27 Twitter accounts bringing out the silly, quirky, and fun side of academia, introducing you to a space on Twitter where academics can be casual, friendly, and humorous.

Have you ever crossed international borders with protein crystals in a big Styrofoam hand luggage, set your hair on fire, or forgotten to use the extractor and nearly gassed your co-workers?

When scientists step outside their safe laboratories, anything can happen. Of course, studying wild animals or digging out million-year-old fossils sounds exotic and exciting, but that's only one side of the spectrum.

The only thing that matters is your IF.

An amusing case of plagiarism in a paper about plagiarism.

The Third Annual Academics with Cats Awards, organised by Academia Obscura, celebrates academic cats and injects a bit of fun into the pre-Christmas panic.

A guide to help selfish academics ensure that everyone at a conference knows they are very special indeed.

Florida ecologist uses a parody Twitter account as a way of highlighting issues in science and academia.

It is an unfortunate convention of science that research should pretend to be reproducible; our top tips will help you mitigate this fussy conventionality, enabling you to enthusiastically showcase your irreproducible work.

The International Council for Science announced Thursday the addition of a "Seek Funding" step to the scientific method.

“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it..."