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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

named after a brand of soap because they clean up the standard model of physics Ah, scientists, so silly. One of my favourite silly names in my field is naming the gene that causes fruit flies to be extra susceptible to alcohol "Cheap date"

It's either that or the Sonic Hedgehog protein (and the inhibitor "Robotnikinin")

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am proud of silly naming traditions. I named one experiment I worked on godXilla and the other I work on is named CRAB (hoping I don't doxx myself letting that out lol)