Article created by: Denis Tymulis

Forget movies that portray scientists as dry nerds. Their sense of humor, among many other attributes, is even better than those writers who paint such a terrible picture of them in scripts. Actually, scientists can't resist dropping a pun here and there when they're writing serious papers.

One viral Twitter thread has academics and researchers sharing the best paper titles they've come across, and no wonder it's so popular. From the classic "Medical marijuana: Can't we all just get a bong?" to the contemporary "miR miR on the wall, who's the most malignant medulloblastoma miR of them all?", these headlines are so good, their clickthrough rate could rival that of fake clickbait articles. The only difference is these have substance.

Continue scrolling and check out some of the best submissions on the thread!

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Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title about malignant medulloblastoma microRNA from a PubMed search.

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    Twitter post showing a humorous scientific paper title about gut microbe to brain signaling in a neuroscience journal.

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    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title about Christmas dinner effects on gut microbiota from a microbiome journal.

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    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title about snakes on a spaceship in heliophysics research.

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    Tweet showing a humorous science paper title about carbon monoxide with abstract details from a research article.

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    Twitter post showing a humorous scientific paper title about cancer stem cells and tumor biology from a popular thread.

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    Twitter post showing a humorous scientific paper title about optical physics in a thread on funny paper titles from scientists.

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    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title about visual constraints on social group formation shared on Twitter.

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    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title about training oncolytic viruses in a gene and cell therapy journal.

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    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper titled Great big boulders I have known, shared in a Twitter thread on paper titles.

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    Tweet by David Allsopp sharing a humorous scientific paper titled Research, Re: Search and Re-Search from 1996.

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    Tweet showing a humorous science paper titled Space the final frontier for economists and elephants from a Twitter thread.

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    Tweet from Vantuna Research Group showing a humorous scientific paper title about species range extensions in Southern California.

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    Screenshot of a humorous scientific paper titled about pressures produced when penguins defecate from a Twitter thread.

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    Screenshot of a humorous science paper titled The return of the jedi, shared in a Twitter thread on funny paper titles.

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    Twitter post showing a humorous scientific paper title on plant science from a collection of funny paper titles by scientists.

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    Screenshot of a humorous scientific paper titled Bieber Fever, shared as part of funny paper titles from scientists on Twitter.

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    #18

    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title about shark diets and effects of tourism, shared in a popular Twitter thread.

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    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title from a Twitter thread featuring 24 paper titles from scientists.

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    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title shared in a thread about funny paper titles from scientists.

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    #21

    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper titled Leaving Office Feet First related to paper titles from scientists with humor.

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    #22

    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper abstract with a cartoon referencing 24 paper titles from scientists with humor.

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    Tweet showing a humorous scientific paper title shared in a thread about paper titles from scientists with humor.

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    Twitter post showing a humorous scientific paper titled Defending the Genome in Tudor Style, highlighting creative science communication.

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