Creative physics rap on molecular clusters wins Science's annual Dance your Ph.D. contest Competition also awards new prize for dance about COVID-19 American Association for the Advancement of Science The newest overall winner of Science's annual Dance your Ph.D. contest, now sponsored by the artificial intelligence company Primer, is a Finnish researcher studying atmospheric molecular clusters. With the help of several friends, Jakub Kubecka brought his studies to life with trash-talking rap lyrics ("I'm the first author, you're just et al.") endearingly crude dance moves, computer animation and drone video footage. "To prepare for recording the lyrics, I was running with headphones playing the music at least 30 times per day for the whole month to get it into my blood. I think that I even dreamed about it." Kubecka recalls. "Throughout the whole process, we always stayed close to our main goal of showing non-scientific muggles that science can be fun, silly and exciting." (Additional remarks from the winner can be found below.)