4,000,000 m!

I stepped into a bookstore while on vacation in DC last week. Found this graphic novel.

I am honored to be elected as the next Program Director for the University of Delaware (@udelaware.bsky.social) Biomechanics and Movement Science interdisciplinary graduate program. To our notable alumni network: Stay tuned for ways to engage with and support our students.

Univ of Delaware is an NBD Solid Rock with giant, varied, and exciting NBD celebrations every year!! This just in: UDel approaches 1,000 NBD student visitors since 2017! Next year, OVER THE TOP! Thank you Jeremy, Jocelyn and all your colleagues and students, our friends in #Biomechanics. #NBD2025

We had an engaging National Biomechanics Day today at the University of Delaware! Nearly 100 high school students toured 10 different labs! Here are the faculty and graduate students that made it happen. Thank you to them, and thank you to our participating schools! @biomechanicsday.bsky.social

Thanks for putting this on today. There were some thought-provoking ideas that I've already shared with my lab. I highly recommend the session to those who can attend the next one on Friday. It's relevant to both mentors and mentees.

This paper was finally reviewed and accepted.

This isn't an endorsement, as I need to look more into the organization. However, those near DC (and other locations) may be interested in this March 7th event.

Politics tangle with things that we find,
Truth weighed against an uncertain mind.
Yet science stands steady—its course never swayed,
Though doubt and dissent cast fleeting shade.

(3/n)

The grants are a battle, the funding is tight,
We write and rewrite through many a night.
Peer review lingers, the journals delay,
Yet passion still pulls us to fight through the fray.

(2/n)

My department is hiring a new Athletic Training Program Director.

careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

I've never played toribash, but my lab did fail miserably at a QWOP challenge against @stephenpiazza.bsky.social

www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

I'm looking for "Fun Biomechanics Links" for my course. Do you have interesting articles, videos, or websites?

ChatGPT tells me that these terms describe what I'm looking for: #sick #slaps #nextlevel #crazy #wild #nocap #insane #hype #litty #goated #W #turnt #lowkeycool #deep #noway

KAAP400 JEDI Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Reading List Please notify the instructor if links aren’t viable. Click here for an additional reading list! Point of View Affects How Science is Done Too ...

For a course I teach, I need to update this list of content related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in science and healthcare.

Please let me know if you have any suggested additions.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you! I think I already have the link for this one.

If your seminar series is streamed virtually and open to those outside of your institution, please share the link! I will pass that information on to undergraduate students in my Research Methods course. Thank you!

Fun with ultrasound! Latest from Emily Eichenlaub "Anticipation augments distal leg muscle neuromechanics before, during, and after treadmill-induced perturbations applied during walking". @jbiomech.bsky.social @allenjl12.bsky.social @jrcrenshaw.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

-for some people
-I doubt it
-please stop
-I'll get back to you in 11 months
-yes, but I'm open to different justifications

Supplementary Material for: Evaluation of Falls Risk in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Using Body-Worn Sensors Background: Falls are the most common cause of injury and hospitalization and one of the principal causes of death and disability in older adults worldwide. This study aimed to determine if a method b...

I didn't carefully check these sources, but a quick search of available datasets gave me these:

doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

b2find.dkrz.de/dataset/9152...

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Any suggestions for where I can buy motion capture markers with no delayed shipping?

Thought- and anxiety-provoking podcast on fraud in academia. open.spotify.com/episode/1NiZ...

Happy holidays to you! That indeed was NBD. Also, NBD made the "Top ten-ish college events of 2023" from our Dean. We have started our 2024 planning!

I'm thankful for where I work! It's fun to see my students, colleagues, and community in this video. There is even a National Biomechanics Day clip! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGqw...

It's a new environment!

For teaching, I may generate AI-driven text, and then have students critically evaluate statements and cited work.

For research, I'll use AI as to see what I may not be considering. I'll also use it as a copy editor for ideas on how to revise things for clarity.

I teach an undergrad Research Methods class which includes an NIH-style aims page assignment. I was curious what AI would generate when prompted to write such a page. It was surprisingly good. e.g. g.co/bard/share/f...

I'm thinking creatively how to include this in teaching & as a research tool.

This has been a productive thread. Now I just asked AI to make a paragraph of old written text "better". The results were surprisingly good.

"...The problem is, MOS doesn't tell us exactly how much of a push would do the trick. We think it would be more helpful if MOS used units that actually show how big that push would be, instead of just saying it's bigger or smaller." (6/n)

Not bad!

Here is Bard's version: "The stability of a system, like your balance when standing on one leg, can be measured by how much you need to be pushed to lose it. This measurement, called the Margin of Stability (MOS), is bigger when you're harder to knock over (like a gymnast!)..." (5/n)

"...We suggest that stability margins may have more biomechanical meaning, utility, and perhaps validity if they are expressed in units that estimate that perturbation magnitude, as opposed to units that are only proportional to it." (4/n)

"...A limitation of the MOS is that, when expressed as a distance, it does not directly estimate the kinetic characteristics of that destabilizing perturbation...." (3/n)