🐟 “Gills Just Want to Have Fun: Can Fish Play Games, Just like Us?”
🍲 “The effect of having Christmas dinner with in-laws on gut microbiota composition”
🚗 “Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis:
diagnostic accuracy”
🪞 “’Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder’: People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive”
Funny, interesting or downright strange: papers like these make us wonder what humour is doing in the typically serious world of science publications. In this paper, we examined 269 humorous scientific articles to identify common thematic strategies that researchers use to express their quirky sense of humour. Check it out to discover the many zany, weird, and wacky ways that we can better understand science – after all, science is funny as long as it happens to someone else!
