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#1 Dance your Ph.D

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I am not sure whether this ought go here or AMP, because this is both art and science... Mods if you find the location does not suit you, by all means.

In any case,I joke around about how I should use an interpretive dance to explain my research to people. I would need a cast of five. In fact, joking around about using interpretive dance is rather common among pretty much every group of biologists I have ever been in.

AAAS and Science made it official with a Dance your Ph.D contest. Here are the four winners, in the Grad Student, Post-Doc, Professor, and Popular Choice categories.

Science, where the winners were announced and the dances explained somewhat

And the site with every entry compiled. You can see info on the research projects using the standard method of clicking for "More info" on the youtube website
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