Et Al. Gotta Be The Most Prolific Scientist On Earth

Et Al. Gotta Be The Most Prolific Scientist On Earth
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The unsung hero of scientific literature! "Et al." - Latin for "and others" - is that magical phrase that compresses 27 PhD students, 14 postdocs, and 3 lab techs who did the actual work into two tiny words. Meanwhile, the first author gets all the glory while their collaborators are reduced to a linguistic footnote. Next time you read Smith et al., pour one out for all those researchers hiding behind those periods. They're probably in the lab right now, desperately hoping their name makes it before the dreaded abbreviation in their next paper.

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