A growing list of academic papers with song lyrics in their titles! Any more you can think of? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a7IpxsxTfblv2cVdiuCiZKN–gXsGz3931S2iS6ycsk/edit#gid=...
Some people get to publish research on graveyards. Some people bake really awesome cakes. A lucky few get to do both!!! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12421/full
A list of funny, weird, or unexpected bits and pieces published in scientific articles and papers. From @BioDataGanache See also: My Blog
Apparently Capuchin monkeys engage in a practice of ‘anointment’ where they squish a type of millipede on themselves, possibly to ward off disease. Pretty cool actually.
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This paper is all kinds of awesome for all kinds of reasons. The first is that it features a SQUADRON OF IMPERIAL TIE FIGHTERS to represent data in Figure 1. Closely followed by the second reaso...
scieastereggs : > Today, on a very special episode of Scientific Easter Eggs: a > marriage proposal in an acknowledgements section > ! > Let’s just hope that they don�...
scienceisbeauty : > BEACH CLOSING > > By The Perry Bible Fellowship (by > @nicholasgurewitch ) So many days at Windows Beach! (YES I know the beach ball is Apple, I’m just tro...
I’ll be there! Wearing some of this available HERE . March to support EVIDENCE, FACTS, and SCIENCE. This is a non-partisan issue.
academicssay : > A searchable index of academics internationally providing > logistical support to scientists unable to enter the US | > http://www.embo.org/science-solidar...
scieastereggs : > No, with an actual *shotgun*. See the paper here > . > > > (h/t to @DefectiveBrayne for > this one)
redpenblackpen : > Oh- you want a tee-shirt? I can help you with that. Just go here to > my Redbubble > > store. Viva la evidence!
scieastereggs : > Sometimes you just have one of those days- and it appears in a > published paper > . > Because you didn’t check your manuscript very carefully befor...
scieastereggs : > Well, #reviewer3, we didn’t make the changes you suggested > because: “life is short”. This wonderful idea for all my future > responses to any r...
This paper . You might ass-ume that it’s because I’m immature, butt you’d be wrong.
scieastereggs : > … there’s a whole lot of coffee and fun. At least that’s the > case with this paper. The authors thank coffee several times in the > paper, ev...
scieastereggs : > In 1975 a physics professor found that he could not publish a paper > using the royal ‘we’ and ‘our’ unless he had a co-author. > So he enli...