Brian Camley
Computational biophysics, cell motility, collective motion, soft matter, horses, cats. Associate Prof at Johns Hopkins Physics+Biophysics departments.
- Reposted by Brian CamleySeconded. 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…)
- Reposted by Brian CamleyBPS is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal
- Reposted by Brian CamleyAre 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
- Reposted by Brian CamleyCheck 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...
- Reposted by Brian CamleyThrilled 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...
- Reposted by Brian CamleyShe 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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- Reposted by Brian CamleyWe’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
- Reposted by Brian CamleyWe 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...
- 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
- You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie. scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪
- Reposted by Brian CamleyHot 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/...
- 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"
- Reposted by Brian CamleyWe’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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- 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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- 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.
- This has now lodged into my head, preemptive apologies to the next few awesome associate professors who are celebrated for being mid
- 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.
- Reposted by Brian CamleyI 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
- Reposted by Brian CamleySarah Veatch to Receive 2026 Agnes Pockels Award in Lipids and Membrane Biophysics buff.ly/AdSMhCT
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- Reposted by Brian CamleyFor 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.
- Reposted by Brian CamleySCHEPHERD--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
- SCHEPHERD: A universal platform for high-throughput, high-resolution, and programmable control of cell behavior through bioelectric stimulation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- Fun membrane biophysics problem: how long will it take for continental diffusion to mix the continents? (Or for line tension to make their boundaries circular?)
- Martini on top of the world ! TS2CG as a Membrane Builder | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
- 1/n New preprint: how eukaryotic cells could potentially adjust to new environments with perfect adaptation of their receptors (but why they probably might not). doi.org/10.48550/arX...
- Not quite sure why @aip-publishing.bsky.social has scummy advertising that pretends to be a download link. This isn't ideal for a scientific society. (Brought to you by Chrome no longer supporting adblockers!)
- Reposted by Brian CamleyAutomated optogenetic control of hundreds of cells in parallel. Each cell is individually steered, collectively acting as a "tissue printer". Preprint & code out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Brian CamleyRemebering Paul Kulesa (1962–2025) We honor Dr. Paul Kulesa, whose pioneering work on neural crest cell development has profoundly impacted neuroscience and pediatric cancer research. His loss has deeply impacted the Developmental Biology community and everyone he graced with his presence in life.
- I was curious about these failure modes. Surprisingly robust that you get wrong answers but easy to fix. I suspect LLMs are most useful when solutions are easy to check but hard to generate
- Fascinating piece of data- capital expenditures from big tech up ~3x in last few years but tech employment is roughly flat/declining over that time, at least per: www.comptia.org/en-us/resour...
- The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
- New work from Emiliano Perez Ipina + me: if cells respond to chemoattractant A and chemoattractant B, when do they go to source A vs source B? Or do they ever wander back and forth? We show a lot of different options are possible: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19341
- Reposted by Brian CamleyThank you to everyone who has supported TLM talks. We will be back in Ocotber with some new exciting talks. We have plans to incorporate short talks by students and postdocs, fill out this form to express your interest forms.gle/34vMwQNVGnvm.... Have a nice summer 🌅
- Reposted by Brian CamleyPowerful story from Kate Zernike from the NYT Covers the diversity of young scientists targeted by the anti-DEI BS. Definitely worth a read and a share. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
- Reposted by Brian CamleyThere is so, so much good science being shared and discussed on bsky right now. The news of its demise is quite backwards. If you are having trouble finding it among all of the very important political news, use the papersky feed that filters posts you follow to just papers: bsky.app/profile/pape...
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- Reposted by Brian Camley"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Brian CamleyYesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
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- I work in science, but I really loved National History Day and think it's a great experience for students - and I think helped train my thinking and presenting skills for the job I have now! Might be worth a donation to help make up for their canceled NEH grant.
- The preprint of this work is now available: doi.org/10.1101/2025... - this is probably the paper I've been most excited about as a new PI. I will try to write a longer thread later when I have time to focus, but check out the seminar if you want the highlights!
- How do cells sense electric fields? How quickly can they respond? We show, in a collaboration with Nathan Belliveau and Julie Theriot, that this is limited by the physics of how proteins diffuse. Here's the @bppbseminar.bsky.social seminar I gave on this work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TDX...
- How do cells sense electric fields? How quickly can they respond? We show, in a collaboration with Nathan Belliveau and Julie Theriot, that this is limited by the physics of how proteins diffuse. Here's the @bppbseminar.bsky.social seminar I gave on this work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TDX...
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- When cells break off from an invading cancer, is it a single cell or a big clump? This changes how dangerous the cancer is. In Wei's paper, in collaboration w/Kostas Konstantopoulos, we model how groups of cells break off from an invading cancerous front, and see when you get single cells vs groups
