What an excellent topic for a study - who makes jokes during talks? 'Jokes eliciting whole-room laughter were rare (9%), while the majority fell flat or landed mildly, earning mostly quiet chuckles (67%)' Ouch!
Laura Kelley
Who is making jokes at scientific conferences? Which type of joke land?
To find out, we collected quantitative data on jokes at 14 scientific conferences – now published OA in @royalsociety.org ProcB:
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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