#ignobels

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ignobels from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Uses / 7 days
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Recent posts
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Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-12 07:51 UTC
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0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-12 07:51 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-12 07:51 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 18 public posts (spanning ~64662 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00

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Languages: English (12) · French (3) · German (2) · Finnish (1)

Avg boosts / post: 3.7

Top of the latest posts

  • as a lifetime and supporting member of #HRSFA (#Harvard Radcliffe #ScienceFiction Association), I was a part of their delegation to the #IgNobels for many years (basically all of the ones in the 90s and a few years beyond) and also actually

    drawnonglass@[email protected]212026-03-11 14:40 UTCView post →
  • The annual Ig Nobels, the awards for odd and funny scientific achievement, will be held outside the United States for the first time in its 36 years because of concerns about attendees' safety. The 2026 ceremony, which takes place in Septem

    Flipboard Science Desk@[email protected]1492026-03-10 18:55 UTCView post →
  • @heiseonline hey @minkorrekt das ist eure Chance die Gala zu besuchen #ignobels

    Ulf@[email protected]002026-03-11 20:30 UTCView post →

What “ignobels” means

Wikipedia

The Ig Nobel Prize, also known as the Ig Nobels or simply the Igs, is a satirical prize awarded annually since 1991 to promote public engagement with scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think". The award parodies the Nobel Prize and is named after Ignatius Nobel, a fictional cousin of the Nobel Prize's founder, Alfred Nobel. The name is also a pun on the word ignoble. Most awards are for genuine scientific achievements with an u

Ig Nobel Prize” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#ignobels across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #ignobels straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/ignobels