I actually don't mind being wrong.. we said this is what's happening on the Millennium Bridge.. what we proposed doesn't work. But it was interesting. We really did stick our neck out and unfortunately got our head chopped off. –Steven Strogatz, Cornell Professor @stevenstrogatz.com

I said to my PI, I want to go do my postdoc, will you write a letter for me. And he wrote in my letter that I wasn't very creative .. I finally met with Magda and she told me she saw straight through the letter. –Samantha Morris, Harvard Professor

Science funding has still not reached gender equality: "Projects led by male PIs received roughly twice the mean funding compared to female PIs." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There is a big misunderstanding about “the linear model” – the notion that there is a pipeline in science that goes from research to development – in the White House's report "Science A New Golden Age".

Creativity is ultimately rooted in the individual –Ruth Lehmann, Director of the Whitehead Institute, MIT

Science would be more trustworthy in the public eye if scientists were more open about the creative process behind scientific discovery. – Tom McLeish, on the Night Science Podcast, episode 10

I'm excited to be featured on one of my favorite podcasts!! I binged @nightsciencepod.bsky.social during my PhD. Listen to this episode to hear about how the crop rotation system can be applied to the scientific creative process. And learn about our beloved Stentor in Every School program!

The Night Science Podcast@nightsciencepod.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔥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.

If you always stick to the field you were trained in, you could be denying yourself the chance of creating a new field.

Going from a creative idea [..you ask..] what's the fastest way we could find out that it's completely wrong? .. that doesn't come naturally to a lot of people because they become attached to their ideas... you have to be able to have many ideas & most of them could be wrong. –@benlehner.bsky.social

Day science is trying to design tests that would disprove a hypothesis – and night science is finding something that wasn't initially thought of. So basically wandering into the forest of the data and trying to figure out what's up. – Yana Bromberg, on the Night Science Podcast, Ep. 8

Is science irrational? ..beauty is incredibly informative about which theories are right.. [but in] our official means of arguing with one another about which theories are right [..] is not allowed to appeal to beauty.. That's what I take to be strictly speaking irrational. –Michael Strevens

Sometimes the dark alleys are in fact dark alleys that we shouldn't have gone down. But sometimes the dark alleys are really the path to enlightenment. And we don't really know, ahead of time, which one is going to go, unfortunately. –@harmitmalik.bsky.social on the Night Science Podcast, episode 6

Often people have something that makes them their skin tingle. I'm a believer in that skin tingling. –Sarah Teichmann, on choosing a project (from the Night Science Podcast, episode 5) @teichlab.bsky.social

The PhD is the best point in time to try very dangerous ideas or to try things that don't work. – @odedrechavi.bsky.social, on the Night Science Podcast

We had the privilege of creating the cover for the @nature.com perspective by #GustavoSFrança & @itaiyanai.bsky.social ! From brief and early sketches to the final published cover, here's a look behind the creative process. #SciComm #ScientificIllustration

Join us at the "Cancer Research Across Scales" conference at the Weizmann Institute of Science! Many Israelis living abroad may be in Israel that week for the national election, so help us spread the word!

New Yorkers! Join us July 22nd for an informal NYC science communication mixer at a bar to mix and mingle and celebrate the summer time vibes. This is a collaboration between Schmidt Sciences and SciCommUnity. Partiful link here (I'll be there!): partiful.com/e/wm1Et5tneV...

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Maybe creativity is just how big a bag of tricks you have; how many different tricks you've seen, applied in different contexts. And perhaps some people have a little bit more skill remembering all those tricks or applying them in different situations. - Arjun Raj, @arjunraj.bsky.social

We are inviting you to the first #NightScienceScotland Club at the @cruk-si.bsky.social in #Glasgow! Come join us and learn about the creative processes in science. If that's not enough to convince you - there will be snacks, drinks and also @itaiyanai.bsky.social around! Scan the code to register.

Tzachi Pilpel introduces two tools for generating ideas in the second episode of the Night Science Podcast: 1. imaginary conversations with scientists and 2. walking while thinking to anchor thoughts spatially. @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

‘Inhabiting the data’ is how CalTech Professor Ellen Rothenberg describes her process for coming up with a new idea, in the very first episode of the Night Science Podcast. (@nightsciencepod.bsky.social)

1906 Nobel Prize winner Santiago Ramón y Cajal's 'Advice for a Young Investigator' makes important points: 1. The only thing in your power is your preparation 2. Be suspicious of “brilliance” 3. Be appropriately respectful of authority, but no more 4. Balance concentration and relaxation 🔽

As promised, here is the episode we produced after talking with 13 young scientists about their creative process! Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2fAt...

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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! ⬇️

Looking for ways to keep your excitement for science?! Come to our NYC Postdocs Night Science event July 29th! We're meeting in Mount Sinai for a night science session to improve and practice our creative process! Free RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @kelseymonson.bsky.social

🔥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.

It's great to see this Night Science-inspired poster!

Claire@nlitb.bsky.social · last mo.

I had a lot of fun doing my poster this year! It's a tribute to the @elixir-europe.org BioHackathon, and is inspired by the @night-science-inst.bsky.social philosophy 🌓 "From a coffee break to EDAM MCP: a BioHackathon success story" doi.org/10.7490/f100... @ifb-elixir-fr.bsky.social

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

Real science: 1. Is not correlated with the amount of funding 2. Progresses slowly, usually taking many years 3. Leads to more questions than it answers 4. Advances when we disengage a bit and have improvisational discussions 5. Is too serious a thing to be done in a non-playful way

🔥 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...

The pattern in science is that you get stuck in every project. But the reason is not that you're dumb but because you're confronting the unknown. And not giving up does eventually lead to a discovery! Thank you El País for interviewing me about my day science and my night science!