Please repost! We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Is it me, or the train moving? We use vision to maintain balance. Just close your eyes while standing on one leg and you typically feel less stable. But if we use vision, how come we do not fall when looking at a moving visual reference, e.g. a train? 📈🧠🧪 #sensorimotor #balance #BiomechSky

A new blog, written together with @academic-integrity.bsky.social

Newton's Laws of Graduation, Part 1

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New job vacancy! Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt Universities vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... with me, @melvynroerdink.bsky.social Pieter Meyns & @kennethmeijer.bsky.social @ispgr.bsky.social @worldfallssociety.bsky.social

Looking for a PhD-student position? Eager to work with advanced rehabtech and scalable augmented-reality solutions for fall-risk assessment and treatment? Learn from a team of scientists, Strolll entrepreneurs & developers and clinicians? Love interacting with older adults in NL & BE? Please apply!

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

📢 New Publication 📢 Effort differentially shapes behavior before, during & after an action. w/ @bcheval.bsky.social, Silvio & Florent, we explore stage-specific effects of physical effort & how these dynamically modulate each other. Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🤩🤩 Curious? ⬇️

I wrote an article earlier in the week arguing that we need to give junior researchers more independence earlier, and this should be our focus, not moonshot mega projects led by senior researchers. I was surprised how much agreement I'm seeing. So next question: how do we do this?

Science question: we believe we have identified a mechanism for sensory integration in balance. We predicted distortions, tested and confirmed them. Reviewer: "..it is difficult to accept that these distortions provide additional support to the proposed model given there may be other sources." 🧪🧠📈

Interested in sensory integration in human balance? We present a virtual reality app to measure sensory integration and applications in a conference workshop @ispgr.bsky.social ispgr.org/program/#wor... Presenters: Bob Peterka, Laurie King, Chris Away, Saskia Neumann @dart-llui.bsky.social and me

1/5) 🫤 I'm 100% not with you on this. Sorry, @ecologistgreen.bsky.social, but IMO this editorial is totally off the mark. What does peer review accomplish? Does it make science more trustworthy and credible? Nope. Let's get real for a moment... 🧪

Interested in motor control or cerebellar function? We have two openings for graduate students for Fall 25. Join the sensorimotor superlab - our interdisciplinary research group Paul Gribble and Andrew Pruszynski. Application instructions at diedrichsenlab.org. Please repost 🙏

I don't think the article is as noteworthy as the extraordinary open peer review and editorial summaries - imagine it was all done this way metaror.org/kotahi/artic...

When the internal review process is the most rigorous, you mostly get helpful reviewer comments - and sometimes this. Thank you reviewer #2 😎

Big day on our journey. Today we had the first vestibular patient testing our newest Augmented Reality AVOC device for Fall prevention. 🧵 #VRcademicSky #XR #balance #FallPrevention 🧠🧪

Pleased to share our new preprint "The impact of perturbation intensity schedule on improvements in reactive balance control in young adults: an experimental study" together with @avrilmansfield.bsky.social #balance #stability #falls #openaccess 🧪

We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Brian Wansink's whole gig getting blown up by him admitting to p-hacking in a smug blog post is just an all time great self-own. Well worth reading about if you don't know the story. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/step...

Attention Motor Impairment Researchers and Clinicians! Registration and abstract submission for the International Motor Impairment Conference 2025 are now open. Visit our website and find our confirmed speakers, Abstract Submission & Early bird registration: motorimpairment.org

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

#preprint 📢 Writing this was time-consuming, effortful, but never boring 🤩 w/ @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social, @jamesdanckert.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social & @corimartarelli.bsky.social, we explored how boredom and effort dynamically shape our experience of time: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

In 2006 I plotted the number of Nature journals vs time and it sure looked like a Moore’s law: “the number of nature journals doubles every five years”. It’s slowed down to every 7.5 years, but we are still on track to get every scientist their own personal journal 🧪 #scipub

#Parkinsons #gait researchers, this is a great funding opportunity from MJFF! Pre-proposals are due Jan 14th. Learn more about their Personalized Approaches for Understanding, Assessing and Improving Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Research Program here: www.michaeljfox.org/grant/person... 🧠📈 🧪 🧠🔄

One of twitter's greatest science accounts is back!

Abstract submission for the ESB Congress is officially open - share your research with the European biomechanics community. esbiomech2025.org/abstract-sub...

Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!

Just found this pretty cool study by skyless Barbusse, peer-review @pci-hms.bsky.social and recommended by @drannek.bsky.social. How do we adapt our movements to changes in force-fields? healthmovsci.peercommunityin.org/PCIHealthMov... #sensorimotor #neuroskyence

This paper is now under review and preprinted for your convenience at osf.io/preprints/ps... Comments, feedback, questions, all welcome!

I love how many brain signals that people thought were related to cognition are actually just related to breathing lol nice work everyone this is going great

In human balance, how do CoP and CoM relate to each other? A small thing, but it is amazing how often people get this wrong. CoP (relative to ankle joints) is a measure of torque, while CoM is a measure of body movement. #balance #posture 🧪

In my Q above I intend Chris' third (outcome) sense; balance (noun). But I don't think "stability" or "not-falling" are sufficiently well-defined to work in e.g. robot design without human interpretation for each special case. Can we do better? #neuroskyence #balance 🧪 bsky.app/profile/chri...

Trying to create a feed for gait and posture research. Preview in @skyfeed.app works fine, but the feed itself differs from the preview. Is this a known issue?

⏳ 10 Days Left! ⏳ Ready to present your Perspective Talk at #ESB2025? We’re looking for speakers to: 🔸 Highlight advancements in biomechanics. 🔸 Synthesize findings from the field. 🔸 Map out future directions for innovation. 📅 Deadline: 30 Nov 2024 👉 Submit now: esbiomech2025.org #Biomechanics

@bsky.app I need Bookmarks to save #science posts that I can read later

🌟 We're Hiring! 🌟 My team is looking for a Research Coordinator to support our portfolio of research activities. If you thrive organising complex projects and managing a range of activities, this is the role for you. 📢 More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49152/ 📄 Apply by: 29th November 2024

ESB 2025 Congress will be held at ETH Zürich hosted by @wrtaylor.bsky.social and colleagues with famous @trackingactions.bsky.social and OpenSim creator Scott Delp giving keynotes. esbiomech2025.org #BiomechSky

Once the publishers do this + move their journal accounts here, it’s officially game over for academic X. Editors, please encourage your journals to open accounts here. Nature is already here…

Recruiting Ph.D. Students!! The Penn State Locomotor Control (LoCo) Lab is actively recruiting highly qualified graduate students interested in starting in Fall (Aug) 2025 to study the biodynamics and motor control of human walking.

This starter pack is intended for researchers in all areas of gait and posture - just let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/UaoaLRZ

ISPGR Folks - let Matthieu know if you are here and he can add you to the list!

This starter pack is intended for researchers in all areas of sensorimotor control - just let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/VSH9DwK

Hey all! I started a biomechanics starter pack. Let me know who I missed so I can add them and follow them myself! And check in to see who you might want to follow. go.bsky.app/5maK8X6

Change my view: „neural plasticity“ means nothing but „change in the variable we measured“ in 99.9% of all articles. #neuroscience

Looking for more sensorimotor, balance control, human gait and biomechanics people. Are there any starter packs yet?

#FallPrevention with augmented reality? In our new publication in Virtual Reality we show that we can improve balance by displaying artificial visual cues. One step closer to bring this to life as an assistive device 💪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢I am searching for a PhD student to join our team in Hamburg! If you are keen on studying the Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation while enjoying life in an amazing city, then make sure to apply: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... sharing/RT greatly appreciated

OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".