Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew—in a study to investigate the identity of a fungus found on a spider during filming of the BBC Winterwatch series in Northern Ireland. The work is published in the journal Fungal Systematics and Evolution.
They’re joking, referencing the propensity of companies of late to try and sanitize the internet so people have taken to censoring memes and comments like that, even with words that aren’t curse words (thus the existence of words like “unalive” and “sewerslide” to reference suicide.) So much so it has creeped in here from their users and stolen memes as well now.
Though “American?” Iirc TikTok started this mess, and American companies are probably hopping on board now but I don’t use anything but lemmy and masto so who knows.