Brian Camley

Out now in Biophys. J: why do some immune cells switch their direction and move opposite to a chemoattractant gradient? doi.org/10.1016/j.bp... (movie from the original experiments by Malet-Engra et al.)

Cody D. Schimming, Daniel A. Beller: Structure and Dynamics of Defects in Two-Dimensional Nematic Liquid Crystals https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27278 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.27278 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.27278

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

Enter the (extracellular) matrix 💊 …and don’t forget to sign up for the 2027 Gordon Research Conference and associated Seminar on Directed Cell Migration! 🧭 @diffusiveblob.bsky.social @hawa-racine.bsky.social @robinsall.bsky.social @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday #CellMigration

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/...

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-...

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

⚡ 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...

*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...

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?

Single-Molecule Dwell Times in Biomolecular Condensates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.735418v1

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 🧪 🧵👇

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...

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!

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...

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

Wei Wang, Brian A. Camley: Divergence of detachment forces in the finite Voronoi model https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15481 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.15481 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.15481

New paper out in @physreve.bsky.social (Editors’ Suggestion) with @diffusiveblob.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1103/z3zg...

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

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.

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...

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

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

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…)

BPS is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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/...

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

"Why do you like membrane bending simulations so much?"

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...