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Barak Hirshberg

@barakhirshberg.bsky.social
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#MolecularSimulations | Associate Professor Tel Aviv University | PostDoc: Rothschild Fellow, Parrinello group, ETH Zurich | PhD: Adams Fellow, w/Benny Gerber, Hebrew University

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Caroline Lynn Kamerlin ☀️ @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I stand with the fearless protestors in Iran, who are literally putting their lives on the line to break free from nearly five decades of repression and brutality. Do you? #Iran (This cartoon is based on a real protest video. Her "crime" is punishable by execution in Iran if she is caught)
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Caroline Lynn Kamerlin ☀️ @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I was not being hyperbolic. Reports of hundreds of protestors killed in Tehran alone. I expect real numbers to be much higher, as news isn't getting out due to the communications blackout. Silence is complicity. Don't look away. #Iran www.dn.se/varlden/uppg...
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Uppgifter om hundratals dödade demonstranter i Teheran
Protesterna i Iran är så omfattande att säkerhetsstyrkorna inte räcker till för att hålla tillbaka demonstranterna.
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Caroline Lynn Kamerlin ☀️ @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
How I feel about my WhatsApp. "Hello? Is there anyone there?" Over 90 million people are under total communications blackout so the regime can murder them with impunity under cover of darkness. This is not a technical glitch it's a tactic. Be their voice. Don't let the world look away. #Iran
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I support every brave man and woman in Iran. On Jewish New Years, we say we wish to be next year in Jerusalem. Today, I say: Next year, in a free Tehran! Amen! Rid the Middle East from the plague that is the Ayatollah.
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
On March 9-12, TAU will host an incredible CECAM-ERC-ISF workshop, "Stochastic Dynamics in Natural and Artificial Systems." I am extremely excited to speak at a conference honoring a giant of Israeli science, Yossi Klafter. Join us! (free, registration required.) docs.google.com/forms/d/1nEt...
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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Postdoc Positions: Computational Molecular & Materials Science @telavivuni.bsky.social Gili Bisker, Guy Cohen, Oswaldo Dieguez, Moshe Goldstein, @barakhirshberg.bsky.social, Oded Hod, Amir Natan, Abraham Nitzan, Shlomi Reuveni, @yairshokef.bsky.social, Michael Urbakh thesacklercenter.sites.tau.ac.il
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Character limitation is brutal, so I wanted to have a second post saying that this would have NEVER ever been possible without my brilliant students and postdocs, my incredible colleagues at TAU, and my mentors along the way, especially Benny and Michele ❤️
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Ever since I was 19, all I wanted to do was be a scientist at an Israeli university. Today, I learned that I will be able to do it for as long as I wish, in the BEST department, and that I have been promoted to Associate Professor. A dream come true :) youtu.be/pSQk-4fddDI?...
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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🚀 Meet the @barakhirshberg.bsky.social Lab From enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics to bridging physics & ML, they’re redefining how we study complex systems. 🔬 Curious how stochastic resetting speeds up protein folding or even AI training? #MolecularDynamics #Physics @telavivuni.bsky.social
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
What an unexpected and pleasant surprise is receiving the Israel Chemical Society Excellent Young Scientist Prize. Thank you! Would have never happened without my amazing students and incredible department and colleagues. @biosofttau.bsky.social Congrats also to Graham!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm very proud to receive the @acscomp.bsky.social OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry! Thank you also to Rob Paton and Zoe Cournia. Congrats Josh, Tibor and Denise, my fellow recipients 🥳 @biosofttau.bsky.social
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It took us almost a year, but it is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com , a paper I am SO SO proud of by Tommer Keidar, Ofir Blumer, myself, and Shlomi Reuveni. "Adaptive resetting for informed search strategies and the design of non-equilibrium steady-states" doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Adaptive resetting for informed search strategies and the design of non-equilibrium steady-states - Nature Communications
Stochastic resetting is known to accelerate search processes and create nonequilibrium steady states. Here, authors introduce adaptive resetting, a state- and time-dependent framework enabling fast in...
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Very few things make me prouder than having Jacob and @yotamfe.bsky.social's paper published today in JCP in the special issue honoring one of my personal heroes, Abraham Nitzan. Abe is a giant of theoretical chemistry (in Israel and globally) and an inspiration to us all. doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
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Periodic boundary conditions for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics
We develop an algorithm for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations with periodic boundary conditions (PBC) that scales quadratically with t
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Yotam Feldman @yotamfe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Had a great time talking with Martin about the various astonishments I've experienced while thinking hard on invariant inference and finding myself studying learning theory. Also: SAT solving for metamaterials w/ @yairshokef.bsky.social, and the joys of feeling stupid. Hope you'll enjoy it.
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Also visiting us this month as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Tel Aviv University is Joel Eaves from CU Boulder He gave a great talk on why singlet fission molecules are promising candidates for quantum computing applications! 🤴
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Dinner time with our visiting professors, Dvira and Joel, and my colleague, Guy Cohen. We took a stroll along the Yarkon river, and then had some great fish and seafood at the Tel Aviv port. It was great! 😋 Just in time for a beautiful sunset too!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Our paper is now out in MLST @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social, the BEST place for stat mech for ML! @biosofttau.bsky.social Response theory of first passage processes and the quasi-steady-state hypothesis helps optimize training protocols for neural nets👇 doi.org/10.1088/2632...
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First-passage approach to optimizing perturbations for improved training of machine learning models - IOPscienceSearch
First-passage approach to optimizing perturbations for improved training of machine learning models, Meir, Sagi, Keidar, Tommer David, Reuveni, Shlomi, Hirshberg, Barak
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Wonderful symposium celebrating the TAU International Prize in Biophysics! Congratulations @ceesdekker.bsky.social Petra Schwille, Leonid Mirny (2024), Ariel Amir, Arvind Murugan, and Julien Tailleur (2025). Too bad some flights were canceled. Hope to see you soon at @biosofttau.bsky.social!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Congratulations to Ofir for winning the outstanding student achievement award for 2024. It was awarded to him during the ceremony for the TAU international prize in Biophysics!
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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Join us today Tel Aviv Univesity International Prize in Biophysics, honoring Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social Leonid Mirny and Ariel Amir
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Have you tried turning it off and on again? Stochastic resetting for enhanced sampling. Check out our preprint reviewing our work on accelerating molecular dynamics through restarts and inferring unbiased kinetics. doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Concluding this amazing trip to southern California with my family in Irvine, making everyone Aperol Spritzband eating stakes. What an amazing time it was. Incredible conference and precious time with my beloved relatives. ❤️
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Final speaker of the symposium is Bohak Yoon from Baylor University
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Almost done with the symposium 😭 One before last, but not least, @podewitzlab.bsky.social on predictive operando computational catalysis
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GiovanniMaria Piccini @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It’s been a fantastic happy hour for our enhanced sampling symposium at #ACSSpring2025
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Elias Diesen on simulating metal/liquid interface for catalysis
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@grouptuckerman.bsky.social is up next on synergizing machine learning with enhanced sampling.
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Sawasta Dasgupta is elevating DFT accuracy for water
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Finally out of the igloo! Final day day of the symposium. All ready for Titus van Erp on massively parallel path sampling
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
My god, I know we organized it, but the happy hour for our symposium was a blast!! @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Vanda Glezakou on exploring molecular structures using adaptive learning
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's always fun to meet up with @olexandr.bsky.social ❤️ And I finally met @adrianroitberg.bsky.social face to face! Unreal considering we are part of the same scientific family!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Josh Vermaas telling us about "some really big systems"!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I'm so honored and happy to participate in the JCP and AIP Publishing lunch at the American Chemical Society meeting, and to celebrate the best paper award together with friends and my wonderful co-recipient and overall awesome person, Marissa Weichman
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
@rocovino.bsky.social "CV that is used just to distinguish the two states is horrible for describing the dynamics". Bravo! 👏👌👍
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Riccardo Cappelli on multi-EGO!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Graph driven methods for protein folding by Gabriele Sosso!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ron Elber on milestoning simulations of Src and Abl kinase
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Yinglong Miao on Gaussian accelerated MD for binding thermodynamics mechanisms and kinetics @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Who better to kick off the third day of the symposium other than @chengbingqing.bsky.social ? Hall F room 2!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Jonah Marks is our last speaker of the symposium for today. Continuing tomorrow morning at Hallroom F igloo #4
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Jay McCarty showing us some cool applications of volume based Metadynamics to drug binding simulations
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Starting off after the break with Dan Mendels from the Technion on machine learning collective variables.
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Matteo Salvalaglio, master of polymorphism is up next!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Now up Herma Cuppen on jumping crystals!
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Our next Eskimo (sorry, speakers) is Luigi Bonati. "No good CV, no party!"
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What a strange decision by ACS. Honestly, it's so bad it's hilarious. But we won't let that stop us! @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social telling us about catalytic loops! @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@xuhuihuangchem.bsky.social On identifying transition state through out of distribution learning.
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Now with @omarvalsson.bsky.social on elucidating protein protein dissociation kinetics! @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social
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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I'm having too much fun to take pictures and tweet! Forgot to snap Roger Rousseau, Jon Church (my postdoc 🫣) and Glen Hocky! @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social
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