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“A field of crop scientists” — Twitter delivers collective nouns for researchers


When cancer researcher Ritankar Majumdar published a blog post about collective names of scientists and shared it social media, his idea became viral. Researchers worldwide began using the #scientistherdnames hashtag to share collective nouns of scientists. The full article was published on Nature's social selection column.

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