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

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The hashtag #scientistherdnames began with a blog post about the lack of group terms for scientists.

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Singh Chawla, D. “A field of crop scientists” — Twitter delivers collective nouns for researchers. Nature 530, 133 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/530133f

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