A fun interview on RNZ with Adrian Barnett (Statistician, QUT) from Sunday 23 August 2020:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018760724/from-dna-to-rna-science-s-unhealthy-obsession-with-acronyms

 

Their paper is “Meta-Research: The growth of acronyms in the scientific literature”

Adrian Barnett, Zoe Doubleday

https://elifesciences.org/articles/60080