2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩
We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics.
nyakaturalab.com/news/
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Academia feels like walking through the dark with a flashlight-
you become an expert in whatever small patch you illuminate,
then step forward and realize how much you still can’t see.
How come every protagonist of a modern show set in current times has an unbelievable amount of wealth for their circumstance? It’s giving bourgeoisie propaganda.
Submitted a manuscript that has been haunting my computer for too long. Now it just needs to get through the review process.
Yay! My science girlie pop out there moving up in the world. Love to see good people receiving good things.
These conferences prices must be an April's Fools joke, right?
My cat puked 12x last night. Ten of which were outside my bedroom door to make it known that it was happening.
bruh - I am tired.
New research by Daisey Vega and IMSI affiliate Christopher J. Arellano in the Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social examines how muscle pre-activation shapes lateral gastrocnemius mechanics during locomotion.
Read the paper:
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
#Biomechanics
How does perceived risk shape adaptation and learning?
Our new work reveals that locomotor adaptation proactively navigates a "fall risk landscape" , modulating learning parameters that dictate optimality to prioritize safety.
(work with Inseung Kang and Kanishka Mitra)
doi.org/10.64898/202...
It’s borderline embarrassing / impressive how much stuff I sleep with in bed when my husband’s out of town- water bottles, dog toys, books, crotchet projects, video game controllers, etc.
⏰ Reminder: Applications for the IMSI Summer Institute 2026 close March 21.
If you’re interested in immersive, research-driven training in movement science this summer, we encourage you to apply.
Learn more and apply:
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Flyer for the 2026 IMSI Summer Institute: Recruiting research interns. Join our interdisciplinary research training internship and study biomechanics, muscle physiology, biophysics, neurosciences, rehabilitation sciences and engineering. All career stages welcome, undergraduates especially encouraged to apply. Full time paid opportunity. Intensive research experience, practical skills development, supportive mentorship. Learn more at CIMS.uci.edu. One photo show a lab member collecting motion capture data as a person jumps. Another photo shows IMSI researchers setting up a camera for data collection in at a field research location showing a desert landscape in the foreground and a mountain range in the background.
Call for applications to the 2026 Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute!
This is a funded research internship, open to all career stages.
We especially encourage undergraduates to apply.
Application deadline is March 21.
More details here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-si-2026/
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I am waiting for a delivery in the main lab and my presence is unnerving the students.
Just some Arizona sky to break up your feed.
I use this forum like a dream journal, but lemme tell you there's some weird stuff going on up there. All I remember is bats, rabies vaccines, cheating girlfriends, wolves, my cousin, a hosted party and other random tidbits that have nothing to link them other than my brain and a bed.
Random niche goal: get my Oura resilience score up to “Strong“. It really is quite an informative wearable device for day to day life.
Come join the summer research institute hosted by @movementscience.bsky.social. Lots of great opportunities to start (or continue) your research career in a supportive environment tailored for you!
A study I led came out in Nature Cities yesterday!
We used radar to study the role that urban landscapes play in migratory bird stopover. Spoiler: birds use cities a lot, and the patterns of their use reflect social processes and the inequities embedded in them.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
In my dream last night I woke up in bed and started reading Slack messages about new things I needed to do. Betrayed by my brain, always.
Survivor is back, and so is Dr. Christian Hubicki.
IMSI faculty member @chubicki.bsky.social returns for Season 50, premiering Wednesday, February 25.
Tune in and cheer him on.
#Survivor50 #IMSI #STEMCommunity
The second webinar in the @daprdata.bsky.social Statistically Speaking series will be held today at 3 pm EST. This week's topic is Aligning Your Study Design with the Hypothesis of Interest, and the session will be led by Dr. Kristin Sainani. RSVP here to join! docs.google.com/forms/d/1jn6...
Meet Hansol Ryu, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech and Emory University, whose research bridges physiology and control theory to understand human sensorimotor adaptation.
Part of our Women at IMSI spotlight series. Follow along for more.
#WomenAtIMSI #WomenInScience #Biomechanics #STEM
For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re kicking off our Women of IMSI spotlight series. Stay tuned for more!
#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenOfIMSI #WomenInResearch #STEMCommunity #Biomechanics #ScienceMatters
Posted some photos of a man trying to break into my house a few nights ago on NextDoor and am now being yelled at in the comments that I informed people wrong (I needed to share the videos) and how I need to get over it cause it’s what I voted for? I’m honestly not sure.
I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”
Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.
I just called this place and asked how to donate, they are @leostowingmn on Venmo
Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...