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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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)

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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...