Bake Your Research into a Cake!

When a mycologist makes a cake. . . #fungus #cake pic.twitter.com/ydAfqFri5Q

— Ray Van Court (@rcvancourt) December 26, 2021

Remember Dance Your PhD? That contest is still going on every year. But for many science PhD candidates, dancing may be outside their wheelhouse. There are other ways to creatively communicate your research, and one very delicious method is baking. Some universities have a "bake your research" competition for the candidates at their schools, while others just bake a research cake for fun.



You can find plenty of these cakes on social media with the hashtag #BakeYourResearch. You'll find more cakes using #BakeYourPhD or #BakeYourThesis. Read the thinking behind some of these cakes and how the idea took off at Atlas Obscura.