Threadless is a democratic t-shirt company which prints shirts based on the number of votes user-submitted designs receive. But there are so many shirts these days its hard to find the sweetest and most stylish science apparel. So I decided to compile a list!

Keep in mind that a lot of these are currently sold out or only available in strange sizes but they are often reprinted so keep eyes peeled.

Funkalicious

"Funkalicious" is one of my all-time favorites. Kieran bought this one and I printed out a giant version to put on my wall. It doesn't get much better than an astronaut bumping hot jams on his boombox with a funky rainbow trail. The real beauty of the shirt is that even though there is no propagation of sound in space the dude keeps bumping the beats likely by feeling the bass. Awesome.

My Dog Ate My Homework!

What dog in its right mind would eat gross tasting homework? Maybe if you dipped the paper in bacon grease... But it's hard for a teacher to believe you without evidence. "Homework Evidence" does exactly that and reveals the truth with a canine x-ray revealing math homework and a calculator strangely floating around in the dogs internal organs. The thing is, you could definitely fake a real x-ray like this by taping your homework to the outside of your poochie without having to use any of your precious bacon grease. Thanks Threadless!

Home Away From Home

Wouldn't it be nice to colonize the moon? "Away From Home" depicts this glorious achievement complete with glow-in-the-dark stars. Unfortunately, not meaning to the bad mouth the science of all these t-shirts, it includes the all too common space blunder of showing fire in the oxygen-less vacuum of space. It's sold out anyway :P

Paramecium

Combining everyones favorite tie pattern with everyones favorite unicellular organisms, "Paisley Paramecium" is a shirt for everyone. Kieran even owns it!

Playground Love

"Playground Love" is the epitome of science on Threadless. It was a winner of the Seed Loves Threadless contest so you know it's cool. The winner of the contest won an ant farm, a 60gb ipod stocked with science videos, a selection of signed science books and $1500. I can't believe I didn't submit a design!

Lab Partners

I'm not too crazy about "Lab Partners". Who would want to experiment on such cute test tube friends! I'd imagine you'd start seeing these little guys on those late nights in the lab.

E=MC Escher

I instantly bought "E=MC Escher" as soon as I saw it. The reason it's named E=MC Escher is because it's based on Escher's painting Rind. You can't go wrong when famous artists and famous scientists collide!

Damn Scientists

It would be self-deprecating for a scientist to actually wear but "Damn Scientists" is a Threadless classic so I couldn't leave it out. The shirt should be called "Damn Government" because we don't get enough science funding to make cool stuff like jetpacks!

Tasty Table

"Tasty Table" is a nice take on the boring old periodic table which no one would want on a t-shirt. It doesn't really make sense like the periodic table though. Hydrogen is alcohol yet half the blue things are alcoholic drinks. Some of the non-metals are mixes and some aren't. And the Lanthanide/Actinide rows have been renumbered to follow the 7th period elements instead of being inserted into that little gap in the 3rd group. Technicalities aside, it's a nice shirt!

Honorable mentions also goto the following awesome sciencey shirts:

3 Responses to “Threadless T-Shirts for Stylish Scientists”

  1. Lisa Says:

    This is my favourite post you have ever written. I'm glad you clarified that you don't mean to bad mouth science, because for a minute I was offended but then I reread that sentence. NICE SAVE

  2. Jacks of Science − A Friday Dose of Endarkenment Says:

    [...] seat. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it but you might just see Kieran representing JoS in a Threadless T-shirt because I'm pretty sure he's a member of the Centre for Inquiry. This entry was posted on Monday, [...]

  3. Chris Says:

    I just saw someone wearing this shirt on campus and I completely forgot about it! Too bad it's sold out as well...

    http://www.threadless.com/product/430/Electromagnetic_Spectrum

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