30+ Science Memes for STEM Folks With Huge Brains

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
May 16, 2025 10:00 PM EDT

I feel like there is a false dichotomy between STEM people and Humanities people. What about architects? That uses both the left and right sides of your brain. Or filmmakers who have to know about how lenses work as well as how to tell a story. Or people on Reddit who are regular contributors to both r/TwoSentenceHorror and r/engineering. They exist, I promise. 

Most of us need to use both the analytical and quantitative sides of our brain at once, otherwise, science would have no humanity and artists wouldn't know how to use technology. All to say, we're all scientists in our own way. Okay some of us are actual scientists, like for a living, but I'm also a scientist in that I left a container of leftovers in my fridge for so long it started to develop new life. Both are valid… I suppose. 

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  • But no matter if you're a board-certified biologist or you just learned to code to make your Tumblr page look cool, these memes have been hand-picked with you in mind. They're funny and informative, something that we don't get enough of these days. So if you're in need of a laugh, but a little bit of an educated one, then keep on scrolling. 

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    X Biologist Microbiologist
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    Quantum Particles: *Vibing* Human: *observes them* Quantum Particles: well now I am not doing it
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    Showing somebody my code DOURS It ain't much and it doesn't work
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    DNA: TTTTTTTTTT RNA: AAAAAAAAAAA
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    TIL If you grind a marine sponge through a sieve into salt water, it'll reorganize itself back into a sponge. It's the only animal that we know of that can do that. pbslearningmedia.org 39.4k BEST COMMENTS 1.2k Share PlinyTheSame • 10h 70 Awards How many animals have we done this to?! Reply 19.4k C
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    thomas @perfectsweeties i've been taking some notes british people ants ⚫ beans and toast weird loyalty to their queen ⚫innate instinct to line up single-file and travel in a queue ⚫takes things that aren't theirs back to their colony ⚫love for crumbly pastries ⚫can lift up to 5,000x their own weight
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    keith @spasepeople so my roommate came back drink last night and doesnt remember designing an entire airplane
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    deep sea bacteria my lab bacteria I have one molecule of food, this is sufficient to build my empire when I finally reproduce in 10,000 years :( my flask wasn't shaking enough, guess I'll di :(
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    when youre trying to figure out what angle the top part of a cone has to be so that the cone has maximal volume given a fixed lateral height V=1πr² y=ax+bx+c (x, x)=-b+A 2a 4=√√b-4ac sin 2 cos tan 45V
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    LukeZero @lukemckinney *** Incredible scenes on Weibo, someone tweeted a bird expert "I saw this bird what's it called?", people mocking the sketch until the expert replies "Oh yeah that's a Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise, the sketch is great except you're missing five wires" 4:40 PM 12/23/22 1.3M Views 30.7K Likes 3,954 Retweets 102 Quote
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    When you learn Excel shortcuts #FunTech
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    Everything is relative. -- Albert Einstein @sciencefunn Everyone's a relative. -- Charles Darwin
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    PolterGyver @TheAndrewNadeau SCHRÖDINGER: *Holding box* | got you a present. ME: *Sigh* Is it another de d cat? SCHRÖDINGER: *Way too excited* Maaaybe.
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    YEAR ARCHAEOLOGY Gabe Moshenska @GabeMoshenska OMG i put some students in a Zoom breakout room in February and totally forgot about them 8:08 AM - 2022-10-06 Twitter Web App 2,268 Retweets 166 Quote Tweets 56.5K Likes 600
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    the therapy dog at my dentist trash boat @f mother of god what does he know
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    Ministry Of Dev, PhD @UdellGames Use whatever brace style you prefer. But not this. Don't do this. Seek help instead of this. public class Permuter + Folgen private static void permute (int n, char[] a) if (n == 0) else System.out.println(String.valueOf(a)) for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++) permute(n-1, a) swap (a, n % 2 == 0?i: 0, n) { ;} private static void swap (char[] a, int i, int j) { char saved = a[i] a[i] = a[j] a[j] = saved ;}}
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    mezzodical Follow 4/10 sometimes someone isn't "toxic," they're just "abrasive." or "mutagenic" or "highly flammable," and you should always check their material safety data sheet to be sure mezzodical Follow FLAMHABLE EAS FLAMMABLE LIQUID DANGEROUS WHEN WET ☑ TOXIC GAS NON FLAMMABLE NON TOXIC CAS ORGANIC PEROXIDE INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCE CORROSIVE tag yourself i'm harmful irritant agendermetalbender Follow screw zodiac signs what's your NFPA 704 OXIDISING AGENT
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    pizza styles citation styles stuffed crust AMA APA Sicilian MLA wood fired Chicago AP Detroit IEEE New York
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    SHOWERING WON'T BE ENOUGH TODAY I'LL NEED TO BE AUTOCLAVED
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    Please do not power off or unplug your monolith Installing update 2 of 60,000,000,000,000 Necrons 7 Overlord
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    THERE IS A MYSTERIOUS AND POWERFUL FORCE THAT HOLDS THE UNIVERSE TOGETHER, AND THAT FORCE IS LOVE JUST KIDDING-IT'S DARK MATTER
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    ph.D. phdm.eme Your novel research idea 8 Some guy in the 1980s @phdm.eme
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    S 158 me showing him you can just google pictures of birds my friend who is a nature photographer 种
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    Printed in The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon 25 September 1938, Front Page 'Nope,' He Says, Body Isn't His GALILEE, R. I., Sept. 24 (AP)-Charles Keville walked into a temporary morgue and looked at a body which had been identified as his. "Nope," he said, "that ain't me," and walked out again.
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    witt @50FirstTates geometry test: is this a triangle? me: yes geometry test: how do u know? me: what? geometry: PROVE its a triangle me: bro look at it
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    This is what a human hand looks like under a microscope. 20,123 TD 19284 AmScope
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    if someone held uh g_n to my head and told me to subtract 9 from 21, tell my family I love them cwyup you are the first person to ever misspell a 09-07 Reply 514
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    What kind of lasers were they using aly THE ULTIMATE LASER ADVENTURE ZONE
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    that guy in the comments fact checking your meme
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    FRANK! DID YOU SPEND THE WHOLE OF OUR MONTHLY BUDGET ON RENTING A POLYGRAPH? Yes. A www. w.facebook.com/Jeroom.inc
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    fish927836991748483729 Follow Oct 5 mad scientist ethics board that makes sure that a project is sufficiently unethical before providing funding professionalchaoticdumbass Follow Oct 5 sometimes you get a normal scientist trying to apply with a regular invention that just has a puppy shredder attached to it with hot glue or sticky tape teslacoils-and-hubris Follow Oct 5 you'd think they'd be disqualified for that, but trying to cheat the system to get research funding actually adds a lot of unet
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