The Night Science Podcast
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The Night Science Podcast explores the creative scientific process, with your hosts Itai Yanai (@itaiyanai.bsky.social) and Martin Lercher.
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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...
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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...
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🔥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!
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
🔥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!
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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.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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...
open.spotify.com/episode/165i...
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🔥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...
open.spotify.com/episode/165i...
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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.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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...
cassyni.com/events/ZYQow...
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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.
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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
October 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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.
September 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🔥 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.
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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!
September 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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!
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Awesome science creativity podcast
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
@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
September 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Awesome science creativity podcast
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
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'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
September 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
'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.
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.
September 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🔥 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.
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.
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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.
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August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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...
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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!
This year's EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) will take place in Vilnius, #Lithuania from 24–26 Sep 2025. The EYSF brings together scientists across #Europe for #networking and scientific exchange – Apply now: meetings.embo.org/event/25-eysf 🧪
Abstract submission by 1 Aug
Registration by 15 Aug
Abstract submission by 1 Aug
Registration by 15 Aug
EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum 2025
The EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) brings together young scientists (doctoral and postdoctoral) to engage with colleagues from across the continent and share their findings and interests with it…
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July 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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!
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🚀 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!
July 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🚀 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!
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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 😃
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2 | Tzachi Pilpel on channeling other people’s minds for creativity
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June 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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...
open.spotify.com/episode/39yA...
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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
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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
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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.
🔥 New episode of the Night Science podcast! The brilliant Eve Marder, professor at Brandeis University, talks with us about how "Recipe Science" ruins creativity.
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Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...
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Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...
May 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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.
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Wonderful discussion!
🔥 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...
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Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...
May 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Wonderful discussion!
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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
Eve Marder, on @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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
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...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...
May 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🔥 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...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...
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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.
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.
May 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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.
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.
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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!)
I warmly recommend @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
(since I use to sleep at night, this is more often "Bike Science" 🚴♂️🎧 than "Night Science" to me!)
74 | Martin Schwartz and the importance of stupidity in science - Night Science
Martin Schwartz, a professor at Yale, is known for his work on integrins and his influential essay “The importance of stupidity in scientific research”. He emphasizes that while learning science makes...
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May 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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!)
I warmly recommend @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
(since I use to sleep at night, this is more often "Bike Science" 🚴♂️🎧 than "Night Science" to me!)
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Have you discovered the Night Science Podcast yet?
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
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May 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Have you discovered the Night Science Podcast yet?
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
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🔥 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...
May 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🔥 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...