We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis
an insect, a bird, and an elephant visualized with unit height scaling. insect is landscape shaped and the elephant is portrait shaped
Why is it that small animals like insects have a landspace body plan when viewed head-on, but larger animals like elephants are taller than wide?
With @m-v.bsky.social, we find out in our new preprint titled 'Size and shape of terrestrial animals' - arxiv.org/html/2602.00...
Musukentotul is my new favorite word.
Congrats!!
😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Moissenet et al. reviews and aggregates available datasets to establish Spartacus, a comprehensive reference for normal shoulder girdle kinematics.
👀 buff.ly/hQAMKYZ
#BiomechSky
Tomorrow is the final day to submit your abstracts for Dynamic Walking 2025.
If you haven't submitted yet, don't walk, RUN! 🏃♀️👍
Hello, biomechanics community!
Are you a postdoc looking for a place to connect with fellow postdocs, network, and attend professional development events? Fill out this link to get involved with the American Society of Biomechanics Postdoc Affinity Group: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Super cool new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at MIT via the HEALS initiative. Biswas Fellows receive *4 years* of funding to pursue independent research with *any* MIT faculty member! Please share widely with the trainees in your life!
heals.mit.edu/biswas-fello...
Just published in JOSS: 'MocoExtendProblem: Interface Between OpenSim and MATLAB for Rapidly Developing Direct Collocation Goals in Moco' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07110
😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Crossley et al indicates that electromyogram-informed modelling is a valid computational approach to estimate knee and hip biomechanics during standard seated ergometer cycling.
👀 buff.ly/EfKDSFl
#BiomechSky
Now peer reviewed and out in IEEE TNSRE
doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3549641
Postdoc opportunity to do digital twin research for human and humanoid agile locomotion with myself, Wouter Hoogkamer @umill.bsky.social and Donghyun Kim! See forms.gle/FRFtLNiY7j3z... for more info and to apply by 3/19.
A reminder that registration is open for this CNB Muscle-tendon mechanics satellite meeting!
Students can apply for the ISB Technical Meeting grant for $500USD to attend
isbweb.org/students/28-...
(see grant #5: CNB isn't listed because it is a new group, but the funding does apply)
Important Announcement!
The deadline for abstract submissions to the ISB Congress 2025 has been extended to February 14th, 2025!
Spread the word—and let’s get those abstracts submitted!
www.isb2025.com
😃New article published in J Biomech!
"Whole Body Angular Momentum Characterizes Reactive Balance Adaptations and Perturbation Intensity", by Adam et al.
👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#journalofbiomechanics
#BiomechSky
Screen shot of the top of the first page of the Journal of Experimental Biology Editorial, JEB launches a new article type for theory and modelling studies, written by S. N. Patek, Monica A. Daley, Matthew McHenry and Sanjay Sane. The first sentence of the Editorial reads: JEB recently launched a new article type called Theory & Modelling.
Find out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
New Year's resolutions: read more, think more, and no email (though that's impossible).
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the META MUSEUM project: Emotion and Biomarkers. This interdisciplinary project focuses on understanding emotion-induced bodily and neurophysiological biomarkers through experimental interventions. werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/po...
Just in time for your Christmas reading list: new preprint with Yang Geng and @jvandieen.bsky.social: “ Upright stance is controlled close to critical stability across different postures” (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) feedback welcome!
Bipedal running simulations in Australopithecus afarensis!
Over the years, I’ve developed a unique skill: commenting on iterations of IPOPT like it’s my favorite sports team ⚽️🥅🏀
« And it went out the recovery mode !»
😃New article published in J Biomech!
"Modeling implications of the relationship between active and passive skeletal muscle mechanical properties", by Lieber et al.
👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#journalofbiomechanics
#BiomechSky
Matt Mulligan and Brian Umberger in academic regalia at the University of Michigan winter commencement.
Congrats to (skyless) Matt Mulligan! He is the first person in the 207-year history of the University of Michigan to graduate with a joint PhD in Movement Science & Scientific Computing! Now Matt is in a cool computational postdoc on aging & movement with Eline van der Kruk at TU Delft #biomechanics
Abstract deadline to be considered for an oral presentation at the 2025 Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology Conference is tomorrow (Dec 15) ⏱️✍️ @myoblue.bsky.social
Center of mass states render multi-joint torques throughout standing balance recovery
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
@kjakubowski.bsky.social @lenating.bsky.social
My PSU colleagues Anne Martin and Meghan Vidt will co-chair the 2025 American Society of Biomechanics East Coast Meeting – ASB East – on Penn State’s University Park campus March 28-29, 2025. Abstracts are due by February 7, 2025. For more information, please visit
sites.psu.edu/asbeast2025/
Latest article from Journal of Biomechanics:
Modeling implications of the relationship between active and passive skeletal muscle mechanical properties
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.112423
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A screenshot of part of the advertisement, please email me at cclark@ucr.edu for the full advertisement
POSTDOC announcement! I am hiring a postdoc to study owl flight biomechanics. I will be at SICB. Please email me for the full advertisement, screenshot below. Please retweet!
Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics.
#SICB2025