Presentations from the @utah.edu Fall Undergrad Research Symposium are online! our.utah.edu/urs/semester... Proud of our student, Elise Nielson, for taking lead on a project examining footwear modification’s effects on shank muscle coactivation in older adults.

The impact of mechanical requirements on the neural control of skeletal muscle and subsequent energetic rates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692254v1

Relatedly, many biomechanics-related folks across the University of Utah campus are also recruiting PhD students. Utah is becoming a hub of biomechanics, come join in on the fun! biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

Our lab (Sayu Lab for Biomechanics and Locomotion) at the University of Utah is hiring a PhD Student to start Fall 2026! I can’t speak highly enough of Kota as a mentor, and on top of that we’re doing super neat science! Apply before Dec 1st. Job info below: biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

‼️ 🚨 THIS WEEK - please share widely 🚨 ‼️ Join @blackbiomechs.bsky.social for an industry panel on actionable insights for successfully transitioning from academia to industry. Friday, Nov 7 4-5pm ET / 1-2pm PT. Direct message or email for registration link - exclusive to BBA and ASB members.

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...

🎓 Prepping for the academic job market? 🎓 Join us for an Academic Job Application Workshop 9/25 @ 12PM ET 🕒 90 mins | 🎤 Faculty Panel + 💬 Breakout Q&A Come ready with questions for our panelists on how to best draft/fine-tune your applications! Register: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New academic year, new logo, new members? We are excited by the interest many of you expressed during ASB in getting involved with the Postdoc Affinity Group. Here's step 1! Please fill out the interest form below to get started. Looking forward to connecting! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

I know a manuscript is about ready to submit once the dedicated '_Scraps' document is the same length as the manuscript itself. 🥲

A potential way to relieve arthritic knees without drugs or surgery. New study led by a @price.utah.edu professor shows gait retraining could significantly ease pain and slow cartilage damage. 📰 attheu.utah.edu/health-medic...

Exciting news! Today I received an NOA from the National Institute on Aging funding my F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship. A massive thank you to everyone who helped along the way, truly could not have gotten here without the incredibly supportive folks in my corner.

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

Missing my first ASB since I started going in 2017 and the FOMO is strong. 🥲 have fun for me, science friends.

‼️ Attention ASB’ers! ‼️ Spread the word: The Postdoc Affinity Group will be at Il Tetto at Sienna Mercato (942 Penn Ave) Wednesday night starting at 7pm. Swing by to meet up with fellow ASB postdocs. Can’t wait to see you there! FYI: Senior PhD students interested in postdocing are also welcome.

I’m sharing our work on tendon fluid alterations after injury at #ISB2025! Looking forward to seeing some friends at the Tendon Biomechanics II session today at 15:30.

Can we alter older adult gait energetics by stiffening their footwear? Beats me! But I bet if you swing by Footwear & Foot Orthoses tomorrow (7/30) @10:40am in room C4 you might find out. See you there 🤓 #ISB2025

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...

Last publication from my dissertation out now (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) We increased foot arch spring stiffness in a simple, 2D computational model and examined rearfoot and non-rearfoot strike running. Increasing stiffness reduced arch energy storage/return in both, BUT... (1/2)

Will you be at ISB or ASB in the coming weeks? Definitely come talk to me or someone from our group about a new Postdoc Position we are looking to fill asap in foot neuromechanics, aging, and gait. I'll post the official call for applications soon. Join us at UNC Chapel Hill! Reposts encouraged.

First postdoc publication online today in the Journal of Applied Physiology (@apspublishing.bsky.social)! doi.org/10.1152/japp... We used fascicle dynamics, ankle kinetics, and EMG to estimate soleus metabolic cost across walking speeds and footwear stiffnesses. 1/3

Happening tomorrow! Hope to see you there 🖥️ 💵

Lab funding pays for a lot of things: researchers, equipment, training. Interested in how it all works? Join the new professional development series, hosted by us & @asb-postdocs.bsky.social, to learn from experts & ask questions!🤓💵 Registration is open to all: bit.ly/hiw-funding

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.

Hello, biomechanics community! Are you a postdoc looking for a place to connect with fellow postdocs, network, and attend professional development events? Fill out this link to get involved with the American Society of Biomechanics Postdoc Affinity Group: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The main benefit of these is that we can study ground stiffness perturbations on a fully instrumented treadmill, as well as conduct experiments overground. I'm hoping to share results from a study investigating adaptation to a stiffness perturbation applied by these shoes very soon!

To celebrate National Biomechanics Day (April 9th), I made a foldable mini-comic to highlight just a few of the amazing things biomechanists are up to! Just download, print, and fold: www.christopherllong.com/Biomech-omic... Please share this free resource!

Spring weather + PI out of town = Sayu Lab journal club outside! ☀️ 🤓

Off to @stanforduniversity.bsky.social for the @opensim.bsky.social workshop! SO excited to work toward improved foot and ankle models and learn some new skills alongside fellow modeling & simulation nerds 🤓 🩻🚶🦶👟 Hope my laptop fans are ready.

Can modeling of the 14 bones of the #foot & ankle be simplified? Michele Conconi & coauthors developed a 4-degree-of-freedom model. Read in JOR: https://buff.ly/4gnrFoP #ORSSMC @orssociety.bsky.social

Grant writing is fun

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

Our latest publication led by Megan Trotman. Click on the link to see how intrinsic foot muscles help direct whole-body balance adjustments. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

📢 Paper alert! 🚨 Do you use ultrasound imaging to look at muscle architecture changes during movement? Then UltraTimTrack is for you! We leveraged the benefits of its predecessors, UltraTrack + TimTrack, to enable automatic, objective, and accurate fascicle tracking: peerj.com/articles/cs-...

Thanks all who attended, it was a great session! The Zoom recording is on the ASB Postdoc slack, or I can email you a link if you’d like.

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!