Glad to see @MarcAbrahams post the link to the Dead Duck Day livestream. What is Dead Duck Day you may ask? It's the annual commemoration of the day that a male duck flew into the window of a Rotterdam museum, died and was subsequently mounted by another rowdy mallard. The following 75 minutes was recorded by the museum curator, written up in the paper “The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)”, which landed the author Dr Kees Moeliker with the 2023 IgNobel prize in biology. #IgNobel #DeadDuckDay

Today is the 30th DEAD DUCK DAY celebration. See the livecast (from the Azores) at 15:55 [Azores time) #dead #duck #Azores #IgNobel https://improbable.com/2025/05/31/dead-duck-day-2025-celebrate-on-june-5/

Has anyone ever used crystal physics to understand the lattice structure of a box of popcorn? I feel like there may be an #igNobel prize in there for understanding that. I am open to collaborators lmao

#physics

@gisiger this seems #IgNobel worthy research 😅

@sellathechemist @MarcAbrahams
Have fun, and please report back:) #IgNobel

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #420: Chasmology.
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#chasmology #yawning #yawn #sleep #science #biology #health #strangebuttrue #ignobelprize #ignobel #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Getting #IgNobel vibes from this Periodic cooking of eggs paper

Oh oh. Mi sa che i nostri di Padova e la loro cacio e pepe scientifica hanno dei rivali per quell'IgNobel.

("Non ripetetelo a casa", accidenti...)

https://www.media.inaf.it/2025/01/28/pseudocrateri-marziani-laboratorio/

#cucina #marte #geologia #astronomia #fisica #IgNobel

...a bit of #scienceHumor to lighten your day: https://open.substack.com/pub/improbablestuff/p/feline-reactions-to-bearded-men
courtesy of @MarcAbrahams and featuring #cats
#nobelPrize #ignobel #academia #RocketScience

@tagesschau Ich erkenne da einen künftigen #ignobel - Preisträger!

CACIO E PEPE PHYSICS UPDATE:
People from that paper are being interviewed by BBC in less than half a hour. OMG, I'm really starting to see that #IgNobel coming my alma mater's way 🤯

FISICA DELLA CACIO E PEPE - AGGIORNAMENTO:
Autori dell'articolo saranno intervistati dalla BBC tra meno di mezz'ora. Oddio, inizio a intravedere quell'IgNobel dirigersi verso la mia università 🤯
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026vt4

#CacioEPepe #physics #fisica #pasta #SoftMatterPhysics #Padova #BBC #Italy #ItaliansBeingItalians

Verrückte Welt.
Pflanzen können die Blattform anderer Pflanzen nachahmen.

#Botanik #IgNobel

https://ga.de/bonn/stadt-bonn/ig-nobelpreistraeger-von-der-uni-bonn-erforscht-sehende-pflanzen_aid-118913735

#NeueFolge Glückauf ihr Lieben und ein frohes Neues natürlich! Wir starten in 2025 direkt mit der Ig-Nobelpreis-Folge und es sind mal wieder richtig tolle Schätze aus der Forschung dabei 🔥

Viel Spaß mit der ersten Folge des neuen Jahres 🎧 🔥👉 https://minkorrekt.de/mi328-ig-nobelpreise-2024/

#ignobel #ignobelprizes #forschung #wissenschaft #science #wisskomm #minkorrekt

IgNobel or I will riot.

#IgNobel #CondensedMatterPhysics #SoftMatterPhysics #ItaliansBeingItalians

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

German researchers tested if side effects (e.g., a burning nose from a nasal spray) could enhance treatment. Turns out, they do! People felt less pain with placebo sprays causing mild side effects, believing "the meds work."

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awae132

This makes us rethink: could even mild sensations (bitter taste, slight burning) make drugs seem more effective? 🤔 No wonder this study won an #IgNobelPrize - it’s both funny and thought-provoking!

#IgNobel #PlaceboEffect #MedicalResearch

#IgNobel : le prix que tout le monde s'arrache ? « On est très visible lorsque l’on reçoit ce prix : on t'invite, on discute. », témoigne Daniel Bonn.
https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite/ig-nobel-la-science-au-serieux

@MarcAbrahams

He puesto en Zotero algunas propuestas para el premio #IgNobel , la estaré actualizando cada vez que encuentre artículos que me hagan reír🤣 y después pensar🙇‍♀️

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5798800/ignobel_candidatos

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #303: Eschew Obfuscation!
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#eschewobfuscation #princeton #linguistics #language #science #what #wtf #nasa #ignobel #ignobelprize #ignobelaward #ignobelprizewinners #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Ig Nobel Face-to-Face (part 1 of 3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo1bNTA3Ro4 #IgNobel #Science #SciComm