Michael Sinko, PhD

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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this isn't the usual context in which you see libertarianism and a 13-year-old

The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

Any recommendations for a small/cheap home scope?
I use the $$$$ ones at work, but at home I’ll probably just be doing some raspberry pi stuff with it.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

With Induction Stoves, Chefs Discover a Foolproof Path to Perfection From Michelin kitchens to home wok burners, induction delivers consistency that gas can’t match.

Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.

My kitchen is my workshop. I got an induction stove two months ago. It is faster, cleaner, better in every way than my old gas stove. I worried that I'd miss gas, but now I'll never want to go back.

No, Prasad is bad. Sometimes everyone involved is just bad.

I think a possibly useful constraint on chatgpt would be against user attempts to *personify* it. I notice in the hallucination/delusion cycles of people having breakdowns that giving it a 'name' seems to be a common trend.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Guy in Costco food court line:

‘yeah, I just come in here and buy exactly what I need.’🤯
‘I make my list before I come and I get exactly that.’ 🤯
‘How do you come here without a list? Wouldn’t you just buy everything then?’😭

Yes, Mr. Willpower, that is exactly what I do, and it makes me happy!!!

Bite valve
Just search for “bite valve”

No charges for Jacksonville officers who punched Black man during arrest William Anthony McNeil Jr. questioned why he was pulled over and refused to get out of the car. An officer smashed his window and punched him in the face, video shows.

Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against sheriff’s officers who wrestled a Black man out of a car during a traffic stop and punched him multiple times, the local sheriff said Monday.

We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory The connection been Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.

"La théorie pédoconservatrice n'implique pas de réseaux secrets de tunnels souterrains où l'adrénochrome est récolté pour le compte de seigneurs reptiliens. Elle ne se cache pas sous douze couches de subterfuges. Elle est ancrée dans les fondements politiques de la droite réactionnaire."

What happens when you put Mehdi Hasan in a room full of 20 conservative? He owns them all.

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “It’s a pretty big story. Maybe if you read the fake news, you might know.”

Watch Mehdi’s episode on ‘Surrounded’:
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One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

This is not the act of a legitimate government.

Near my parents’ house there is a similar hill that they would all sunbathe on, and every time we drove past it was always a game to count how many we could see
Good memories

Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday.

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Xinis: When you talk about this, you conveniently leave out that your clients previously removed him in violation of a withholding order

Khojasteh: And I agree that happened....but I don't think you have jurisdiction to press pause

Xinis: Ok well I need to give my staff a break

10 minute recess

Khojasteh: We return Abrego to the US

Xinis: After 3 months of telling me you couldn't...So I have a hard time believing that your clients are going to leave this to a desk officer

Khojasteh: That we didn't have power to return was honest and candid...when we could facilitate return, we did

Xinis: The desk officer will make the decision?

Khojasteh: Based on Giles testimony, yes

Xinis: You're telling me your clients are gonna leave it to a desk officer?.....It "defies reality" that this is going to be left to desk officer

fucking lovecraftian/lynchian horror dude, you start cynically dancing opportunistically for a few tax breaks or industry subsidies and you end up a genuine intellectual peer to Qanoners

Honestly, him running for reelection wasn't the real fuckup; nominating Garland rather than a partisan attack dog was the biggest mistake of his presidency, and is the main reason we are where we are. The run-up to the 2022 elections should've been public trials of every criminal in Trump's orbit.

CA too. Play hardball Gavin. Hang them out to dry. They literally asked for this. My entire life it’s been a double standard where rural red areas get to shit on in both rhetoric and policy urban areas and then ask for and get bailouts from them. I’m fucking sick of it dude. Time to return fire.

Like obviously I don’t prefer a wave of deaths of despair to roll over the rurals, but they are literally the reason this happened. Fuck it. Give them what they want.

NOTE: Intrinsically Safe in the non-proliferation sense is "safe from proliferation", not "safe for humans to be anywhere near".

Since some precursor materials also have non-proliferation concerns, we may similarly mark them with a gamma fingerprint. Or, more creatively, one that grows in.

Congrats!
Please work safely & carefully!
Too much hassle and risk for me to ever want to work with resin, but I know for your type of work it’s the only real option.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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