🔥New Night Science Podcast episode! We talked with PhD students & postdocs about finding ideas in art museums, making sketches, transferring concepts, going to unrelated seminars, swimming, hiking, talking in pubs and letting ideas lie fallow like in a crop rotation system.

🔥 New Night Science Podcast episode! What can comedy teach us about scientific discovery? With stand-up comedian and former research scientist Sarah Adelman, we discuss the surprising parallels between jokes and discoveries! open.spotify.com/episode/0zG2... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

🔥New Night Science Podcast episode! The great Robert Root-Bernstein argues that successful scientists do not treat their “lazy” creative pursuits, such as painting, music or writing, as distractions from science, but integrate them into one coherent creative life. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

🔥 A new episode of the Night Science Podcast just dropped! Prof. Lois Hetland, former chair of art education at MCA asks: what do artists and scientists truly share? We talk about the “studio habits of mind”: observe, reflect, envision, express engage & persist, stretch & explore, craft & connect.

🔥 A new episode of the Night Science Podcast comes out today! We talk about how science is secretly driven by analogy with Melanie Mitchell, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a leading thinker on AI, analogy and abstraction. open.spotify.com/episode/1hqU... @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4KB3...

🔥 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.

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. @mdubova.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

🔥 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.

🔥 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...

🔥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...

🔥 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. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...

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...

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. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

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! open.spotify.com/show/6berzd2...

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.” Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0JvE...

🔥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. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Episode was curated by @udupaarjun.bsky.social

Please subscribe to the Night Science Podcast, where in each episode, two scientists – @itaiyanai.bsky.social & Martin Lercher – explore the creative side of their process with a leading colleague. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6berzd2...