this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
758 points (99.6% liked)

Science Memes

14526 readers
2266 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Can't upvote because 420 lol.

All memes should aspire to this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh, this is double hard, isn't it. My initial thought was that it was a confusion between paedology and pedology (in my head something to do with feet!). But it's actually soil science... TIL :)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought Entomology was the study of treebeard and his friends

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just the tree dudes. They lost the wives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Apparently the word rust is related to the word red, but not the word dust.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Aren't you clever

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Fly, you fools!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can I sell you my craft of etsymology?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I often struggle to know who that fits with epistemology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ask your epidemiologist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe if it's a Firefly game tool...I did that there when GF9 stopped the full mats.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That would be an ecumenical matter