Anytime we bring on new people (students, postdocs, staff, faculty), I always wish we had more spots based on the number of many amazing applicants. I like to follow the careers of the people who we couldn't hire, and I get a big smile when I see their successes. Keep it up!

We're accepting applications for a *paid* research experience (including a stipend and housing) for undergraduate students over the summer, as part of the Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) at the University of Utah. For more details and to apply: our.utah.edu/spur/explori...

🎉Excited to share our latest publication, led by PhD student Selena Cho, on continuous monitoring of head kinematics in daily life! From scanning the environment, to gesturing, to turning — head movements play a critical role in how we interact with the world. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...

I'm really proud of being part of this paper - an amazing success for us in the Western Sensorimotor Superlab with @andpru.bsky.social @gribblelab.org! Congrats Jon!

We are hiring!!! We, Montana State University-Bozeman, are accepting applications for a tenure-track faculty position with focus in Exercise Physiology! jobs.montana.edu/postings/48964

Tenure-track faculty position at Assistant or Associate Professor rank, including expertise in Biomechanics, available in the Dept. of Kinesiology, University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA, about 50 miles south of DC): jobs.umw.edu/jobs/assista...

Kinesiology and Applied Physiology at UD is hiring a biomechanist! We invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with a preferred research focus in musuloskeletal modeling. careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Please repost! We have a second biomechanics faculty position! This is an open rank clinical-track position in sports biomechanics at the University of Michigan. This is a largely teaching-focused position and we have outstanding resources to support teaching and student learning. #BiomechSky

Camping in Utah is like video games in the late 90s. You hear info about a special spot, find vague directions online from a sketchy website, spend hours following unmarked roads wondering if this is a waste of time, and then get to the destination and it lives up to the hype. #KeepUtahWild

Paper was recently featured in J Neuroscience; author copy through OSF. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2... osf.io/emskv/ With sky-less Matthias Albrecht, Markus Gruber, and Robert Peterka. Supported by AFF @uni-konstanz.de

When the @amsocbiomech.bsky.social business meeting notes how many followers the bluesky account has in comparison to other social media platforms

#ASB2025 was amazing! See you all next year @amsocbiomech.bsky.social!

The @utah.edu @amsocbiomech.bsky.social community is going to be well-represented at #ASB2025!

I just saw some stranger's day get ruined. It will be hours until they know, and there is nothing I can do. Still, I feel sad for them. #lostbag

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

For all the @ispgr.bsky.social members who came over to BlueSky during #ISPGR2025, check out deck.blue to optimize your desktop experience and stay up to date on the latest #posture and #gait happenings here!

We're hiring! Heath Henninger and I are hiring a research engineer to support two new new grants. Responsibilities will include developing new devices for gait perturbations and supporting biomechanical data collections. Apply here: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/185...

Congratulations @chrismccrum.bsky.social on the @ispgr.bsky.social Promising Scientist Award! #ISPGR2025

Looking forward to seeing you all in a few days time and hearing all about the exciting new work in the areas of posture and gait (and everything between!) #ISPGR2025

Excited to see @ispgr.bsky.social promoting bluesky across the society at #ispgr2025. I've been missing the online interactions for a few years now, and hopefully we can get it back here!

Excited to receive our lab's first R01 today! It's been a long time waiting for this NOA, but we're relieved and excited to get started

Officially relocated to SLC from North Carolina about 3 weeks ago and am loving life out here so far 🤩

This paper is now published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Thanks to some great reviewers for helping to improve the paper even further! #locomotion #biomechanics #falling #vr doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Tomorrow, the @amsocbiomech.bsky.social Student Committee will be hosting a webinar on “Biomechanics in Industry” with Melissa Boswell, Hannah O’Day, Kurt Beschorner, and Evan Dooley! Event starts at 4pm Eastern, email [email protected] for the Zoom Link.

The number of NEW, competing grants issued by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) in FY25 (FY24 totals for reference): R01s: 2 (20) R21s: 0 (7) F31s: 1 (6) F32s: 1 (3) K01s: 1 (1) 5 new grants almost half-way through = the uncertainty from CRs and administrative changes.

We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

Sometimes your former lab members plant easter eggs that you discover years later. Like creating custom slack messages that cue off the word 'pizza'

Two years ago, there was radical change in the college athletics, including Utah leaving the Pac-12 for the Big 12. At the time, I had a fairly large research grant from the Pac-12. This grant was subsequently terminated, and we lost half the funds.

Me, to 4 yr old child: "you should always tell the truth" ... 5 minutes later ... Me, eating a snickers bar. 2 yr old child: "what are you eating daddy?" Me: .... 2 yr old: "chicken?" Me: "yes...chicken..."

The American Society of Biomechanics Postdoc Affinity Group is hosting a panel on Faculty Interviews and Negotiations this Friday (1/17) at 2pm Eastern! Zoom link can be found in the ASB postdoc slack, or feel free to DM me. Please spread the word!

Waiting to see if we get a grant NOA (when there is no set payline and there is a CR) is 1000000% worse that waiting for a score / summary statement. This uncertainty for a very well-scored application is awful and completely changing how we budget time and money for the next year

Today's university surplus find: new lab decor!

TIME’s Best Inventions list features innovations that can change lives. This year, the Utah Bionic Leg is among those honored. With its suite of motors, sensors & controllers, it can better replicate the biomechanics of the human knee, ankle & toe 📰 attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...

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

What is more logistically intimidating? A. Organizing a scientific conference with 100+ attendees B. Organizing a trip to Disneyworld with 4 attendees Answer: B

"We're failing fantastically" could be a great lab slogan Also storing "there's really only failing, then learning, then death" for the motor learning crowd #moana2

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

For all new users here, you can recreate your favorite tweetdeck interface with @deck.blue

A while ago, we got interested in why we choose to move the way we do. Pulling from behavioral economics, we started to explore how assessments of risk influence behavior. Here, we experimentally tested whether compensatory changes in balance and gait are aligned with these risk models.

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

Applications for Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium are due Dec 15! We are looking for exceptional grad students to Present your research, sharpen your science communication skills, and connect with peers and faculty. medicine.utah.edu/neurobiology... #STEMsymposium #neuroskyence #womeninSTEM 🧪

A fun new paper from our concussion team! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39348879/ In a bit of a departure from our typical focus on objective measures of balance, we explored how concussion affects self-reported confidence to return to play, and how that changes over symptomatic recovery.

Hey #ASB2024 attendees - we are likely looking for a postdoc in the very near future. If you are looking for a postdoc and want to work on reactive balance, robotic shoes, concussions, mobility, and wearables then let's chat in Madison!

The Neuromechanics and Applied Locomotion Lab is excited to present at the American Society of Biomechanics this week! Check out these great presentations!

Congratulations to the newest Dr. Fino!

Today was a good day with our lab's first (seemingly) fundable score on an R01 and 2nd to last letter for tenure. Days like these make me grateful for everyone I have worked with, including all current and past students and staff who did the bulk of the work to get us here

Congratulations to our lab's newest PhD (and the University of Utah's first PhD through the College of Health's Athletic Training Rehab Science program) - Dr. David Quammen!

If you get a new array of forceplates and don't immediately measure your toddler's, infant's and dog's GRF, are you even a biomechanist?