Kangaroo Time

The annual Dance Your PhD competition invites graduate students to illustrate their dissertation with an interpretive dance video. Yes, it seems weird, but it's a lot of fun, and a great way to communicate science ideas to those who don't read dissertations.

The winner for 2024 is Dr. Weliton Menário Costa of the Australian National University (ANU) for his video Kangaroo Time (Club Mix). It illustrates his paper "Personality, Social Environment, and Maternal-Level Effects: Insights from a Wild Kangaroo Population." Costa illustrates the diversity in kangaroo personalities and how they interact in groups. But the Brazilian biologist had a leg up on the competition in that he is also a musician, under the name WELI. He wrote and produced the song "Kangaroo Time," which is available on his new EP Yours Academically, Dr. WELI. See a behind-the-scenes video here. (via Metafilter)