#researchfail — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #researchfail, aggregated by home.social.
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🧐 Oh, the irony! A #study on #procrastination that's too lazy to replicate? 🤦♂️ Apparently, setting #deadlines doesn't even help researchers meet basic standards of scientific integrity. 📉🔍
https://datacolada.org/138 #irony #scientificintegrity #researchfail #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉Breaking news!🎉 A genius tech writer has managed to burn through all their tokens while researching how not to burn tokens. 🤔 The #irony is lost on no one, except perhaps the writer, who now has a PhD in #Tokenology but zero tokens to show for it! 💸🔥
https://quesma.com/blog/custom-deep-research-pipeline/ #BreakingNews #TechWriter #ResearchFail #HackerNews #ngated -
In a groundbreaking discovery that totally wasn't blocked by their servers' security policies, scientists have allegedly found evidence of two structures in liquid water—because apparently one wasn't enough. 🤔💧 Meanwhile, their IT department is busy finding evidence of how to unblock a 400 Bad Request error. 😂🔒
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientists-molecular-evidence-liquid.html #scientificdiscovery #liquidwater #ITchallenges #techhumor #researchfail #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the scientific community's latest marvel: turning sleep-inducing papers into sleep-inducing videos 🎥📄. Because if you can't read them, why not watch them fail to hold your interest in a new medium? Bravo, academia, for making sure we don't miss a wink of boredom 😴👏!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05096 #sleepyvideos #academicboredom #researchfail #multimediainnovation #sciencehumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🐸🔬 Oh, the Herculean task of explaining the obvious: a newt so toxic even Mother Nature cringes. 🤦♂️ Doug Muir's "occasional" paper is like watching paint dry, but with more newts and zero explanations. Maybe next time, Doug, save us from the cliffhanger and just Wikipedia it. 🧠💡
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/ #toxicnewts #DougMuir #sciencehumor #natureexplained #researchfail #HackerNews #ngated -
🚫 Oh, the sheer cosmic irony of a deep dive into LLM behavior that's as accessible as a locked diary on a deserted island. 🤔 The only thing emerging here is a big, fat "403 Forbidden." 🚪🔒 Nice work, Sherlock, hope you didn't hurt yourself with all that "research"! 🕵️♂️✨
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3T8eKyaPvDDm2wzor/research-question #cosmicirony #LLMbehavior #403forbidden #techhumor #researchfail #HackerNews #ngated -
OK, so #ResearchGate actually did something useful. It told me a journal article I cited was retracted. However, I'm coauthor on a lot of different types of manuscripts in various sub-fields, because I do the data analysis.
But they don't tell me which of my own manuscripts cited this retracted article. And there are only 707 articles that cite the retracted one.