{"id":1936,"date":"2011-10-07T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2011-10-07T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:47:16","slug":"dance-your-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/dance-your-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Improve Your Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This one is for every graduate student who&#8217;s been on the receiving end of a glazed\/skeptical\/bemused expression after trying to respond to a &#8220;so what&#8217;s your dissertation about?&#8221; query.\u00a0 Your elevator pitch would go over much better if it were more kinetic.\u00a0 Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gonzolabs.org\/dance\/\">GonzoLabs<\/a>, <em>Science<\/em> magazine and TEDxBrussels are sponsoring a <a href=\"http:\/\/gonzolabs.org\/dance\/videos\/\">competition<\/a> for PhD students in science-related fields for the best dissertation interpreted through dance.\u00a0 There don&#8217;t seem to be many entries from economists (dismal, dismal), but <a href=\"http:\/\/gonzolabs.org\/2010\/07\/dang-those-physicists-can-dance\/\">these<\/a> physics students look like contenders (incidentally, there&#8217;s still time for some last-minute, ill-considered choreographing.\u00a0 The deadline is Oct. 10.):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/10571267?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;For years I have been trying to explain to my mother what it is I do. This video was aimed at her. She now finally understands what the point of my research is. If I had known that all it would take was a little dancing, I would have done this a long time ago<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s Friday&#8230; This one is for every graduate student who&#8217;s been on the receiving end of a glazed\/skeptical\/bemused expression after trying to respond to a &#8220;so what&#8217;s your dissertation about?&#8221; query.\u00a0 Your elevator pitch would go over much better if it were more kinetic.\u00a0 Via GonzoLabs, Science magazine and TEDxBrussels are sponsoring a competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}