Zheng Lab - Bad Project (Lady Gaga parody)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- edit We are the Hui Zheng lab at BCM and study Alzheimer's Disease. Thanks everyone for your comments and words of encouragement! We had no idea this would spread like it has, but I guess some of these feelings are universal (and international!). This was all in good fun and took us only a few days to do the filming and editing. If you are caught in a bad project, best of luck and hope you can turn it around soon!
Our submission for the Molecular and Human Genetics Retreat 2011 at Baylor College of Medicine. We decided to parody Lady Gaga's Bad Romance with a science twist. Many thanks to On the Rocks for the dance moves, and tinyurl.com/4ld... for the mouse video.
the tubes says "what a lie, experiment keeps failing, theres no future, I freaking want to graduate"
Thanks for the translation
Excellent.
So true
THANK YOU
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11 years ago,while still a student, Mary Anne Ji-Kidwell, made this classic #LadyGaga parody video about grad students' frustrations. She now has 11 publications and works at Berkeley.
That is not Mary Anne, it is Mary Wiese.
1. Good for her.
2. Is it really about “grad students' frustrations” not about frustration about someone else leaving a project with insufficient documents. I hated having to write in the lab book. I kind of identify with the guy who's lab book is a mess.
3. I rewatched this since I will use one or two screen shots in a lecture next week. (So it will be in my reference list)
4. “Blot blot western baby, have no lines this shit is crazy.”
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Excellent. I can't imagine somebody can explain better what is happening to the people seeking career in science.
T_T :@
Lol. I’m screwed.
@@shadowlynxv6082 Yes, you are. But hey, we all are.
The cake is a lie. Unfortunately people realize too late.
@@ddv1647 :)
*Blot blot Western baby, got no bands this shit is crazy*
This parody is pure genius on many levels. The lyrics are terrific, mimicking the original while perfectly capturing the frustrations of the student. The costumes are wonderful, making great use of lab supplies. The dance moves are a fantastic, again inspired by the original. Details like the cuts at 1:03 and the foreign language singing just make this parody superb.
that costume made out of lab waste plastic, pipette aid tip wraps, and finger cut lab gloves.... awesome!
This still makes me laugh. Anyone who's ever worked on or in research, or any career in science can relate to this song!!! :)
35 years of my life. Known many with the same story. Even after watching this a 100 times, it still makes me laugh.
@@konradv7 This was my life as a neuroscience graduate student. This video is so true and so funny
@@LRB9498 I wish I could relate.
@@LRB9498 cool, that's where Im headed. How is your life now that you graduate, are you a neuroscientist?
Not really, it's overexaggerated to say the least, and cringy af in general. Science doesn't come without a stress, but if you have that much stress and blame everyone around you, you may be the that "bad" part of the project. Happy 2022 btw.
I left research 7 years ago and sold my soul to the corporate world. On bad days I still come back to this video to remind me why I left, however, this time I rather feel wistful. I miss the sickly sweet smell of Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide...
This has to be the best grad school commentary I've ever seen. It's frankly brilliant. I've only watched it 432 times though, better watch again to be sure.
Just hit 433 myself.
@@michaelj6178I can’t count how many times. My wife and I - both grad school refugees - were working out at the Y once and the real song came on. We started singing this version and a staff member walked by and said, “You guys must really love Lady Gaga!”🤣😂🤣😂
I've sent this to so many people but unless you've been there, you don't get how brilliant it is. @@rftulie
Who’s still watching in 2019?
2020
@@Maplelynx 2021
Suddenly dig this out after the Lady Gaga inauguration anthem performance ;)
@@wooiloonng1418 my spreadsheet is 700 by 30
I hate physics
So... I started my PhD in 2011 and I discovered this video around the time I was choosing which school to go to. It was exciting and amusing. Fast forward 6 years, I just defended a month ago. Now, it's much more real... and not so amusing.
I recommend everyone think long and hard before embarking on a PhD, even if/especially if you're smart, good at research, etc. I did it for the right reasons and it was still a load of crap.
Update 2020: three years removed from the end of the PhD, and having my dream job which I was able to get because I have the PhD, and no longer having grad school PTSD, I am not so resentful. But my advice above still stands: think long and hard. And enjoy, whatever you decide!
Update 2023: this song somehow made it into the YT algorithm after some completely unrelated music. No regrets! The bad PhD memories have receded far into the past. I have a fulfilling research career and I'm grateful I've pursued my dreams to the core. Good luck to everyone. :)
Give it a few years and watch it again. My mother who is a PhD and discovered this video around the time you did too; we had to pick her up off the floor at the doctors office she was laughing so hard.
so true
It was in 2011 when I was shown this video by my PhD student girlfriend (she hasn't got her degree). Back then I had an frickin' MA degree and was out of job. Now I have been having corporate office jobs for over 6 years, I slaved my ass off and I still don't earn much more then 1000 USD a month, so you should be happy that you decided to study something important and you struggled through those years, now your future has come and you can live happily ever after, whil my past keeps haunting me and I'm stuck in such jobs for life.
Lord Isern You are never stuck. If you are unhappy change something
@@michalperach984 you may never be "stuck", but your student debt never goes away...
Yo, from an MD who also does parodies, this is the gold standard!
This has been our lab anthem!!! It precisely sums up how we sometimes feel in the lab when experiments do not yield the desired results... this performance provides quite the comic relief to push us through!
The western blot part gets me EVERY TIME! One of our lecturers showed us this today and I can't stop laughing!
this video pretty much sums up the life of a PhD student ....
or a master student...or a last year bachelor who's not from US :D
Revisit in 2021. Bring back many memory. Last time I watched this I was an undergrad volunteer who has no idea I was about to experience in grad school.
I've watched this video dozens of times over the last couple of years. I always bust a gut at the protocol written in Thai and the box full of foreign-language labeled tubes. Just hits way too close to home. Absolutely brilliant parody.
This was exacty how I felt when I was studying Depression using animal research..
I came across to your video when it was being played by one of our professors in the department of business school. Life has changed ever since I have decided to combine my biology background with marketing. Good luck to all of you on your studies!
The day this came out, I was just a kid. And now, I share the same frustrations as you guys experienced 😭💀
So curious to know where everyone from this video is now. This spoke to my soul years ago as neuroscience graduate student. I went into the private sector in pharmaceuticals and never looked back!
Same story for me
Thank you! This is likely the best parody EVER. You're genius. I hope you get to be NIH director some day, totally deserved!!!
This definitely has an air of "I'm in this picture and I don't like it" about it. Too relatable to me. The outfits are on-point though. Well done, folks. Highly entertaining
I'm doing my research at HSM and this is absolutely amazing. I can relate to everything. The Lady Gaga-esque outfits made from biohazard bags and pipette tip finger nails, I LOVE IT!! +1000000000000000000000000000 points for you and your lab!!
Yes and the other dress made from lab bench pads! There was so much artistry here… lyrics , singing, dancing, costumes, filming
I must have watched this like 100 times now. It is sheer perfection in capturing the desperation a grad student (at least an experimental one in a lab) tends to experience. I am myself a theoretical physics professor, but can feel the authenticity of what transpires, and the glorious humor at display here.
...but this where you earn your PhD, you dig down late at night, head on the bench, tears fine, when it hits you how to recover, how to earn a PhD, Go For It, kick your own ass, see what you are made of!
Shared this video today with a colleague and oh the memories of grad school that came flooding back! 😂😂😂 Vid totally nails the struggles PhD candidates everywhere can relate to…mystery tubes in the freezer, dead end projects, Western blots being fuzzy, and the seemingly unattainable and elusive 1st Author paper….to name a few. And using everyday lab materials for the outfits was freaking brilliant! A corset made of pipettes or the red ‘bio waste bags’ for a skirt and hair bow?! LMAO 🤣🤣 Two thumbs up for he supporting singers & dancers in the background - they are hysterical 😂 Loved this video when it first came out 12 yrs ago and still love it today. The Zheng Lab rocks!!!
I worked for years in a veterinary diagnostic lab and every time I watch this it is just great memories. I guess I had bad samples instead of a bad project, but so many of my PhD track friends lived your song. It's really wonderful and I am so glad you made this fun tribute to the realities of advanced degree attainment :-)
I watch it over and over again for years and get the same feelings every time. This is amazing))).
I saw this when it came out and just shared it at a holiday gathering. Timeless, true and super funny !
This is funny and sad at the same time
We laughed (and cried) listening to this song, when I was doing my Master's.
Twelve freaking years later (gosh, I'm old!), I'm still stuck in another bad project.
Why why why oh why, did I choose this life?!
2020 still best video on youtube
This is brilliant. Not sure it gets better, though. I'm a post-doc. Still failing Western Blots. Still poor. And a PhD won't impress those mice.
Amazing! The Gaga-inspired lab costumes are so fantastic! I loved it, and I'm not even a scientist. I'm a theatre teacher and costume designer and I found it too precious and creative for words!
Again and again... i love it - i did my PhD 15 years ago... every time i am watching this i have so many flash-backs ;-) thx loads!!!!!!!!
Your PI giving you the death stare because you have no data, your terrible slideshow that you threw together at 2 am last night, and running out after it’s done knowing you’re never going to get out of school
Yeah I have one on Thursday
God In Heaven I still have nightmares. I left my PhD program 25 years ago and still have dreams about committee meetings!
so true
Well... 25 years ago u got PhDs ad honorem. Now u get the PhD to become lab technician :/
I’m currently having nightmares about the committee meeting because my first one is only 10 days away...
The PTSD never leaves you, does it?
@@LRB9498 quaking because you’ve made 0 progress and fumbling through your slides on the verge of tears, PI gives you the “what the hell have you been doing” look and it’s taking everything you have not to snap.
Yeah I have one tomorrow
Time to time I always come back to this video 😂
The outfit is EVERYTHIING! Biohazad bags!!!
such a cool parody. And so true! Not just in biology, but in general in science
Experiments not working, spend 3 months making a parody Lady Gaga song. Logic only scientists would understand :P
3 months? You must be using the beer crew to shoot your videos.
my parents used to show me this when i was little and i seriously was obsessed with it, especially with the dance
This is brilliant! I love it. I laughed so much, replay like million times hahaha
i lost it at blot blot western baby xD
Just came back to watch it again. Western Blots! Awesome!
I saw this vidio from a vet school friend. I am an auditor with chemistry background. I have shared it with a lot of science folks and EVERYONE thinks that it is a HOOT! The most important thing is that these folks do unbelievable work helping folks.
Thanks so much for the work (Alz runs in my family) and the belly laughs!!!
FANTASTIC! Bad Romance is one of my favorite music videos so tonight went on a search for parodies of the song. THIS one is AMAZING! Even though my MA wasn't in the hard sciences (it was anthropology) but all those lousy memories of being a grad student came flooding back. GREAT STUFF! 🙂
i like the western baby part! keep up the good work
I love this one better than the original actually XD great job ;D
Haha, May 2020..2nd Year Phd student here, this song describes my feelings better than anything, absolutely love it! :)
It's 2022 and nothing has changed in academia. It feels like this song is about me :( I regret so much that at one point I chose science instead of medicine...
which is why I push my students into medicine. At least they will always find work.
Oh those memories. This video gives me PTSD. I thought I would never graduate but somehow made it at the end.
You have to make more of these. You have a serious talent for this!!!! I feel so understood too.
2022! who is still watching hahahaha 🤣✌️
I know it will be our life... I don't know why I still chose it...
Honestly, I’m impressed she got her lab to agree to this.
Ha, I did a summer internship at Baylor College of Medicine the same year this came out.
I know people who have papers in Cell they are still poor :-(
my husband has 2 papers in science but we are still badly poor :D. Sometimes I asked myself why the hell I still stay in the field.
hahahaha
I have math degree and made a breakthrough on a 50 year old math conjecture. I'm broke as hell and don't even own a car. The life of the mind is rewarding but not to the extent that it justifies poverty.
@@DavidVonR that's about the size of it... PS: glad somebody's still watching this in 2018!
You don't get into science to be rich. lol
This video is awesome! Seems like you have a new career!
“Got no bands - this shit is crazy...”
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Been there, done that.
From time to time I have to come back here
Every now and then I come back to this video. And I laugh my socks off every single time!
Kudos to everyone involved.
I found this video before I started my PhD. I've newfound appreciation of it after completing PhD. In some sense, I'm glad I got a relatively fresh (but still difficult) project. Now I'm free with a PhD and a paper in AACR Cancer Research but no closer to having a job outside the lab. And I wish I had the time and opportunity to explore the parody side of myself during my PhD
so it's not just me who's caught in a bad project...
Every time when I step into the lab - I hear the song in my head. Especially, when my electrophoresis results are coming "got no bands, this shit is crazy" :)
Which lab
@@akhilankudawedagedara7621 the molecular one :)
As a traveling lab tech, replace “project” with “contract” and...yeah. I feel this!
Just showed this to my group to raise morale after our PI has had us all working on a bad project for a year - Thanks for keeping us smiling :)
I just have gotten a huge drop in morale because of MY bad project. But you helped me get through this. Greeting from Poland!
And by the way, I googled "Research anger phd song", wasn't dissapointed, however the third match was "Sad songs: Sad Music & Sad Song For Reflection"... Coincidence? :P
I just started grad school in the Fall. I hope this song isn't my anthem in a few years
It has been a few years, I hope your situation is good!
Its been 5 years, have you gotten your first author publication?
omg dun be so mean to her :/
Actually, she had one after two years, in 2013. Not Cell but still a good journal: Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. She also finished her PhD and works in University of California, Berkeley.
Mare Anne Kidwell.
Here is an old interview about "Bad Project":
blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2013/12/11/what-do-plos-and-lady-gaga-have-in-common/
@@arctic_haze no way I work for UCSF, its practically right down the street. I would love to visit her.
Sorry, I looked again. I mistook UCB, for UCSD, maybe because I worked at UCSD some 20 years ago. And she is now married. On the 12 papers she published she is still Mary Anne Kidwell (it is sensible, I advise my PhD student not to change their "scientific" name when married) but in "civil" life she is Mary Anne Ji-Kidwell, the wife of Jason Ji.
I watched this video like 6 years ago. I recently moved to Houston, visited Baylor, saw the picture of the doc and instantly recognized it !
My ELISAs were a disaster, the predecessor to the project is graduated and out doing her own thing, and I still have no idea WTH I'm doing, thus this video came to mind for comfort! Thank you! I am really impressed with the creativity of the Gaga-esque costumes! I love the pipette bustier!
Man Im in the research industry and this is exactly how I feel when we get hard studies!
I was 10 when my chemist aunt showed this to me. I didnt speak english, I was mega confused, but now I get it, lol!
This is outrageously funny!! Awesome!!
Research Advisor sees this on youtube.... calls you into the office the next Monday..... "WHY WERE YOU OUT OF THE LAB!? WHO LET YOU OUT!?"
Awesome all over, great costume and execution. Thanks for making this video! I'm a bioinformatician, but since I used to do wet lab, I still relate. This song is so nostalgic! I found out about it in my senior year undergrad. Ever since I have watched it countless times. In my 3rd year in graduate school, when I suffered mental health problems and got frustrated with how pointless my project appeared and how it seemed to go nowhere, I really felt like I was in this video, although I did data analysis instead of wet lab. Totally relate. I come from a biology background, and felt like I chose the wrong major when many computer science, math, statistics, and physics majors got into computational biology. I felt like I was in a race and everyone passed me while I was crying by the road with a mechanical. I indeed thought I wasn't good enough, that my PI should have kicked me out, and that a job at Trader Joe's would be more appropriate. Never mind that that race is like the Tour de France because I'm in a prestigious institution; many cyclists don't finish the Tour because of crashes and illness. Not finishing the Tour doesn't mean that working at Trader Joe's is your lot. As an amateur cyclist, I would say that anyone who gets into the Tour is a superhero; I won't even survive 2 days of it. You are not an imposter! Moreover, this isn't really a race -- I find collaboration much more important than competition in research. Anyway, my life eventually turned better by my 4th year. I wasn't kicked out. I ended up with 2 Nature papers, and I'm the first author on the second one. I greatly enjoy my current project, whose manuscript I plan to submit to Nature Methods. I have recently graduated; it took 6 years. Absolutely no shame in not graduating in less than 5 years; the average in my program is 5.7 years. I have also written some bioinformatics song parodies. Although the bad part of graduate school is over, I will enjoy this video for the rest of my life!
I'm pretty sure this video made more money for the PhD student than she made doing anything scientific
It did not because the copyright is still with Lady Gaga. But the girl is OK. She made the PhD and works in University of California, Berkeley.
@@arctic_haze Parody is permitted under copyright law. Do you think Weird Al doesn't get paid for all his parodies? The real reason she probably earned little from this is that RUclips monetization didn't really become a big thing until long after this was uploaded. Most of the views would have been early on.
@@trevorlambert4226 Parody is permitted but earning on someone's else copyright is problematic. RUclips does not allow it. Weird Al is actually a counterexample because he *always* signs an agreement with the copyright owner before making the parody (splitting the income).
@@arctic_haze Weird Al asks for permission out of courtesy, not any legal requirement. Fair use is not restricted to non-profit applications, and there's no distinction addressing it. You either have the right via fair use, or you don't. Whether you're making money is irrelevant. Most fair use involves revenue generation. I can't pretend to know what RUclips's rules are, but I do know this: there are multitudes of parodies, critiques, reviews and other fair use content uploaded all over RUclips that are monetized. If you think RUclips is actually finding out who holds the rights to the source material for them and then redirecting the payments to them, then I've got a bridge to sell you. That's not how RUclips deals with copyright. Someone has to make a DMCA claim, and then RUclips will take it down (notwithstanding counterclaims). The fact that this video is uploaded and ads are running means uploaded is earning money from those ads.
I might as well also point out that your info regarding the singer/PhD candidate in the video is false. The link you provided in an earlier comment points to a different parody video with a clearly different person in it.
Graduate in less than 5 years? Sounds like sci-fi :)
OMG i love this. it speaks to nerds every where.
I understand the bad project syndrome entirely and this made me laugh out loud. It is one of the best Gaga parodies I've seen as well. Continued sucess to you all in your important research!
Science, western blot... This song is my motto almost every time when I'm getting into a new beautiful project assigned...
Scholar problems are similar in different countries.(((
Excelent, mush beteer then original!
I would love to know if they ever got their degrees and good jobs? :)
"Tricking people (literally, but more like, "you tricked me!")
Experiment isn't cool
No future (no point)
Old lady wants to graduate."
2021 👀😭 im old now
@TraditionalPirate
It's a microtome. It cuts sections of tissue for microscopic examination.
When I realized what the orange puffy shoulder pads were made from, I lost it. Then came the "crazy-ass mice"...
Love this! I work in a lab like this myself....with cells 😂 and can relate. Every single piece of equipment is familiar. The nostalgia!
YOU GUYS HAVE CREATED A MASTERPIECE.. A TRUE CLASSIC !!! :D
Strangely this is my favorite video of this year (I know, it is only April).
The life-tired Lady Science is the best visual antidepressant for me I know!!!
And her voice... Ooh la la!
So glad people take the time to make this kind of stuff. Ridiculously bad makes it so awesome!
Fantastic job getting this together! And as a researcher in training, totally makes me feel better :) Thanks!
Kudos to you guys from a research fellow to another, this is so amazing!
I used to work in research labs after graduatiing. I hated every minute of it. This brought back memories. She is so creative, very funny. I didn't want to be poor either, so I went into sales instead.
I LOVE this video. I watch it every time I am depressed with my dissertation work (often). My friends don't get it while I am laughing hysterically. Thank you so much - the video is awesome and the comments are great too!
Need MORE of these! Great job!
Still here 7 years later laughing my ass off.
This is brilliant! It really covers the life of graduate students and post-docs so well, and demonstrates the extraordinary talent of our young scientists slogging away to a very uncertain future, a talent not restricted to "nerdy" pursuits ;-) I hope this makes professors, principal investigators, academic administrators and politicians think about the difficulties young scientists and academics face.
This is so good and funny! To make a video team you all have all the energy and people skills you need to do great in life!
Saw this again and it's still so funny. Love the outfits and Asia singers! Thanks from all of us that work in research labs.
You guys are awesome! I'm going to be laughing and singing this for at least a week!
Was there ever a graduate student who didn't think he/she has the worst project in the whole world? Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it a lot.