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 — 👍 3 🔁 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 — 👍 97 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 2
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 — 👍 3 🔁 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 — 👍 40 🔁 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 — 👍 68 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 8
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.
25.05.2025 22:05 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
Have you discovered the Night Science Podcast yet?
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
15.05.2025 13:53 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
🔥 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...
10.05.2025 21:01 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
A great podcast from the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social team! Martin’s essays in @jcellsci.bsky.social continue to be our most read articles - definitely worth a read/listen regardless of what career stage you’re at.
23.04.2025 15:14 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
In today's episode of the Night Science Podcast we talk with Martin Schwartz from Yale about the importance of stupidity in science: while learning science makes you feel smart, true scientific discovery often involves feeling stupid, because it means venturing into the unknown.
21.04.2025 11:31 — 👍 200 🔁 56 💬 3 📌 11
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.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
21.04.2025 11:30 — 👍 55 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 4
Rather than keeping our techniques private, how can we as a scientific community promote more transparency and open sharing for the kind of prompts that make AI good for creativity and ideation?@emollick.bsky.social on the Night Science Podcast.
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
10.04.2025 02:31 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Today was the first time that I listened to @nightsciencepod.bsky.social and it is definitely not the last time! Episode 73 deals with creativity and AI, but it also proposes that scientists do not share what/how they use AI tools because of shame.
08.04.2025 16:57 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
AI was ridiculed as recently as 5 years ago, but today it’s hard to conceive of a future without it. We must talk about how this tool can make us more creative for coming up with new research ideas and helping us test them. Check out @emollick.bsky.social on the podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
07.04.2025 18:00 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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
07.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Listening to the latest night science podcast with David Bakker. Their is an interest discussion about the being able to solve a problem, and understanding the basis of the solution in relation to AI.
31.03.2025 23:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
If biotech wants to continue to recruit highly talented, energetic, and creative PhDs they need to help us to advocate for stable funding for young scientists in academia to prevent a brain drain and loss of scientific innovation.
We discuss this on this week's Night Science Podcast with David Baker
30.03.2025 11:36 — 👍 58 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Night Science
Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday.
I'm almost halfway through Night Science (I know, I'm so late on getting on this train). Apropos of absolutely nothing beyond their new logo, here are my top 8 favorite episodes from the first 30 installments of this gem of a podcast. @nightsciencepod.bsky.social nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020
27.03.2025 17:36 — 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1
I see I became an avid listener of @nightsciencepod.bsky.social in January and the hypothesis as a liability podcast was the first one I started raving about on our slack channel with the Lauffenburger and Griffith Labs. But I think one of the episodes I most often recommend is the decision tree.
25.03.2025 23:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The eternal question: should you focus on one problem for a very long time or is it more productive to bounce and work on many problems? David Baker says that both modes have been important in his career trajectory.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
26.03.2025 12:00 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Please subscribe to the Night Science Podcast!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0psG...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
25.03.2025 07:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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.
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
25.03.2025 07:30 — 👍 35 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
How does science work? Hypothesis-testing is only half the process and science also owes its progress to serendipity driven by data exploration. In the new Night Science Podcast episode we ask bold scientists about explorations. Check out some quotes below ⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/0JvE...
19.12.2024 03:59 — 👍 91 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 11
PhD Bucket List No. 3034: Meet someone from @nightsciencepod.bsky.social IRL ✅
Thanks @prakashlab.bsky.social for the great feedback!
Thanks @monicabettencourt.bsky.social @gladfelterlab.bsky.social @samreckpeterson.bsky.social for organizing an amazing session & opportunity to share our work!
18.12.2024 01:20 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
It was great fun developing this episode for the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social ! It's a nice way to get a peek into the catalog before digging deeper. A throwback to the ideas introduced by the awesome guests along with Martin and @itaiyanai.bsky.social's reflections for the regular listeners.
16.12.2024 19:02 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Professor at the NYU School of Medicine (https://yanailab.org/). 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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