ReallyCanadianFly<p>The ceremony is webcast Sep 18!</p><p>One of my favourites of past winners:<br>"DEMOGRAPHY PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, UK]<br>Saul Justin Newman, for detective work to discover that many of the people famous for having the longest lives lived in places that had lousy birth-and-death recordkeeping.<br>REFERENCE: “Supercentenarians and the Oldest-Old Are Concentrated into Regions with No Birth Certificates and Short Lifespans,” Saul Justin Newman, BioRxiv, 704080, 2019. <doi.org/10.1101/704080><br>REFERENCE: “Supercentenarian and Remarkable Age Records Exhibit Patterns Indicative of Clerical Errors and Pension Fraud,” Saul Justin Newman, BioRxiv, 2024. <doi.org/10.1101/704080><br>WHO CAME TO THE CEREMONY: Saul Justin Newman"</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/IgNobelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IgNobelPrize</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ceremony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ceremony</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/webcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webcast</span></a> </p><p>The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony <a href="https://improbable.com/the-35th-first-annual-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">improbable.com/the-35th-first-</span><span class="invisible">annual-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony/</span></a></p>