50 Of The Funniest Posts From The “Science Memes” Facebook Group

If you are the type of person who enjoyed volcano eruptions and potato battery experiments in high school, chances are, you still love science even if you aren’t working in the field.

But whether you read the magazine Scientific American or watch the YouTube channel Veritasium, we at We have something else you’ll probably enjoy. A Facebook group called ‘Science Memes.’

Brought to the internet and managed by a collective known online as LabRule, this community unites 936K members, constantly sharing the best jokes they find.

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#1 The Best Word

#2 Flat Earthers

Interestingly, memes can be just what the sciences need right now. According to wildlife biologist Michael Barnes, much of science has lost its curiosity.

As a result, Barnes thinks that the scientific community has created an exclusive club where your entry into it is publication and to stay in it, you must continue to do so at the expense of integrity, new and exciting knowledge, and trust from the public.

This exclusivity, he believes, has created a rift.

#3 He Had A Pen

#4 Let Me Hear

#5 That’s Right Tho

“By being overly technical, esoteric, and pedantic, the scientific community has made it virtually impossible for the layperson to understand the information being presented to them resulting in animosity and divisiveness that has led us to this current anti-science movement,” Barnes writes.

“We look down on and condescend those who don’t understand the process and then act surprised when people reject the knowledge gained from hard, credible science. For example, the current environment of climate change denial is one of the larger issues of our time.”

#6 Poor Referee

#7 My Blanket At 3 Am

#8 True Af

#9 Science Lab In A Movie

Therefore, Barnes thinks that it’s time for a change. “It’s not enough to throw complicated jargon at the public. There needs to be better and more meaningful communication,” he says.

“We’ve come to the apex of an ‘us vs. them’ dichotomy where it doesn’t matter what is said. ‘We’ are right and ‘they’ are wrong and that’s final. Communication needs to be more open and transparent. Both for the sake of those conducting research and those it’s being communicated to, i.e. the public.”

#10 Big Sad

#11 6 Fries Per Serving

#12 Adorable

#13 Guardian Of The Galaxy

And while Barnes believes that researchers need to be more precise and transparent in their research, I’ll try to argue that memes can actually facilitate all sorts of dialogues when it comes to sciences.

After all, as writer Helen Brown pointed out, they aren’t just entertainment but also have a serious side. According to researchers looking at modern forms of communication, they area language in themselves, with acapacity to transcend culturesandconstruct collective identities between people.Not to mention that memes can also be powerful tools for self-expression, connection, social influence, and evenpolitical subversion.

#14 Trying To Prank

#15 They Misunderstood

#16 Venn Diagrams

#17 Harmacist

Paolo Gerbaudo, a reader in digital politics and director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London, describes memes as a “sort of a ready-made language with many kinds of stereotypes, symbols, situations.” A palette that people can use, much like emojis, in a way, to convey content.

#18 Interior Designer

#19 Very Angry

#20 Please Help

#21 Soup Too Salty

Researchers at Facebook, for example, showed in a 2014 study just how widely memes posted on the social media site can spread and evolve. In one example, they found121,605 different variants of one particular memeposted across 1.14 million status updates.

#22 Accurate Af

#23 What Dream?

#24 You Pick The Name

#25 Holographic Meatloaf

Memes tap into our collective consciousness and have been referred to as digital folklore – or “Netlore”. “We can see not just the new ways people do things or the new ways people express themselves in public but also some of the themes, some of the anxieties or desires people have. All of these complex issues are reflected in things like memes,” says Gerbaudo.

So if the scientific community really is stagnant in the way it communicates, isn’t an intuitive and quick-spreading format of online memes exactly what could remedy the problem?

#26 He Is Cheating On Potassium