My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill: One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science. The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%. THIS IS BAD.

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

My graduate ethics course was canceled after I refused to censor discussions of race, gender, and sexuality. Ethics is about people and power, not scripted silence. This is bigger than one class. I address it in my next video, premiering at 5:00 PM today. youtu.be/wP_W3AHcDxY

Some Parkinson’s patients experience sleep disorders and a diminished sense of smell years before motor symptoms appear. Researchers share other early signs of the disease—and efforts to study environmental factors that may contribute to it.

Thanks to @joss-openjournals.bsky.social for publishing OpenSim Creator's official announcement paper!

We want a better world, fullfield of biomechanics! What we do to facilitate this? We have the grant program sponsored by The Biomechanics Initiative! Apply today! thebiomechanicsinitiative.org/grants-and-s...

2026, continuing to outdo itself… 🎸

A reexamination of the femur and ulna of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, commonly regarded as the earliest known hominin, confirms that this species walked on two legs. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4pU9qwI

🎶 Get ready to rumble! In hopes of improving vocal health care, researchers are learning how death metal singers safely produce extreme vocal distortions: buff.ly/CX8RaR6

The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...

😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Maarleveld et al. provide an overview on experimentally derived strength parameters, including physiological cross-sectional area, muscle mass, and relative muscle mass. 👀https://buff.ly/tKLBOii

I'm right there with our yard frog 🐸 and pig 🐷 as they do their best to ride out what's left of this bleak year

Excited to share our work on how just a single camera can provide valuable visualizations and quantitative metrics to functional tasks. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My motto coming down the home stretch of this especially hectic semester was based on the lyrics to a Gin Blossoms' song If you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down 🎶 #AcademicSky

Industry-based postdoc and intern opportunities: The Robotics division of Honda Research Institute USA (San Jose, CA) has open postdoctoral and PhD-level summer internship positions in human biomechanical modeling

We took a stab at how to infer both the dynamics and control parameters of partially-observable systems. It’s a nasty problem, but @vgeadah.bsky.social made tremendous progress, ending up with some really elegant formalisms.

“Swearing is literally a calorie-neutral, drug-free, low-cost, readily available tool at our disposal for when we need a boost in performance.”

If you're (1) into nhp neurophysiology and/or biological motor control, (2) a foreign big shot and (3) interested in moving here, please reach out -- this new program looks extremely attractive (min. $8M over 8y)! www.uwo.ca/research/can...

⏳ Nominations for @amsocbiomech.bsky.social Individual Awards are due January 15. From the Borelli to the Pre-Doc Award, help us celebrate the leaders and innovators in #Biomechanics. Nominate a peer (or yourself!) today: asbweb.org/society-awards/ #Biomechanics #ASB2026 #ScienceExcellence

If carried out as planned, this study will be taught to thousands of research students as a contemporary example in the research ethics section of future responsible conduct of research courses.

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Neural control of movement in Parkinson’s (3 years) This fantastic three-year postdoctoral position at Cardiff University and funded by Parkinson's UK, has now re-opened for applications. Full details and application here: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

There are a couple of weeks left to apply! I just heard that we can also accept PhD students with a suitable background, so extending the call to those as well. #biomech_sky

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-3/

“Merriam-Webster clearly has a pro-dictionary bias that’s preventing it from considering all words equally,” lexicographer Alison Nielsen wrote in a widely shared social media post that lambasted the Merriam-Webster editorial team

Spinal motor neurons in dazzling detail. ✨ Each green dot is a spinal motor neuron - crucial but rare cells making up just 1% of neurons in the spinal cord. In diseases like ALS, they are selectively damaged, making them of special interest to neuroscientists. #neuroskyence #FluorescenceFriday

I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

New paper out on @openmindjournal.bsky.social * I propose balance is a core biophysical self-regulatory function, organisationally akin to thermo-regulation. Might seem radical off the bat, but by the end of the paper I hope you'll agree it seems pretty obvious. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!

How do neural circuits generate the walking rhythm? Using connectome simulations, @sarahpugly.bsky.social found a minimal central pattern generator (CPG) that produces oscillations in leg motor neurons. Same circuit motif for each 🪰 leg. w @bingbrunton.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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In 2020, I started to run every street in Ann Arbor and noticed the Neighborhood Watch signs around town. I was curious and learned that they came out of the 1994 Crime Bill effort for "community policing", and are part of a deeply racist tradition that aims to exclude people that "don't belong".

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

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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

"Muscle quality": rethinking an imprecise term link.springer.com/article/10.1...

30 years ago today, Netscape announced a new programming language, one that emerged from a frantic, week-and-a-half-long sprint. It ended up sticking around far longer than anyone could've expected.

Tendons (and the muscles they connect to) are awesome 💪

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There should be a Year in Review for academics but it's all the papers you meant to read but didn't.

Cool looking study 😎🧪 A model of the cerebellum generates gait adaptations in a reflex-based neuromusculoskeletal model during split-belt walking

Newly discovered fossils tie this foot to a primitive human relative known as Australopithecus deyiremeda, an enigmatic contemporary of A. afarensis, whose species included the famed Lucy skeleton. https://scim.ag/4414MEj

Me: Complaining about having to get up early tomorrow and do something before work Kid, home from college, been sleeping 14 hours per day since Tuesday: "Sabbatical made you weak" 😂😂😂 #AcademicSky

Thanks Google Research for the non-technical summary of our latest study! #neuroscience #AI #neuroAI @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1PM...

“It’s very difficult to imagine a robust market for university graduates whose thinking, interpreting, and communicating has been offloaded to a machine. What value can such graduates possibly add to any enterprise?”

How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear? "Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

New preprint; Shared feedback control principles across standing and walking. With Yang Geng and @jvandieen.bsky.social. Feedback welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...