Night science welcomes beautiful ideas Day science welcomes ugly facts The Night Science Podcast is the story of needing both @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

AI is amazing but the game is still the same: we need to make a discovery and AI won't do that for you.. So NYC Postdocs, join us Thursday for this month's Postdoc Night Science event! We're meeting at a bar near Union Square for some science buddy "speed dating". RSVP: tinyurl.com/3t5us6hp!

After leading workshops on ‘the creative scientific process’ worldwide for 5 years, last week we led our first ‘train-the-trainer’ event to empower faculty to teach it at their universities. Our goal is for all 9 million scientists exposed to the Night Science creativity tools!

What do you do when you get stuck? You need to pop out into the world of night science, into the world of ideas, where you use abstract thinking. You're going to use every trick you got to find the way forward. From Nature's new podcast on cultivating creativity in science!

It's amazing that our CEO Oliver Bogler is representing the Night Science Institute at AACR. And can you see which issue of Nature he got a hold of?! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @oliverbogler.bsky.social @night-science-inst.bsky.social

The new episode of the Night Science Podcast is a must-listen! Art professor Lois Hetland wrote a classic book about the “studio habits of mind” – observe, reflect, envision, express engage & persist, stretch & explore, craft & connect – and we explore how these relate to scientific process!

🔥 A new episode of the Night Science Podcast just dropped! Prof. Lois Hetland, former chair of art education at MCA asks: what do artists and scientists truly share? We talk about the “studio habits of mind”: observe, reflect, envision, express engage & persist, stretch & explore, craft & connect.

Data is not transparent! And that's why looking without bias is hard to do. We asked undergrads what correlation they expected between wealth & happiness, before showing them a fictitious dataset. Faced with an identical graph, those expecting a positive correlation were much more likely to see one!

There's a strange myth about science: that theory comes first, and that data cannot show anything new. But anyone who's ever done science knows the truth that there's a long conversation between data & hypotheses. Back & forth.. until the discovery. And if you think about it, it has to be this way!

Do you think you would have discovered a gorilla hiding in plain sight in your data? We found that you are 3 times less likely to do so if you have a specific hypothesis in mind. *A hypothesis is a liability* (Night Science recap, Day 5) genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Doing science requires us to speak 2 different languages: (1) Day science language is a highly precise language for designing & executing experiments; while (2) Night science language uses analogies & anthropomorphizes to give us intuitions about the unknowns we explore. (Night Science recap, Day 4)

Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field. (Night Science recap, Day 3)

AI is good at giving us answers but the bigger problem is still..

Every scientist is a bit of an artist and every artist is a bit of a scientist

Professors: come get trained by us in how to teach the Night Science Workshop on the creative scientific process to your students who are thirsty for this material! Our Train-the-Trainer 1day program in NYC April 24 is in partnership with the NY Academy of Sciences! night-science.org/train-the-tr...

Interested in listening to one of the world’s leading immunologists talk about her process of discovery? Akiko Iwasaki presents a virtual Night Science Seminar today at 10:30a EST on "Insights Gained in the Hunt for Genital Herpes Vaccines" cassyni.com/events/HjViw... @virusesimmunity.bsky.social

Can you help us find guests for the Night Science Podcast? We received generous sponsorship from Research Theory and they're challenging us to host 5 scientists each working in flight, genomics, nuclear power, computing & space. Ideas? @nightsciencepod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Akiko Iwasaki - @virusesimmunity.bsky.social - is presenting a talk next week in the Night Science Seminar Series on "Insights Gained in the Hunt for Genital Herpes Vaccines". Akiko will discuss both results and the process that led to the discoveries. Free registration: cassyni.com/events/HjViw...

Professors: come learn how to teach creativity to PhD students and postdocs? We'll teach you how to lead a 'Night Science' course about the creative scientific process at our train-the-trainer event in NYC on April 24th! Get a 10% discount from now until 3/31! night-science.org/train-the-tr...

Science and math and other technical fields, which seem to be based not on analogy, but on logic, are really secretly driven by analogy, and there's been a lot of work on trying to map out how that happens. - Melanie Mitchell, on the Night Science Podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Analogy and metaphor galore! I was interviewed by the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social podcast about metaphor and analogy in science: open.spotify.com/episode/1hqU... Pairs well with @sflusberg.bsky.social's interview on metaphor on the @manymindspod.bsky.social podcast disi.org/the-aura-of-...

🔥 A new episode of the Night Science Podcast comes out today! We talk about how science is secretly driven by analogy with Melanie Mitchell, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a leading thinker on AI, analogy and abstraction. open.spotify.com/episode/1hqU... @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

What a treat to be interviewed by Dr. @oliverbogler.bsky.social of the @night-science-inst.bsky.social to discuss our NYC Postdoc Chapter! I chat a bit about my career and research, and give some tips and tricks for starting your own Night Science chapter! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yeO...

It’s a lonely job, leading a research group (professor, principal investigator, group leader – whatever you call it). You talk all day with everyone, but you’re mostly alone with the doubts and risks of the biggest decisions. Does it have to be though?? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

🔥 A new episode of the Night Science Podcast is out today! Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues run a lab together at the @rockefeller.edu and they're also married! They're true science buddies and the partnership allows them to challenge each other to make discoveries.

Princeton friends! Come to our Night Science talk on Tuesday at 3pm to explore how humor can be harnessed to get new ideas. Joining me in this seminar is the stand-up comedian screenwriter and (former) scientist Sarah Adelman! Register here: my.princeton.edu/gradfutures/...

Interested in radical exploration in science? There's evidence that it can actually be the best strategy for discovery. We talk about it in our new episode of the Night Science Podcast episode with Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social)! Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

New episode of my favorite podcast! I had a great discussion with @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @martinlercher.bsky.social about (radical) exploration in science :)

Sometimes the best way to make a discovery is to allow yourself to get lost! 🔥A new episode of the Night Science Podcast came out today! Prof. (soon) Marina Dubova talked with us about making discoveries from exploratory data collection. @mdubova.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Professors: we must start teaching creativity to PhD students and postdocs! If you're interested in learning how to teach a course about the creative scientific process at your university, join us for our train-the-trainer event in New York on April 24th! night-science.org/train-the-tr...

🔥 New episode of the Night Science Podcast comes out today! Kenneth Stanley tells us how "the only way to eventually solve the problem is to stop caring about the problem, which is what we meant when we said abandoning objectives." Check out this episode on why greatness cannot be planned.

What is actually a high-risk, high-gain project proposal? Great to hear the answer directly from the ERC president Maria Leptin. 🎧 nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... Night Science (@nightsciencepod.bsky.social) is simply an amazing podcast for scientists! #ERC #NightScience #GrantWriting

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

Myths can be helpful ways to metaphorically view our science journeys! Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv (Assistant Prof. at Harvard) delivered a masterful lecture on her science by framing it as a “Hero’s Journey" on the Night Science Seminar Series. cassyni.com/events/ZYQow... @night-science-inst.bsky.social

I don't think scientists should work for anyone else. They should work for discovery and for their own curiosity. –Maria Leptin, ERC President @marialep.bsky.social on 'The Night Science Podcast'

There’s an art to writing a grant proposal so that your creativity is on full display. Maria Leptin - president of the ERC - talks about it on the new episode of the Night Science Podcast.

🔥 New episode of the Night Science Podcast! Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC, the European Research Council. She discusses how funding agencies can better support bold ideas and we explore how to evaluate creativity in grant proposals. @marialep.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2AJj...

I don't think scientists should work for anyone else. They should work for discovery and for their own curiosity. – Maria Leptin, ERC President @marialep.bsky.social (From the episode of the Night Science Podcast coming out next week @nightsciencepod.bsky.social )

PhD students and Postdocs: The Night Science Podcast (@nightsciencepod.bsky.social) is producing an episode highlighting young scientists talking about their creative process. DM me if you'd like us to consider you for this, & read below what PhD student Davis Garner will contribute! ⬇️

One of the most inspiring pods out there 👇🏻

If you haven't, you should, it's brilliant!

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!

I loved talking with Stephen Nachmonvitch for the Night Science Podcast – he's so creative, and his backgrounds in science and art make for an amazing, unique perspective :-)

🔥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...

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

🔥 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.