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Dance Your Ph.D. winners deliver fire Finnish rap and coronavirus pirouettes
The winner of the annual Dance Your Ph.D. contest s inaugural COVID-19 category twirls her way through the SARS-CoV-2 infection cycle. Listen - 02:10 For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website.
Scientists worldwide continue their race to understand the mechanisms of virus infection, transmission and control in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. One of those specialists is sharing her findings through interpretive dance.
Heather Masson-Forsythe performing an excerpt from Biochemical & Biophysical Studies of the COVID-19 Nucleocapsid Protein with RNA.
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Finnish scientists Vitus Besel, Ivo Neefjes, and Jakub Kubečka (left to right) created a rap video about atmospheric molecule clusters that won this year’s Dance Your Ph.D. contest. Faustine Cros
Watch the winners of this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest
Mar. 3, 2021 , 10:00 AM
You may never look at clouds the same way again. A video created by three atmospheric science graduate students at the University of Helsinki features an original rap song and choreography explaining how groups of atoms stick together to form the billowy shapes in our sky. And it has just won
Science’s annual “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest.
Creative physics rap on molecular clusters wins
Science s annual Dance your Ph.D. contest
Competition also awards new prize for dance about COVID-19
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The newest overall winner of
Science s annual Dance your Ph.D. contest, now sponsored by the artificial intelligence company Primer, is a Finnish researcher studying atmospheric molecular clusters. With the help of several friends, Jakub Kubecka brought his studies to life with trash-talking rap lyrics ( I m the first author, you re just et al. ) endearingly crude dance moves, computer animation and drone video footage. To prepare for recording the lyrics, I was running with headphones playing the music at least 30 times per day for the whole month to get it into my blood. I think that I even dreamed about it. Kubecka recalls. Throughout the whole process, we always stayed close to our main goal of showing non-scientific muggles that science can be fun, si