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Gina Mantica

PhD Candidate | Science Communicator | Dancer

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Our skin saw the sunlight for the first time in what feels like forever. ☀️ Also, we saw SEALS!😍

I haven’t danced in a month because I chipped a bone in my wrist when I fell down that flight of stairs at #birdsongmeeting2019 😭🙈. But, my hard cast is finally off, and I AM READY TO MOOOOOVE✨💃🏼 Flashback Friday to the class where I was dancing with a broken wrist before I went to the doctor 🤦🏼‍♀️ ... . . . . ... #Repost @jazzincdance with @get_repost . . . No copyright infringement intended. For educational use only. Music by James Morrison Choreography by Stephanie Heroux . . . #jazzdance #bostondance #gottadance #gottajazz #leaveitallonthedancefloor #soulfulsundays #dancesmarter #dancestronger #dancelonger #fitbodies #jazzdiva #feelthefloor #makeitcount #contemporaryjazz #justdance #whatsyourwhy #hozier #movement #itjustfeelsgood #inthegroove #inthemoment #dancehere #dancenow

Had an amazing time presenting my dissertation research 🔬 for the first time at #birdsongmeeting2019 🐦! It was also our first conference as a lab (minus our PI). Peep the second picture 👀 to see the beautiful view I had 🏞 before I slipped and fell down a whole flight of stairs😂.

I can’t wait to share the project @amberleilaniphotography and I have been working on💃🏼👩🏼‍🔬. They say “don’t become your work”, but why not become a bird?🐦 Makeup by the always lovely @leslie_anne1987 💋

Too bad I can-CAN’T move my legs after this weekend😂. Had an amazing time performing with @jazzincdance at @mfaboston 💃🏼. Go check out the newest exhibit, “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris” to learn more about the can-can, serpentine dance, and the celebrity culture of 19th century Paris!✨

🥚🌡➡️🐣🏃‍♂️ What’s the story behind these emojis? Read my latest piece on research from @fiuinstagram in Outside JEB to find out! LINK IN MY BIO👆

Sorry not sorry that my Instagram feed is slowing becoming pictures/videos of dancing and ice cream-that’s ME! 💃🏼🍦

In the wise words of Mr. @dierksbentley “some days you’re just alive, and some days you’re living.” 💐

Thank you @cb_scoops for the AMAZING ice cream pizza!🍦🍕😍 20 minutes after picking it up, and it’s half-gone (shouts out to my coworkers for the assist). #notsponsored #icecream #icecreampizza

Happy anniversary, ya goof. A little over 4 years ago, I told my mom I would never find my “person” when I transferred back to my all-women’s college. My mom said “just you wait, Gina. I bet that you’ll find the one out there.” Sure enough, like always, my mom was right. . . . . When I first met you in that coffee shop, I thought two things: 1) wow he’s such a hipster, sitting there in an olive-colored beanie and 2) I feel like I’ve known him forever. I’m still not sure how it’s possible to feel like you’ve known someone you’ve only just met, but I’m pretty sure that means I found the one whom my soul loves. I love you💕

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-4) March 4 1929- March 4 2019. ✨

3 PhD students walk into a bar...👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

“Humans are fairly familiar with the idea of dads providing care to young children. 👨‍👧‍👦 However, paternal care is actually rare across vertebrate species. Instead, infanticidal behaviours, where dads show aggression towards young😡, are common. In rodents like the Mongolian gerbil🐀, dads switch between slaughtering the youngsters of other parents and caring for their new-borns💕. Without this switch, dads would hurt their own young✨.” . . . . How do gerbils manage to become such doting fathers? 🤔 Continue reading my latest article to find out! LINK IN BIO👆.

Ostrich facts🐦: 1)the ostrich is the world’s L A R G E S T bird✨ 2) they can sprint up to 70 kilometers per hour, but cannot fly 🏃‍♀️. 3) ostriches don’t have teeth, and swallow pebbles to help grind their food 😬

While in Texas, I got to see limestone stalactites and stalagmites in person and WOW OH WOW are they beautiful! 😍 . . . . How do they form? 🤔 Stalactites are the formations from the ceiling, and stalagmites are the formations from the ground. They form when water containing dissolved calcium bicarbonate from the limestone drips 💧 in the cave and comes into contact with air💨. The exposure to air causes some of the calcium bicarbonate to precipitate into a mineral called calcite. Over many years, water continues to drip and the calcite continues to build up to create these beautiful formations! 🙏 #science #scicomm