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Information theory for molecular communication, computational biology, and biophysics at York University, Toronto Canada. PI: Prof. Andrew Eckford.

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Artemy Kolchinsky @artemyte.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Open postdoc with the amazing Sarah Marzen (Scripps College, Claremont, California). Intersection of information theory, biophysics, neuroscience, and machine learning. Please RT theclaremontcolleges.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SCR_C...
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Post-Doctoral Researcher
Claremont, CA Job Posting Title: Post-Doctoral Researcher Job Description: PRIMARY PURPOSE/GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Working with Professor Sarah Marzen, the Post-Doctoral Researcher will serve in an advanced professional research capacity to conduct original scholarly and scientific research relating to the engineering of hybrid adaptive networks. The Researcher will routinely need to apply advanced knowledge in physics, applied mathematics, biophysics, scientific computing, and related fields. DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The incumbent will primarily be engaged in advanced intellectual and creative professional work requiring specialized academic training and the exercise of discretion and independent judgment. Additional duties may be assigned; any such additional duties will primarily be consistent with the professional nature of the position. Independently des
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I was at the IZS in Zurich last week, a spectacular conference in a beautiful location. I used my invited paper as an opportunity to explain what biological information theory is, and why I think it is important [PDF link]: www.research-collection.ethz.ch/server/api/c...
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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My @theatlantic.com piece on the emerging new "Physics of Life". Complexity science, information theory, network theory... a whole new trans-disciplinary way of asking an ancient question. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
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A Physics Renaissance Is Coming
The field can no longer ignore the fundamental mystery posed by living things.
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It is very funny to me that The Simpsons more or less destroyed the concept of monorails as public transit in the English speaking world.
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Artemy Kolchinsky @artemyte.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809
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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Here is our new paper that we're really excited about. What makes a cell different from a rock? The answer we argue is the USE of information. But information carries meaning and that changes everything if we want to understand the "physics of life". journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
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Physics of Life: Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems
Living systems are defined by their active acquisition and use of information. This Roadmap surveys current research on life's information processes and their importance for the search for life beyond...
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Please check out our (open access!) paper in PRX Life: "Physics of Life: Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems" journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
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Physics of Life: Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems
Living systems are defined by their active acquisition and use of information. This Roadmap surveys current research on life's information processes and their importance for the search for life beyond...
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
You laugh but if you're in a pickle, 22/7 varies from pi by less than one part in a thousand.
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Given that it was sunk,
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Hello Montreal!
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I have strong opinions about "The Bandwagon". I certainly don't think Shannon was wrong but I think his argument is widely misunderstood, in ways that have held back important applications of information theory. In some ways, I wish he hadn't written it.
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Is there a word for the feeling of frustration when, in the instant between when you decide to click on a link and when you actually click on it, something loads in the background which shifts the page and you end up clicking on something else entirely?
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I don't know who needs to hear this, but "label created" is not "shipped".
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Give me the news
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The tariffs applied to Canadian goods are, from the words of the president himself, an explicit threat to Canadian sovereignty. Accordingly, while they are in effect, I will not use Canadian grant funds to travel to the United States, and I think my Canadian colleagues should do likewise.
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
見てください
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Reviewer [after we added pages of material in response to their comments in the last round]: The paper is now too long Same reviewer in this round: Please add a tutorial on linear algebra to the model section.
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you notify me that the order has shipped, but when I check the tracking link it says "label created", then you are a bad person.
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Hot off the press: I am pleased to announce that the 2nd edition of our foundational textbook, Molecular Communication, has now been published by Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
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Molecular Communication | Communications, information theory and signal processing
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I really need to enable offline syncing of my overleaf projects Just like I tell myself during every outage
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Guest blog post on the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Fifteen Eighty Four blog: "Small talk: Exchanging messages at the nanoscale with molecular communication" cambridgeblog.org/2024/11/smal...
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Small talk: Exchanging messages at the nanoscale with molecular communication - Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press
The ability to sense and manipulate the body at the level of individual cells has long been a vision for the future of medicine, as well as a staple of science fiction. When it is finally realized, th...
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
🚨🚨🚨Molecular Communication, 2nd edition🚨🚨🚨 We've been working on this for a while ... finally coming out this June!!! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
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EckfordLab @eckfordlab.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Hello, world!
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