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…

@danwilliamsphil re: Finding New Connections This requires a different approach to building/training the system, which IS being pursued in projects like Goog's Co-Scientist. Listen to discussion about this on @NightSciencePod (which explores Creativity in Science) bit.ly/3Jwv5er

It's sad to wake up to the news that the legendary Craig Venter died yesterday. Here's Stephen Quake talking about his contributions to the Genomics revolution which didn't actually come from within the Genetics community. Craig came in from Pharmacology and (together with Lander) said that genomes don't have to be perfect; drafts are useful. open.spotify.com/episode/3PZAZN…

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.. Thank you for featuring Martin and me! nature.com/articles/d4158… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/18WXyE…

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?! night-science.org nature.com/articles/s4158…

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!

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🔥 A new episode of the Night Science Podcast 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, stretch, 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! (Night Science recap, Day 7)

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! (Night Science recap, Day 6)

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/10.11…

Doing science requires us to speak two very different languages: (1) Day science language is a highly precise and metaphor-free language for designing and executing experiments; while (2) Night science language uses analogies and anthropomorphizing to give us intuitions about the unknowns we explore. (Night Science recap, Day 4) link.springer.com/article/10.118… night-science.org

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 process to your students who are thirsty for this material! Our Train-the-Trainer 1-day program in NYC April 24 is in partnership with the NY Academy of Sciences!night-science.org/train-the-trai…

Here is my talk on how studying viral infections can teach us a lot about the immune system, and how we can use those insights to develop vaccines against viruses. "Night science moments" make science so exciting 🌓 @NightScienceIns @ItaiYanai cassyni.com/events/HjViw2S…

Thank you Akiko for a super illuminating talk filled with night science moments and wonder!

Interested in listening to one of the world’s leading immunologists talk about her process of discovery? Akiko Iwasaki @VirusesImmunity presents a virtual Night Science Seminar today at 10:30a EST on "Insights Gained in the Hunt for Genital Herpes Vaccines"cassyni.com/events/HjViw2S…

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. Any ideas?@nightsciencepod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nig…