Since the Journal of Applied Physiology isn’t on Bluesky: Research Article by SJ Skaper et al. The #energycost of #cyclic #musclecontractions at different initial #muscle-#tendon unit lengths derived from near-#infraredspectroscopy ow.ly/Irns50XmL

Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants. n.pr/4pgmAna

This thread and its various offshoots are shades of the old science twitter. I miss those days.

Garrett Stanley and I are leading the recruitment of a senior faculty position in BME at Georgia Tech and Emory, focused on Neural Engineering. Come talk to us, we're looking for a leader in research and training, in areas with neurotranslation potential. More details here: lnkd.in/eusCqCSR

Synergistic yet different: Rethinking the gastrocnemii as two functionally distinct muscles. In this preprint perspective article, @francoishug.bsky.social and I delve into the biomechanics, anatomy, neural control, and function of the gastrocnemius muscles, two important calf muscles.

Watch the @mobilizecenter.bsky.social/Restore Center webinar with @aclouthier.bsky.social and Erin Lee entitled “Integrating Bone and Joint Geometry into Musculoskeletal Models” Research presentation: youtu.be/QtqDx3_uK9I Tutorial: youtu.be/wqxQl3Dm9lc

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...

Very excited about our new pre-print on an open-source package that I developed with some of my GT labmates! Epically Powerful (EP) is a modular mechatronics infrastructure and open-source software package for building and operating wearable and general robotic systems. arxiv.org/abs/2511.05033

🧠Want to start a #PhD in sensorimotor #neuroscience in Fall 2026? Our NIH- and NSF-funded lab at @iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or [email protected]. Deadline is Dec. 15.

A new #ScienceRobotics Focus article describes the design of the Omnia bionic leg with semi-powered knee and ankle, which helped the Rehab Tech team clinch first place at the 2024 Cybathlon leg prosthesis race. https://scim.ag/3J71Xuj

Often lost in the hullabaloo over SNAP funding is the fact that the wealthiest country in the world has 42 million people who need the support of an anti-hunger program. Shameful.

Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.08.687367v1

We must remove the language banning same-sex marriage that still exists in Michigan‘s Constitution. I’m taking the first step in the State Senate to put it on the ballot. michiganadvance.com/2025/11/06/m...

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Apparently the postings are up for several NIH director positions. Deadlines between 11/14 and 11/21. hr.nih.gov/careers/care...

Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.) This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.

The bird branch of evolution separated from mammals hundreds of millions of years ago. Yet, their cerebellum has the same structure as ours, including the zebrin bands. Here is the cerebellum of the zebra finch and the most amazing flyer of them all, the hummingbird. doi.org/10.1159/0005...

What to call your prof

Living in the western part of the eastern time zone, we've reached that time of the year when I need to be careful not to complain about how early the sun is setting when talking with my relatives who live in Maine.

**Come work with us!!** Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!!

Across the International Space Station's modules, hundreds of experiments explore how life, materials, and even stars behave in microgravity. Orbit more cosmic knowledge ➡️ w.wiki/tTY

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

🔬 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

I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

“The interior designer Conway Van der Wolk, who contracted polio as a child and has had mobility challenges since, has adapted her 125-year-old cottage on Cape Cod, Mass. “There hasn’t been a playbook for me,” she said. “I’ve figured out creative ways that are helpful”

PSA: For most people in the U.S., don’t forget to set your clocks back to 1950 before you go to bed tonight.

A classic.

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

Cool research… but the first sentence of the post invokes a rather strong assumption given current circumstances

📣 Funded PhD combining anatomy, surgery and engineering! 💀 This project aims to characterise the biomechanical behaviour of jaw implants following mandibulectomy. 📍@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social Liverpool, UK 🥼@ukshaq.bsky.social @clairebrockett.bsky.social and me!

We are hiring for a PhD-level Staff Scientist to join our teams in the Translational Neuroscience Division @lieberinstitute.bsky.social. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of human 🧠 neuroanatomy and molecular neuroscience recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Recent coverage of our Nature Paper on the Evolution of Human Bipedalism: www.sciencenews.org/article/gene...

In an award talk a few years ago, I jokingly proposed a new collaboration-centered metric, the U-index 😀 The metric value is simply the unique number of people you've published with, excluding people who trained with you. High U-index = good collaborator! (If only it were that simple...)

That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation

Please share/repost widely: I have a postdoc position available. Please see ad below and reach out to apply. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15449

Catch my new lecture at the Collège de France entitled “The Origin of Walking.” Thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for hosting! 💙🧪 m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNim...

Making America great, aren’t we?………not good

We are hiring!!! We, Montana State University-Bozeman, are accepting applications for a tenure-track faculty position with focus in Exercise Physiology! jobs.montana.edu/postings/48964

The fossils of a potential ancestor, Orrorin tugenensis, were found #OnThisDay in 2000 in Kenya. The bones give us hints about early experiments in walking upright. 🏺

Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @antoinecomite.bsky.social

Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

“Developers ended up spending a lot of time checking and redoing the code that AI systems had produced—often more time than it would have taken to simply write it themselves. One participant later described the process as the “digital equivalent of shoulder-surfing an overconfident junior developer”

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 😂

Physics #simulations for engineering projects are often extremely time-consuming. Surrogate models capture essential behaviors of systems without as much computational overhead. spectrum.ieee.org/surrogate-mo...

I remember watching this on an analog TV with rabbit ears antenna.

"Statistical presentations should not be interpreted as what the data show but rather as what the analysts would argue the data show based on their preferred approach to the data." Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10168 Paywall: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Article out about our #dinosaur footprint work and high performance computing #HPC on @ljmuofficial.bsky.social 's 'prospero' cluster. www.nextplatform.com/2025/10/17/h...

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