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...

This year @biologists.bsky.social has been celebrating 100 years of #NotForProfit #Publishing by recognising 100 extraordinary biologists and today we recognise the father of comparative physiology, August Krogh #100biologists

Somewhat related, my graphic design advice is that unless the image is a key point of your presentation, like it’s actually something you need to show people to get the point of your slide across, then don’t use one. Slides need to be functional, not overcrowded and “cute”.

This new #JRSocInterface Perspective, using #neuroscience as an example, argues for a new paradigm of holistic #mathematical modelling that attempts to incorporate the necessary complexity into models of biological systems: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @rnartallo.bsky.social