Improbable Research @improbresearch
Research that first makes people laugh, and then think. Annals of Improbable Research.The Ig Nobel Prizes. Also see @MarcAbrahams, @[email protected] improbable.com Cambridge, MA Joined January 2010-
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CCTV footage shows the cargo ship, loaded with sand, colliding with a portion of the Majiagang Wharf in Chongming District early morning on August 9 ,2021. newsflare.com/video/446707/c…
@improbresearch @MarcAbrahams Board game Eurocracy first made Europeans laugh, then think! In times of conceptual scepsis (1992) I turned EU into board game & invited citizens to have fun with European democracy Now book describes how EU has become European democracy in reality
On Friday, July 1, 2023 the first-ever Improbable Dramatic Readings event in Poland will happen, as part of Bazyliszek, in Warsaw. improbable.com/2023/06/29/1st…
Electric meringue recipe, public relations equation, and two sleepy trivial superpowers. (My column this week in New Scientist) improbable.com/2023/06/14/ele…
The invisible-gorilla guys shine a spotlight on con men’s tricks improbable.com/2023/06/13/the…
f you have not yet read a review of Love Your Gusset, here is an opportunity to try to read one improbable.com/2023/06/13/rev…
ASME, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is running a quiz about the Ig Nobel Prizes asme.org/topics-resourc…
Livestreamed talk for/with the Bay Area Skeptics tonight (Thursday, June 8, 2023) at 10:30 pm Pacific time. bayareascience.org/calendar/index…?
Ig Nobel Prize winner Pat Robertson — who predicted that the world would end in 1982 — died today (June 8, 2023), according to numerous news reports. improbable.com/2023/06/08/the…
"Window Pains, Hamburger & Fries, Stone on Stone, 2 New Superpowers" — my column this week in New Scientist improbable.com/2023/06/07/win…
An absolute delight to see!
An old history of no soap. improbable.com/2023/06/06/an-…
Oploopje bij @HetNatuurhist Museum Rotterdam. Dead Duck Day #28 is in volle gang. Met @KeesMoeliker en @BegijnLeBleu!
#Politico covers Dead Duck Day politico.eu/article/gone-q… #DeadDuckDay
De speciale ‘Dead Duck Day Message’ is dit jaar ingezonden door @BegijnLeBleu! Ik ga zijn proza met plezier voordragen, morgen stipt om 17:55 buiten bij @HetNatuurhist #DeadDuckDay ⬇️ hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/bezoek/activit…
Studying the menu, a June 4th ritual #DeadDuckDay
James Harkin @JamesHarkin
59K Followers 1K Following Podcaster: @nosuchthing Head Elf: @qikipedia Book: https://t.co/q0V3yIIlaI Tour: https://t.co/iCOCw93Ck3 IG: nosuchthingasjamesharkin email us: [email protected]
Dr Elodie Chabrol @EloScicomm
14K Followers 3K Following Science communication trainer/consultant 🧠🧬PhD ex @InstitutCerveau/@UCL• 🦄Director @pintsworld+@pintofscienceFR• 🎙️@souslablouse 🇫🇷 & 🇬🇧 #scicomm +📷🐱
Sylvain Deville ❄�.. @DevilleSy
7K Followers 2K Following Still making fresh pasta every Sunday, just not tweeting about it anymore
Dr. Animula @Animula_tenera
7K Followers 2K Following Ratel du Labo - Intermittente de la Recherche - Mother of Neurons - Khaleesi du Striatum - 50 shades of Grey Matter - Influenceuse Pâté
Kees Moeliker @KeesMoeliker
6K Followers 471 Following director, Natural History Museum Rotterdam; European Bureau Chief, Improbable Research; chroniqueur of Dead Animal Tales; writer, speaker, duck enthousiast
John Dudley @johnmdudley
8K Followers 2K Following Physicist. Nonlinearity, optics, extremes, outreach. Past President EPS, Hon IUFrance, Hon FRSNZ.
Anna Ciaunica @annaci.. @AnnaCiaunica
12K Followers 10K Following Philosopher/Cognitive scientist |PI working on Self-Consciousness, Embodiment & Social Interactions in Humans & Artificial Agents | RT not endorsement
Jose A. Plaza @Plaza_Bickle
10K Followers 3K Following Periodista. Comunicación científica. En @SaludISCIII. Socio @acbiotecnologia,@anisalud,@aecomcientifica. Entrevistas @naukas_com. Leer, escribir. Rock, basket.
Igor Aharonovich @igordownunder
7K Followers 2K Following Quantum Nanophotonics Group Leader, OPTICA & SPIE Fellow, Professor @UTS. Science, Travel and Scubadiving! co-founder https://t.co/66XhDQTL8V; views my own
𓅪 Dr Alex Evans �.. @alexevans91
9K Followers 9K Following Science and outdoor learning educator, speaker & writer. Animal flight researcher. Creator of #GuessTheCrest, #BestOfCrest and #CROSSBIRD. He/him.
Nico D. @inge_cata@ma.. @inge_cata
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Jean Michel Courty @jmcourty
7K Followers 3K Following Professeur #Physique @Sorbonne_Univ_ @lkb_lab #vulgarisation @PourlaScience @[email protected] 📺 https://t.co/1gcIoDWYg9…
Marion Sabourdy @Fuzzyraptor
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Orad Reshef, PhD @Orad
4K Followers 1K Following 🇨🇦 Scientist and Entrepreneur working in #photonics • previously @McGillu, @Harvard, @uOttawa • co-founder @PhotonicsMeetup • 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
olivetree aka Olivier.. @Olive_Free
3K Followers 5K Following Chimico-Physicien de la matière molle, de Genniste et Epicurien 🔬olivetree (Olivier Sandre)*🔬🦁🔍🍀🐺🦪
Felipe Carpes @felipecarpes
2K Followers 1K Following I do a lot of things at once; sometimes, some of them turn out wrong. Professor @UnipampaOficial President-elect @ISBiomechanics Dream big, plan ahead.
Christian Nawroth @GoatsThatStare
6K Followers 5K Following Postdoc @FBNBehavPhys @FBNDummerstorf | Alumnus @UniHalle, @QMUL & @Agroscope | Interests: animal cognition & welfare | Goat aficionado | Mycophile | he/him
NRC Wetenschap @nrcwetenschap
10K Followers 464 Following Wetenschapsredactie NRC en Onbehaarde Apen. Twitteraccount wordt bestuurd door @sandervoormolen en @hendrikspiering
Grupo de Oceanografí.. @bioloxica
139 Followers 118 Following Grupo de #Investigación no @CIM_Uvigo | @uvigo Xente a que lle gusta a #bioloxía e tamén o océano 🌊👩🏻🔬🧑🏼🔬 ... Que outra cousa podíamos facer?
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Augusto Cocorullo @AugustoCoco
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Sarah Diaz @SarahDiaz840705
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Jarin Tasnim @Jarin_Tasnim71
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Carola Salvi @CarolaSalvi
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Nicolas Clairis @nico.. @ClairisN
134 Followers 470 Following Postdoc at EPFL, Lausanne. Interested in cognitive neuroscience, value-based decision-making, effort, and neurometabolism.
Ninja Manav𝕏 @SamuraiManav
111 Followers 3K Following I am the GOOD😊I am the BAD😈I am the Danger ⚠️☣️☢️⚡🌩️⛈️🧬👨🔬🧫⚕️⚛️👨⚕️🦅🌱🌴🌳🏝️🌪️🐅🐺🦏🐘👹🌋👺🌋🗻☸️💙💙💚💚💜💜🐲🦎🐉🦖🦕🐢🐊🐍🦚🦜🕊️🦉🦇🦘🦒🦛🐪🐚🐧
Pablo Hugo Bena @blopagohu
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ويلين @weiliiin
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Richard Wodsman @RWodsman61644
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BirtheBruun @bruun_birthe
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tim marlow @wildrainsbrook
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🏳️🌈 Dan �.. @LincsSausage
423 Followers 963 Following Grown in Lincolnshire, growing in Yorkshire 🇬🇧 Data Scientist by day 👨💻 Mostly post about running 🏃♂️ and life in and around Leeds
Mary Burton @burton_mar79969
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mmm @04__miu
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Faitma @Faitma98055752
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Max Bonomi @BonomiMax
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A. Mesut Erzurumluoğ.. @mesuturkiye
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אור דיין @96OrD
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pips @dometwofavours
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Kumajiro @IAmKumaJiro
12 Followers 369 Following 6/25 2022 It would be a shame not to watch the cartoons.
先延ばし2段 @for_SARS_CoV2
61 Followers 870 Following 興味が湧いた事柄のメモ。物理学関連の勉強メモ。耳学問のメモ。新型コロナウイルス感染症の情報のメモ。ファ・ファ・モ・モ・モの5回接種完了。筋トレ、漫画、ゲームのメモ。エクスカリパー。Fighting SARS-CoV-2 with scientific methods.
LAZELLU. @QpS3qFk85X57209
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ほっとあいず（.. @hot_eyes
2K Followers 3K Following 祝‼ tw参入13周年⁉後の、段取りの為 全国行脚 @dainichi_nyorai & @ofudo_sun の開始。予定 ◆ 諸行無常＆一期一会＆温故知新＆唯我独尊＆喜怒哀楽＆花鳥風月 ♫(^o^)♪ ツ(^o^)シ §(^o^)β 参照 @Miura_Atsushi ＆ https://t.co/xixlLWF5yl
Chaos Song @song_chaos2243
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knowledge @knowled16165531
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Belphegor @Purple_Kus
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Sonu Ansari @SonuAns44382048
49 Followers 1K Following Sari Sikandari Khatm ho Jayegi Jab Izraeel Awega😭
Axel @axelTlexa
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Ryan Mangion @ryanmattyman_4
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Marc Abrahams @MarcAbrahams
10K Followers 918 Following editor of the Annals of Improbable Research magazine, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prizes. Also see: @ImprobResearch, mastodon: @[email protected]
Kees Moeliker @KeesMoeliker
6K Followers 471 Following director, Natural History Museum Rotterdam; European Bureau Chief, Improbable Research; chroniqueur of Dead Animal Tales; writer, speaker, duck enthousiast
Darryl Gwynne @dtgwynne
425 Followers 232 Following Sexethologist of gender fluid bugs, 🦗🦟 seminal gifts & sex diff theory. Filton Church Baby Show win ‘52; IgNobel 2011; ABS Seminal Contribution🙂Award 2014
Jason Organ @OrganJM
3K Followers 4K Following Editor-in-Chief @AnatSciEduc, Assoc Prof of #Anatomy @IUMedSchool, Co-Host @SciNightPod. Tweets are my own. #SciComm #AnatEd ⭕⚡️💀🌹🪬✡️
Hush-Kit Aviation New.. @Hush_Kit
28K Followers 9K Following alternative aviation blog: news, satire & history from 25K feet. I am human & I need Tupolevs. Our warplane book here: https://t.co/cLxyvN3yVo
Amazing Maps @amazingmap
617K Followers 14K Following Amazing maps brought to your attention. Turn our tweet notifications ON to never miss a tweet! Business/Map Ideas
New Scientist @newscientist
4.4M Followers 290 Following The best place to find out what’s new in science – and why it matters.
Dreadnought Holiday @TheDreadShips
26K Followers 404 Following Worse things happen at sea. Repeatedly. Emergency lifeboat and muster station @[email protected]
イグ・ノーベル.. @ignobel_fuk
526 Followers 11 Following イグ・ノーベル賞公式展覧会 「イグ・ノーベル賞の世界展」 2021年9月9日(木)〜11月3日(水・祝)に福岡市科学館で開催！ 「人々を笑わせ、そして考えさせてくれる研究」の数々をお楽しみに★
The Public Domain Rev.. @PublicDomainRev
83K Followers 2K Following Online journal exploring works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. @[email protected]
Lluis Pallares @lluispallares78
729 Followers 1K Following Maker. Entrepreneur. Computer Scientist. AI. Unleashing the power of your ideas at Nennisiwok AI Lab. SwissNeuroFoundation Board Member.
Andreas Voss @AVIPNL
6K Followers 131 Following clinical microbiologist & professor of infection control, REshape fellow, occasional blogger (https://t.co/TkQgVZkSwf)
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164K Followers 4K Following Curator of the art, history and fiction of old dreams.
Michelle Tessler @tessleragency
6K Followers 524 Following Literary agent in NYC focusing on high quality non-fiction and fiction.
Tu sais pas quoi ?! @tuCpakoa
347K Followers 90 Following Des savoirs étonnants pour te faire pétiller l'esprit ! 🤯 Mes LIVRES 👉 https://t.co/kMhuet5nnz
AP Oddities @AP_Oddities
255K Followers 9 Following From just a little off to downright ludicrous. The best odd news @AP has to offer.
Manon @ManonVenc
236 Followers 629 Following Actuellement pizzaiola - avt chargée de projet chez ébulliscience - master #CSTgre et M1 d'études sur le genre
Nancy Greer @nancy_m_greer
170 Followers 366 Following Nancy is a PhD Candidate at CQUniversity Australia. My PhD topic is on esports betting and skin gambling. E: [email protected]
LaughThenThink @LaughThenThink
17 Followers 1 Following Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — The Ig Nobel Prizes, the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. See also @ImprobResearch.
Paperback Paradise @paprbckparadise
209K Followers 6 Following The world's #1 used book store. Come visit us at the edge of eternity.
Dead Duck Day @Dead_Duck_Day
155 Followers 419 Following Official twitter account of Dead Duck Day | June 5th | Rotterdam and elsewhere | hosted by @HetNatuurhist and @improbresearch | tweets by founder @KeesMoeliker
HomoNecroDuckOpera @homoduckopera
119 Followers 415 Following by @gillingwaterd @keesmoeliker 26.2.17 flying to Chelsea Arts Club-based on Kees Moeliker paper-1st Case Of Homosexual Necrophilia in the mallard duck #Quack!
Recipe Recreation @reciperec
18 Followers 93 Following Recreate your favorite commercially produced foods, right in your very own kitchen.
Christie Aschwanden @cragcrest
16K Followers 2K Following Author NYT bestseller GOOD TO GO https://t.co/7BTooRgznX @wwnorton co-host EMERGING FORM pod https://t.co/DeBZEJemBF alum @FiveThirtyEight, Find me: https://t.co/TSuZiHTZll
Barry Marshall @barjammar
5K Followers 297 Following Nobel Prize in Medicine 2005 for discovery stomach ulcers caused by bacteria (H.pylori) not stress
David Kessler @voxDK
69 Followers 117 Following Using pluck, logistics, & music to find good people, songs, stories, whisky, & sailboats.
Amboceptor @theAmboceptor
243 Followers 548 Following Curious medical history from old medical journals.
Geri Sullivan @gerifsullivan
383 Followers 191 Following This is the Geri Sullivan of Toad Woods. The one who's a science fiction fan. User name has my middle initial.
Mindless Eating @mindlesseating
2K Followers 50 Following We are the Mindless Team, authorized Mindless Eating ambassadors. MINDLESS EATING: WHY WE EAT MORE THAN WE THINK, Brian Wansink, Ph.D.
Philip G. Zimbardo @PhilipZimbardo
867 Followers 0 Following Psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
Dorian @dio_rian
141 Followers 456 Following Are there an odd or even number of sand grains on earth?
The Invisible Gorilla @invisgorilla
789 Followers 33 Following Follow Christopher Chabris @cfchabris & Daniel Simons @profsimons & visit https://t.co/sBy444uoYi for news & updates related to our book
Theodore Gray @TheodoreGray
1K Followers 8 Following Co-founder of Wolfram Research, writer, author of The Elements and proprietor of https://t.co/v3YutVLVzb
Dr Karl @DoctorKarl
336K Followers 116 Following Dr Karl Kruszelnicki ~ an answer looking for a question. I do not endorse any commercial products.
Fiona Barclay @fbarclay
2K Followers 2K Following Classical music, opera, apps, gadgets, runs @Nature_Guides, proud Vice-President of @_bto
Clocky the Alarm @clockythealarm
2K Followers 66 Following I'm Clocky the ⏰ that runs away to get you up! For heavy sleepers and snooze addicts. IG: @clockyofficial Tik Tok: @clockythealarm
ドクター・中松.. @Dr_NakaMats
22K Followers 5 Following The Inventor of Floppy Disk licensed to IBM. Holds more than 3,000 patents. 【YouTube】https://t.co/VguZcOU4xD 【発明品が買える公式通販サイト】https://t.co/nHq2myuqLE
Richard Stephens @PsychologyRich
1K Followers 966 Following Award winning psychologist and writer. Views expressed are my own.
Gwinyai Masukume @GwinyaiMasukume
796 Followers 844 Following Brother, Son, Uncle, Friend, Blogger, Doctor, etc.
Andrea Rapisarda @A_Rapis
801 Followers 822 Following Physicist (Ig Nobel prize winner) working on complex systems and passionate photographer (see my portfolio here https://t.co/PDoy8lGCCp)
IgNobel @IgNobel
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Sid Rodrigues @SidRodrigues
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Anna Wexler @anna_wexler
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National Center for S.. @NCSE
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Jason Webley @jasonwebley
9K Followers 136 Following Songwriter, vagabond, cult leader, eater of artichokes, singer of 'wheeeeeeeeeeee'and 'ya-da-da-dah!'@IGN @EJ_Cheung West Australia did it first! In the early 1980s I dined in a remote coastal “roadhouse” and asked why the cost of a cheeseburger on the menu was lower than a hamburger. Response: “because it has cheese.” It was only on further questioning that I realized it contained only cheese!
The 10th Hoboken Lecture by @ProfKateJones just started. We have a full house @kunsthal right next to @HetNatuurhist
@improbresearch @MarcAbrahams Board game Eurocracy first made Europeans laugh, then think! In times of conceptual scepsis (1992) I turned EU into board game & invited citizens to have fun with European democracy Now book describes how EU has become European democracy in reality
What happens if you give Froot Loops to a rat and study its penis buff.ly/3CJ3WOm @improbresearch
Not to be confused with #Xerox Enlargement #Microscopy (XEM), as discussed in Annals of Improbable Research, Vol. 1, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995). improbable.com/airchives/pape…
Just found the example of early recursive Xerox art that I had told @shannonmattern that I had in a book somewhere, almost exactly a year ago.
@kejamieson_ Makes me wonder how many wars have been won by the superior dance routine though
In the heart of @LondonNPC - Covent Garden, James Street
An absolute delight to see!
When the director of @HetNatuurhist @KeesMoeliker asks to see your pubic lice - who am I to deny his request! Lovely final tour of the @NHM_Diptera @NHM_London collections
@Dead_Duck_Day The day is also commemorated in Seattle!
Oploopje bij @HetNatuurhist Museum Rotterdam. Dead Duck Day #28 is in volle gang. Met @KeesMoeliker en @BegijnLeBleu!
This is why I will always love baseball best. Thanks for making #KC baseball so exciting when I was a kid in OPKS. You were everyone's childhood hero, @BoJackson.
Blush-worthy description aside (and note that our dog, sleeping on the sofa behind me while I spoke, is sure she is the top dog), a very good summary of my main points in "Retractions are on the rise -- but not enough." Thanks @UKRIO for the opportunity.
The godfather of retractions, the top dog of watchdogs, Dr. @ivanoransky himself, is our afternoon keynote speaker. #Retractions are rising, but not enough. About 1/1000 publications are retracted, with a lag. 40,000 total in @RetractionWatch database. #UKRIOevents
De #Bioblitz #Rotterdam gaat nu van start. Hier in Polder De Esch worden nachtvlinders gelokt ‘met lamp en laken’. We streven naar het vaststellen van 1000 soorten dieren en planten.
Tweepup with @ivanoransky in New York City
My High-z colleagues have reminded me that this was a big day for us all 25 years ago.
@kscottz Must be on Ig Nobel Prize's radar .@improbresearch
Scientists combine fluid mechanics, mathematical models and ancient tech to prove that the best kimchi is made in traditional onggi jars. Surely a prixe-worthy endeavour @improbresearch phys.org/news/2023-04-k…
I hear the silver rockets fly As Flanders & Swan I quoth And cameras all do me espy How sweet... to be... a #sloth
The sloth, now nicknamed Gérard or Jerry, stole the spotlight from Friday's historic launch. kiro7.com/news/trending/…
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