🔥 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.

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!

Awesome science creativity podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

'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.

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...

Our lab is helping with the organisation of this year's EMBO YSF. We have a great line up of invited speakers from (mostly) the wider Baltic region & a @nightsciencepod.bsky.social workshop on creativity in science (I did it a couple of years ago, it was awesome). Please share & consider joining us!

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

I’ve been listening to the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social lately - keeps me away from screens at night which is pretty neat actually - and I had a lot of fun listening to this one today, featuring Tzachi Pilpel 😃 open.spotify.com/episode/39yA...

The Night Science Podcast episode with Uri Alon is one of my favorites! He says that every scientist has a unique “tuning fork”; a natural inclination that align them with specific types of problems because of a deep resonance with who they are. @urialonlab.bsky.social

Loved this interview from the legendary Eve Marder. I agree when she said many papers today are so poorly written that they are unreadable. And our trainees writing is not good because people dont read anymore; not just science reading, but any book in any genre.

Wonderful discussion!

Many people are busy doing recipe science.. If you ask a grad student what they need to do to get a paper, they'll tell you this & this, & they'll know that 2 years before the project is done. And I'm thinking, what's wrong with this picture? Eve Marder, on @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

🔥 New episode of the Night Science podcast! The brilliant Eve Marder, professor at Brandeis University, talks with us about how "Recipe Science" ruins creativity. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...

AI Trick #1 for coming up new ideas: Think alone first! AI is persuasive – and able to spit out a lot of content quickly – so going to it first can severely constrain your ability to think differently. @emollick.bsky.social also talked about this on the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social.

A clever podcast episode about the importance of stupidity in scientific research: nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... I warmly recommend @nightsciencepod.bsky.social (since I use to sleep at night, this is more often "Bike Science" 🚴‍♂️🎧 than "Night Science" to me!)

Have you discovered the Night Science Podcast yet? @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

🔥 The "Postdoc Night Science Germany" club will have its first meeting this Friday, May 16 at HHU Düsseldorf. Join us postdocs for a session on how to find the gorilla hiding in your data! I'll lead this together with Martin Lercher. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1zgb...

A great podcast from the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social team! Martin’s essays in @jcellsci.bsky.social continue to be our most read articles - definitely worth a read/listen regardless of what career stage you’re at.

In today's episode of the Night Science Podcast we talk with Martin Schwartz from Yale about the importance of stupidity in science: while learning science makes you feel smart, true scientific discovery often involves feeling stupid, because it means venturing into the unknown.

New Night Science Podcast episode! Martin Schwartz from Yale talks with us about the importance of stupidity in scientific research, how the ego can obstruct creativity, and how resilience, self-discovery, and "passionate indifference" – are key in science. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Rather than keeping our techniques private, how can we as a scientific community promote more transparency and open sharing for the kind of prompts that make AI good for creativity and [email protected] on the Night Science Podcast. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

Today was the first time that I listened to @nightsciencepod.bsky.social and it is definitely not the last time! Episode 73 deals with creativity and AI, but it also proposes that scientists do not share what/how they use AI tools because of shame.

AI was ridiculed as recently as 5 years ago, but today it’s hard to conceive of a future without it. We must talk about how this tool can make us more creative for coming up with new research ideas and helping us test them. Check out @emollick.bsky.social on the podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

New Night Science Podcast episode! We talk with Ethan Mollick – bestselling author of “Co-Intelligence” – about the need for scientists to actively experiment with AI tools, share their methods openly, and reconsider scientific workflows in light of rapid AI progress. @emollick.bsky.social

Listening to the latest night science podcast with David Bakker. Their is an interest discussion about the being able to solve a problem, and understanding the basis of the solution in relation to AI.

If biotech wants to continue to recruit highly talented, energetic, and creative PhDs they need to help us to advocate for stable funding for young scientists in academia to prevent a brain drain and loss of scientific innovation. We discuss this on this week's Night Science Podcast with David Baker

I'm almost halfway through Night Science (I know, I'm so late on getting on this train). Apropos of absolutely nothing beyond their new logo, here are my top 8 favorite episodes from the first 30 installments of this gem of a podcast. @nightsciencepod.bsky.social nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020

I see I became an avid listener of @nightsciencepod.bsky.social in January and the hypothesis as a liability podcast was the first one I started raving about on our slack channel with the Lauffenburger and Griffith Labs. But I think one of the episodes I most often recommend is the decision tree.

The eternal question: should you focus on one problem for a very long time or is it more productive to bounce and work on many problems? David Baker says that both modes have been important in his career trajectory. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

New Night Science Podcast episode! David Baker was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He explains how he socially engineers his lab’s "communal brain", where all individuals function like neurons, densely interconnected to maximize idea generation. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

How does science work? Hypothesis-testing is only half the process and science also owes its progress to serendipity driven by data exploration. In the new Night Science Podcast episode we ask bold scientists about explorations. Check out some quotes below ⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/0JvE...

PhD Bucket List No. 3034: Meet someone from @nightsciencepod.bsky.social IRL ✅ Thanks @prakashlab.bsky.social for the great feedback! Thanks @monicabettencourt.bsky.social @gladfelterlab.bsky.social @samreckpeterson.bsky.social for organizing an amazing session & opportunity to share our work!

It was great fun developing this episode for the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social ! It's a nice way to get a peek into the catalog before digging deeper. A throwback to the ideas introduced by the awesome guests along with Martin and @itaiyanai.bsky.social's reflections for the regular listeners.

🔥Today's new episode of the Night Science Podcast is super cool: A hypothesis is a liability! We talk about the interplay between hypothesis-driven and exploratory research, and discuss the insights of previous guests of the podcast. I'm really curious to know what you'll think!

This episode was curated by @udupaarjun.bsky.social Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0JvE... It was generously supported by Research Theory (researchtheory.org). Thank you! @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

🔥Today's new episode: A hypothesis is a liability! Itai & Martin delve into the interplay between hypothesis-driven and exploratory research, drawing on insights from past guests of the Night Science Podcast. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Episode was curated by @udupaarjun.bsky.social

Science is like opening a window The episode with @remlehmann.bsky.social is now on YouTube! 0:00 - Introduction 2:29 - Getting a feeling for the organism 8:03 - The Saturday afternoon experiment 21:41 - Creativity thrives amidst diversity 24:34 -Leadership in science www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp9s...

New Night Science Podcast episode! Stanford's Michael Fischbach talks about choosing a research problem, managing risks, and turning crises into opportunities; as discussed in his Cell paper "Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering" www.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

On the Night Science Podcast we ask: do you have a method for coming up with good ideas?, and, how do you distinguish great ideas that you would like to work on from those that are less promising? The 1st 10 episodes are now on Youtube! www.youtube.com/@NightScienc... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

"Careerism" is bad for science, says Ben Lehner. He talks on the Night Science Podcast how he avoids being limited to the confines of individual fields and disciplines and his strategy for dealing with the unpredictability of science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9qb... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

It's an opportunity to say that I absolutely love the pod!! have been listening (mostly to new episodes, PhD life got me so busy...) for the last couple of months and it is fantastic. Highly recommend @nightsciencepod.bsky.social to anyone who is pod-aligned and in science.

The Night Science Podcast is also on YouTube these days. Check out Ellen Rothenberg on Inhabiting the Data and also Tzachi Pilpel, Arjun Raj, Oded Rechavi, Sarah Teichmann, Harmit Malik, Michael Strevens, Yana Bromberg & Ben Lehner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKEg... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

Definitely among my favorite podcasts! The night science has really diverse guests from different fields, there is always sth to learn from each episode!

The Night Science Podcast is now on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/nigh... Here's a starter pack to connect with some of our previous guests! go.bsky.app/Q5vFUQk

Please subscribe to the Night Science Podcast, where in each episode, two scientists – @itaiyanai.bsky.social & Martin Lercher – explore the creative side of their process with a leading colleague. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6berzd2...