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

A show of bipartisan support for NIH. Basically flat except for ARPA-H. The President’s budget proposal basically ignored (as it should have been).

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Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

If you’re eligible for a Pew Latin American Fellowship, please reach out to Suckjoon Jun (Pew ‘13). We have ambitious bluesky projects planned for the next decade, backed by exceptionally strong funding, and we’d love for you to join us! www.pew.org/en/projects/...

Proteins of amino acid metabolism form large structures and determine diffusion in the cytoplasm! Our 7-year-long tour-de-force is now out on Bioxriv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks everyone involved! And especially to Jose Losa who pioneered this!

Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n

Our experimental lab w/ the Hilfinger lab @uoft.bsky.social are jointly looking to hire a #postdoc in experimental biological #physics. Exploring noise and dynamics within single-cells and bacterial populations. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

🚨HUGE SCIENCE WIN ALERT🚨 NIH Grants to be restored en masse!!! Thank you Judge Young for standing up for science! #StandUpforScience #SummerFightforScience

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

Talked to @KateZernike at @nytimes about my journey and the current moment for scientists in the U.S. “Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.” Read the article here. No subscription required: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Just out in Nature Physics: Research Briefing (with Suckjoon Jun) on how Min protein oscillations in E. coli remain robust. The secret? A conformational switch that buffers change, and a fresh look at an old system through a physicist’s lens. 📘 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #patternformation

Looking forward to the European Biophysical Societies meeting. This year it will be in Rome from the 30th of June and the 4th of July. You're still in time to register! www.ebsa2025.eu

Research Briefing article with Erwin Frey (@physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social) is also out in Nature Physics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

My lecture “Nonequilibrium Field Theories and Stochastic Dynamics” is now on YouTube! Here a short film on my teaching philosophy. Watch lectures here: www.youtube.com/@PhysicsOfLi... #Physics #Biophysics #StochasticDynamics #NonequilibriumPhysics #SoftMatter #TheoreticalPhysics #ScienceEducation

NEWS: I just led 112 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration on their funding freeze of the National Science Foundation. Cutting off NSF funding threatens vital research, stalls innovation, and risks ceding global scientific leadership to China.

How do bacteria keep their internal patterns stable despite fluctuating protein concentrations? A team led by #LMU biophysicist Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social & @junlab.bsky.social found that MinE proteins act as a buffer by switching between active and latent states.

New in Nature Physics! In a great collaboration with @junlab.bsky.social and my students Henrik Weyer & @lwuerthner.bsky.social, we show how Min proteins in E. coli self-organize into robust, efficient patterns ensuring accurate cell division across conditions. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Min protein system prevents abnormal cell division in bacteria, but is poorly understood. A team of researchers, incl @junlab.bsky.social, have uncovered how engineered e.coli bacteria control protein levels for maximum efficiency. Work appears in @natphys.nature.com. bit.ly/4m1JBt9

Our paper on the E. coli Min system in vivo with @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social & Judy Kim (UCSD) has been published in Nature Physics today. Tight integration of experiment and theory, and physiology and biophysics. Incredible perseverance of our young students. rdcu.be/ekIpO

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

@tzerhan29.bsky.social is giving our biophysics forum talk on his collaboration with Hongbo Zhao on… “intelligent robots”!

Excited to share our new preprint on bacterial learning, with @sifangwei.bsky.social. Here we show that single bacterial cells can continually learn in dynamic environments, due to an underlying reaction network architecture that resemble a recurrent neural network www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come join us @sfuphysics.bsky.social #SFU on Burnaby Mountain this Saturday May 3rd for our Quantum Canada Open Doors 2025 event. There will be talks about our quantum research, hands-on activities and lab tours. #YVR 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢 🇨🇦

Long-range #genome interactions in #bacteria. In #Ecoli, 6 out of 7 rRNA #operons cluster by an unknown mechanism. This study shows that high expression of sigma factors σH or FecI, localized in the inner membrane, disrupts clustering, an effect suppressed by σD @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44b4vQd

Congratulations- can’t believe it took so long

In the hour of darkness and peril and fear, let’s all channel a little Paul Revere. @hcrichardson.bsky.social #paulrevere #boston250

I have openings for graduate students in @sfuphysics.bsky.social, Chemistry, or MBB. Check out davidsivak.com for our research interests!

Calling all US and Canadian students thinking about graduate studies! Come study science at #SFU in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Graduate admissions have been reopened. Apply by April 25th. ⚛️ 🧪👩‍🔬🎢 🇨🇦

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Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

👍 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

SJ – Had a great Pivot Fellows meeting today at @simonsfoundation.org in NYC. One moment that stuck with me: Katherine Arnott shared an African proverb I’ve heard before, but only now feel I truly appreciate: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

Thought-provoking, must read from Bruno Conti www.nature.com/articles/s43...

We had a double-feature biophysics forum today, thanks to Vishal Patil (Math) and Christina Hueschen (CDB)! #ucsd_biophysics

Welcome to the DB unit, Laeschkir Würthner @lwuerthner.bsky.social! Laeschkir is a scientific officer in the Graf group @isabellagraf.bsky.social. He will use concepts from the Physic of Life Theory to better understand self-organisation in biological systems under changing environmental conditions.

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

I don’t think the country understands the nuclear bomb that has hit and destroyed Americas future. Our competitiveness globally was threatened - it is now guaranteed to dwindle to irrelevance. The future is based on science and technology. By the time they realize the damage, it will be too late. AR

I’m 63. Experienced synthetic organic chemist. Have worked some with radioactive/stable isotopes. Curious about any post-doc positions in Britain or Europe or Canada. Or elsewhere. (With my daughter here.) 🧪 #chemsky

Ramin Golestanian (Oxford & MPI Göttingen) visited us and gave an inspiring informal seminar yesterday. 🙏🏻

HISTORY OF PHYSICS Kenneth G. Wilson. A revolutionary. (June 8,1936 - June 15, 2013) Wilson was a markedly independent and original thinker as well as being a rather private and reserved person. An important part of his youthful look was that when somebody said something that 1/

Another suit and a great talk: Aman Sharma 😃, this time on yeast mitochondria.

Haochen Fu from our lab just gave a great talk at the #APS March meeting. He is wearing a… suit!!! 😳

christoph: wow, I missed this earlier. but such good news never come late...

'Universities must avoid the trap of “we’ll sacrifice humanities if you leave us the hard sciences”.' Although this article by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social focuses on the US, it touches on developments elsewhere including the Netherlands. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very honored to give to give the the 51st Annual Linus Pauling Lecture this week at Stanford. chemistry.stanford.edu/events/51st-...