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Markus Deserno
@markusdeserno.bsky.social
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Theoretical and computational biophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University. Loves lipid membranes, music, and art. (he/him) 🇩🇪🇺🇸
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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · Sep 26
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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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
markusdeserno.bsky.social
Everything that’s old is new again.
joerglau.bsky.social Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 4d
Private Faschismustheorien (Folge XII): “Of course the would not call it fascism. They would call it Americanism.”

youtu.be/_abRxAL3hnw?...
excerpt from keeper of the flame
YouTube video by beverly crusher
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December 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
Stephen Miller writes on Twitter: "Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world."
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration

IG roodabeguh
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
markusdeserno.bsky.social
Episodes I–VI is …… a statement.
December 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
markusdeserno.bsky.social
Looks like Stephen Miller is stalking the background.
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
markusdeserno.bsky.social
Besides the sheer incompetence, I really want to know precisely what reasons could possibly justify these (failed) redactions.
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8d
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image 202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed.
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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chrisbuggisch.bsky.social
Klar, auch die Tagesschau kann mal einen Bock schießen. Aber ich helfe gerne beim Faktencheck in Sachen E-Mobilität …
E-Mobilität: Dichtung und Wahrheit
Die Tagesschau präsentierte ihrem Millionen-Publikum einen deutschen Pendler, der keinesfalls auf ein E-Auto umsteigen kann. Dies und die Berichterstattung über das „Aus vom Verbrenner-Aus“ 2035 la…
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December 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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cmuscience.bsky.social
Hi @physgal.bsky.social! We are a university account that often posts physics news, and we'd be interested in joining the Physics and Science feeds! Here are some of our articles: www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Kyungmin Park Accelerates CMS Trigger Work at CERN
Physics graduate student Kyungmin Park is working with CERN to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider.
www.cmu.edu
December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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this might be the greatest Christmas photo ever
Robert Shaw from jaws opening the game battleship and snarling at the camera a Richard Dreyfuss looks on laughing and pointing
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.

The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.

These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.

We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Rafael Veraza, 25, said he pulled into Sam’s Club with his wife and baby on a weekend grocery run on Nov. 8 when he saw a commotion surrounding what looked to be unmarked vehicles full of immigration officers in Cicero, west of Chicago. The family decided to leave the area without shopping, he said. On his way out, he believes a passing agent mistook him for one of the protesters who have followed immigration officials throughout Chicagoland in an effort to warn residents and document their operations. Veraza’s wife happened to be filming the parking lot scene on her smartphone because they wanted to one day show their 1-year-old the turbulent times she was born in. She aimed her camera at a passing SUV and captured the moment when an officer filled the family’s vehicle with a mist of pepper spray. Video shows the moment Rafael Veraza says federal agents shot pepper-spray into his car, where he was with his wife and 1-year-old daughter. (Video: Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post) Veraza and his wife poured water on their crying baby’s face and rushed to the hospital. A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes. McLaughlin denied that federal agents pepper-sprayed anyone outside of Sam’s Club in a statement issued after the incident to the news media. She did not offer an explanation for what is shown in the video.
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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cwebbonline.com
There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.

The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.

Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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ljrissler.bsky.social
NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
markusdeserno.bsky.social
How old does one have to be to understand this joke?
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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drmikewiser.bsky.social
So, the basics of this piece are recent Republican governor teaches a class at Harvard and finds students there are not like he was told to expect.

What I find interesting enough in this piece to share a gift link for it comes near the middle:

wapo.st/3XJkFf5
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
markusdeserno.bsky.social
It’s curious:
Some people
Paint the Mona Lisa,
Or compose Tosca,
Or sculpt David,
Or write Romeo and Juliet.
Others molest children,
Or start ruinous wars,
Or enslave millions,
Or engineer the Holocaust.
It’s curious.
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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mjclayman.bsky.social
From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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drubin.bsky.social
Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.

@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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barbisblue.bsky.social
Senator Mark Kelly speaks at a press conference amid Hegseth's court martial threat: "When Trump was driving the Taj Mahal Casino into bankruptcy, I was being shot at over Iraq... When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts...When Trump was peddling conspiracy theories against President Obama, I was sitting next to my wife's hospital bed...I've been through a lot worse in service to my country. The President and Pete Hegseth are not going to silence me.
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
markusdeserno.bsky.social
Remember this scene from “Ready Player One,” when Sorento brags “We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures.”
You know, just like so many current webpages, which have become unreadable and are so pop-up-infested that they regularly crash the browser.
Ready Player One - Nolan Sorrento sells ads
YouTube video by Steven Tuccio
m.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
markusdeserno.bsky.social
Melania memecoin not doing so hot.
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
markusdeserno.bsky.social
For everyone who missed it:

My BPPB talk is now available on YouTube!

If you're curious how we propose to think about ternary lipid mixtures in the presence of membrane asymmetry—including differential stress!—then this is probably a good place to start! 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM