2025
Making Dinosaur Juice from Simple Saccharides: Total Synthesis of alpha-D tolupyranose
This article is a detailed guide on how to commit glycocide.
How Big Can The Periodic Table Get Before Students Call Bullshit?
Among the general public, the periodic table is the third most recognisable thing associated with chemistry, after Breaking Bad and the concept of hexagons. This glorified sticker-book of atoms has been growing steadily since the 1600’s, prompting many punters to ask “when will it stop?”. In this article, we will examine this question from two perspectives: energetic (via the Dirac Equation) and scholastic (via an index of student frustration).
Those Fuckers Were Making It Up This Whole Time: An Exposé of “Electrochemistry"
“Electrochemistry” has emerged in recent years as a cutting-edge technique for generating shitty voltammograms, and apparently also has applications in science or whatever. Or does it? Herein, we report a series of novel methodologies for forcing those fuckers to admit that they were making it up this whole time.
Solving the Riemann Hypothesis via My Spam Folder
This paper presents a novel method to prove the Riemann Hypothesis.
Occultic Practices in qPCR
qPCR is a famously capricious and fiddly technique, bedevilled by poor reproducibility. When every other source of variation and contamination has been controlled, the only explanation is that the impurities are coming from actual devils. This paper outlines strategies to command, conciliate or banish malevolent spirits in a molecular biology setting.
Towards an Exact Formula for Superpermutation Length: Revisiting the Haruhi Problem
This paper employs liquor-assisted computational techniques to derive the most efficient way to watch all fourteen episodes of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in every possible order.
On The Origins of Named Glassware
On this day, the 212.89th anniversary of the passing of La Marquis de Burette, we felt it was fitting to recount the remarkable story of his life. We have also described the lives and works of several other chemists whose names have achieved immortality by attaching themselves to pieces of laboratory equipment.
Experimental Validation of Aggression Response in Hornet Colonies Following Direct Digital Insertion
Vespa aaiiggghh Bloodyhell, 1824 are renowned for their defensive behaviour, complex social structure, and history for punishing human curiosity. In this unprecedented study, we explore the aggression threshold of V. aaiiggghh by inserting a human index finger into their nest entrance.
Statistical Proof That Binge-Watching VTubers Won’t Make You Happy (But Might Make You Fall In Love)
People say that watching VTubers brings them joy and results in higher life satisfaction. This paper harnesses the power of YouTube statistics tutorials to prove that spending more time watching VTubers does not correlate with spiritual fulfilment, but does make you more likely to fall in love with them.
Novel Necronuclear Mesospheric Mapping Methodology
A corpse and a bucket of nuclear waste walk into an oceanic trench…
Inter-Driver Gestures Prove That Buying A Caravan Will Not Make You Happy
We measured the percentage of drivers who waved us while driving across a desert, and extrapolated some findings about vehicle choice and personal fulfilment.
Wierdyellowmushroomycin: Towards Good, Natural Drugs Instead of Bad, Synthetic Drugs Full of Chemicals
This work is a fusion of very old and very new chemical techniques. First, we employed the oldest method of drug discovery by wandering around some woodland eating random plants and fungi. Then, we let AI do all the hard work of structural determination.
The 2025 Noble Prizes: A Year in Review
The winners of the 2025 Noble Prizes are presented and discussed. Let’s all hope that 2026 is a better year.
A Balanced, Nuanced, and Comprehensive Review of Scientific English and its Relevance to Modern Scholarship
The language that scientific papers are written in is a needlessly complicated form of English called lingua wanka, which is dripping with corporate-style jargon and pompous bollocks. Herein, I talk about why that’s a bad thing.
Why Are You So Fat?: A Kinetic Model of Weight Loss
The principles of chemical kinetics are harnessed to explain why theoretical researchers have a hard time losing weight.
Genetic Modification of a Carrot with a Flared Base
Necessity is the mother of invention. According to our mate Terrence from the local hospital, if he has to get the endoscope out one more time on behalf of someone who “fell backwards onto their shopping bags”, he’s going to spifflicate them. We feel that this constitutes a necessity, and this paper contains the details of our associated invention.
From Lead To Gold – A Minireview
This article appraises the four best ways to convert base metals into gold.
The DPhil Team
We recorded a cover of Ed Sheeran's "The A Team". We rewrote this melancholy ballad, originally about homelessness and substance abuse, to reflect the experience of doing a PhD, and somehow made it even more depressing.
Does Anyone Like Twizzlers?
The authors of this paper went above and beyond, and physically went to a mall to survey the public. Their question: do you like twizzlers?
Toward a Cosmologically Complete Astrology: Corrections Based on the Mapped Distribution of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
This article provides corrections to conventional astrology to account for dark matter and dark energy.

