On recent melatonin news: Research can be hypothesis-generating or hypothesis-testing. Establishing effects requires the latter. Mining a database for statistical significance with no experimental design is / can be useful, but it's also not hypothesis-testing, no matter how much data you have.

🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested! #locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics

Blue Jays!

Any insights into why this is happening? (first run of code in Matlab is much slower than subsequent runs). Normal and expected? Google-fu didn't turn up much. @gribblelab.org @brianumberger.bsky.social @drannek.bsky.social

Seeing some meltdowns over this this morning. To be clear, this is an optional browser extension by creators unaffiliated with Google. GS itself still just reports the vanilla h-index. Goodhart's Law is among my favorite adages ("when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure").

'The device helped 81 per cent of trial participants suffering from advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to achieve clinically meaningful improvements in their vision, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Monday.' www.ft.com/content/c2e8...

Competitor enters a major AI competition (RNA folding) GPU poor so can't train an AI Builds a "classic" eng pipeline instead. (90s tech) Wins and beat everyone using DL 💀 Their winning "hybrid" model had an AI in it. Their original one did not and had a higher score So they won despite the AI 😂

Always satisfying to determine the perfect initial condition 🤩

When I need a Hill muscle model to use/demonstrate in class, despite having ~20 years of various "MusMod.m" files already existing, I like to make one from scratch: keeps it fresh in my head how to do and how to trouble-shoot! **and as a nerd it's fun.

I believe this article (Tucker, 1970) was also the origin of the term "Cost of Transport". First I know of in English anyway: doi.org/10.1016/0010... @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social @brianumberger.bsky.social @nidhise.bsky.social

Outstanding interview, so many great quotes here. Loved the weightroom analogy:

The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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...

Wandered into the lab and it appeared there were some big questions being tackled this week.

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

If you don't know of it already, PyDy is a fantastic Python "tool kit" for multibody dynamics. I use it extensively in a graduate course for generating symbolic equations of motion. github.com/pydy/pydy

In my large (biomech) class I use super-heroes to introduce laws of physics by how heroes violate them, these are my four favorites (Optimus Prime gets top billing of course).

The Matlab Script Editor window should be undocked from the rest of Matlab, I will brook no counterarguments.

So far, I'll take Rocco Becht!

I am biased of course, but great dissertation study from Sam Snyder, we miss her! "Prediction of knee loads during activities of daily living using custom instrumented insoles and machine learning" It worked pretty well for everything except sit-to-stand.

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

This is a cool somewhat-recent study: rat tendons loaded cyclically to fatigue withstood more loading cycles before failure when loaded at faster strain rates: [1/4]

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Reducing flight time during running decreases tibial-fibular strains in male runners: a finite element analysis

Manuscript titles:

Please repost. The School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan is seeking applications and nominations for our next Dean! Click the "leadership profile" link on the careers page below for full details. And Go Blue!

Personalised gait retraining for medial compartment knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial doi.org/10.1016/S266...

Great time with the current and recent lab mates at #ASB2025.

JEB author Giovanni Cavagna died on 16 January 2025 at the age of 90 in Milan, Italy Mario Legramandi, Alberto Minetti, Gaspare Pavei and Matteo Pecchiari celebrate his life and career in their Obituary journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Almost time for ASB

Calling all biomechanists: Come work with me at Texas Tech University! tinyurl.com/2uuu5jhw

As promised - our new post-doc position is now available!! Join our productive inter-institutional team at UNC-Chapel Hill in an ongoing NIH-funded project collaborating with friends at Utah (reporter.nih.gov/search/nC8k4...) Apply now (Active until filled!): unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/304...

Always a pleasure to meet up with the Great One!

I have agreed to chair Models and Motor Control at ISB (tuesday morning). I'm looking for a co-chair who is student/postdoc in this area. If you have a mentee or person to suggest please let me know!

Strava AI was unimpressed with my interval workout (steady ride, mostly cruising). Didn't feel like I was cruising 😂

Two weeks of cumulative tendon load monitored by insole sensors is associated with plantar flexor function in Achilles tendinopathy:

It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...

The big news is here! The De Luca Foundation launches the #AppliedEMGAward to support researchers in Latin America interested in conducting EMG-focused research! 📆 Applications Open Today! delucafoundation.org/applied-emg-... Thank you De Luca Foundation!

Greater external negative mechanical work is accompanied by a greater metabolic cost of walking for socket-suspended versus bone-anchored prosthesis users with transfemoral limb loss: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

Great paper!

🎉 Big news! ASB received a $500K donation from the De Luca Foundation to expand access to biomechanics! 💡 Supports B-SURE Grants + travel awards for our Annual Meeting. 🙏 Thank you, De Luca Foundation! 🔗 Read more: asbweb.org/category/stateme... #ASB2025 #STEM #Biomechanics

David Winter's observation of the "support moment" in human locomotion (sum of sagittal hip, knee, and ankle moments) is really well known but what's interesting/meaningful about it doesn't get discussed much. Winter DA (1980): doi.org/10.1016/0021... (1/3)

Not sure I've seen a more generous definition of "the next few days".

I loved Queen's / Kingston, ON, strongly recommended!

"Do you want recognition on Web of Science?" "Do you want recognition on Publons?" "Do you want recognition on [third thing here]?" No I just want to submit the review and get on with life.

It's grade-grubbing season.