The AAAS Annual Meeting is happening this week. Join us at the Improbable Research session, on Thursday, February 11, from 2:15 to 3:15. Navigate to the AAAS Meeting live channel <https://virtual.aaas.org/landing> (NOTE: The Improbable Research session is a public session, which means that you can probably watch it even if you have not paid to […]
Category: Improbable Investigators
People who do research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Adám Lovas-Kiss, Undersung Scientist
This month’s Undersung Scientist of the Month is Dr. Adám Lovas-Kiss of the DRI Wetland Ecology Research Group of the Centre for Research Ecology (which has been authorized to use the label “Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence”). Dr. Lovas-Kiss’ is not entirely unsung, just undersung. His work has achieved some fame, much of […]
“People ask me the strangest questions”
“Luckily we found a great collaborator in Australia who studies wombats, and he sent us one through the mail. We opened the intestines up and there were these cubes inside. There are moments when you wonder if your life is real, or if it’s just some big joke.” —Double Ig Nobel Prize winner David Hu, […]
Huh? Ig Nobel Prize winner wins Heineken Young Scientist Award
Mark Dingemanse was awarded the Heineken Young Scientists Award in Humanities 2020. The official announcement says: Mark Dingemanse studied African languages and cultures at Leiden University. He carried out research for his PhD in Ghana, receiving his doctorate cum laude in 2011 at Radboud University Nijmegen. That work contributed to a fundamental shift in research […]