New Yorkers! Come to my talk at MSK on Thursday if you're interested in adaptive tumor-microenvironment interactions and cancer’s extended phenotype.

International scientists constitute the engine of much of the most exciting US science. My friend Sonali Majumdar has written precisely the kind of guide that international scientists crave in order succeed as resilient and brilliant scientists. Check it out! @sonali-m-19.bsky.social

This is a such an inspiring book about the art of improvisation and how it applies to our lives in general. I think it’s also very relevant also for what it’s like to do science. It was a pleasure to talk with Stephen about it on the Night Science podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/165i...

🔥We released a new episode of the Night Science Podcast today, all about the power of improvisation in life, the arts and the sciences. We talked with Stephen Nachmanovitch who wrote the classic book "Free Play". Check it out and please me know what you think!

Starting in a few minutes!! Free registration here: cassyni.com/events/ZYQow...

🔥A new episode of the Night Science podcast comes out today! Stephen Nachmanovitch is the author of the classic "Free Play" and the celebrated improvisational musician. We talk about chivalry in dialogue: the art of advancing (instead of blocking) each other’s ideas. open.spotify.com/episode/165i...

Join us tomorrow for a Night Science Seminar Series presentation! Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv from Harvard will talk about how a scientific journey can be viewed as a mythological Hero's Quest by sharing work from her lab on how epithelial tissues restrict the spread of viruses. cassyni.com/events/ZYQow...

New Yorkers! Come to my talk at Rockefeller University on Friday if you're interested in the mechanisms of adaptive genome regulation.

Is science too obsessed with metrics, large-scale projects & “blockbuster” outputs? Desai & Jun argued that preserving the "auteur" spirit of individual creativity, exploration and risk-taking is essential for maintaining the creativity that drew us into science in the 1st place.

Interested in genome organization in bacteria? Come to Martin Lercher's live virtual talk Monday at the Night Science Seminar Series! Free register here: cassyni.com/events/AhWU3... @martinlercher.bsky.social

It was wonderful to reconnect at the NYC Postdoc Night Science! Such a great and inspiring conversation about how to give better talks and tell science stories that matter

I've used Q.E.D. and it was really useful!

Come learn the tricks of giving a BAD talk: begin the process by organizing your slides - the more, the better, try to impress, run over your time, embrace distractions, and treat questions as threats! Join us tomorrow at Weill Cornell for this month's Postdoc Night Science NYC!

Dear Postdocs of New York: Next Wednesday, we’re closing out an amazing year of NYC Postdoc Night Science Club sessions at our very own @weillcornell.bsky.social ! If you’re interested in giving engaging, memorable talks, you cannot miss this one. Details below, hope to see you all there!

Congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It also demonstrates the fairness of the prize, as Mary Brunkow is a Senior Program Manager (not a professor) at the @isbscience.org hood.isbscience.org/people/mary-...

Rest in peace Jane Goodall, a true giant among scientists. Your breakthroughs into the secret lives of chimpanzees viewed through an anthropomorphic lens – without yet knowing that science had forbidden it – changed science forever, and with it how we see ourselves.

9/22, Night Science: “Akiko Iwasaki & the art of creativity maintenance” “Patients who are suffering from long COVID..given me a whole new perspective..it's my duty to be able to tackle these very complex problems where there's no biological diagnosis..” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7...

That’s really cool. Every lab should have it!

Interested in learning how to be a good speaker and give effective talks? Season 2 of the NYC Postdoc Night Science Club begins October 15th. Join us NYC Postdocs for a 2hr workshop and maybe also a drink at a bar! Free registration (usually ~100 come): docs.google.com/forms/d/1dII...

"That was not a question, it was a statement" said the famous physicist Paul Dirac after a long silence, in a lecture, when a student said to him, "I don't understand that equation". That was a hundred years ago and not enough has changed since then in our 'welcoming' culture in science..

EMBO Young Scientists Forum 2025 in Vilnius wrapped up today. Huge thanks to fellow organisers, volunteer teams, @itaiyanai.bsky.social for a wonderful Night Science workshop & all speakers & attendees. Here's fellow organiser Stephen Jones taking YSF attendee entertainment to the next level.

Even though talks at a conference are always cool, the most exciting part of #EYSF2025 is the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social workshop by @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @martinlercher.bsky.social . They are a great resource for scientific creativity and they even have a podcast!

The reality in science is that creativity is not treated as a core skill while hypothesis testing is, and that is the imbalance that we want correct through the Night Science Institute! www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/art... www.night-science.org

Dolbear's law: to get the temperature, count the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds and add 40. #ScienceIsAwesome

🔥A really interesting new episode of the Night Science Podcast came out today! Akiko Iwasaki talks about the art of creativity management & how a discovery is like a gem hidden inside a hairball. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... @virusesimmunity.bsky.social @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

Present your talk as though your audience is a curious 16-year-old. (At Woodstock Night Science over the summer we literally did this and presenting to a 16-year-old on stage with me made the talk clear and understandable to the entire audience!) #TCTEAC

🔥 New episode of the Night Science Podcast with Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social Yale & HHMI professor, and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2024! Akiko explains how leading large collaborations requires managing expectations, not micromanaging the research.

Phenomenal talk this morning 🤯🔥 #Nightscience

Starting in 10 minutes!

Interested in cellular plasticity? Come to my live virtual talk on Monday! Free register here: cassyni.com/events/ApfsK...

How will AI change the creative scientific process? Check out our discussion with the Google Co-Scientist team on the latest episode of the Night Science Podcast!

Interested in cellular plasticity? Come to my live virtual talk at the Night Science Seminar Series! Free register here: cassyni.com/events/ApfsK...

'Both competition and cooperation' – that is an underlying principle of how Google designed its "AI co-scientist" platform to generate ideas and think like a scientist. We talk with the leaders of this project on the latest episode of the Night Science Podcast. @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

🔥 New episode of the Night Science Podcast! We talk with the leaders of Google's AI Co-Scientist project, Alan Karthikesalingam and Vivek Natarajan, about how their system evolved parts of human hypothesis generation while also diverging in fascinating ways.

Been having a lot of fun lately listening to the Night Science Podcast after stumbling on it from the article series by @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher, definitely recommend it if you have a passing interest in the creative aspects of how the scientific process is conducted 😄

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

So many of the revolutionary ideas happen at the edges in between fields. But the problem is that doing this is not part of our training, and instead we emphasize only how to go deep in one field. We need both! Join our movement to make it happen! night-science.org

Santa Fe friends! I'm looking forward to visiting you at the Santa Fe Institute this week and presenting a talk on cellular plasticity. Thank you for hosting me, Marina Dubova! @mdubova.bsky.social santafe.edu/events/cellu...

Microbiomes are interactive, multispecies communities, but bulk analysis obscures functional diversification from environmental and genetic heterogeneity. In our new review we describe how single-bacterium transcriptomics dissects microbiomes at cellular resolution. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New review 🔥 Single-cell RNA-Seq has been revolutionary for studying eukaryotic cells and now it's time for it to do the same for microbes! We describe the technology for single-bacterium RNA-Seq & the questions now studied using it.🧵⬇️ science.org/doi/10.1126/... @andrewpountain.bsky.social

Scientists in training should be taught the creative scientific process, to gain confidence in their self-efficacy for research and identity as a scientist, & also for greater work satisfaction and a better chance of remaining in science long-term. Join our community at www.night-science.org

This was a fun message to receive ☺️ ‘I thought you may be interested to know this - I got my girlfriend a poster of your “it takes two” Nature correspondence for our first anniversary and it is now up on our wall!’ (Posted with permission)

PhD students: looking to start a new project? Avoid the cargo cult fallacy & the familiarity, over-specialization and popularity biases. For more on this, check on Michael Fischbach on the Night Science Podcast. @mfgrp.bsky.social @nightsciencepod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Read thread below 👇

Storytellers have a fitness advantage. This study on the Agta – a Filipino hunter-gatherer population – found that skilled storytellers have increased reproductive success relative to unskilled storytellers, with an average additional 0.5 living offspring. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.

What an exciting announcement! Best of luck to @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher on this new endeavor. The cultural shift is much needed. I am on board!

Act with chivalry when working with another person. Don't cling to your own ideas and status, but rather dare to give up (or at least share) control. Allow yourself to be changed by the ideas that arise. I wish we'd included in our paper this old concept as Keith Johnstone used it in improv theater.

Good ideas come from having lots of experience. And experience comes from having lots of bad ideas.

Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the actual creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & also philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...