@itaiyanai
Professor at the NYU School of Medicine (https://yanailab.org/). Co-founder and Director of the Night Science Institute (https://night-science.org/). Co-host of the 'Night Science Podcast' https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-science/id1563415749
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...
Tomorrow we're having the massive National Day of Action rallies to defend US science! I'll be speaking in the NYC rally in City Hall Park, from 12:00pm to 2:00pm. Join us! fight2win.standupforscience.net/NYC-March/ @standupforscience.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the very first Israeli Science Conference in NYC! Join us May 18 for a day of amazing science. I can't wait to be speaking and chairing at this event! Join us Israeli scientists and anyone interested in Israeli academia. Abstract deadline: 3/20 pisc.scienceabroad.org.il
Congratulations Thibaut!
Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social, del proyecto Human Cell Atlas:
🗨️ “El estudio de cada célula va a permitir una aproximación más precisa a tratamientos de distintas enfermedades”
#medicinadeprecision #medicina #medicinapersonalizada #biologia #salud
Night Science comes to Denmark this week! I'm giving a (day science) talk on cellular learning on Monday at the Danish Cancer Institute in Copenhagen (1pm). And then on Tuesday we do a full day Night Science workshop there!
www.cancer.dk/danish-cance...
Night science
Yes! Can’t wait!
The 3 hardest things to learn as a scientist:
1. Trust the data.. especially when it’s not what you expected,
2. Trust the data.. allowing it to change your direction,
3. Trust the data.. but not too much: test with new data at every turn.
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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well good things come to those who wait, as they say.. 😀
Congratulations Daniela!!
We are very happy to see our study finally appear online @nature.com! This has been work of nearly 10 years in collaboration with the National Institute of Genome Medicine 🇲🇽, the National Cancer Institute 🇲🇽, the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and others ⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Berlin friends! Come to my talk this Friday if you're interested in mechanisms of cellular plasticity.
We’re excited to host Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social (NYU Grossman School of Medicine) at MDC-BIMSB.
Talk: How do cells learn? A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation in cancer
📅 Friday, Feb 20, 2026
🕝 2:30 PM
📍 MDC-BIMSB @mdc-berlin.bsky.social
Host: Jan Philipp Junker
Join us!
#mdcBerlin
If you're in Madrid this Thursday come to my talk "The map and the uncharted: what have we learned from cellular atlases?" organized by the Fundación Ramón Areces and Springer Nature. Talks also from Roser Vento-Tormo, María Colomé-Tatché & Holger Heyn!
www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...
Analogy and metaphor galore!
I was interviewed by the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social podcast about metaphor and analogy in science:
open.spotify.com/episode/1hqU...
Pairs well with @sflusberg.bsky.social's interview on metaphor on the @manymindspod.bsky.social podcast
disi.org/the-aura-of-...
🔥 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.
open.spotify.com/episode/1hqU... @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
I totally agree. But both things can be true, no? 😀
Full paper: tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TK...
Systems biology traces its origins to Philip Anderson's 1972 ‘‘More is Different’, on broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science. He sums it up with this dialogue in Paris in the 1920s:
FITZGERALD: The rich are different from us.
HEMINGWAY: Yes, they have more money.
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!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yeO...
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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🔥 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.
Thank you Jaeseung!
What is a discovery? Why are discoveries so difficult to make? How does Night Science & Day Science capture the process of discovery? What are a few Night Science tools? Can we change the culture of science?
Check out my talk at the DAI Science Festival!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9p0...
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/...
With all the excitement about AI giving us answers, we often forget that the real trick is to figure out what is the question!
Thank you Tim Ferriss for recommending "What is the question" on the Night Science creative process in your newsletter!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Why does comedy have anything to do with science? My PhD advisor told me that a scientific talk should be prepared like stand-up comedy: every minute detail calculated, practiced, tried, and tweaked. Come to this event and learn how comedy can help creative scientific process! 👇
We're hosting Postdoc Night Science on February 11. If you're a postdoc in NYC, please join us!
