Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD

Through Collaboration, 7 Research Teams Aim to Transform Biomedical Science Collaboration powers scientific discovery. Now 14 accomplished researchers are teaming up to lead such a charge as The Pew Charitable Trusts’ 2025 Innovation Fund investigators. The new class, announc...

Excited about our Pew Innovation Fund collaboration with Mike Rust (UChicago). Grateful for the opportunity to push new ideas forward together!

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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

PhD Studentship in the Machine Learning of Pattern Formation at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD Studentship in the Machine Learning of Pattern Formation at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

Excited to share that Li Shen and I are recruiting for a fully funded PhD studentship (UK home rates). If you’re interested in the principles of pattern formation and machine learning, this could be a great fit.

Full details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Autumn in the backyard of the Greenwich School of Music.

Simons Foundation Announces Fourth Class of Pivot Fellows The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the fourth class of its Pivot Fellowship.

Congrats to the new class of @simonsfoundation.org pivot fellows! What an inspiring group.

www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...

Been awhile — good to see you, Harvard.

smallthingsconsidered.blog

Ray: Just a note to say STC is officially back up and running!! You can view our new home via smallthingsconsidered.blog

Autumn is in Greenwich Village

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Academic job applicant from Greenwich Village…

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out.

Watch and share!

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Hardest working people in Manhattan. Hats off to them.

Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor - Nature Ecology & Evolution Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to the eukaryotic DNA replication machinery.

Glad to share our paper out today @NatureEcoEvo: “Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #archaeasky

From the Flatiron Institute’s rooftop — autumn is arriving in Manhattan.

Must read for graduate admissions committees everywhere.

SJ - I’ve just started my 1-year sabbatical in NYC, splitting time between the Flatiron Institute and NYU Economics to explore “econophysiology,” supported by the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. If you’re in the area and would like to connect or interact with me & my lab, feel free to reach out!

We celebrated afterwards with friends’ labs — Tzer Han Tan, Hongbo Zhao, and Seungeun Oh among them.

Congratulations to Haochen — one of the rare breeds who did both real experiments and theory. He successfully defended his PhD last Friday and is starting his independent Lewis-Sigler Scholar position at Princeton this week. We’ll miss you!

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

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:

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A show of bipartisan support for NIH. Basically flat except for ARPA-H.

The President’s budget proposal basically ignored (as it should have been).

This is a great piece of work

Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

If you’re eligible for a Pew Latin American Fellowship, please reach out to Suckjoon Jun (Pew ‘13). We have ambitious bluesky projects planned for the next decade, backed by exceptionally strong funding, and we’d love for you to join us!

www.pew.org/en/projects/...

Proteins of amino acid metabolism form large structures and determine diffusion in the cytoplasm!

Our 7-year-long tour-de-force is now out on Bioxriv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks everyone involved! And especially to Jose Losa who pioneered this!

Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to Bacteria Motility in Archaea is driven by a nanomachinery called the archaellum. So far, archaella have been exclusively described for the archaeal domain; however, a recent study reported the presence of arch...

Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Our experimental lab w/ the Hilfinger lab @uoft.bsky.social are jointly looking to hire a #postdoc in experimental biological #physics. Exploring noise and dynamics within single-cells and bacterial populations. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

🚨HUGE SCIENCE WIN ALERT🚨

NIH Grants to be restored en masse!!! Thank you Judge Young for standing up for science!

#StandUpforScience
#SummerFightforScience

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.

"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."

Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming

Talked to @KateZernike at @nytimes about my journey and the current moment for scientists in the U.S.

“Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.”

Read the article here. No subscription required:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.