In this video, I break down the physics of Stranger Things Season 5, from wormholes to exotic matter. I explain what the creators get right and what is pure Hollywood magic. This was a great collaboration with WashU Arts & Sciences! What would you all like to see next? youtube.com/shorts/Y-xuC...

Understanding bimolecular condensates through physics Meet NITMB Affiliate Member, @myphysicsjourney.bsky.social! Trevor GrandPre is an assistant professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis driving biological discovery with statistical physics and soft condensed matter physics 🔗 ⬇️

The seventh annual Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics (WOST VII) will be held May 18-22, 2026. This workshop is entirely online and free to attend. 10-minute lightning talks will be chosen from 1-page abstracts, with priority given to early-career researchers.

Exploring biological questions in new theoretical ways Thank you for joining us at the first day of the 'Expanding the Palette of Mathematics in Biology' workshop! We look forward to returning tomorrow to continue our discussions

I'm also honored to present this work at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting next month as the recipient of the Physical Cell Biology Early Career Award! I'm grateful to the Subgroup Committee for this recognition.

I’m excited to share a new preprint led by Aishani Ghosal, formerly a postdoc in my group and now an assistant professor at NISER, with experiments led by Lindsay Case’s group at MIT! We show how client recruitment shapes composition in multicomponent condensates. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11450

Aishani Ghosal, Nicholas E. Lea, Lindsay B. Case, Trevor GrandPre: Principles of Client Enrichment in Multicomponent Biomolecular Condensates https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11450 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.11450 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.11450

Considering a career outside academia? Join us Jan 21 at 2:30pm ET for a virtual panel “Non-academic career paths in biological physics” to hear from panelists working in national labs, startups, and industry Register here: apsphysics.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

Our "Roadmap for Condensates in Cell Biology" is now available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2601.03677 🎉 This article summarizes the interdisciplinary weekly discussions we had at our condensate workshop at KITP in the summer of 2025. Feedback is very welcome!

With @tzerhan29.bsky.social, @jasnir.bsky.social and Asja Radja, we are thrilled to organize an Aspen summer workshop (Aug 9-Sept 6) on the "Physics of Collective Function in Active Living Matter". Applications are open at aspenphys.org/event/physic... till Jan 15!! Please share and apply soon!

Postdoctoral Job Opportunity! I am hiring a postdoc to join my group next fall. Many possible research directions in theoretical biophysics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. See the posting linked below for details — apply by Jan 15th for full consideration.

We're looking for a postdoc to strengthen our group! Please apply by January 15, 2026 if you're a fun and motivated person who likes theoretical modeling of biological processes by combining analytics and numerics. There is freedom in choosing projects! Details: www.ds.mpg.de/4110032/job_...

Excited to share the first paper from my group with Gianluca Teza (MPI-PKS) and Attilio L. Stella (U Padova)! “Coarse-Graining via Lumping: Exact Calculations and Fundamental Limitations” shows when lumping is exact and when it fails even without approximations. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.11974

Applications for our 2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Program are now open! Our program offers summer fellowships to undergraduates to engage in cutting-edge research at the interface between mathematics and biology Learn more at www.nitmb.org/surp

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...

Applications are open until December 15 for the Ed T. Jaynes Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physics. You’ll have the freedom and support to pursue your own research ideas independently.

8 months left till the IDP GRC and GRS!! 🍜🔬🖥️𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻! We will be selecting speakers from abstracts in the next few weeks - make sure your abstract is online! Registration link: www.grc.org/intrinsicall...

I’m excited to be included on the list as an Affiliate Member of NITMB. I look forward to visiting the Institute more often and actively participating in the scientific community!

Two tenure track positions in computational physics @aalto.fi: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

I had the privilege of giving Science Saturday, an engaging public lecture meant to spark curiosity about the wonders of science. My talk, “The Physics of Mysterious Droplets,” explored liquid-like droplets inside our cells and the physics behind their behavior: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R16...

Curious about the latest advancements in soft matter physics by young researchers? Join our Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6th from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET! We have a great lineup of 20 speakers covering a wide range of topics. Register via the QR code or via tinyurl.com/DSOFTConfere...

Independent researcher fellowships (non-tenure track) at OIST, with a focus on broadly defined theory www.oist.jp/research/bur...

As the march meeting abstract deadline approaches, please check out our session! Please RT/forward

This conference was amazing! I’m glad that I went and could participate. I can’t wait to visit again!!

Thank you!!

Please join BPPB on Fri July 25 for talks by Dagan Segal (Insights from zebrafish into cancer cell adaptation) and Trevor GrandPre (Trait-space patterning is dictated by the tempo & mode of mutation). For more information & to sign up for our email list, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Opening Day Energy at our 2025 Interdisciplinary Science Summit, in association with @caltech.edu , and we are so excited to reconnect with our Fellows, friends, and partners over the next three days. Growing interdisciplinary community together!

Really enjoyed the talk! It’s going to be great inspiration for the Advanced Stat Mech class I’m teaching this fall.

It's finally here! After almost 3 years of planning, I'm thrilled to discover the literal and figurative blue skies @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social @jerelleaj.bsky.social, @zwickergroup.bsky.social, Frank Jülicher and I will kick off our program on biomolecular condensates next week!

Our article, “Trait-space patterning is dictated by the tempo and mode of mutation,” co-authored with Stephen Martis and David Schwab, is out in PNAS! We show how mutation processes shape evolution, with relevance to bacteria–phage interactions. www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Hello Everyone, I’m following up to share the job advertisement for a postdoctoral position in my theory/computational group, starting this fall. The position will focus on non-equilibrium biophysics and soft matter. The job ad is here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern....

Excited to join @WashUPhysics as an assistant professor in Fall 2025! My group will develop non-equilibrium statistical physics to study criticality in biology—biomolecular condensates, gene regulation & adaptive immune systems. DM for postdoc/grad openings! #myphysicsjourney

Announcing the joint @idpseminars.bsky.social / BPS IDP Subgroup Trainee Symposium Speakers! Join us on Mar 27, 12–2pm CST for 6 exciting talks focused on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins as part of #BophysicsWeek2025 with the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Sign up now using the QR code below!

This summer in beautiful Santa Barbara we will run a 3-day conference on “Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment” June 16 to 18th. Register now: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/b...

It was a pleasure to read the wonderful article an undergrad at Georgetown University wrote about my recent talk there for the student newspaper. thehoya.com/science/the-...

Another Senior Fellows Conference has come and gone. The first night was a Gala Dinner at Field Museum where I got to present a display of my work. See you all in Toronto next year!

I’m happy to share a preprint with my collaborators Jim Yu (Princeton) and David Schwab (CUNY). We develop a noisy consumer resource model, and study dynamical phase transitions in both the common behavior and large deviations. arxiv.org/abs/2310.08735 #evobio #AcademicSky #physics

I was at Janelia this past week for a workshop on theoretical biophysics. All participants had to give a talk and a tutorial. It was a great workshop and a great place for it! #physics #biophysics #janelia

Hi, I just joined! I am a biophysicist at Princeton. I study the physics of membrane less organelles. I currently focus on an organelle within green algae called the pyrenoid. It enhances the rate of carbon capture and photosynthesis. #HiSciSky #physics #AcademicSky #blackSky #MolecularBiology