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 on 'The Night Science Podcast'
10.12.2025 04:08 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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 — 👍 43 🔁 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
open.spotify.com/episode/2AJj...
08.12.2025 19:55 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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 )
01.12.2025 02:21 — 👍 67 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
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 📌 0
One of the most inspiring pods out there 👇🏻
18.11.2025 19:16 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
If you haven't, you should, it's brilliant!
18.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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 📌 1
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 :-)
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.
open.spotify.com/episode/165i...
10.11.2025 14:13 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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...
09.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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
🔥 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.
22.09.2025 19:32 — 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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!
13.09.2025 19:09 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Awesome science creativity podcast
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
09.09.2025 01:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'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
08.09.2025 17:41 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?
Podcast Episode · Night Science · 09/08/2025 · 40m
Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0cTb...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
08.09.2025 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔥 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.
08.09.2025 14:41 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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...
24.08.2025 16:56 — 👍 63 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 2
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!
28.07.2025 15:48 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 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!
29.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 118 🔁 45 💬 1 📌 4
2 | Tzachi Pilpel on channeling other people’s minds for creativity
Night Science · Episode
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...
30.06.2025 20:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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
22.06.2025 16:27 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
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.
27.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Wonderful discussion!
26.05.2025 17:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
26.05.2025 23:11 — 👍 35 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
🔥 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...
26.05.2025 14:53 — 👍 72 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 9
Professor at the NYU School of Medicine (https://yanailab.org/). Co-founder and Director of the Night Science Institute (https://night-science.org/). Co-host of the 'Night Science Podcast' https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-science/id1563415749
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Liu (Liao) Family Professor of Bioengineering, ChEM-H @Stanford.
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UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
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We use zebrafish to study how cancer starts and spreads.
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I study creativity. Professor of Educational Psychology at UConn. I like musical theatre, coming up with creativity theories, dogs, studying positive outcomes of creativity, baseball, developing creativity assessments, and my wife and two boys.
