proffunguy's definitions

Academic rainmaker

A member of a University or other academic institution who brings in significant amount of external funding.

Most of the research funding goes to academic rainmakers like Prof. Smith.

by proffunguy January 21, 2020

Argentinarian

A person who has a primarily meat diet but occasionally eats vegetables. The opposite of a flexitarian.

Diego Maradona was a footballing genius but he also followed a strict Argentinarian diet.

by proffunguy April 13, 2021

preprint virgin

A scientist who has never published a scholarly paper in a freely accessible preprint or e-print server.

Professor Smith is still a preprint virgin, he only submits papers to high impact journals.

by proffunguy August 29, 2017

GWASturbation

The act of performing and publishing useless and overbearing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that serve no other purpose than to confuse people about the contribution of genetics to social and behavioural traits.

Professor Smith's misleading paper on how some genetic markers associate with educational attainment is another sorry example of gwasturbation

by proffunguy January 27, 2020

Dendrothymos

From the Greek δένδρο, dendro or tree, and θυμός, thymos or anger, is an uncontrolled anger reaction experienced by phylogeneticists (biologists who study evolution) when faced with a really bad evolutionary tree

Tom suffered a severe case of dendrothymos when he read that paper on fungi

by proffunguy August 5, 2016

Joeke

A joke told by Joe.

Joe: Do you know where the fish keep their money??? In the riverbank!!!
You: Man, that's definitely a Joeke.

by proffunguy June 14, 2022