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Naming

Scientists trying to come up with a good name.

This doesn’t just apply to group names. I see crazy acronyms on the arXiv all the time.

Perhaps the best instance of this though is in the comments section of this article, by “NJBiologist”:

Much like how Src is activated by Srcasm? (No, I am not making that up: see Seykora et al, J Biol Chem. 2002 Jan25;277(4):2812-22.)

You can find a paper on srcasm here.