Itai Yanai

Published today! We found that cancer cells adapting to drug treatments don't simply switch from a sensitive to resistant state; instead there's a ‘resistance continuum’ of resistant phenotypes with epigenetically reprogrammed states. 🧵⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4158… @Gustavo_SFranca

Rachel Yanai 💔 רחל ינאי

Dear early career scientists! Why not join us in September in Lithuania’s beautiful capital city for the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF)? We will have have a full Night Science workshop & exciting research sessions. Abstract submission deadline: Aug 1 meetings.embo.org/event/25-eysf

"Figures should not be cartoons nor should they be too conceptual, focus on the science." This is an instruction to authors from Science magazine (@ScienceMagazine). But conceptual figures are crucial for communicate a big idea, so shouldn't they be required (not discouraged)?

'Night science' is what you do when you're not sure what's the question.

If you don’t have time to take a walk, then you don’t have time to do science. Charles Darwin would take two walks every day on his "thinking path", not as a break from science, but as a crucial part of it.

The situation we’re in now [with AI] is like someone who has a very cute tiger cub. A tiger cub can make a great pet but you better be sure that when it's grown up it never wants to kill you. – Geoffrey Hinton (Father of AI)

hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking

The choice when writing up your paper: you can work really hard so that someone else can quickly understand what you did, or you can do it very quickly so that the others will need to work really hard to figure out what you did, unless they simply give up trying..

Kerouac with advice on how to find a science buddy.

What do we want? Discoveries! When do we want them? Now! Join us in Prague on Monday for a workshop on ‘Night Science’ - the creative scientific process - to learn the tools that experienced scientists know but which we need to do a better job passing on to the next generation!

We're one, but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other – U2

This is a very difficult time for Israelis and Iranians. If you have friends and colleagues that are affected, reach out to see how they're doing.