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Brian Camley

@diffusiveblob.bsky.social
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Computational biophysics, cell motility, collective motion, soft matter, horses, cats. Associate Prof at Johns Hopkins Physics+Biophysics departments.

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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A little frustrating that Anthropic's PR team can have a claim like: "Claude was also not trained on any user transcripts" published here, which seems to be clearly contradicted by their other public claims, e.g. privacy.claude.com/en/articles/...
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Come join us! The Jenkins Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University is hiring for *computation and theory* - multiple positions at all levels www.linkedin.com/posts/brian-...
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Multiple Faculty Positions in Biophysics Theory and Computation at All Levels    Come join JHU Biophysics! The Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics (https://lnkd.in/eD8NJKgh) invites application...
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Liana Lareau @lianafaye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My department, Berkeley bioengineering, is looking for an assistant professor in cell engineering. It's a truly lovely place to launch your career. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05476
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Assistant Professor - Cell Engineering and Regenerative Medicine - Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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pilarcossio.bsky.social @pilarcossio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
⚡ Time is running out! ⚡ The deadline for the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Theory & Computation Awards is Sept 15! 🧬💻 Recognizing outstanding research across: 🎓 Postdocs 🌱 Early Career 🚀 Mid-Career Nominate a student or colleague! 🧪✨ 👇 Details: www.biophysics.org/Awards-Fundi...
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Subgroup Awards - The Biophysical Society
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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
As absolutely bat shit, crazy as this sounds, we should ask ourselves why an author might make this assumption. If you are an editor, could an author make this assumption about your journal? If you are an author, does the editor give any signal that they read the reviews?
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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Single-Molecule Dwell Times in Biomolecular Condensates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Elphege Nora Lab at UCSF @elphegenoralab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Why can't we explain enhancer action despite 2 decades of chromosome conformation technologies? 😬 Our new study spearheaded by Leonid Mirny's group points to a flaw in our assumptions, and to a solution from physical principles By @timothyfoldes.bsky.social 💻& @karissalhansen.bsky.social 🧪 🧵👇
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Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The kind of paper that makes you love this job. Amazing and very complete study! Galvanin, a direct electric-field sensor during cell migration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Cell-cell collisions are stochastic. Can we understand their randomness in terms of the finite number of proteins that establish cell polarity, e.g. a Rho GTPase? New preprint from Mariia in the group suggests - maybe!
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Intrinsic stochasticity in cell polarity and contact inhibition of locomotion
When cells collide, they often exhibit "contact inhibition of locomotion" (CIL), a behavior in which cells repolarize and migrate away from the site of contact. Experimental CIL outcomes are highly va...
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Woodson Lab @woodsonlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Our new paper is out! Using 19F NMR, we show that Hfq rewires the conformational dynamics of a model sRNA in a site-specific manner. Uridines at the rim undergo faster exchange (~100 μs) than those in the proximal pore (~300 μs). Congrats Elise! 🎉🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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19F NMR Strategy for Probing Site-specific RNA Dynamics in Large RNA-protein Complexes: Application to the Hfq RNA Chaperone
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is uniquely suited to probing motions on the microsecond to millisecond timescales that underlie RNA rec…
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Want to simulate large nonconfluent tissues? Try the finite Voronoi model! 1) @wwang721.bsky.social and I show past implementations need a correction to avoid issues, and 2) we provide a new fast code that we'd like people to try! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.15481 code: github.com/wwang721/pyafv
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arXiv cond-mat.soft Soft Condensed Matter @condmatsoft-bot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Wei Wang, Brian A. Camley: Divergence of detachment forces in the finite Voronoi model arxiv.org/abs/2604.15481 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.15481 arxiv.org/html/2604.15481
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Want to simulate large nonconfluent tissues? Try the finite Voronoi model! 1) @wwang721.bsky.social and I show past implementations need a correction to avoid issues, and 2) we provide a new fast code that we'd like people to try! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.15481 code: github.com/wwang721/pyafv
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Emiliano Perez Ipiña @emperipi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New paper out in @physreve.bsky.social (Editors’ Suggestion) with @diffusiveblob.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1103/z3zg...
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Nature @nature.com · 30/03/2026
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Biophysics department at Johns Hopkins is hiring off-cycle *at all levels*! Take a look: biophysics.jhu.edu/2026/03/27/f... - we will start looking April 13. This is a great department to work in, in the middle of an expansion - please let me know if you have questions.
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Faculty Hiring: Expanding Biophysics at Johns Hopkins | Biophysics
As part of a strategic investment for transformative expansion of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins, the Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics (https://biophysics.jhu.edu/) invites applications for ten...
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Raimon Sunyer @raimonsunyer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Since #durotaxis was described >25 years ago, most studies report cells migrating from soft → stiff New work from my team at @ub.edu (in collaboration with D. Odde's lab) suggests we may have been missing the point all along... 🔥 Check out our new preprint here 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
An active material that's trying to contract can be guided by changing its friction with the environment. We predict some interesting examples, including patterns that can drive circular or linear motion of clumps of material. Work with Miller Fellow Cody Schimming: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03232
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Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We are #Hiring! Our lab is looking for a LabTech/Lab Manager! Take a look to our research here! physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-gro... Drop a line if you are interested to know more details! #labtech #labtechnician #biology #labtechnicians #labmanager #labwork #Xenopus #zebrafish #devbiol
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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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…)
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
BPS is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal
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Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal
The Biophysical Society is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal. This appointment will begin January 1, 2027, for one five-year term. The…
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Dr. Allyson Sgro @allysonsgro.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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
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Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Biophysics
Attendees will have the opportunity to present as well as learn from one another. They will give 20-minute talks on their own research questions, as well as in-depth 45-minute whiteboard tutorials on
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Bob Johnston @bobbyjeyeguy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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...
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I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
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Dr. Allyson Sgro @allysonsgro.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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...
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Memory from variability: Heritable short-term cellular memory emerges from stochastic biochemical reaction networks
Cells exhibit a mysterious form of selective heritable short-term memory, influencing outcomes as diverse as cell fate decisions in embryos and environmental responses in cancer cells and bacteria. He...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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.
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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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.
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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
Fishing email saying that a student has filed a report for my class
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davidasivak.bsky.social @davidasivak.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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
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Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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...
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University Assistant/Associate Professor in Control Theory and Systems Biology
Applications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in the broad area of Control Theory and Systems Biology. The successful candidate will join the Control Group
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 20/11/2025
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/...
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Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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"
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Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation
Millions of researchers could be affected by a “dramatic distortion of citation counts” likely caused by flaws in how the academic publishing giant Springer Nature handles article metadata, accordi…
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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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
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Sam Foley @samuelfoley.com · 06/11/2025
"Why do you like membrane bending simulations so much?"
Marge Simpson, holding a CG membrane simulation snapshot: "I just think they're neat!"
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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...
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Using endocytosis to switch between chemoattraction and chemorepulsion www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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...
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Dr. Andrea Welsh 💖💜💙 @theoreticalwzrd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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.
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This has now lodged into my head, preemptive apologies to the next few awesome associate professors who are celebrated for being mid
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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.
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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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
Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Open Date: Sep 19, 2025

Description
The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area.

More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Sarah Veatch to Receive 2026 Agnes Pockels Award in Lipids and Membrane Biophysics buff.ly/AdSMhCT
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Jie Xiao to Receive 2026 Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award www.biophysics.org/news-room/ji...
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Qiwei Yu @qiweiyu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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.
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Daniel J. Cohen (Princeton) @djcohen.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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
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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 12/09/2025
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
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Being a professor is so weird. You are constantly having to act like you know things.
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arXiv q-bio.CB Cell Behavior @qbiocb-bot.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Vishnu Srinivasan, Wei Wang, Brian A. Camley: Perfect adaptation in eukaryotic gradient sensing using cooperative allosteric binding arxiv.org/abs/2509.00219 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00219 arxiv.org/html/2509.00219
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