You can still register for the International Motor Impairments Conference; motorimpairment.org. The program looks exciting so what are you waiting for?

Any people going to #isb2025 on here? Thinking of going bouldering there one evening. Want to join? Let me know!

See you in Japan! #ISPGR2027

If this were a normal @ispgr.bsky.social and I would be handling the official account as usual, this is the moment I would sign off. Not this year. Keynote tomorrow at 8:30. Party in full swing. Loving it! See you all tomorrow! #ispgr2025

Yes or no debates finally back. Who takes the prize? #ISPGR2025

Have you met any of our JPND funded STEPuP project members yet? We cannot be missed! Ask us about this amazing project @ispgr.bsky.social #ispgr2025

The lead author will present this study at #ISPGR2025! 🧠 Session O.01 – Coordination of Posture & Gait in PD 📅 30th June | 🕒 15:30–17:30 📍 Auditorium 2

Meeting friends old and new on #ispgr2025. Hope to connect online as well! @ispgr.bsky.social

And another preprint, this one from our STEPUP consortium: "Foot placement coordination is impaired in people with Parkinson’s Disease". Too many authors to tag! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... feedback welcome!

New preprint by Yiyuan Li, with @jvandieen.bsky.social and others; The contribution of vestibular and proprioceptive signals to trunk stabilization varies between postural tasks and between walking speeds. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... feedback welcome!

On my way to Maastricht for @ispgr.bsky.social! See you there!

Bump. Who will join for bouldering? probably tuesday after conference.

New preprint with Yaqi Li, Eugenie Lambrecht and @jvandieen.bsky.social; www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Suggestions and feedback welcome! #BiomechSky

Vote for @leeuwenmoira.bsky.social and Mohammadreza! www.formdesk.com/vuamsterdam/...

Want to do this. Shall I do this?

Also, (ssssht, tell this to your students!) I've heard that despite the deadline, the registration for the mentorship programme is still open..... What are you(re students) waiting for? ispgr.org/mentor-progr... #biomechsky

So who on here is going to ISPGR this year? Anyone up for a night of bouldering? There's a great gym in Maastricht... #Biomechsky

That time of the year again…. Waiting for an old geezer on the other side of the pond to light a cigarette, so the refreshing of my feed can begin… #bm100

Ok, sky help me out here. If doing inverse kinematics using IMUs, is really only the orientation of the sensors used? It would seem that if you have a reasonable estimate of pos of sensor on segment, given kinematic chain, you would also know acc, and hence, could use that info for better fit. 1/2

Come to Amsterdam this fall (Oct 8-10) for the International Motor Impairment Conference!

Have free living lower back IMU data, and want to identify gait? Check out new preprint by Yuge Zhang; "An open-source, externally validated neural network algorithm to recognize daily-life gait of older adults based on a lower-back sensor". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Feedback welcome!

Final copyedited version available now: Cumulative Evidence Synthesis and Consideration of “Research Waste” Using Bayesian Methods: An example updating a previous meta-analysis of self-talk interventions for sport/motor performance @cik.bsky.social @pci-hms.bsky.social

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

Out of office! :-)

Preprint alert! With amazing Msc student Raven (looking for a job!) and @jendavies.bsky.social, we studied involvement of the motor cortex in stabilizing gait with TMS. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Feedback welcome! This was a really fun collab, made possible thanks to @royalsociety.org grant!

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

We have just published this pre-print. doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025.... We show that linear and angular momentum are both controlled during bipedal walking. This study resulted from discussions we had on the use of foot placement to stabilise gait. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Finishing the year in style with a job alert! 📢 I am seeking for a talented postdoctoral researcher/researcher to join my Neuromechanics group at UNSW. This is a 2-year full-time position focusing on predictive musculoskeletal simulations (1/3) 👇

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!

Diamond open access, free for authors and readers, that’s us.

We're hiring a postdoc to work on several projects related to balance control and concussion! Please spread the word! tinyurl.com/bdz9tnat

Just updated my code to stream (acc, gyr, mag, etc) data from your phone to Matlab, so that it also works with newer versions of Android. Want to do some fun measurements with your phone, check it out! github.com/SjoerdBruijn...

First 'proper' post here (and a lazy quote repost at that :D). New paper published in J Neuroscience. Here we explore the neural mechanisms underpinning the paradoxical decreases in stability that occur when people try to consciously control balance. www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

New paper alert: "Balance training in older adults enhances feedback control after perturbations." with @jvandieen.bsky.social and other co-authors not yet in the sky! peerj.com/articles/185...

If you want a more affordable publishing system, you should prioritize the review of preprints with us 🙂

If you want a more affordable publishing system, you should prioritize review requests from non-profit Diamond Open Access journals like us 🙂

Once your preprint is peer-reviewed & recommended by us, if you decide to submit to a journal that is not @peercomjournal.bsky.social, please be sure to cite the @peercommunityin.bsky.social recommendation with its DOI to acknowledge our contribution & to make readers aware of the PCI initiative.

Het zijn vreemde tijden, ik ben het volmondig eens met Joost Eerdmans. Goed dat de oppositie zo breed mogelijk met een alternatief op de eppocalyps komt. Protesteren werkt! Wie kan: ga morgen naar het Malieveld 🟥 www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/opp...

-no -no ;-)

ISPGR is asking for yes/no debates. Who's in for one on topics like; - Is the XCoM a useful metric? - can we use perturbations to predict falls?

Oh wow. Took me some time to really see this is indeed so…. Wow!

When I was on Twitter, I asked how scientists determine the age of their human participants. As about two-thirds of the respondents (and 2/3 of authors) ask for rounded-down age, the average ages reported in the literature may be biased by half a year. Open access at doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

Hey all, finally made it over here from the other side. Been long due, and happy to see so many of you here, and some decent content!

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