This is a cool study. The idea is that perceptual understanding and prediction of gravitational effects implies the existence of an innate(?) internal simulation world model, with some representation of gravity (the study probes the nature of this representation). But... 1/2 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Call for applications to the 2026 Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute!

 This is a funded research internship, open to all career stages. We especially encourage undergraduates to apply. 
 Application deadline is March 21.
 More details here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-si-2026/ Please share!

This sound is why I’m required to keep the volume low while watching basketball 🏀 if my spouse is in the room 😂

As a US senator, I'd find it tragic if Americans replaced vaccines with psychedelics and scammy supplements. But it would be even more tragic if I lost in a Republican primary. Therefore, I will be voting to confirm the kooky wellness influencer that Trump nominated for surgeon general.

There's no better feeling that having some major thing I know that I need to fix or update in my upcoming lecture, and then discovering that past me already did it the last time I taught the course! #AcademicSky

Meet Autumn Routt, a PhD student at Georgia Tech studying how pregnancy impacts balance. She uses computational modeling and human-subject research to examine fall risk and prevention during pregnancy. Part of our Women at IMSI spotlight series. Follow along for more. #WomenAtIMSI #WomenInScience

This #PictureOfTheWeek emphasizes just how high figure skaters jump. Discover the physics behind the sport’s hardest skills with researcher Deborah King, from reducing the moment of inertia midair to the g-forces endured when landing a quadruple axel. Learn more with our podcast: buff.ly/EthY5Zl

Are you interested in the role of visual information in controlling gait stability? In this new paper from our group we exploited optic flow perturbations to study the relationship between gait stability and gait speed. First-authored by Chunchun Wu, read it open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.hu...

When you finish a run, your muscles may feel like they did all the work, but new research from JAX and the @upenn.edu have discovered that what happens in your brain after a run may determine whether you gain endurance over time. 🧪🧠 https://go.jax.org/brain-exercise

Come join the summer research institute hosted by @movementscience.bsky.social. Lots of great opportunities to start (or continue) your research career in a supportive environment tailored for you!

"Wearable robotics is blurring the boundaries between human body and machines, yet how humans perceive the new body when adapting to these wearables remains unclear." Check out our new PNAS Nexus paper "Projecting the new body: How body image evolves during learning to walk with a wearable robot"

“I walked down a patch in the woods until I came to a corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was on the other side.”

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

Now recruiting an experienced Post‑Doc in Skeletal Muscle Molecular Physiology @nih-sport-sciences.bsky.social Oslo, Norway Join our multi‑omics EMMA project on mitochondrial epigenetic memory in human muscle aging 4‑year position Start May Apply at Jobbnorge: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Join us in welcoming @jennicholsphd.bsky.social to our group of Associate Editors handling Musculoskeletal Biomechanics papers. Dr. Nichols directs the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab and co-directs the AI-Powered Athletics initiative at the University of Florida.

Meet Hansol Ryu, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech and Emory University, whose research bridges physiology and control theory to understand human sensorimotor adaptation. Part of our Women at IMSI spotlight series. Follow along for more. #WomenAtIMSI #WomenInScience #Biomechanics #STEM

For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re kicking off our Women of IMSI spotlight series. Stay tuned for more! #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenOfIMSI #WomenInResearch #STEMCommunity #Biomechanics #ScienceMatters

Our federal leaders, punching down on the next generation of U.S. scientists 😡

Ilia Malinin, the Quad God, became the first—and still, the only—skater to land the quadruple axel in competition in 2022. Here is a diagram showing the path of this difficult jump. spklr.io/6048DVWu2 📊: @unamandita.bsky.social

Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution at the University of Tübingen: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11/03/2026

RVC will be advertising 2 new faculty posts soon, broadly in comparative biomedical science (our department name). Email me [email protected] to get informed (I am not on the search panel; just helping). www.rvc.ac.uk/about/the-rv...

Humility Revolution "Humility is not a threat to scientific authority; it is a strength. It shows disciplinary maturity, intellectual honesty, and methodological pluralism. A humility revolution must, surely, lead to better science." By @maddipow.bsky.social #PsycSci #MetaSci #Methodology

These data show that the NSF terminations targeted STEM Ed and Soc Behav and Econ Sciences almost exclusively with an 11.4% drop in active EDU grants and a 7.4% drop in SPE from FY2024 to FY2025 and most other Directorates essentially unchanged (with an overall drop in the number of active grants)

More on NSF Here are the number grants that were active in each year (at least part) including the effects of grant terminations (data from grant-witness.us) by directorate from 2021-2025. The only directorates showing losses are STEM Education and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Statistical Tests as Thought Experiments “The only populations that can be referred to in a test of significance have no objective reality, being exclusively the product of the statistician’s imagination through the hypotheses which he has decided to test” (Fisher, 1956, p. 77).

"Big Tech has taken the social out of social media, it's just media." — @seabass.bsky.social

More on NSF funding data A deeper dive into the numbers of awards by Directorate. 1/9

Really cool imaging of neuromuscular junctions

The suggestion to “eat real food” may be easier said than done. Estimates say that 60% of the American diet is ultraprocessed foods. We talk about the new dietary guidelines, how highly processed foods affect our health, and what policymakers could do to change what’s on our plates.

Join us in welcoming Boyi Dai to our group of Associate Editors! As a core faculty member of the University of Vermont Human Motion Analysis Laboratory, Professor Dai will handle manuscripts focused on sport biomechanics for JAB. #sportbiomechanics #appliedbiomechanics

We are delighted to introduce a new Perspective series highlighting the important role that field stations have played, and continue to play, in comparative physiology and biomechanics To find out about Harvard's Concord Field Station & more go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

✨ Introducing Faces of ASB! We’re launching a new series highlighting the people who shape ASB — starting with our Executive Board. As we introduce each member, drop your questions below and they may be featured in a future Q&A! 👇 #FacesOfASB

Want to come do a postdoc with us? We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!

It's a dream

Under RFK, Jr., the CDC's authority has crumbled: it is no longer updating dozens of health databases, and has abandoned vaccine guidelines. But states and governors are trying to fill the void, @laurenjyoung.bsky.social writes @scifri.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/stat...

Why is it that small animals like insects have a landspace body plan when viewed head-on, but larger animals like elephants are taller than wide? With @m-v.bsky.social, we find out in our new preprint titled 'Size and shape of terrestrial animals' - arxiv.org/html/2602.00...

DoD: 4% cut to $2.37B DARPA: 6% increase to $4.3B CDC: 0.2% cut to $9.147B HRSA: flat at $8.9B AHRQ: 6% cut to $345M Institute for ES: flat funding at $789M Global Health programs: 6% cut to $9.4B

NSF: 3% cut to $8.75B, but no single directorate could see a cut >5%. NASA Science: 1% cut to $7.25B DOE Science 2% increase to $8.4B ARPA-H: 24% cut to $350M IDC protections cover all of these agencies now as well.

February 1st. Finally

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Guzman et al. show the potential of MRI-based methods to obtain 3D estimates of whole-muscle architecture and strain during contraction, providing data that allows for new avenues of skeletal muscle biomechanical research. 👀https://buff.ly/6MDy58y

#Wikipedia proved strangers online could build something remarkable. At 25, it faces a question: can the institution designed to govern that project learn to evolve with the world it helped create?

Winter weather gait biomechanics 🐧

And @wikipedia.org is here on Bsky! Give them a follow, and throw them a little cash to help their mission of being a resource of facts in a world where information is both becoming more critical and being more poisoned.

The Granata Lab is looking for a new team member. If you are a PT/ATC & PhD in a #biomechanics field please apply to be a post-doc focused on #ACL rerturn to sport. Share broadly jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Interested in moving to Canada? 🇨🇦🍁 Brock is recruiting for an Impact+ research chair in Human Mobility and Wearable Technology! This is an amazing opportunity for international scholars looking to come to Canada. Please reach out for more details. brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

Thinking about all those things I said I would do when Hell freezes over

Movement is medicine 🏃