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Researchers communicate their research through the medium of dance in international contest

PhD students have once again stepped on to the floor in this year’s international Dance your PhD contest. A biological chemist from Russia has won the competition in the chemistry category.

From ballroom to ballet, Science ’s annual contest gives PhD students the chance to explain their research through the medium of dance. Each entrant must upload a dance routine to YouTube to be in with a shot of winning the $1000 (£824) grand prize and a trip to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting. A smaller $500 prize is also awarded to those who produce the best video in one of three sections: chemistry, biology and the social sciences.

Evgeny Sogorin, a postgrad student from the Institute of Protein Research, won in the chemistry category. In a strictly ballroom routine, Sogorin and his colleagues glided their way through the story of ribosomes and how they synthesise proteins.

But Jacob Brubert , a biomedical engineer from the University of Cambridge, UK, walked away with the top prize. His routine combined a myriad of styles all consummately performed with the help of a dancing cow. Brubert is currently researching polymeric heart valves that are used in the treatment of heart disease.

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A Ballet About Dark Energy? A Vogue Battle About Biosensors? These "Dance Your Ph.D." Videos Will Blow Your Mind

Science is fascinating. But trying to understand extremely detailed scientific research can be…less than fascinating.

Unless there’s a dance about it.

For the past 10 years, Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have hosted the Dance Your Ph.D. contest, an annual event that challenges Ph.D. candidates in 12 scientific categories to create interpretive dances about their research. It is exactly as weird, and exactly as amazing, as it sounds. Previous winners have included a tap/salsa/circus medley about heart valve bioengineering and a romantic dance epic about titanium alloys for hip replacements .

This year’s finalists have just been announced, and they are an especially fabulous bunch, with dancers hailing from as far afield as Brazil, France, Russia, and India. (No fewer than three of the 12 videos incorporate classical Indian dance—how cool is that?) Check out a couple of our favorites below, and then head to the official voting page before November 1 to pick your winner.

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There are a raft of awards that any serious research scientist covets such as a Nobel Prize or the Australian Museum Eureka Prize. But a PhD graduate from the ANU has hopped away with a prestigious international award.

Dr Weliton Menário Costa, who goes by WELI, is the winner of Dance Your PhD awarded for communicating his academic research on behaviour through song and dance.

Guest: WELI ( Dr Weliton Menário Costa), global winner of the 2024 Dance Your PhD contest

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'Dance Your Ph.D.' winner on science, art, and embracing his identity

Weliton Menário Costa (center) holds a laptop while surrounded by dancers for his music video, "Kangaroo Time." From left: Faux Née Phish (Caitlin Winter), Holly Hazlewood, and Marina de Andrade. Nic Vevers/ANU hide caption

Weliton Menário Costa (center) holds a laptop while surrounded by dancers for his music video, "Kangaroo Time." From left: Faux Née Phish (Caitlin Winter), Holly Hazlewood, and Marina de Andrade.

Weliton Menário Costa grew up in rural Brazil. "I come from the countryside of the countryside of the countryside," he says. He didn't have much, but from his earliest days, he loved to sing.

"I just remember looking at the singers on television and loving them," Menário Costa recalls. "I think if I could have picked a profession — if the world was equal and you could pick anything — I would have picked 'musician.'"

He took a detour into science, but ultimately he's returned to embrace music professionally. And he recently picked up a major accolade. Menário Costa won this year's " Dance Your Ph.D ." contest, an annual competition organized by Science magazine where doctoral students and Ph.D. graduates showcase their research through dance.

Menário Costa's winning submission highlights his work on kangaroo behavior and personality, but it also celebrates his identity — and what he's had to overcome to embrace it.

'I would just sing ... every day'

When Menário Costa was a boy in Brazil, he would try to sing and dance with his younger sister outside. That's when the comments would start.

"People were always like, 'Oh, that's a girl thing, you're a f** or whatever,'" he says. "Back then, I didn't even know what it was. I just knew it was negative. It's a very sexist space and homophobic and all that."

When Menário Costa did receive a compliment, it was usually for how smart he was. So he buried himself in school and excelled. He got into a competitive high school. But even so, he was chronically anxious about what others thought of him and worried that he wasn't good enough.

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" So instead of going to parties and dancing or performing and doing the things I actually loved," Menário Costa says, "I would just lock myself in the room and say, 'Hey, I have homework.' But when I would shower, I would just sing ... every day."

With time, Menário Costa made it to Australia — first to study English, and then he received a scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. in behavioral ecology at the Australian National University in Canberra. His research focused on eastern gray kangaroos in Wilsons Promontory National Park in southeastern Australia.

"And my main question was, do kangaroos have personality ... different personalities?," Menário Costa explains. "And then, what's driving the behavior you see? Is it due to personality, or is it the social environment?"

It was during his Ph.D. — when Menário Costa was on this other continent half a world away from Brazil — that he managed to connect with who he really was. He came out as queer. He started singing and dancing out in the world again. And after finishing his Ph.D. amidst the struggles of COVID and bushfires, Menário Costa decided to leave science and dive into creative work.

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"Now I'm gonna be a singer, now I'm gonna be a dancer, and now I'm gonna be all these things I liked as a kid," he says. Menário Costa started performing at pubs and small venues, mostly singing covers. "Then, last year, I started writing as well, and performing my own original songs."

Diversity in kangaroos — and in dance

To Menário Costa, Science magazine's "Dance Your Ph.D." competition felt like "a perfect way of exposing my work as a singer songwriter ."

His submission — the song and dance "Kangaroo Time" — was born in an act of exuberant collaboration. The music video opens with Menário Costa driving to what appears to be his field site. There are a couple of kangaroo shots, but mostly it's a joyous sequence of dancers on an open landscape in Canberra — drag queens, Capoeira performers, ballet dancers, and people doing samba, salsa, hip hop, Brazilian funk, and traditional Indian dance.

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"The way they move is very different," says Menário Costa, "but also what they wear to perform is quite different. I decided to use the actual diversity we have in a dance community."

This was how Menário Costa represented one of his central findings — that kangaroos have distinctive personalities, based on how much they squirm when they're handled as joeys and at what distance subadults and adult females move away from an approaching human.

In addition, kangaroo siblings often have similar personalities, and for that Menário Costa dances alongside his own sister — the first family member to ever visit him in Australia. "One of the main reasons that made her want to come was to be in that video," he says. "It was so special having her here."

Menário Costa also discovered that when kangaroos move between groups, they adjust their behavior to conform to that of their companions. In the video, he makes his way to other groups and adopts the new dancing styles as he goes.

The main lyrics are simple, but catchy: "I'm gonna share with you... hope you don't mind... some things I learned from my kangaroo time." The phrase "kangaroo time" has a rainbow of meanings.

"It means the time I did my kangaroo research," says Menário Costa. "But [it] also means the first time I lived as a gay man. It's the first time I lived as an immigrant, five years without going home. The time of reconnection to myself, of exploring my sexuality, of bridging these beautiful communit[ies]."

Menário Costa, who now goes by the stage name WELI, says that filming this music video — when all his worlds came together in a single afternoon — feels like his most significant achievement to date. He likens his first place finish to winning the Eurovision Dance Contest.

The video ends with text emblazoned onscreen — "Differences lead to diversity. It exists within any given species; it is just natural."

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Watch This Year’s ‘Dance Your PhD’ Contest Winner, a Musical Celebration of Kangaroo Behavior

“Kangaroo Time” took home the competition’s overall prize, while interpretive dances on early life adversity, circadian rhythms and streambank erosion were also honored

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An Australian landscape filled with kangaroos, drag queens, ballerinas and twerking may sound like the onset of a fever dream or a carnival—but for Weliton Menário Costa , a behavioral ecologist at Australian National University who goes by Weli, it was the perfect way to create and share a song about marsupial behavior.

“ Kangaroo Time ,” a four-minute music video about Weli’s years studying eastern gray kangaroos in Victoria, is as fun as it is informative—one of the reasons why it was named the overall winner of this year’s “ Dance Your PhD ” competition.

“It’s super incredible,” Weli tells the Guardian ’s Kelly Burke. “To win an international science competition, it’s like Eurovision—except we all have PhDs.”

Though it might sound unreal, the dancing contest for scientists is “ totally serious .” Weli’s winning video explains his thesis research, “ Personality, Social Environment and Maternal-Level Effects: Insights from a Wild Kangaroo Population .” In his work, Weli found that kangaroos develop their personalities early in life , create social groups and dynamics just as humans do and are influenced to act in similar ways as their parents and siblings. As a queer immigrant to Australia, he tells the Guardian that he can relate to how kangaroos modify their behavior in different groups.

“Differences lead to diversity,” he concludes in “Kangaroo Time.” “It exists within any given species; it is just natural.”

The video’s message resonated with the judges, both scientifically and artfully. “There was a sense of surprise and delight in [‘Kangaroo Time’],” judge Alexa Meade tells Science ’s Sean Cummings. “You could tell they were having fun through the process, that it wasn’t this labored, stressful experience.”

The origins of the “Dance Your PhD” competition can be traced to New Year’s Eve in 2006, when John Bohannon —a microbiologist and director of science at artificial intelligence company Primer—hosted a dance party for his colleagues and friends. The only problem: hardly anyone wanted to boogie.

“It’s very hard to get anyone to dance, particularly scientists,” Bohannon told NPR ’s Barry Gordemer in 2021. “Their parties are not on the dancey side.”

So, like any scientist, he designed an experiment—or, in this case, a dance contest—based on a hypothesis. “One thing you can count on with scientists is they’re competitive and they have a sense of humor about their work, so I thought, let’s just put it all together,” he said to NPR.

The first official contest took place in 2008, and it has been organized every year since by Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For 16 years the competition has made its enduring pitch to scientists globally: “Don’t you wish you lived in a world where you could just ask people to pull out their phones to watch an online video explaining your PhD research through interpretive dance?”

Evidently, many do—dozens of videos each year are submitted to the contest, in four categories of biology, chemistry, physics and social science. Science communication skills are key to a successful video, striking a balance between creativity and sharing new findings.

“It’s actually a real challenge, communicating research results and making a clear link between science and the performing arts,” Weli tells the Guardian .

Weli took home the overall winner’s purse of $2,000, in addition to his $750 social science category prize. The three other winning videos this year focused on how adversity in early life can affect how genes work ( Siena Dumas Ang , Princeton University), treating the loss of neurons by targeting a protein involved with the circadian rhythm ( Xuebing Zhang , City University of Hong Kong) and streambank erosion ( Layla El-Khoury , North Carolina State University). In the social science category, the runner-up behind the kangaroos was a video on the invasive browntail moth  in Maine.

Past overall winners have included atmospheric scientists from the University of Helsinki in Finland rapping about cloud formations ; a swing dance about superconductivity from a researcher at the University of Victoria in Canada; and a stylized music video about yeast cells from a researcher at Vilnius University in Lithuania.

For Weli, one of his most meaningful breakthroughs was with his grandmother, who didn’t quite understand his thesis until recently.

“Once I released ‘Kangaroo Time,’ she was like, ‘That’s my grandson! I get it now!’” he tells Science .

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Astrophysics student Xiaohan Wu uses a choreographed ballet dance to explain the physics behind the early universe.

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Xiaohan Wu explains the physics behind photons in the early universe and wins ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ competition

En pointe and in a poufy pink tutu, Xiaohan Wu gracefully leaps across the marled dance floor. She stoops, collects an intricate hand fan and proceeds to twirl, delicately waving the fan back and forth as she spins.

But this is not a recital and Wu is no dance student. She’s a graduate astronomy student who has created an interpretative dance explaining her research on the early universe — and she’s clearly got chops.

On Thursday, Wu was named the winner of the physics category of “ Dance Your Ph.D .,” an international competition hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Science magazine. The competition challenges graduate students and those with Ph.D.s to turn their complex doctoral theses into dances that the general public can understand.

The contest, now in its 14th year, is divided into four categories: biology, chemistry, physics, and social sciences, and is judged by a panel of dancers, scientists, and artists who watch a recording of the dance.

Wu, who is set to graduate this May, says she participated in the competition because it is her final year at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J_9_m4Dgkk

“I just felt like I should do this video as a tribute to astronomy and as a proper end to my Ph.D.,” she said.

During her time at the Center for Astrophysics, Wu studied the epoch of reionization, a period about 12 billion years ago when the first stars and galaxies began to form, lighting up the utterly dark universe.

In her choreographed dance, Wu plays one of many photons — or particles of light — that are emitted from the first star. As the photons begin to travel outwards from the star, they encounter a thick gas that contains neutral hydrogen atoms. These atoms act as a barrier, preventing the light from traveling further outwards.

But when a photon and hydrogen atom eventually interact — conveyed by Wu picking up a hand fan and twirling with it in the dance — the hydrogen atom loses an electron and becomes positively charged or ionized.

This small dance between the two particles is transformational for the early universe. Time after time, newly emitted photons from newly formed stars interact with neutral hydrogen atoms, allowing light to escape farther and travel freely throughout the universe.

The result is a universe that is not cold, dark, and neutral, but bright, ionized and hot.

The judges of “Dance Your Ph.D.” say this year’s competition winners used movement creatively to clearly explain their research.

“The science enhances the dance, and the dance enhances the science,” said judge Emily Kent from the dance company Pilobolus.

Wu, who loves ballet as much as she loves astronomy, learned to dance when she was very little but took a lengthy hiatus and only picked it up again a few years ago.

“I think it’s just beautiful and I love seeing myself improve,” she says.

After graduating in May, Wu will join the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics as a postdoctoral researcher — and she plans to continue dancing.

“It happens to every amateur ballet dancer I’ve met,” she says. “Once you get into this business and start taking it seriously, there’s no way out and you just take it more seriously over time.”

Wu received assistance with choreography, props, and filming from flamenco dancer and fellow astronomy student Ana Maria Delgado, who jumped at the chance to help.

“Since beginning my Ph.D., I get very few opportunities to make art,” Delgado says. “I, too, have danced most of my life and the truth is, we  need  to make art.”

The two spent about two weeks choreographing the dance and storyline, practicing in the CfA’s Phillips Auditorium in early January. A week later, they knocked out the filming in one afternoon.

“We came up with a very ambitious piece that Xiaohan worked so hard on and it came out beautifully,” Delgado says. “This really is a labor of love and she deserves this prize!”

As winner of the physics category, Wu will receive a prize of $750.

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Tiny “nano-sponges” inspire killer moves in 2023 dance your phd winning video, the fun side of serious science: "we’re just normal, fun, creative people.”.

Jennifer Ouellette - Mar 20, 2023 6:26 pm UTC

University of Oregon chemist Checkers Marshall took top honors in the 2023 Dance Your PhD contest, combining hand fans, blue balloons, and original lyrics to make a dance video explaining their work on "nano-sponge" materials for use in carbon capture and drug delivery. Other winning videos provided creative takes on how local trees in the Amazon rainforest produce a protective hormone in response to drought; diffusing ions at the nanoscale, illustrated with a tango; and an artificial intelligence model called PsychGenerator that aims to bring personality and mental health attributes to AI.

As we've reported previously , the Dance Your PhD contest was established in 2008 by science journalist John Bohannon. It was previously sponsored by Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is now sponsored by AI company Primer, where Bohannon is the director of science. Bohannon told Slate in 2011 that he came up with the idea while trying to figure out how to get a group of stressed-out PhD students in the middle of defending their theses to let off a little steam. So he put together a dance party at Austria's  Institute of Molecular Biotechnology , including a contest for whichever candidate could best explain their thesis topics with interpretive dance.

The contest was such a hit that Bohannon started getting emails asking when the next would be—and Dance Your PhD has continued ever since. It's now in its 15th year. There are four broad categories: physics, chemistry, biology, and social science, with a fairly liberal interpretation of what topics fall under each. Winners were chosen from 28 entries submitted from 12 different countries. All category winners receive $500, while Marshall, as the overall champion, will receive an additional $2,000. And the contest has a new sponsor this year: Sandbox AQ , an Alphabet spinoff focused on tackling large problems by bringing together artificial intelligence and quantum technologies.

Marshall's PhD thesis dealt with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), crystalline polymer materials formed by binding metal ions with polydentate organic linkers. The resulting porous network is sponge-like, making these materials ideal for carbon capture applications, as well as drug delivery, detoxifying nerve agents, and water purification. Marshall aims to make smaller and more efficient MOFs. These nano-MOFs can be modified by adding a molecule to stop the crystal's growth or removing an electron to free up the flow of electrons through the structure.

Marshall shot their video in the lab and a friend's backyard. They brought high school and college videomaking experience to the project, as well as a long-standing love of juggling, spinning, and other forms of "flow arts." For instance, Marshall used fans to represent the electrons in a standard MOF—“I can’t dance unless there’s something in my hands"—passing the fans back and forth with a friend to show how metal ions (represented by blue papier-mâché balloons) exchange electrons.

To represent the nano-MOFs, Marshall used a toy Hoberman sphere , a popular child's toy inspired by the isokinetic structure patented by artist and engineer Chuck Hoberman. It looks like a geodesic dome, but thanks to joints that act like scissors, the sphere can fold into a fraction of its original size.

Marshall even wrote their own music, having written and performed slam poetry for years, complete with a sly reference to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. “I thought, ‘How can I make my thesis into a one-page slam poem? How can I make it, like, sound cool? And hopefully make it rhyme a little bit,’” Marshall told Science . “Making the video and writing my thesis were approximately an equal amount of work. [But these initiatives] really help aspiring scientists see this other side of science where we’re also just normal, fun, creative people.”

Check out the winners of the biology, physics, and social sciences categories below.

Biology category winner

Israel Sampaio Filho, National Institute of Amazonian Research, Leaf abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis: the main source of Amazon rainforest response to warming

Physics category winner

Dr. Evgenii Glushkov, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Exploring optically active defects in wide-bandgap materials using fluorescence microscopy

Social Sciences category winner

Huy Vu, Stony Brook University, Artificial Intelligence with Personality

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Jive to the Academic Beat With This Year’s “Dance Your Ph.D.” Winners

Sometimes explaining complex scientific research requires a cow doing the worm, glittering e. coli and an immune cell with a killer plie

Jason Daley

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Many scientists know the pain of meeting a stranger at cocktail party or sitting down at Thanksgiving and getting this question: So, what’s your research about?

Though trying to distil the function of mRNA in gene expression into a few minutes of intelligible chit chat may seem as hard as earning a Ph.D., the ability to communicate complex research to the general public is of the utmost importance.

So to help academics everywhere, American Association for the Advancement of Science launched the annual “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest . Now in it’s ninth year, the contest requires grad students translate their often complex research into a new format, giving them a different perspective on their work and a chance to communicate their findings with the public. It’s also fun.

This year’s winner, biomedical engineering student Jacob Brubert  of Cambridge University explained the intricacies of his research developing a new biocompatible artificial heart valve using a salsa dancing cow and pig, tap dancers, and funky surgeon, hula-hoops and overexcited polymers. The video took “some very willing friends” a few weekends to produce, but it earned Brubert $1,000 and a trip to Boston next year to present his video at the AAAS meeting. “My adviser thought I was crazy, but he was supportive,” Brubert, now at Oxford, says in the press release.

The winning entry in the biology category comes from Carla Brown at the University of Glasgow, who illustrates the development of antibiotic resistance using glitter-covered modern dancers to represent infectious bacteria engaging in dance fights with antibiotics not seen since the first Zoolander .

In the social sciences category, Margaret Danilovich of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine speeds up and slows down Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” as dancers progressively stiffen while popping and locking to show the effects of muscle loss during aging. Training caregivers to help their patients exercise, however, helps improve frailty and quality of life, the dance shows, resulting in a chair dance between a caregiver and an “elderly” patient at the end.

Evgeny Sogorin of the Institute of Protein Research in Moscow, winner of the chemistry category, shows the highly choreographed way ribosomes prevent “jamming up” while moving along DNA strands to express genes through ballroom dance. The black-and-white film with caption cards in between scenes is reminiscent of a silent movie. But the most impressive feat is convincing so many friends to dress in tuxedos.

The people’s choice award went to Emmanuelle Alaluf of the Free University of Brussels. Her study on myeloid-derived heme oxygenase-1 helps explain how cancer cells avoid detection by the body’s t-cells and immune system. Her video, which looks like a charming low-budget version of Swan Lake , captures the gist of this complex process.

Last year, the prize went to Florence Metz who danced around with a giant snifter of contaminated water to represent all the parties involved in creating water policy. In 2014, biologist Uma Nagendra performed circus aerials to explain her research on how tornadoes negatively impact parasitic fungus, allowing tree seedlings to grow.

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Jason Daley is a Madison, Wisconsin-based writer specializing in natural history, science, travel, and the environment. His work has appeared in Discover , Popular Science , Outside , Men’s Journal , and other magazines.

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