Rapping atmospheric scientists scoop Dance Your PhD award

A trio of atmospheric scientists from the University of Helsinki has won the 2020–21 Dance Your PhD competition. The group rapped their way to the title with an entry describing their research on atmospheric molecular clusters.

‘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,’ said the Finnish team’s leader Jakub Kubečka. ‘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.’