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Several Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather in Paris, to discuss their work with each other and with audiences. Ig winner Roman Hossein Khonsari, who is doing much of the heavy lifting in organizing the affairs, gives this description: Paris is getting an Ig Nobel double-dose (and triple-format): 3 events across 2 days, with Marc Abrahams and five (delightfully serious) prize-winning teams – science that makes you laugh, then think. **Tue 9 Dec 2025 — 19:00 — Chimie ParisTech – PSL (11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5e).** On stage: • Daniel Bonn & Antoine Deblais (Chemistry, 2024) — chromatography for drunk vs sober worms • Kees Moeliker (Biology, 2003) – homosexual necrophilia in male mallards • Roman Hossein Khonsari & Marjolaine Willems (Anatomy, 2024) — hair-whorl direction across hemispheres • Marc-Antoine Fardin (Physics, 2017) — cats as both solid and liquid • Daniel Maria Busiello (Physics, 2025) — phase transition in cacio e pepe sauce And of course Marc Abrahams to set the Ig Nobel spirit **Wed 10 Dec 2025, 17:00 — Ecole normale supérieure (45 rue d’Ulm, Paris 5e). [A second session, at 19:30, is by invitation only]** (1) 17:00 — Salle Dussane | Student–laureate exchanges hosted by Marc Abrahams • Bonn & Deblais — invertebrate physics • Khonsari & Willems — geological anatomy • Fardin — veterinarian theoretical physics • Moeliker — forensics ethology (2) 19:30 — Salle des Actes | Evening event (Orchestre et choeur de l’Université PSL with Johan Farjot + cocktail) Marc Abrahams introduces the laureates, then we unpack what these quirky results reveal about how science really works—rigour, curiosity, and the joy of surprising questions, with music and drinks ️**Registrations open for Chimie ParisTech–PSL event, Dec 9 – free.** **Registrations open for the 5pm ENS event, Dec 10 – free. (The 7.30pm ENS event is by invitation only)** Avec le soutien de a-Ulm (ENS Alumni Association), Fondation de l’ENS, CHU de Montpellier, ESPCI Paris – PSL, PSL Research University, Institut Carnot IPGG Microfluidique ### Share this: * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky *

Julie Mennella, co-winner (with Gary Beauchamp) of the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for Pediatrics, was interviewed by Kayla Yup of the _Philadelphia Inquirer_. The headline says: “**The Philadelphia scientists who studied garlic-flavored breast milk won a 2025 Ig Nobel Prize** — Mennella was one of two scientists at Monell Chemical Senses Center to win a 2025 Ig Nobel Prize, the satirical counterpart to the Nobel Prize.” The interview includes this tasty tidbit: QUESTION: What is your favorite project that you have worked on since the garlic study? MENNELLA: I serendipitously found that another flavor that gets transmitted is alcohol, and that became a whole new area of research. We found that when women just have the equivalent of one or two glasses of wine or beer, not only did the alcohol get transmitted, but it flavored the milk. That became a lead article in the _New England Journal of Medicine_. At that time, there was talk about a folklore that women should drink when they’re breastfeeding, so they would make more milk. And contrary to that folklore, they actually made less milk. ### Share this: * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky *

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