学术演讲的幽默研究：为何大多数科学报告如此无聊？

“Enclosures of previously common land proceeded across England from the 11th to the 18th centuries.” Professor Chuckles Twisteddoodles for New Scientist Academic writing is dull. There, we said it. The rules and norms of it are such that most papers and monographs are plodding and pedantic, filled with jargon, and frankly exhausting to read. In the pursuit of rigour, academics often achieve rigor mortis. But sometimes we come across a joyful exception. Take a paper published in March in Proceedings of the Royal Society B and sent to us by our colleague Jacob Aron, who described it as “pure Feedbacknip, if such a thing exists”. …