What is the collective noun for a group of scientists?

When you're at a pub and you see a bunch of scientists in the corner, gazing at their shoes and looking generally uncomfortable, what do call them? Is it a group of scientists? A gaggle of scientists? A murder of scientists? My quick googling didn't give me an answer, so I put the question out on twitter and facebook - what is the collective noun for a group of scientists? Here is what came in:

• A cat-herd
• A quantum
• A cabal
• A tribe
• A gaggle
• A whiteout
• A multipact
• A maxineurone
• A quadrant
• A sample
• A study
• A congregation
• A plethora
• A nerdlet
• A conglomerate
• A floc
• A concurrence
• A quadribble
• A thinktank
• A confusion
• A bunsen
• A titration
• A force
• An experiment
• A geek
• A meter
• A beaker
• A discipline
• A method
• An examination
• A conjecture
• A dogma
• An array
• A geek
• An ego

Do you have a particular favourite not mentioned? Let us know! I quite like "a force of scientists" - direct and to the point, scientifically relevant, and it sounds cool.