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The Night Science Podcast explores the creative scientific process, with your hosts Itai Yanai (@itaiyanai.bsky.social) and Martin Lercher. https://nightscience.buzzsprout.com/ http://youtube.com/@NightSciencePodcast
What a treat to be interviewed by Dr. @oliverbogler.bsky.social of the @night-science-inst.bsky.social to discuss our NYC Postdoc Chapter!
I chat a bit about my career and research, and give some tips and tricks for starting your own Night Science chapter!
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It’s a lonely job, leading a research group (professor, principal investigator, group leader – whatever you call it). You talk all day with everyone, but you’re mostly alone with the doubts and risks of the biggest decisions.
Does it have to be though??
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On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues
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🔥 A new episode of the Night Science Podcast is out today! Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues run a lab together at the @rockefeller.edu and they're also married! They're true science buddies and the partnership allows them to challenge each other to make discoveries.
02.02.2026 17:43 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Princeton friends! Come to our Night Science talk on Tuesday at 3pm to explore how humor can be harnessed to get new ideas.
Joining me in this seminar is the stand-up comedian screenwriter and (former) scientist Sarah Adelman!
Register here: my.princeton.edu/gradfutures/...
Interested in radical exploration in science? There's evidence that it can actually be the best strategy for discovery. We talk about it in our new episode of the Night Science Podcast episode with Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social)!
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New episode of my favorite podcast! I had a great discussion with @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @martinlercher.bsky.social about (radical) exploration in science :)
12.01.2026 21:47 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Sometimes the best way to make a discovery is to allow yourself to get lost!
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Sometimes the best way to make a discovery is to allow yourself to get lost!
🔥A new episode of the Night Science Podcast came out today! Prof. (soon) Marina Dubova talked with us about making discoveries from exploratory data collection.
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Professors: we must start teaching creativity to PhD students and postdocs! If you're interested in learning how to teach a course about the creative scientific process at your university, join us for our train-the-trainer event in New York on April 24th! night-science.org/train-the-tr...
07.01.2026 01:25 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned with Kenneth Stanley.
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🔥 New episode of the Night Science Podcast comes out today! Kenneth Stanley tells us how "the only way to eventually solve the problem is to stop caring about the problem, which is what we meant when we said abandoning objectives." Check out this episode on why greatness cannot be planned.
29.12.2025 15:35 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
What is actually a high-risk, high-gain project proposal?
Great to hear the answer directly from the ERC president Maria Leptin.
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Night Science (@nightsciencepod.bsky.social) is simply an amazing podcast for scientists!
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Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade.
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Myths can be helpful ways to metaphorically view our science journeys! Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv (Assistant Prof. at Harvard) delivered a masterful lecture on her science by framing it as a “Hero’s Journey" on the Night Science Seminar Series. cassyni.com/events/ZYQow... @night-science-inst.bsky.social
12.12.2025 17:03 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I don't think scientists should work for anyone else. They should work for discovery and for their own curiosity.
–Maria Leptin, ERC President @marialep.bsky.social on 'The Night Science Podcast'
There’s an art to writing a grant proposal so that your creativity is on full display. Maria Leptin - president of the ERC - talks about it on the new episode of the Night Science Podcast.
09.12.2025 04:36 — 👍 45 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1🔥 New episode of the Night Science Podcast! Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC, the European Research Council. She discusses how funding agencies can better support bold ideas and we explore how to evaluate creativity in grant proposals. @marialep.bsky.social
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I don't think scientists should work for anyone else. They should work for discovery and for their own curiosity.
– Maria Leptin, ERC President @marialep.bsky.social
(From the episode of the Night Science Podcast coming out next week @nightsciencepod.bsky.social )
PhD students and Postdocs: The Night Science Podcast (@nightsciencepod.bsky.social) is producing an episode highlighting young scientists talking about their creative process. DM me if you'd like us to consider you for this, & read below what PhD student Davis Garner will contribute! ⬇️
23.11.2025 00:27 — 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0One of the most inspiring pods out there 👇🏻
18.11.2025 19:16 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1If you haven't, you should, it's brilliant!
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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...
12.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0🔥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!
11.11.2025 02:25 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1I 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 :-)
10.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🔥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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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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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.
03.11.2025 02:50 — 👍 72 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0
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
27.10.2025 01:31 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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