Recently, we tried something in our lab that has been trending on Twitter — printing a research paper on a mug. We ordered it through Raksul (https://novelty.raksul.com/).

Looking at examples from others, most people include the journal name, title, author name, abstract, and a figure. However, since we also included the background design this time, everything ended up a bit smaller than expected. I’ve made a note to print it larger next time.

When we sent the mug to Ms. Sudo, she was really happy with it. That inspired me to make this a tradition — from now on, whenever someone publishes a paper, I’ll give them a mug as a gift!