PhD cohort kept a running note for every new "-ome" coined in papers
yawnxyz · x · 2026-11-13
A bit of academic humor: someone joked about "The Omeome," and a PhD student replied that their cohort maintained a shared note logging every new "-ome" suffix (genome, proteome, etc.) they encountered while reading papers — a running gag about the proliferation of omics-style naming in science.
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