Itai Yanai

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20 October 2026 17:01

🔥 Have you heard about the MBL summer courses at Woods Hole? In our new episode of the Night Science Podcast we visit the mythical Microbial Diversity course there and talk with the students & instructors. What we found really amazed me!

Itai Yanai

itaiyanai.bsky.social

18 August 2026 23:34

Science at its best is organized chaos. We teach young scientists how to be organized and robust, but not the night science creativity that’s needed for discovery. Come train with us in how to teach the tools of the creative scientific process in our EMBO train the trainer event.

Itai Yanai

itaiyanai.bsky.social

11 August 2026 15:50

How would you let the LLM dream? [...] In a sense, to replay things, organize them, think about them so that tomorrow when we wake up, our thoughts are more organized than just input-output-input-output. –Jure Leskovec, Stanford Professor

Itai Yanai

itaiyanai.bsky.social

09 August 2026 22:28

There is where I disagree with Professor Bill Martin: "If you follow the data, then you've completely lost control... you're putting the data where your mind should be. For me, the scientific process is one of questions.. But if you go into data driven science... seek and you shall find."

Itai Yanai

itaiyanai.bsky.social

02 August 2026 14:52

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