It's amazing that our CEO Oliver Bogler is representing the Night Science Institute at AACR. And can you see which issue of Nature he got a hold of?!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@oliverbogler.bsky.social @night-science-inst.bsky.social
The new episode of the Night Science Podcast is a must-listen! Art professor Lois Hetland wrote a classic
book about the “studio habits of mind” – observe, reflect, envision, express engage & persist, stretch & explore, craft & connect – and we explore how these relate to scientific process!
84 | Every scientist is an artist – Lois Hetland
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🔥 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.
Data is not transparent! And that's why looking without bias is hard to do. We asked undergrads what correlation they expected between wealth & happiness, before showing them a fictitious dataset. Faced with an identical graph, those expecting a positive correlation were much more likely to see one!
There's a strange myth about science: that theory comes first, and that data cannot show anything new. But anyone who's ever done science knows the truth that there's a long conversation between data & hypotheses. Back & forth.. until the discovery. And if you think about it, it has to be this way!
Do you think you would have discovered a gorilla hiding in plain sight in your data? We found that you are 3 times less likely to do so if you have a specific hypothesis in mind. *A hypothesis is a liability*
(Night Science recap, Day 5)
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Doing science requires us to speak 2 different languages: (1) Day science language is a highly precise language for designing & executing experiments; while (2) Night science language uses analogies & anthropomorphizes to give us intuitions about the unknowns we explore.
(Night Science recap, Day 4)
Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field.
(Night Science recap, Day 3)
AI is good at giving us answers
but the bigger problem is still..
Every scientist is a bit of an artist
and every artist is a bit of a scientist
Professors: come get trained by us in how to teach the Night Science Workshop on the creative scientific process to your students who are thirsty for this material! Our Train-the-Trainer 1day program in NYC April 24 is in partnership with the NY Academy of Sciences! night-science.org/train-the-tr...
Interested in listening to one of the world’s leading immunologists talk about her process of discovery? Akiko Iwasaki presents a virtual Night Science Seminar today at 10:30a EST on "Insights Gained in the Hunt for Genital Herpes Vaccines" cassyni.com/events/HjViw... @virusesimmunity.bsky.social
Can you help us find guests for the Night Science Podcast? We received generous sponsorship from Research Theory and they're challenging us to host 5 scientists each working in flight, genomics, nuclear power, computing & space. Ideas?
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Akiko Iwasaki - @virusesimmunity.bsky.social - is presenting a talk next week in the Night Science Seminar Series on "Insights Gained in the Hunt for Genital Herpes Vaccines". Akiko will discuss both results and the process that led to the discoveries.
Free registration: cassyni.com/events/HjViw...
Professors: come learn how to teach creativity to PhD students and postdocs? We'll teach you how to lead a 'Night Science' course about the creative scientific process at our train-the-trainer event in NYC on April 24th! Get a 10% discount from now until 3/31! night-science.org/train-the-tr...
Science and math and other technical fields, which seem to be based not on analogy, but on logic, are really secretly driven by analogy, and there's been a lot of work on trying to map out how that happens.
- Melanie Mitchell, on the Night Science Podcast
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Analogy and metaphor galore!
I was interviewed by the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social podcast about metaphor and analogy in science:
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Pairs well with @sflusberg.bsky.social's interview on metaphor on the @manymindspod.bsky.social podcast
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🔥 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.
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What a treat to be interviewed by Dr. @oliverbogler.bsky.social of the @night-science-inst.bsky.social to discuss our NYC Postdoc Chapter!
I chat a bit about my career and research, and give some tips and tricks for starting your own Night Science chapter!
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It’s a lonely job, leading a research group (professor, principal investigator, group leader – whatever you call it). You talk all day with everyone, but you’re mostly alone with the doubts and risks of the biggest decisions.
Does it have to be though??
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On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues
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🔥 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.
Princeton friends! Come to our Night Science talk on Tuesday at 3pm to explore how humor can be harnessed to get new ideas.
Joining me in this seminar is the stand-up comedian screenwriter and (former) scientist Sarah Adelman!
Register here: my.princeton.edu/gradfutures/...
Interested in radical exploration in science? There's evidence that it can actually be the best strategy for discovery. We talk about it in our new episode of the Night Science Podcast episode with Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social)!
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New episode of my favorite podcast! I had a great discussion with @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @martinlercher.bsky.social about (radical) exploration in science :)
Sometimes the best way to make a discovery is to allow yourself to get lost!
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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
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Professors: we must start teaching creativity to PhD students and postdocs! If you're interested in learning how to teach a course about the creative scientific process at your university, join us for our train-the-trainer event in New York on April 24th! night-science.org/train-the-tr...
