“Night science is the creative side of the scientific process” — what does that mean?

Recently, I learned about this lecture series about “Night Science” and the creative process from the wonderful @HeidiSeibold !

Coined, apparently, by Jacques Monod, “Day Science” is the scientific process we talk and brag about, whereas “Night Science” is where our ideas float freely — and this is paramount to scientific creativity and in turn to progress.

The implications are overwhelming.

Find out more about “Night Science” at https://www.night-science.org/teaching_materials

#AcademicChatter #NightScience #Creativity

#Creativity as an antidote to research becoming too predictable

In this #openaccess commentary, Markus Baer, Anja Groth, Anders Lund & Katrine Sonne-Hansen argue why risk-taking and blue-sky research needs to be actively fostered in budding scientists

Cf. #NightScience concept of M. Lercher and @itaiyanai

https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112835

For #FollowFriday, can I recommend some fairly new additions to our Mastodonian family:

@devezer theoretical metascientist

@itaiyanai co-host of the Night Science podcast

@orlamuldoon professor of social psychology

@qjep The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

#Metascience
#NightScience
#SocialPsychology
#Psychology
@socialpsych
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#PhilosophyOfScience
#PhilSci
#PhilScidon
#AcademicChatter
@academicchatter
#PolPsych
#PoliticalScience