Explaining the piezoelectric effect is hard enough. But dancing it? Whoa, next level #scicomm!
Be sure to check out the winner of this year's Dance Your Ph.D. contest:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWHdiLdemXQ
It's inspiring, full of creativity, truly professional - and so much fun to watch!
And if you'd like some more, here are the rest of the category winners:
👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/and-winner-science-s-2026-dance-your-ph-d-contest
#Wisskomm #ScienceMastodon #dance #science #academia #AcademicMastodon #DanceYourPhD


As Priya Reddy is passionate about dancing, she applied for the dance competition #DanceYourPhD and won first place in the biology category. Congratulations!🎖️
In Jena, the #PhD student is investigating the immune response of the little plant Arabidopsis to bacteria.🌱🦠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZEDbWqfAU #DanceYourPhD

Da hat man ja fast Lust, zu promovieren. Nur damit man auch ein so cooles dance video produzieren kann.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/meet-the-winners-of-the-2025-dance-your-phd-contest
😎 This is what I call some serious coolness! Not easy to find in #SciComm, so check out the winner of this year's #Dance Your PhD contest (Physics and AI/quantum categories):
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPrySGu0SOc
If you're interested in even more inspirational creativity, you'll find the winners of the other three categories here:
👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/winner-2025-dance-your-ph-d-contest
🕺 Dance your PhD!
Science communication can be a lot of fun — as recently demonstrated by our grad student Arfor Houwman, who produced a short dance video to explain his PhD topic in #QuantumPhysics. He even won an international award by AAAS and @SciMag for the clip (category #Physics) , so we highly recommend checking it out!
All we've gotta say is: lasers, lasers, lasers - LASERS!