

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Pickering, R., Ervens, B., Jesus-Rydin, C. et al. How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geoscience. Nat. Geosci. 16, 1071–1072 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01337-6

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