The Night Science Podcast

Please subscribe to the Night Science Podcast, where in each episode, two scientists – @ItaiYanai & @MartinJLercher – explore the creative side of their process with a leading colleague. Apple:podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nig… Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/6berzd2rX… Google:podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…

Rather than keeping our techniques private, how can the scientific community promote more transparency and open sharing for the kind of prompts that make AI good for creativity and ideation? @emollick on the Night Science Podcast. @nightsciencepod nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/episod…

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

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. @UriAlonWeizmann

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 Night Science Podcast

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 also talked about this on the @nightsciencepod.

6/ P.S. BrainFREEZE was inspired by the fantastic @nightsciencepod. Can’t recommend it enough! 🎧

🔥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 @MartinJLercher. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1zgbuW…

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 the cultivation of "passionate indifference" – are key in science.

Is the genome just a bag of genes? A new paper in @ScienceMagazine now reports that for two thirds of an organisms' genes the position along the chromosome is actually very tightly constrained! Amazing work from my favorite night scientist @MartinJLercher and his team!

🚨 Just out in Science: 2/3 of bacterial gene families have a preferred position on the chromosome—and natural selection put them there! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @HHU_de @ceplas_1

This was a fantastic episode on using AI in science

How can we exploit AI's hallucinations to make us more creative by generating new connections and ideas? We talk about it on this week's Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod

🔥New Night Science paper!! Discovery happens when your initial plans fall apart but it requires you to have a particular mindset: it's not extraverted, orderly, neurotic or agreeable that's the most important – discovery requires an OPENNESS to new ideas and unexpected insights.

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David Baker talks about how the current uncertainty and instability hinder creativity because of the difficulty in thinking long-term. From this week’s Night Science Podcast. @nightsciencepod