Itai Yanai
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Professor at the NYU School of Medicine. Co-host of the 'Night Science Podcast' @nightsciencepod and Co-founder of the Night Science Institute https://t.co/lede3rBmXU
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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 Samantha Morris Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
Itai Yanai150,465 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath sadly passed away today. She was a legend for her pioneering work on figuring out the structure of ribosomes. “Focus on what you love to do, what you want to know, first of all, or what you want to achieve, or what you want to do. If you want to be a performer, a dancer, it's okay with me, as long as this is really built in, and you can do it well. Courage is very important, but for science, curiosity is not enough, it should come with the courage. Really wish to understand something. If there is no wish like this, and they ask me where will I get the best salary, or I become more famous, or then I have no answer for that.”
Itai Yanai44,488 Aufrufe • vor 18 Tagen
How science works according to Nobel Prize winner Thomas Südhof: Very often, politicians think that you can tell scientists what they’re supposed to discover. You can’t! Scientists don’t know what they are going to discover. They have to try things. They have to have curiosity and ideas, but they also have to have the knowledge to try things. Very often, it leads to nothing; it’s a waste. But we didn’t know when we started it’s a waste. But when something does work. When something clicks, it is exciting and rewarding but it’s never just one click. You get a result on it, you’re hopeful, you build on it. Maybe it’s confirmed you’re even more hopeful. So it’s an incremental process. It is never one thing - boom we discovered a major thing, my god this is it. It is more like walking up a flight of stairs where each step counts and the higher up the stairs you go the better you can see what’s on top and become excited about what’s there and how you can use.
Itai Yanai36,700 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
![😯 François Jacob (co-discoverer of gene regulation) asked by Lucy Shapiro (Stanford): "It's always been hypothesis-driven research [..] but a new way is looking at vast amounts of data and not asking a question, just seeing if it give you a pattern." Jacob: "It’s very boring.."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1727878000903950467/ext_tw_video_thumb/1727877705557794816/pu/img/wdSJQcAIiMPGIBbc.jpg)
😯 François Jacob (co-discoverer of gene regulation) asked by Lucy Shapiro (Stanford): "It's always been hypothesis-driven research [..] but a new way is looking at vast amounts of data and not asking a question, just seeing if it give you a pattern." Jacob: "It’s very boring.."
Itai Yanai292,077 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
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 & unfortunately got our head chopped off. –Steven Strogatz, Cornell Professor Steven Strogatz
Itai Yanai16,678 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
😯Sydney Brenner (Nobel Prize winner) was not a fan of Systems Biology. Systems Biology: To study a drum in the next room, record the sounds and reconstruct the physical properties of the drum. Experimental science: Get in, get hold of the drum, get its structure and play it.
Itai Yanai141,116 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
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, Arjun Raj
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It's sad to wake up to the news that the legendary Craig Venter died yesterday. Here's Stephen Quake talking about his contributions to the Genomics revolution which didn't actually come from within the Genetics community. Craig came in from Pharmacology and (together with Lander) said that genomes don't have to be perfect; drafts are useful.
Itai Yanai20,012 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Scientists on moving past being stuck: "Basically I'm just a lazy son of a bi*ch" – they would play music or paint and at some point that would free their mind up enough that they'd get past their block and then come back to the problem. – Robert Root-Bernstein on the Night Science Podcast Apple: Spotify:
Itai Yanai14,293 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Many people are busy doing recipe science.. If you ask a grad student what they need to do to get a paper, they'll tell you this & this, & they'll know that 2 years before the project is done. And I'm thinking, what's wrong with this picture? Eve Marder, on Night Science Podcast
Itai Yanai27,571 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
🚀Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-profit 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! 😉
Itai Yanai14,721 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
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