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A community for funny, quirky, and downright bizarre excerpts from peer-reviewed academic journals and scholarly textbooks. This is not an NSFW community, nor is it a place to make fun of the authors who dedicate immense time and effort to forwarding their respective fields. We're laughing with them, not at them.
Rules
The rules are subject to change, especially upon community feedback.
- Content – Posts should be a screenshot of an excerpt from a peer-reviewed academic article or a scholarly book which you find funny, quirky, or bizarre in some way. This excerpt should be no larger than about one paragraph. The text should be easily legible.
- If the excerpt is a figure, it should include both the figure itself and the caption explaining what the figure represents.
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Would He Still Love Me as a Worm: Indirect Sampling and Inference Techniques for Romantic Assurance
https://jabde.com/2024/10/31/would-chad-love-me-as-a-worm/
Transcript:
Ever since I saw the trend on TikTok, I had to know if my boyfriend Chad would still love me if I were a worm. After sampling Chad by directly asking him on camera at least 25 times for statistical significance, ANOVA analysis revealed that he would indeed still love me if I were a worm. Unfortunately, previous studies regarding direct sampling of questions of romantic commitment, though proving similarly statistically significant, have not withheld independent validation tests. This replication crisis has revealed a worrying uncertainty. If this study were validated, it would likely show that Chad might not love me if I were a worm! It is impossible to validate the previous study as I am not able to turn into a worm. In this paper, the worm love question will be validated indirectly by exhibiting worm like behavior, appearance, and sexual practices to measure Chad’s response and therefore his true commitment to
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The opening paragraph to Goodstein's textbook, "States of Matter"
Transcript (by @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world)
1.1 Introduction: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the Perfect Gas. Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
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Disorderly male crabs have a bass battle over a female, start a fight with each other, and end up injuring the female
Transcript: "The zip and bass sounds were only produced by a competing male against a mating pair or when there was male competition for a receptive (recently moulted) female (Fig. 8). Specifically, competing male crabs would alternate between producing zip trains and bass trains when exposed to a receptive female. The bass train followed after a zip train 82% of the time. In five out of the seven mating trials, males engaged in fights with other male crabs in the tank, and in two of these trials, females were also injured."
Source: Sound production and associated behaviours in the New Zealand paddle crab Ovalipes catharus
