Welcome to our journal
This Journal-Blog is a place for people to publish parody and satirical academic articles, STEM news/clickbait. We ask that you laugh at our science but not believe it. If anyone is to link one of our articles unironically, please let us know so that we can make fun of them together for being dooped. Please enjoy the writing, we aim to add as much humor as we can down to the reference section in our work. We post PDFs of our papers so that you can print them out to leave around conferences and office break/restrooms. If you get in trouble for the jokes we do not accept liability.
If you want to subscribe to our articles but do not want to give us your email, check us out on twitter, blue sky, insta, or facebook. We post memes there as well. We also post articles on our sister journal’s subreddit, the Journal of Immaterial Science at the r/ImmaterialScience subreddit! They also post here. If you’re here looking for their info go to their about page.
Contributions and Template
This journal loves to receive unsolicited articles. If it is not quite there we may help you edit your fake science article into a true work of artistic misinformation that will have everyone in stitches. We do ask that you follow the following rules.
- The article must attempt to be ridiculous enough that a reasonable person will believe that it is made up.
- If someone were gullible enough to believe in our fake science it cannot be harmful. No demonizing people groups to include age, sex, ethnicity, gender identities, political leanings (unless you make fun of both sides equally). No information that would be dangerous to people if they were to try it.
- Articles must be formatted like an academic article, we have templates. It’s okay to voice it professionally or use some good ole fashioned Kayfabe and pretend to be someone else.
- We are multi-disciplinary but it should be parodying a real academic study; engineering, science, biology, medical sciences, psychology, social science…
We also will accept satirical/parody clickbait and fake science news articles. The clickbait can be true and useful as long as it is funny; however it would be best to start with and full parody academic article as a contributor. If you get one published and would like to be a regular contributor, we have a discord to share ideas and collaborate.
Below is a template that you should use for the articles. I love papers that get creative with LaTeX but we may never translate them to wordpress so there is that trade off.
Word Doc Template
LaTeX Template
Please email contributions and inquiries to bmcgraw584682@gmail.com
Right now I am aiming to have a print edition out of Et al. Volume 2 out in 2025. If we start getting more contributions we would like to begin publishing more often either annually or bi-annually. We intend to sell these hard copies, so by submitting an article to us, you consent to this and waive your copyright to your work.
Books and Hard Copies
Check out our books! Our primary book is Et al.: Because not all research deserves a Nobel Prize. It comprises of 23 of our articles in partnership with Packt Publishing! All our books are available on Amazon and in most other online stores. It’s available on Ingram if your bookstore does requests and you want to support them. Free pdf copies by email request if you pinky promise me a good reads/Amazon review (bmcgraw584682@gmail.com). New book coming out hopefully by the end of 2025.
Besides Et al. I have additionally written a comedic historical fiction novel 69: Part 1: The Fake it Till Ya Make it Emperor about the emperor Otho in the 69 AD Roman Civil War and a sci fi novella My Work Trip to Mars.
About the Chief Editor
B. McGraw has been writing satirical papers since 2020 and is only qualified to be the chief editor of this journal because of years of getting yelled at by editors while writing technical reports for the Air Force. During the day he is a real research engineer who works in software and algorithm development in sensor fusion, navigation, test engineering, modeling and simulation, and data analytics. I have a B.S in Electrical and Computer engineering at USAFA and an M.S. in Signals Processing from the AFIT from the Air Force because he didn’t want student loans and didn’t mind doing pushups.