Punny Science

Biology student seeking comedic relief. Submissions hugely appreciated!

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I mean, this is just tragic. 

And hilarious.

And in no need of a visual representation.

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#OVERLYHONESTACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

Man, T. Appourchaux sucks. 

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Deep sea analyses. 

Loving the x-axis of flea, frog, bump, log, hole .

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Holey sheets!

Theoretical physics trying too hard? NAHHH

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Unscientific articles!

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Check your manuscript BEFORE submission

These authors did not check their supplemental data section carefully- or at all. This is really not a very funny example since it’s incriminating, though someone pointed out that the phrase “just make up an elemental analysis” could mean “just perform an elemental analysis” to include here- depending on the author’s nationality and/or first language. Still. Ugh.

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OH THE JOYS OF EDITING PAPERS!

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Dear editor- you unscrupulous, depraved monster

"Enclosed … is our re-re-re-revised revision of our paper. Choke on it." Admit it, we’ve all wanted to send in a letter like this- maybe just about every time we submit a revision. This anonymous author did- though I think it may be a bit tongue-in-cheek. You think?

The full, and bitingly funny, text of the letter is here.

(h/t to @DrDanGurney for the link)

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What's the matter?

Cat got your tongue? Frog in the throat? Fish maybe? Ahhh yes, that’s it.

Parida PK, Surianarayanan G. 2013. Accidental entry of fish into throat while bathing in a pond. Case Rep Med. 2013:604687

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HOW EVEN?

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#overlyhonestreviews

A sister twitter of #overlyhonestmethods.  Gotta love scientific article acknowledgements. You meanies!

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This possibly somewhat satirical paper makes the case for “lasagne plots”, following on the spaghetti plots that are popular in some fields for representing longitudinal data. Lasagne plots are presented as an alternative for large datasets though the authors state: ”To remain consistent with...

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Beautiful plots. 

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You do have a purpose… Maybe.

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Tiny little baby bats

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A shoal of barbel cleans a hippo in a Kenyan lake

From Life (Episode 4: Fish, 2009)

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NATURE IS SO AMAZING.

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Oh DNA, yo so funny.

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Sketchy lab practice, as expressed honestly by Overly Honest Methods. No one’s perfect.

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Today’s easter egg comes courtesy of a perfectly reasonable acronym being employed that just happens to be a pretty offensive word in English. This is actually a pretty understandable error by these non-English speakers (I’m assuming) publishing in a Chinese journal.

They are also in pretty good...

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Some beautiful soul has beat me to the scientific easter eggs! Wonderful work!