With the goal of creating a more open and inclusive scientific culture in the study of social insects, suggestions are made about word choice in publications on social insects. Scientists must acknowledge that the use of words with major human cultural associations can deter students and colleagues from engaging our field, and that students may feel emotionally harmed by the use of words like “slave” in scientific contexts. Specific reference in this commentary is made to the applications of slavery, caste, race, and social parasite, which have been used to describe aspects social insect biology. Cleptotecton, meaning stolen work, is suggested as a substitute term for slave, and cleptotectonic for slave-making. The use of geographic descriptors is also discussed. Better, and less culturally loaded, vocabulary is available for these concepts, and authors should reflect on the impacts of word choice on the community of social insect scientists.

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词的重要性：修订社会昆虫词典

为了在社会昆虫研究中创造一种更加开放和包容的科学文化，对社会昆虫出版物中的用词提出了建议。科学家们必须承认，使用与主要人类文化关联的词语会阻止学生和同事参与我们的领域，并且学生可能会因在科学环境中使用“奴隶”等词语而在情感上受到伤害。本评论特别提到了奴隶制、种姓、种族和社会寄生虫的应用，这些应用已被用于描述社会昆虫生物学的各个方面。Cleptotecton，意思是偷来的工作，被建议作为奴隶的替代术语，和奴隶制造的 cleptotectonic。还讨论了地理描述符的使用。更好的、更少文化负担的词汇可用于这些概念，