Singing Science!
A growing list of academic papers with song lyrics in their titles!
Any more you can think of?
Graveyard cake
Some people get to publish research on graveyards.
Some people bake really awesome cakes.
A lucky few get to do both!!!
It rubs it on its fur or it gets the hose...
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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Science
SCIEEEEEEEEEENCE! <shakes fist at sky>
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Vaccinate!
Best.Thesis.Flyer.Ever
Tie Fighters!
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 reason that they appropriately cite the use of these war machines. The final reason is that I work with these people and the paper includes my former post-doc as second author.
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Awwww…knowledgements!
Today, on a very special episode of Scientific Easter Eggs: a marriage proposal in an acknowledgements section! Let’s just hope that they don’t have to publish a retraction. (h/t to @C57BL/6 for this one)
Especially for Valentine’s Day- a marriage proposal hidden in the Acknowledgements. I’m assuming that he was not rejected?
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Beach Closing
So many days at Windows Beach! (YES I know the beach ball is Apple, I’m just trolling)
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marchforscience1
The March for Science will take place on April 22nd, 2017! See you at Washington D.C. or a local satellite march!
I’ll be there! Wearing some of this available HERE. March to support EVIDENCE, FACTS, and SCIENCE. This is a non-partisan issue.
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A searchable index of academics internationally providing logistical support to scientists unable to enter the US | http://www.embo.org/science-solidarity
A serious scientific post. This is an important resource to deal with policies arising from the new US administration.
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Shotgun sampling
No, with an actual *shotgun*. See the paper here.
(h/t to @DefectiveBrayne for this one)
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Viva la Evidence!
Oh- you want a tee-shirt? I can help you with that. Just go here to my Redbubble store.
Viva la evidence!
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You may want to check that text before submitting it
Sometimes you just have one of those days- and it appears in a published paper. Because you didn’t check your manuscript very carefully before you submitted it, and the reviewers and editors and other journal people who should have caught it didn’t. Yep.
Thanks here for the lead.
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My answer to all reviewers' points from here on
Well, #reviewer3, we didn’t make the changes you suggested because: “life is short”. This wonderful idea for all my future responses to any reviewers’ comment is from a wide-ranging and very interesting paper on comparing network structures.
A good reminder
And the winner of best title goes to...
This paper. You might ass-ume that it’s because I’m immature, butt you’d be wrong.
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Behind every great paper...
… 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, even listing URLs where you can buy the coffee they drank (in case you wanted to replicate their findings exactly).
And there are a couple of other gems in this paper as well:
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The Cat Who Published
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 enlisted some furry help…
Read the whole story here.
The paper in question, signed by both authors.