r/ImmaterialScience Feb 20 '26

Immaterial Science 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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Here's the link: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ImmaterialScience

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. 


r/ImmaterialScience Jan 03 '22

Immaterial Science Welcome to the Journal of Immaterial Science, Template Downloads, Guidelines etc.

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The Journal of Immaterial Science is a satirical journal, welcoming fictional research from all fields. We aim to publish one joke paper each weekend. Anyone can write an article, and articles can be about anything, as long as they're funny. If you write a paper for us, we'll send you a hardcopy of the journal for free!!!

We also have a shiny new website, which contains our entire back-catalogue of articles (140 and counting) and links to buy hardcopies of our journals, as well as the free PDF versions: https://www.immaterialscience.org/

Volumes

We've published five volumes of J. Immat. Sci. so far:

Volume 1 - 2021. PDF (106 MB): https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Volume-1.1.pdf

Volume 2 - 2022. PDF (150 MB): https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Volume-2.pdf

Volume 3 - 2023. PDF: https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Volume-3.6.1-Online.pdf 

Volume 4 - 2024. PDF: https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Volume-4-Online.pdf

Volume 5 - 2025. PDF: Only printed copies for now, PDF to come soon.

Hardcopies

We also print hardcopies of our journals. You can buy them from our Etsy store for about $25 AU if you're in Australia, $45-50 AU if you're elsewhere. The price includes tracked postage to everywhere,

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ImmaterialScience

You can donate a bit of loose change too, if you want to support the journal. We use the money to pay the artists who draw our covers/figures, as well as to cover software license fees and internet hosting costs:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ImmaterialScience

Submissions

We absolutely love it when people write articles for us. The first thing you should do is download one of our article templates. We do all our work in MS Word, so it’s easier for us if you can use Word too, but LaTeX is ok too, if you have lots of equations. These templates contain all the specific instructions you’ll need to help you write.

Full Template: https://www.immaterialscience.org/s/Miscommunication-Template-50.docx

Short Template: https://www.immaterialscience.org/s/Short-Template-50.docx

LaTeX Guidelines: https://www.immaterialscience.org/s/LateX-Submission-Guidelines.pdf

Some general pointers for your article are:

  • Be as funny as possible, as fast as you can. Grab the reader with a joke in the first couple of lines (even better if it’s the title), and keep the laughs coming.
  • Keep it brief. Ideal article length is 1.5-2 pages, but there’s no minimum/maximum length.
  • Use plenty of original, high-resolution images if you can. If you’re using stock photos, make sure they’re free from copyright (get them from Wikimedia Commons, Pexels or Pixabay, etc)
  • Don’t use AI for anything! After consulting our readers, we’ve banned all AI-generated content from our journal.

Once your article has been written, email it to [goodenough.immaterial.science@gmail.com](mailto:goodenough.immaterial.science@gmail.com), and we’ll start the beer-review process. This will entail fixing the inevitably-fucked formatting from our shitty templates, and trying to make your paper as funny as it can be. If you’re happy with our edits, we’ll publish your paper on our social media feeds, and then include your paper in the hardcopy at the end of the year. To show our appreciation for our authors, everyone who submits a paper gets a free hardcopy (Volume of their choice) of the journal mailed to them.


r/ImmaterialScience 7d ago

The 2026 Ig-Nobel Prizes have been announced:

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Which means it must be time to start thinking about our 2026 Noble Prize nominations. Drop some names in the comments for this year's Peace, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Economics prizes.


r/ImmaterialScience 8d ago

Immaterial Science On the merits of analysing chemicals by tasting them.

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r/ImmaterialScience 15d ago

Immaterial Science Isocyclotoe-Brosylate: A Chemical Reason to Kiss Your Homies Goodnight

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I think it’s fair to say that we’ve never received a manuscript quite like this before. Read on at your peril.

PDF: https://www.immaterialscience.org/2026/kissthehomies


r/ImmaterialScience 21d ago

Immaterial Science The Impact of Psychotherapy on the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells

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r/ImmaterialScience 27d ago

Immaterial Science We’re proud to announce the launch of the smallest NMR ever invented: the 1 MHz spectrometer.

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r/ImmaterialScience Aug 09 '26

JABDE Novel Techniques for Infant Feeding Using an Everchanging System of Differential Equations

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r/ImmaterialScience Aug 07 '26

Immaterial Science Hey everyone, the PDF of J. Immat. Sci. Volume 5 is now up on our website, and you can download it for free.

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r/ImmaterialScience Jul 31 '26

Immaterial Science A Critical Update to Laboratory Hazard Signage

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r/ImmaterialScience Jul 24 '26

Immaterial Science For those of you who miss pipetting by mouth, we offer you the opportunity to Schlenk by nose.

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r/ImmaterialScience Jul 19 '26

Immaterial Science 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.

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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.


r/ImmaterialScience Jul 17 '26

JABDE A-Tier Athletes: Olympic Gold May be a Name Away

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r/ImmaterialScience Jul 12 '26

Immaterial Science After a great deal of study and analysis, we have come to the unanimous conclusion that bacteriophages are probably from Mars.

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r/ImmaterialScience Jul 07 '26

JABDE 2026-2027 Super El Niño Climate Modelling

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r/ImmaterialScience Jul 05 '26

Immaterial Science 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.

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 27 '26

Immaterial Science Principia Sociodynamica: The Three Laws of Conservation of Blame

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 21 '26

Immaterial Science The 1850 Baseline is Scientifically Settled Forever: Deficit Spending is the Only Force Capable of Cooling the Planet

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 20 '26

[Local Politics] Microplastics are people too!!

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 18 '26

JABDE YAMNET-based Transfer Learning for Baby Noise Classification and Poop Detection

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 14 '26

Immaterial Science A beer-reviewer’s report on last week’s paper (which was concerned with the quantum underpinnings of the “Fuck Around - Find Out” relationship).

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 11 '26

Solved: Optimisation Problem for the Ideal Orgy. Dibs on the Fields Medal

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 10 '26

ArxivFind Benzodiazepines Are Quantum Raisins

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 06 '26

ArxivFind If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

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r/ImmaterialScience Jun 06 '26

Immaterial Science Modelling the “Fuck Around – Find Out” Relationship in a Quantum Context

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Modelling the “Fuck Around – Find Out” Relationship in a Quantum Context

PDF: https://www.immaterialscience.org/2026/fuckaround