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77 | Akiko Iwasaki and the art of creativity maintenance

Podcast Episode · Night Science · 09/22/2025 · 41m

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The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social · 15d

🔥 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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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24d

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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Tom Riffelmacher @tom-riffel.bsky.social · 29d

Awesome science creativity podcast
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Sep 8

'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

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Sep 8

'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

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The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social · Sep 8

Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?
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Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?

Podcast Episode · Night Science · 09/08/2025 · 40m

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The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social · Sep 8

🔥 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.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Aug 24

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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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · Jul 28

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!

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 28

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 🧪

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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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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 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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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 30

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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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Jun 22

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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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · May 27

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.

The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social · May 26

🔥 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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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social · May 26

Wonderful discussion!

The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social · May 26

🔥 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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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · May 26

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

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The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social · May 26

🔥 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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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · May 25

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.

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Paul Savary @psavary.bsky.social · May 25

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!)

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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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · May 15

Have you discovered the Night Science Podcast yet?
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · May 10

🔥 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...

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Seema Grewal @seemagrewal.bsky.social · Apr 23

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.

Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Apr 21

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.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Apr 21

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.

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The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social · Apr 21

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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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Apr 10

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 [email protected] on the Night Science Podcast.
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · Apr 8

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.

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