In the
United States Antarctic Program non-scientists on
the ice call scientists beakers. The term comes from the
Muppet character
beaker with the mouse trap mouth who says nothing but, "mememememememe."
Beaker is not a fundamentally derogatory term, though some researchers react negatively when called that. To most it is a term of distant endearment as long as it is not preceded by an explicative. Like everything in Antarctica the word fuck used as a modifier denotes frustration, and indeed, every word in Antarctica is graced with the appending or prepending of a tense of fuck by every person at one time or another. Thus, when someone goes from being a "beaker", to a "fucking beaker", one has crossed a boundary of civility that would have been best left alone in such close, isolated quarters.
People who are not "beakers" on the ice are called "people".