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The Journal of Immaterial Science

@immaterialscience.bsky.social
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J. Immat. Sci. is an open-access, beer-reviewed journal, publishing satirical papers from all fields of science. Anyone can submit an article by downloading a template from our website: www.immaterialscience.org

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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A Bristol stool chart for 3D printers. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/shittin...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An article examining the probability of spontaneous human flight, either through a person being born lighter than air, or air suddenly becoming denser than people. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/humanfl...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An article examining under what conditions you could do NMR spectroscopy on a human. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/humannmr
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Pizza Tray Is Too Small and Nobody Planned for This PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/pizza
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
On the merits of analysing chemicals by tasting them. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/tasteth...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Isocyclotoe-Brosylate: A Chemical Reason to Kiss Your Homies Goodnight I think it’s fair to say that we’ve never received a manuscript quite like this before. Read on at your peril. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/kissthe...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Impact of Psychotherapy on the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/tinther...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We’re proud to announce the launch of the smallest NMR ever invented: the 1 MHz spectrometer. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/pocketnmr
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hey everyone, the PDF of J. Immat. Sci. Volume 5 is now up on our website, and you can download it for free. Here’s the link: www.immaterialscience.org/volumes/volu...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A Critical Update to Laboratory Hazard Signage PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Gravity.pdf
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For those of you who miss pipetting by mouth, we offer you the opportunity to Schlenk by nose. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/The-Nose-S...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
J. Immat. Sci. Just turned 5. Thanks for sticking with us through half a decade of scientific bullshit folks! One of our repeat authors wrote us this charming paper to mark the occasion. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/futyl
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
After a great deal of study and analysis, we have come to the unanimous conclusion that bacteriophages are probably from Mars. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/phages
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This paper discloses a novel treatment for people with blood clotting disorders: connect the patient to a fusion reactor and infuse ionic plasma directly into their circulatory system. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Plasma-GS3...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Principia Sociodynamica: The Three Laws of Conservation of Blame PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Principia-...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The 1850 Baseline is Scientifically Settled Forever: Deficit Spending is the Only Force Capable of Cooling the Planet PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/1850cli...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A beer-reviewer’s report on last week’s paper (which was concerned with the quantum underpinnings of the “Fuck Around - Find Out” relationship. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Fuck-Aroun...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Modelling the “Fuck Around – Find Out” Relationship in a Quantum Context PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/fuckaro...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Repeatedly Asking Chatbots “Does She Like Me Back?” Gives Them Generalized Anxiety Disorders PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Chatbots-G...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The Bibliographic Event Horizon: A Study on the Gravitational Pull of [1] PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/citations
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Synthesis, Properties, and Future Prospects for Stayawake Juice PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/stayawa...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A Quantitative Study on Dice Roll Performance after the Implementation of Corporal Dice Punishments PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/dicejail
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Asking subject organisms in biological studies if they consent to take part in experiments can reduce selection bias. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/plantco...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bananas Have Peyronie’s Disease: Definitive Clinical Evidence That Nature Is Trolling Us PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/penisba...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Quantitative Evidence for the “Shit In, Shit Out” Hypothesis in Large Language Models PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/SISO-GS2.pdf
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Total Synthesis of (+)-stupidity and the Consequences Thereof PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Stupidity....
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Here’s the link: www.etsy.com/au/shop/Imma... We’ve nearly been going for five years now, which by all rights should never have happened. As always, thanks are due to our authors, our patron supporters, our artists, and our readers. This cavalcade of ridiculousness is all your fault.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Volume 5 is here everyone! The PDF will be online soon, but the hardcopies are on the Etsy store for everyone who wants one. It’s 96 pages of high-impact, high-novelty, beer-reviewed bullshit, and 70% of the articles were written by you.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Fronds with benefits: how the 5G network gives plants wood. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/frondsw...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This week’s paper investigates a new family structure in response to declining birth rates, with IPA as a defining feature. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/ipa
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
On the merits of pickling cucumbers with titanium tetrachloride. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Pickles.pdf
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“anti-YAPPERS”: A Novel Conversational Framework for Detecting Nonsense PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/yappers
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
And finally, entry 9: fur-lined lab gloves. Because four of the entries were from us, everyone who submitted an ad wins a hardcopy! Our thanks to the submitters, Volume 5 will be on sale soon.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Entry 8: A new line of Black 6 lab mice. Entries have now closed for our ad competition.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Making Dinosaur Juice from Simple Saccharides: Total Synthesis of 𝜶-D-tolupyranose PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/sugar
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Entry 7: photochemistry in the blink of an eye.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Entry 6: a new use for used chromatography silica.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Entry 5: An essential tool for the laboratory ornithologist.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
How Big Can The Periodic Table Get Before Students Call Bullshit? PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Longest-Pe...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Entry 4: The Wine Schlenk. We need some more entries in the ad-competition folks, 75% of the ads so far were made by the editor. New deadline for submissions is the 10th of January. Here are the guidelines: www.reddit.com/r/Immaterial...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Those Fuckers Were Making It Up This Whole Time: An Exposé of “Electrochemistry" PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/electro...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Entry 3: A dating app for chemists
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Solving the Riemann Hypothesis via My Spam Folder PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/riemann
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Entry 2 in the ad competition: the annual SciHub plug.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Here’s the first entry in our spoof-ad competition: The McSolvent Fountain.
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A paper on the best strategies to deal with malign spirits in a molecular biology setting. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/pcr-dem...
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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