🔥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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🔥 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.

🔥 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.

🔥 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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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 "passionate indifference" – are key in science.
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New Night Science Podcast episode! We talk with Ethan Mollick – bestselling author of “Co-Intelligence” – about the need for scientists to actively experiment with AI tools, share their methods openly, and reconsider scientific workflows in light of rapid AI progress. @emollick.bsky.social

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New Night Science Podcast episode! David Baker was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He explains how he socially engineers his lab’s "communal brain", where all individuals function like neurons, densely interconnected to maximize idea generation.
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This episode with past guests reminds us of how many amazing guests we've had over the years. Scroll here to check them all out!
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Itai and Martin discuss how being focused on a single hypothesis can prevent us from making discoveries, while emphasizing the value of open-ended exploratory analyses—often dismissed as “fishing expeditions.”
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🔥Today's new episode: A hypothesis is a liability!
Itai & Martin delve into the interplay between hypothesis-driven and exploratory research, drawing on insights from past guests of the Night Science Podcast.
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Episode was curated by @udupaarjun.bsky.social

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