For the second consecutive year, the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) celebrates Sant Jordi by combining the best verses… with the best science!
For two years now, the PRBB Intervals programme has been organising the course “Rhyme your science“, where the physicist and poet Sam Illingworth brings poetry to the scientific community of the Park so that they can express their research in a different way.
Inspired by this course, which will be repeated again this year, the contest of the same name, “Rhyme your science”, will take place on Twitter this April, with the following rules:
- Anyone (both scientific and non-scientific staff) aged 13 and over, residing in Spain, can participate.
- Participants can publish as many poems as they want.
- All types of poems are accepted (haikus, nonettos, or longer poems, which can be done with a thread of several tweets).
- The poems must be published on Twitter, and can be in Catalan, Spanish or English.
- The tweets or threads must use the hashtag #RhymeScience and mention the account @the_prbb. Twitter users who want to participate in the contest must follow the account @the_prbb. If you have a private account, please contact us so we can see your poem!
- Poems must be posted by 23 April at midnight (23:59).
- The winning poem will be chosen internally from the 5 poems with the most likes. In the case of poems written in more than one tweet, only the likes from the first tweet of the thread will be counted.
- The winning poem will be announced on 29 April via Twitter.
- The winner will be contacted individually via Twitter.
- The prize will consist of poetry and science books, as well as a personalised visit to the PRBB.
- All works will be held by the PRBB and may be used either in print or digitally. The use of the works will be non-profit and the authors of the selected stories will always be cited.
Are you up for it? We are looking forward to reading your sciencworks! 🌹⚔🐲
