Her research, reported by 成人VR视频 this week, was fascinating - suggesting that students discriminate against female lecturers in teaching evaluations.
But one of the first things to be picked up on Twitter following the publication of our story on Anne Boring’s research this week was her name.
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Also, this woman has a great name.
— Abigail Parrish (@MissAParrish)
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But Dr Boring, a postdoctoral researcher at L’Institut d'?tudes Politiques de Paris, better known as?Sciences Po, is not the only academic to have a particularly noteworth monicker.
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Take , professor of astrophysics at Imperial College London, for example, or , professor of accounting at West Virginia University in the US.
Here are some other examples of academics with unusual names offered by our Twitter followers:
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Taco BM Monster cc
— Mallory (@mallorybowers)
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There are a couple of Professor Moriartys in US law schools: . /
— James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers)
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Poor old Dr Hedgeh 'of Leeds University ... but does he really exist? Not in staff directory.
— Jonathan Leake (@Jonathan__Leake)
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Dr Death?
— Phil Baty (@Phil_Baty)
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. Used to work for academic journal where I collected ace names, my favs being Dr Badger, Prof Hell, Dr Flowers (worked w/plants)
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— Nicola Thomis (@Nicolath)
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I seem to recall a biological anthropologist called Dick Burn.
— Simon Carr (@DrSimonCarr)
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I've always thought this person is unfortunately named:
— Aileen McHarg (@AileenMcHarg)
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