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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 03:11:07)
The prize for Technology goes to the team who turned mosquito proboscises into 3D printing nozzles: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953
They call it "necroprinting"
I am in awe
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 03:03:41)
The Physics prize goes to the team who designed a splash-proof urinal in 2022: https://uwaterloo.ca/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/news/mathy-urinal-designs-solve-messy-problem
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 03:01:24)
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 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38705.470590.55
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:57:55)
The Biology Prize goes to the researcher who (gently) stepped on venomous snakes thousands of times to see what got them to bite: https://www.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(Note: the study was retracted for not getting the proper ethics board approval, although it seemed to be more about the researcher putting himself at risk because he is allergic to both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 https://retractionwatch.com/2025/03/07/snakes-soft-stepping-retraction-butantan-institute/ )
Edit: this one @ml links was not: https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jzo.70132
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:53:14)
This year in lieu of a small child, over-time speakers are ominously crowded off stage by a trio of bananas.
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:46:39)
There is now an interpretive dance and aria about fungi
#IgNobel #fungi #sporespondence #mushtodon
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:45:16)
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: https://einsteintelescope.eu/
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:41:41)
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. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252516008903
More on cockroach milk: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/06/488861223/cockroach-milk-yes-you-read-that-right
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:35:21)
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" https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:31:04)
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" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106788
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:14:07)
Aside: This event, the highlight of the scientific community's calendar, is being held outside the US for the first time, because of *gestures* all this #IgNobel
neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:09:42)
"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: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013
(He smashes a prop bottle over his head)
#IgNobel