HUGE congratulations to Aboubacar Wague for 🏆 winning the ISFR 3-MT Research Pitch Competition today! Aboubacar presented his work on the anti-bacterial properties of Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors in infection control during fracture repair! 🦴🦠🔬 #bonehealing

Out latest preprint, from @cpane94.bsky.social in the lab, is out today! Maternal exercise rescues fetal akinesia-impaired joint and bone development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... So excited for this one - a wonderful collab with Niamh Nowlan, supported by the US-Ireland Partnership Programme ❤️

Such a pleasure to contribute to this nice session 🧫🦴🔬 thanks for the shout out @ricgottardi.bsky.social so glad for your contribution to the project I just highlighted. Looking forward to amazing days in #Davos at #eors2025 🩻🎉

Today @asbmr.bsky.social celebrates another superstar in the MSK field! @gkotsaris90.bsky.social at UPenn focuses on how mechanical cues influence the immune landscape during tissue regeneration ! Check out his bibliography and follow him to keep up with his work #ASBMR #memberspotlight ‍🔬

Such a bittersweet day in the lab - so proud of you @madhura0327.bsky.social! 🙌🏻 I’m so excited to see everything you’ll discover next with @cjrosenlab.bsky.social!

Proud to see @cpane94.bsky.social giving an @asbmr.bsky.social Member Spotlight Webinar next week (Thursday the 12th)! He'll be talking about his latest work: "Maternal exercise rescues fetal akinesia-impaired joint and bone development" Register here: d5jjrf04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/5I+113/d...

Honoured to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Connective Tissue Society! A testament to the great work by our fantastic lab members and collaborators over the last 25 years or so. Thank you all!!

Congrats @clarissacoveney.bsky.social & @tdcapellini.bsky.social!

One problem we face today is how few people understand the science that helps us all. Some scientists are able to explain the importance of their work. @baym.lol of Harvard University is one of them. Science is for everyone, and benefits us all more than most people know.

Eadweard in the wild @cpane94.bsky.social

Alcian blue staining of cartilage in a two-headed zebrafish embryo. Credit to @jakeleyhr.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Helping Gracie with her school science project today. I truly did not realize how impossible it is now to find actual sources of reliable information without knowing how to dig into the deep pages of the internet. It’s all AI junk.

This short WBUR interview with my dear friend Michael @baym.lol - about the govt’s cuts to his lab at Harvard is excellent. He so clearly articulates what’s at risk. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

I’m in this joke.

Our paper, led by Chris Panebianco (@cpane94.bsky.social) is out today at Developmental Dynamics! "Dynamics of postnatal bone development and epiphyseal synostosis in the caprine autopod." anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our problem is not that our society does not sufficiently appreciate the economic return on investment in science. It is that we value education and knowledge generation only in economic terms.

Nothing calms like going to the library and bringing home a good poet.

Me: *frowns at email Monica: “Joel, what’s wrong?” Me: “oh, just had a grant rejected.” 10yo: “AGAIN?” 13: “Does that mean we’re going broke?”

Facilities, overhead.

i wish we could go back to arguing over the merits of two-aim R01s on twitter again. turns out those were the days.

The dignity of continuity had been taken away. Both past and future were disappearing from them, the past because nobody would remember it, the future because nobody could imagine it. What they knew was passing from the world. Before long it would not be known. They were the last of their kind. -WB

Annemarie’s latest paper is out today! CYR61 delivery promotes angiogenesis during bone fracture repair. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @amilangscience.bsky.social @madhura0327.bsky.social @cpane94.bsky.social @eseidlscience.bsky.social @ricgottardi.bsky.social et al.

Happy Easter! He is risen!

As I tell my group when we read papers: “Never trust pseudotime.”

Deleting every “superfluous that” makes your writing less clear.

Finished rereading The Brothers Karamazov today. I sobbed. Again.

13yo spent the morning asking me philosophical questions about science. S: “Dad, if you could have a genie just come tell you the answer, is there a question you’d ask, or would you rather figure it out yourself?”

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 So, I stepped outside my comfort zone with on our latest preprint. As a cancer cell biologist, I typically spend my days in the lab, but I'm incredibly proud to share our latest work that looks to address the issue of cancer disparities in rural communities through education. 1/n

My 1st @bsky.app post is not about science or T. Instead I am happy to share that my first film Through Thin Ice is screening at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - please join us Feb 15 in Missoula!

📢 Abstract submissions are open for the 51st International Musculoskeletal Biology Workshop, July 19-24 in Midway, UT. Explore challenges in #musculoskeletal disease and innovative solutions. Award deadline: April 30 | Final deadline: June 30 Learn more: www.ors.org/msk-2025/

Happy to share our review on methodology for measuring and manipulating mechanical forces with specific focus on developmental biology! Congrats to authors @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social @mccreery.bsky.social and hats off to the community for developing awesome tools www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Peace of Wild Things -Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

Also works astonishingly well as career advice.

Tweet works for pretty much everything in cell biology too.

Congratulations, Dr. Nijsure! So proud of you! 🙌🏻

Tomorrow is @madhura0327.bsky.social’s Ph.D. thesis defense! I’m so proud of everything she’s accomplished. If you’re at Penn, hope you can make it. If you’d like a zoom link, just reach out to Madhura. “The Role of YAP in Bone Fracture Repair” 3.00 PM, Reunion Auditorium John Morgan Building

I’m not rebelling against my God; I simply do not accept His world. -Dostoevsky

Taught my kids how to play Euchre tonight. This is a new level of parenting joy I hadn’t anticipated when they were small.

Not even Sinclair Lewis saw this coming.

“You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and you will bless life and will make others bless it with you - which is what matters most, for that is your nature.” Zossima, Dostoevsky

Sean and I rode our bikes down to the Eagles parade today. Best part was the Kelly Dr. road closure.

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

Avenir is so pretty, I haven’t used anything else unless required for years now. Anyone have a serif font of similar elegance?

Returning home rejuvenated by time w so many dear friends at #ORS2025 Also so proud and thankful for my group. Special congrats to @cpane94.bsky.social on winning the NIRA, @amilangscience.bsky.social on @isfrfractures.bsky.social🥇Podium Award and @eseidlscience.bsky.social on Tendon 3MT Award 🙌

Wonder how maternal movements impact fetal skeletal development? Join my #ORS2025 NIRA talk! @isfrfractures @orssociety.bsky.social @jboerckel.bsky.social #OrthoTwitter 🗓️TODAY (2/9) at 11:47 AM 📍 West 301BC

The carpet too is foldin' over you And it's all over now baby blue

Excited for #ORS2025 and super proud of this group who will be presenting their work! 🙌🏻 @madhura0327.bsky.social @gkotsaris90.bsky.social @eseidlscience.bsky.social @amilangscience.bsky.social @cpane94.bsky.social ht @cpane94.bsky.social for the slide!

90 minutes of continuum mechanics expressed in chalk length change. Find the deformation gradient.

The Gullbrand Lab is talking science at #ORS2025 this week! Check out our presentations if you’re in Phoenix and interested in intervertebral disc degeneration, cell therapies, and more! @sgullbrand.bsky.social @emsharp.bsky.social @orssociety.bsky.social

“There is no such thing as not worshipping…Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.” David Foster Wallace cc HHMI