Itai Yanai
@ItaiYanai • 34,277 subscribers
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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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 Yanai36,001 Aufrufe • vor 16 Tagen
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
Itai Yanai14,637 Aufrufe • vor 11 Tagen
![😯 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 Yanai292,012 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
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 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
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 Yanai19,986 Aufrufe • vor 2 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 Yanai14,699 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
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