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 :-)

🔥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.
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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

Seminar - Night Science Night Science embraces the creative process that is too often hidden in day science communications like papers and talks. Presenters of a Night Science Seminar are asked to include at least one Night ...

Excited to talk today at 10am EST/3pm CET in the Night Science Seminar Series: "How optimal protein production led to understanding bacterial genome organization" –emphasizing the creative process along a tree of projects:
night-science.org/home/learn/s...
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EMBO Young Scientists Forum 2025 in Vilnius wrapped up today. Huge thanks to fellow organisers, volunteer teams, @itaiyanai.bsky.social for a wonderful Night Science workshop & all speakers & attendees. Here's fellow organiser Stephen Jones taking YSF attendee entertainment to the next level.

Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.

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Grant Tips - Oliver Bogler
@oliverbogler.bsky.social

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#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews

Today we are announcing the launch of the Night Science Institute by our Founders Dr. | Night Science Institute Today we are announcing the launch of the Night Science Institute by our Founders Dr. Itai Yanai and Dr. Martin Lercher! The Institute champions a cultural shift in science by training researchers to...

Today we announced the launch of the Night Science Institute over on LinkedIn - check it out and why not send it to your friends? Follow us on LinkedIn or even better join the growing Night Science Community at www.night-science.org! www.linkedin.com/posts/night-...

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Ever heard a #scientist telling a #story like a Moth story slam? Well - look no further than the Making Waves event by @transom.bsky.social that took place a few weeks ago. It was incredibly fun and now you can watch or listen to the stories here: transom.org/2025/making-...

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.

A cool article in Nature about Night Science at Woodstock Bio2 with @itaiyanai.bsky.social - check it out! Focused on #collaboration and #creativity in #science!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Key takeaways:
✅ Use Count or GLOOME with maximum parsimony for accurate HGT inference;
⚠️ Gene trees introduce noise;
📌 If donor info is needed, use ALE with high stringency.

#HGT #genomics #evolution

Genes transferred together often remain neighbors, so we use genomic data to test real-world accuracy.
Fig. 2 is key:
🔺 Implicit methods (GLOOME, Count) vastly outperform others.
🔻 Explicit methods relying on gene trees show fewer co-transferred neighbors, suggesting higher false-positive rates.

How can we best infer horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in prokaryotes?
Our new study finds a surprising winner: gene presence–absence patterns beat explicit phylogenetic approaches!
📄 Mishra & Lercher (2025), Mol Biol Evol
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb...

So excited to launch the Night Science Institute with @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @oliverbogler.bsky.social !

🚀 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!