This is a review of the preprint entitled " On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attention - insights for conservation", by Ivan Jarić, Ricardo A. Correia, David L. Roberts, Jörn Gessner, Yves Meinard, and Franck Courchamp. The preprint was originally posted on bioRxiv on June 3, 2018 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/334573). Our journal club reviewed this preprint in the meeting of July 6, 2018.