I build all my models with MuSkeMo, including the bird model described in this post

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For those who want ellipsoid wrapping in their musculoskeletal models, I've worked out a simple implementation in @blender.org that will soon be added to MuSkeMo (github.com/PashavanBijl...).

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

It'll be emu time soon! (And also human, preying mantis, and guineafowl time!!)

Het is toch niet nodig om voor elk pakketje heen en weer te rijden, maar bv. opsparen tot elke maandag? En kunnen ze niet als brievenbuspakje?

At the RVC we are grieving the death of the Structure & Motion Lab's creator, and stalwart comrade, Professor Alan Wilson FRS, from a plane crash in Namibia on Wednesday. He was a giant in comparative biomechanics and an amazing scientist. I'm still reeling. It is utterly shocking and deeply sad.

Very emu

New #DAWNDINOS paper!
We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is.
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Substance Painter Day 3

I've released version 1.2 of my SDF simulations! This update further improves the runtimes:

- Simple checking for collision between two meshes run at >150 FPS
- Full 6DOF ROM simulations optimising the translations for each rotational pose run at >5.6 FPS
- Ligament path estimation run at >5.1 FPS

Look at that head stabilisation!

Diagonal couplets vs lateral sequence

Thanks to @joss-openjournals.bsky.social for publishing OpenSim Creator's official announcement paper!

I'll take any opportunity to talk about emus🎉 🐦🎉. Many thanks for the award, and to @taylorjmdick.bsky.social and @cjclemente.bsky.social for organising the conference!

Working on a new obstacle course for musculoskeletal models #Hyfydy

The final PDF of our XROMM study on bird shoulders w/ @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social is now available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social!

Accepted manuscript. Oliver E. Demuth, John R. Hutchinson, Vittorio La Barbera, Sharon E. Warner, Daniel J. Field; Soft tissue constraints on joint mobility in the avian shoulder. J Exp Biol 2025; jeb.250952. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250952

Last week our in press manuscript was made available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social with the typeset version following soon. We conducted ex vivo XROMM experiments to determine the joint mobility in Red legged partridges and compared them with in silico simulations: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

How did the ostrich cross the ocean? This fossil holds clues!

This is the holotype of Lithornis promiscuus at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. This heron-sized bird lived in a swampy floodplain in Paleocene Wyoming. #FossilFriday thread (1/4)

a kangaroo and an emu are standing next to each other in the dirt . ALT: a kangaroo and an emu are standing next to each other in the dirt .

Very grateful for the grant support for this trip by the @knaw-nl.bsky.social Ecology Fund and @biologists.bsky.social Travelling Fellowship. Wasn't expecting this to be how I would start the final year of my PhD at @uugeo.bsky.social and @naturalis.bsky.social 🐦🦘🇦🇺

Made it to the Sunshine Coast to visit @cjclemente.bsky.social and (soon) @taylorjmdick.bsky.social for the next three months! We'll full be doing physics simulations and robot experiments in Chris's lab, and even some fieldwork studying the locomotor biomechanics of wild emus and kangaroos

‼️📄 Two new papers out today in @jexpbiol.bsky.social lead by @jamescharles90.bsky.social, all about locomotion and load-carrying across different working dog breeds! ⤵️ 🐕 🏋️‍♂️

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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

New paper out today lead by @tsengzj.bsky.social where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that the unique jaw torus in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist bite forces using FEA🦁🔪our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Nee dat basisinkomen is er helaas niet ( 🤞ooit wel). Maar mijn punt is dat AI aan banden leggen (voorbij legitieme plagiaat en klimaatzorgen) symptoombestrijding is. Zie ook zelfscankassa's, veel soorten fabriekswerk, enz, maar nu beïnvloedt het white collar ipv blue collar jobs.

AI tools excelleren juist in admin taken, programmeren, spellchecking, enz, en hebben meer (in)correcte info paraat. M.i. kan dat niet een docent vervangen, want leren is niet louter info-overdracht. Een bot kan niet inspireren, connecten met studenten, etc. Info kan ik ook uit een boek halen.

Volgens mij kun je ieder's bestaan ook vergemakkelijken met een ruim basisinkomen. Het probleem is dat (historisch en nu) automatiseringswinsten alleen maar naar hyperkapitalisten stromen. Ik zou eerder daartegen pleiten, dan tegen automatisering te pleiten.

Nb is Bas Haring geen "tech bro", en zegt ie ook uitdrukkelijk dat je niet alle taken aan de chatbot kan overlaten. Maar een begeleider moet bijvoorbeeld soms ook simpele dingen als spelling en grammatica controleren, terwijl een chatbot dat gewoon beter en sneller kan

Dat je een baan moet hebben voor bestaansrecht is net zozeer een voorbeeld van neolib/kapitalistisch efficientiedenken.

Is het niet beter saaie taken weg te automatiseren, en dan iedereen een basisinkomen te garanderen zodat ze geen dingen hoeven te doen die een computerprogramma ook kan?