This is the winning music video of the 2025 Dance Your Ph.D. Competition, a contest in which doctoral candidates describe their research in song and dance. The winner was Dr. Sulo Roukka of the University of Helsinki, who performed his dissertation ‘Insights into oral chemesthetic perception: A focus on food-related behavior.’ Sounds like a summer top 20 banger for sure. It actually is pretty catchy, and I will be singing ‘Hot! Hot! Hot!’ all night, or until my girlfriend smothers me. And not between her breasts like I want to go, probably with my sweat pillow.

Keep going for Dr. Roukka’s video (which won the chemistry division, and the grand prize) as well as the winners of the biology, physics, and social sciences divisions in case you can’t get enough science.