Seconded. If anything, it has never been a better time to be a biophysicist, a complex system physicists, etc…. And it is a bit sad that much of it now happens *outside* of physics departments (for good and bad reasons…)

BPS is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal

Are you a junior scientist working in theoretical biophysics? @zamakany.bsky.social and I are organizing another workshop this fall here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Travel and the workshop expenses are all covered! tinyurl.com/yc66fawc

Check out this story! Atlantic writer Alexandra Petri visited my lab and played with some fruit flies and human organoids as she wrote about experiencing things that were affected by government cuts. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Thrilled that the lab's first @hhmijanelia.bsky.social project is up on bioRxiv! Story behind the story to follow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

She let me know that they recently received guidance that, ONLY for the January EI deadline (1/27/2026) and the February ESI deadline (2/3/2026), PIs can submit MIRAs even if their previous application (R35, R01, R15, R21, and R37) is still considered under review.

The path to this paper has so many stories. Today I want to tell one about the value of saying so when you don't have the answer - and of the importance of community.

This fishing email *almost* got me….its that time of year when semester is almost over and weird stuff happens and tired profs are almost the perfect targets here

We’re hiring! The Department of Physics @sfuphysics.bsky.social at Simon Fraser U (in beautiful and vibrant Vancouver) seeks applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Experimental Biophysics, encompassing all scales of life from molecules to ecosystems. @sfuscience.bsky.social

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Recognizing bad mentors: "One problem student is a concern. Two problem students is a trend. Three problem students is an established pattern." But this is also why evaluating mentorship is hard. Faculty are tenured with small-n student count - and sometimes the victims won't show up in that count

Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Is your paper article #1 in a volume in Nature Communications? Then in some records you may be getting all the citations for all the other articles - because exported citations can default to "starting page" (always 1) instead of "article number"

We’re hiring! 🚨 Assistant Professor (TT) in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics @univmiami.bsky.social 😀 Come build the future of interdisciplinary biophysics with us! Apply by Dec 15 → tinyurl.com/5n9bk836 #Biophysics #PhysicsJobs #AcademicJobs #UMiami

"Why do you like membrane bending simulations so much?"

Ten years ago, I saw a paper with some data that has bothered me ever since: B cells in a 0-100 ng/mL gradient of CCL19 are attracted to CCL19, but B cells in 0-500 ng/mL are repelled (see movie, ignoring the big clusters for now!). Why? Here's our model! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Using endocytosis to switch between chemoattraction and chemorepulsion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685129v1

Ten years ago, I saw a paper with some data that has bothered me ever since: B cells in a 0-100 ng/mL gradient of CCL19 are attracted to CCL19, but B cells in 0-500 ng/mL are repelled (see movie, ignoring the big clusters for now!). Why? Here's our model! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I am teaching Intro to Math Bio (ugrad math about junior level) next semester and I wanted to ask around: 1. If you have taught a similar class, which book have you used and what did you like/dislike about it? (I have the one used previously from another prof and I have a few of my own and

I have seen several offers (ours and others) to candidates at the Assistant level whose primary postdoc work was in preprint stage. These papers took ~2 years in review process. However, these were all trainees of _very_ well-known scientists.

This has now lodged into my head, preemptive apologies to the next few awesome associate professors who are celebrated for being mid

I feel like I can't be the only one who heard "John Martinis Nobel" and went, "Sure, that makes sense" - only to find that it's not for his recent work with superconducting qubits but his 1985 work as a grad student.

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10

Sarah Veatch to Receive 2026 Agnes Pockels Award in Lipids and Membrane Biophysics buff.ly/AdSMhCT

Jie Xiao to Receive 2026 Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award www.biophysics.org/news-room/ji...

For the 2026 APS March Meeting, please consider submitting your abstract to our new focus session on Cellular Sensing and Signaling (04.01.29), which aims to bridge theory and experiments to understand how cells sense and respond to environmental signals.

SCHEPHERD--the bioelectric cell herding platform built for YOU. Single cells, monolayers, organoids--this herds them all + new tricks. Plz try it-- we will *give* you parts! Teaser here of a steering a single cell. GS Yubin Lin's lifeblood with J. Yodh on piano; Celeste R. and Paul K. Thread 1/N

I keep reading that it was important to the guy, but feels to me that 100000 Pascal wagers is really only about 1 bar bet

Being a professor is so weird. You are constantly having to act like you know things.

Vishnu Srinivasan, Wei Wang, Brian A. Camley: Perfect adaptation in eukaryotic gradient sensing using cooperative allosteric binding https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00219 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00219 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.00219

Fun membrane biophysics problem: how long will it take for continental diffusion to mix the continents? (Or for line tension to make their boundaries circular?)

1/n New preprint: how eukaryotic cells could potentially adjust to new environments with perfect adaptation of their receptors (but why they probably might not). doi.org/10.48550/arX...

1/n New preprint: how eukaryotic cells could potentially adjust to new environments with perfect adaptation of their receptors (but why they probably might not). doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Not quite sure why @aip-publishing.bsky.social has scummy advertising that pretends to be a download link. This isn't ideal for a scientific society. (Brought to you by Chrome no longer supporting adblockers!)

Automated optogenetic control of hundreds of cells in parallel. Each cell is individually steered, collectively acting as a "tissue printer". Preprint & code out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Seeking science journalists: @quantamagazine.bsky.social is hiring a physics editor! A rare opportunity to join this great team and lead coverage of this foundational vertical. Please reach out with any questions and share widely simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...

Remebering Paul Kulesa (1962–2025) We honor Dr. Paul Kulesa, whose pioneering work on neural crest cell development has profoundly impacted neuroscience and pediatric cancer research. His loss has deeply impacted the Developmental Biology community and everyone he graced with his presence in life.

I was curious about these failure modes. Surprisingly robust that you get wrong answers but easy to fix. I suspect LLMs are most useful when solutions are easy to check but hard to generate

Fascinating piece of data- capital expenditures from big tech up ~3x in last few years but tech employment is roughly flat/declining over that time, at least per: www.comptia.org/en-us/resour...

New work from Emiliano Perez Ipina + me: if cells respond to chemoattractant A and chemoattractant B, when do they go to source A vs source B? Or do they ever wander back and forth? We show a lot of different options are possible: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19341

Thank you to everyone who has supported TLM talks. We will be back in Ocotber with some new exciting talks. We have plans to incorporate short talks by students and postdocs, fill out this form to express your interest forms.gle/34vMwQNVGnvm.... Have a nice summer 🌅

Powerful story from Kate Zernike from the NYT Covers the diversity of young scientists targeted by the anti-DEI BS. Definitely worth a read and a share. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

There is so, so much good science being shared and discussed on bsky right now. The news of its demise is quite backwards. If you are having trouble finding it among all of the very important political news, use the papersky feed that filters posts you follow to just papers: bsky.app/profile/pape...

@sfuscience.bsky.social in Vancouver seeks world-leading applicants in strategic areas that include Biophysics (featuring an internationally recognized and highly collaborative group of researchers centered in @sfuphysics.bsky.social).

Research Saves Lives At Hopkins, we just went live with an expansive website showing the extraordinary value of research, the impact of cuts to research, what's at stake, resources for our research community, etc. Check it out: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

Dissecting Rate-Limiting Processes in Biomolecular Condensate Exchange Dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.16.654578v1

"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

The tip of the cantilever consists of a fluorescent bead that contacts the epiblast. Because we know the force necessary to bend the cantilever, we can perform mechanical assays by driving the bead across the embryo and measure in real time the force applied to the tissue.

I work in science, but I really loved National History Day and think it's a great experience for students - and I think helped train my thinking and presenting skills for the job I have now! Might be worth a donation to help make up for their canceled NEH grant.