"Ceremonial safety gesture" from Dr. Stephan Bollinger, winner of the 2009 IgNobel Peace Prize for determining whether it is worse to be smashed over the head with a full beer bottle or an empty one: doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013
(He smashes a prop bottle over his head)
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in reply to neville park • • •The Biomechanics Prize goes to this team for defining "kissing as a non-agonistic interaction involving directed, intraspecific, oral-oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer" doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106788
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in reply to neville park • • •The #Economics Prize goes to Dr. Paul K. Piff & co. for this 2012 study showing that (among other things) rich people steal more candy from a dish marked "for children" pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
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in reply to neville park • • •Some of the researchers from this paper on how cockroach milk has 3 times more protein than cow milk are summarizing their findings in song. doi.org/10.1107/S2052252516008903
More on cockroach milk: npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/06/488861223/cockroach-milk-yes-you-read-that-right
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in reply to neville park • • •The 24/7 lectures: a technical summary in 24 seconds, a clear summary in 7 words.
"To understand space, first, dig a hole" is the 7-word plain-language summary of the Einstein Telescope team: einsteintelescope.eu/
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in reply to neville park • • •There is now an interpretive dance and aria about fungi
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in reply to neville park • • •This year in lieu of a small child, over-time speakers are ominously crowded off stage by a trio of bananas.
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in reply to neville park • • •The Biology Prize goes to the researcher who (gently) stepped on venomous snakes thousands of times to see what got them to bite: science.org/content/article/researcher-steps-deadly-vipers-40-000-times-better-predict-snakebites
(Note: the study was retracted for not getting the proper ethics board approval, although it seemed to be more about the researcher putting himself at risk because he is allergic to both snake venom and antivenom retractionwatch.com/2025/03/07/snakes-soft-stepping-retraction-butantan-institute/ )
Edit: this one @ml links was not: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jzo.70132
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Don’t tread on me: Snake paper retracted for ‘soft-stepping’ technique
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in reply to neville park • • •Generally failing at keeping up with liveposting so I will stop trying lol, but a prize went to the people who studied didgeridoo playing as a treatment for sleep apnea doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38705.470590.55
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in reply to neville park • • •The Physics prize goes to the team who designed a splash-proof urinal in 2022: uwaterloo.ca/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/news/mathy-urinal-designs-solve-messy-problem
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Mathy urinal designs solve a messy problem | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering | University of Waterloo
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in reply to neville park • • •The prize for Technology goes to the team who turned mosquito proboscises into 3D printing nozzles: science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953
They call it "necroprinting"
I am in awe
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in reply to neville park • • •"If you didn't win an award, or especially if you did, better luck next year" - @MarcAbrahams
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