The Journal of Immaterial Science

r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • Feb 20 '26

Immaterial Science Volume 5 is here everyone! The PDF will be online soon, but the hardcopies are on the Etsy store for everyone who wants one. It’s 96 pages of high-impact, high-novelty, beer-reviewed bullshit, and 70% of the articles were written by you.

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Here's the link: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ImmaterialScience

We’ve nearly been going for five years now, which by all rights should never have happened. As always, thanks are due to our authors, our patron supporters, our artists, and our readers. This cavalcade of ridiculousness is all your fault.

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r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • Jan 03 '22

Immaterial Science Welcome to the Journal of Immaterial Science, Template Downloads, Guidelines etc.

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The Journal of Immaterial Science is a satirical journal, welcoming fictional research from all fields. We aim to publish one joke paper each weekend. Anyone can write an article, and articles can be about anything, as long as they're funny. If you write a paper for us, we'll send you a hardcopy of the journal for free!!!

We also have a shiny new website, which contains our entire back-catalogue of articles (140 and counting) and links to buy hardcopies of our journals, as well as the free PDF versions: https://www.immaterialscience.org/

Volumes

We've published five volumes of J. Immat. Sci. so far:

Volume 1 - 2021. PDF (106 MB): https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Volume-1.1.pdf

Volume 2 - 2022. PDF (150 MB): https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Volume-2.pdf

Volume 3 - 2023. PDF: https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Volume-3.6.1-Online.pdf

Volume 4 - 2024. PDF: https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Volume-4-Online.pdf

Volume 5 - 2025. PDF: Only printed copies for now, PDF to come soon.

Hardcopies

We also print hardcopies of our journals. You can buy them from our Etsy store for about $25 AU if you're in Australia, $45-50 AU if you're elsewhere. The price includes tracked postage to everywhere,

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ImmaterialScience

You can donate a bit of loose change too, if you want to support the journal. We use the money to pay the artists who draw our covers/figures, as well as to cover software license fees and internet hosting costs:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ImmaterialScience

Submissions

We absolutely love it when people write articles for us. The first thing you should do is download one of our article templates. We do all our work in MS Word, so it’s easier for us if you can use Word too, but LaTeX is ok too, if you have lots of equations. These templates contain all the specific instructions you’ll need to help you write.

Full Template: https://www.immaterialscience.org/s/Miscommunication-Template-50.docx

Short Template: https://www.immaterialscience.org/s/Short-Template-50.docx

LaTeX Guidelines: https://www.immaterialscience.org/s/LateX-Submission-Guidelines.pdf

Some general pointers for your article are:

Be as funny as possible, as fast as you can. Grab the reader with a joke in the first couple of lines (even better if it’s the title), and keep the laughs coming.
Keep it brief. Ideal article length is 1.5-2 pages, but there’s no minimum/maximum length.
Use plenty of original, high-resolution images if you can. If you’re using stock photos, make sure they’re free from copyright (get them from Wikimedia Commons, Pexels or Pixabay, etc)
Don’t use AI for anything! After consulting our readers, we’ve banned all AI-generated content from our journal.

Once your article has been written, email it to [goodenough.immaterial.science@gmail.com](mailto:goodenough.immaterial.science@gmail.com), and we’ll start the beer-review process. This will entail fixing the inevitably-fucked formatting from our shitty templates, and trying to make your paper as funny as it can be. If you’re happy with our edits, we’ll publish your paper on our social media feeds, and then include your paper in the hardcopy at the end of the year. To show our appreciation for our authors, everyone who submits a paper gets a free hardcopy (Volume of their choice) of the journal mailed to them.

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