"Here, we develop a guide with six verbal framings for theoretical models in biology. These correspond to different personas one might adopt as a theorist: ‘Advocate’, ‘Explainer’, ‘Instigator’, ‘Mediator’, ‘Semantician' and ‘Tinkerer’."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0803?twclid=26oyjtkqj9y2axhwe0f9oq5lmf