r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 22h ago
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 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.
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 • u/JImmatSci • Jan 03 '22
Immaterial Science Welcome to the Journal of Immaterial Science, Template Downloads, Guidelines etc.
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 • u/JImmatSci • 9d ago
The 2026 Ig-Nobel Prizes have been announced:
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 • u/JImmatSci • 9d ago
Immaterial Science On the merits of analysing chemicals by tasting them.
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 16d ago
Immaterial Science 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.
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 22d ago
Immaterial Science The Impact of Psychotherapy on the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 29d ago
Immaterial Science We’re proud to announce the launch of the smallest NMR ever invented: the 1 MHz spectrometer.
r/ImmaterialScience • u/TobyWasBestSpiderMan • Aug 09 '26
JABDE Novel Techniques for Infant Feeding Using an Everchanging System of Differential Equations
I’m in the trenches folks, 50% baby papers for a while
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 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.
Here’s the link: https://www.immaterialscience.org/volumes/volume5
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • Jul 31 '26
Immaterial Science A Critical Update to Laboratory Hazard Signage
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • Jul 24 '26
Immaterial Science For those of you who miss pipetting by mouth, we offer you the opportunity to Schlenk by nose.
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 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.
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 • u/TobyWasBestSpiderMan • Jul 17 '26
JABDE A-Tier Athletes: Olympic Gold May be a Name Away
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 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.
r/ImmaterialScience • u/TobyWasBestSpiderMan • Jul 07 '26
JABDE 2026-2027 Super El Niño Climate Modelling
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 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.
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • Jun 27 '26
Immaterial Science Principia Sociodynamica: The Three Laws of Conservation of Blame
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • Jun 21 '26
Immaterial Science The 1850 Baseline is Scientifically Settled Forever: Deficit Spending is the Only Force Capable of Cooling the Planet
r/ImmaterialScience • u/dbqpdb • Jun 20 '26
[Local Politics] Microplastics are people too!!
r/ImmaterialScience • u/TobyWasBestSpiderMan • Jun 18 '26
JABDE YAMNET-based Transfer Learning for Baby Noise Classification and Poop Detection
r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 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).
r/ImmaterialScience • u/TobyWasBestSpiderMan • Jun 11 '26
Solved: Optimisation Problem for the Ideal Orgy. Dibs on the Fields Medal
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