The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways. blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

First first author paper of Anouck Matthijs on the fact that aging does not affect the ability to compensate for interaction torques during movement planning. Both the timing and scaling of anticipatory EMG activity are preserved with age. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Merriam-Webster’s “large language model” 😜

My department at Case Western Reserve is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor of Neurosciences - come be our colleague! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

“I think chimpanzees have helped people understand that we are part of and not separated from the animal kingdom, and that has opened the way to having respect for the other amazing beings with whom we share the planet.” —Jane Goodall, @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane...

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...

Brand new POSTDOC opportunity in my lab (!!) will help lead a multi-institutional collaboration designed to enhance understanding of anatomic variability in Achilles tendinopathy toward more effective, personalized clinical interventions. Learn more and apply: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting! If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch. www.ncclab.ca

Was struck when I visited the grave of Eisenhower, the archetypal 20th c. warrior, he chose the inscription above his tomb, ”Every gun made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed“

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...

haha, here is one of my writing guides stating how to check that your topic sentence is the first sentence of the paragraph. scholarblogs.emory.edu/neuromechani...

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Poor students got the rug pulled from under them. The National Science Foundation’s premiere funding award for grad students shrank their eligibility pool without warning. 1st year PhD students who waited until their 2nd to submit their once-ever application were just told they’re not eligible.

Reviewer (2) gripe: Apparently, I'm outmoded to assume the first sentence of a paragraph, or sometimes the second sentence, is a topic sentence that indicates the main idea of the paragraph, followed by a series of sentences containing related evidence and analysis. #Dinosaur #AcademicChatter

Postdoc opportunity in muscle cell biology! You would not only be involved in an ambitious project but would also help develop cutting edge methods! Highly recommended! @robertseaborne.bsky.social

The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.

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...

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget. Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide. Report: osf.io/e8rnc a 🧵

In this 'How to' Comment, @gribblelab.org gives advice on how to think about one's academic website and how to go about building one. #AcademicWebsite www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In a time when humanoid gimmicks are omnipresent, this trick tickles me. A moonwalk by the KAIST humanoid from Hae-Won Park’s lab. It feels so purposeful in its use of foot contact.

The plan for NSF is to demote its director to an advisory role to what a former senior figure compared to a Soviet political commissar. Also, greatly reduce the role of rotators from academic departments to consolidate administration power. This is a disaster for science and innovation.

A little late summer getaway to the Adirondacks to cleanse my mental timeline

A shoutout to that student keeping me on my toes by giving the appearance that my lecture is causing them physical harm 💀 but then coming up after class to ask a thoughtful question and say how much they enjoy the class 🙂 #AcademicSky

@aaup.org has released several statements in defense of the right to peaceful protest and speech, and condemning the administrative policies in many universities that have made the freedom of assembly more difficult on campus: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

Computer #programming is, at its core, creative. If you’ve lost your spark, try checking out one of @dtemkin.bsky.social's 44 esoteric coding languages. It’s about stretching the limits of what a programming language can be, and what a community of programmers can do together. buff.ly/WkIN2C6

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

New Director of the University of Florida Space Institute news.ufl.edu/2025/09/astr...

Lately I've been wondering what it would have been like to live in precedented times

Not surprisingly but still unfortunately, the McNair program is under attack. I was not a beneficiary of the program but have participated in it as a mentor and speaker, and I have seen how it positively impacts the lives of its students. coenet.org/protect-the-...

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social By me + Hanna Hillman We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

‼️📄 Two new papers out today in @jexpbiol.bsky.social lead by @jamescharles90.bsky.social, all about locomotion and load-carrying across different working dog breeds! ⤵️ 🐕 🏋️‍♂️ 🦮 (1/4)

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

The type of speech most punished in this society is that which consists of telling the truth about how the powerful have harmed you

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

I think about this quote a lot...

Being a professor is so weird. You are constantly having to act like you know things.

Considering that most acknowledgments are simply… acknowledgments and statement of fact (and not a call for action), this seems like absolute BS and suppression of speech and academic freedom, period

I don’t think Trump should get a blank check on how to spend your taxpayer dollars. I want to throw Trump’s budget in the trash & fund cancer research, child care, and our K-12 schools. When we pass spending bills, Congress decides how we invest in taxpayer dollars—not Trump.

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

This is despite continued use of multiyear funding. My estimate is the multiple funding has blocked the awarding of ~1500 grants, had grants been funded on the usual annual basis. This includes 4-year R01s, excess 2-year R21s, and other awards. 2/2

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Lucy is currently on display for the first time in Europe. 🏺

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

In Nov last year, we published a predictive theory of locomotor adaptation to novel environments, capturing learning and generalization phenomena in over ten experiments: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I'm honored to be featured on the 2025 Innovators Under 35 list for this work. ter.li/7c0jek

Title: Biomechanics Lab Associate 📍Place: @yankees.com 🇺🇸 💰Salary: TBC 
📅Deadline: - ℹ For more details👇 www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

Humans don’t fully trust the #AI #agents that are coding for them, and with good reason. New research shows that AI agents still fall short when it comes to huge codebases, extended context over many lines of code, and long-term planning on structure and design. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-coding