Ha.

My friend Jade shared this link (to the PhDcomic below) via her G-status this morning... love it. As I work on pulling together a paper I find painful to write, giggles over common scientific writing language are welcome...

Can Scientists Dance?

So, I guess Scientists can dance... or, at least try! Science held a competition this year called "Dance your Ph.D."... they had separate categories for grad students, post-docs & professors. A colleague of mine up in Canada applied & I wish I had known about it sooner! These videos are so fun. Maybe not the highest caliber dancing, but getting a professor to bob his head in a loincloth for a national audience? Impressive.

The "grad student" category winner:


Student winner. Had I been judging they would have received extra points for the loincloth, as that takes guts:


For more info on the competition, or to watch other videos: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5865/905b