🎒 Back-to-school season is here – and so is the reminder that healthy bones start early At ECTS, we believe that investing in bone health in young people means investing in healthier futures. ✅ Encourage daily movement ✅ Support calcium+vitamin D intake ✅ Raise awareness of bone health in schools

All I need for vacation: an inspiring book, a cold pool, the Mediterranean Sea nearby and my family around - in Croatia 🇭🇷

"Great news! The ECTS Congress is heading to Innsbruck! 🏔️ Join us for an incredible gathering of ideas, collaboration, and innovation in this stunning alpine city. We can’t wait to see you there! #ECTS2025

OMG, a norovirus vaccine could be the game changer for families with small children bringing home every stomach bug they can find

Equal rights. Equal opportunities. No place for patriarchy - today and every day! Happy women’s day!

Thank you to our local host Conny Schneider @currifex.bsky.social and her fellow board members Dr. Kai Böker, Melanie Haffner-Luntzer @melaniehl.bsky.social and Andreas Lipphaus who made the MuSkITYR symposium in Vienna such a great success! One for all, all for one!

Me watching someone talk about transgender mice…

Best way to celebrate International Women in Sciene Day and my Birthday 🎂: spending time with friends and colleagues at the #ORS2025 meeting in sunny Phoenix

You don't want to miss this special workshop with presentation by @melaniehl.bsky.social on early psychosocial stress on bone and fracture healing at #ORS2025! #orthoresearch #bonehealing Monday, February 10 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm West 301BC

attending #ORS2025 in Phoenix? Don’t miss our workshop about the impact of psychological stress on the musculoskeletal system. I will show our data about how stress in different life phases (during pregnancy, prenatal, childhood, ) could affect your bones 🦴 and the influence of the gut microbiome 🦠

My lab is happy to host a student from North America for an internship funded by the DAAD this summer. In times like now, we need to strengthen the international bonds in science, no matter what politics is doing.

🌟 Excited to share our latest research about the influence of chronic stress during childhood/adulthood on bone and how a Mycobacterium is able to resolve it! 🌟 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39799942/ Image generated by chatGPT

We have a very cool new system to analyze mouse movements, behavior and wellbeing! The Blackbox! Super important for musculoskeletal research.

New preprint online on BioRxiv: Using artificial intelligence-based software for an unbiased discrimination of immune cell subtypes in the fracture hematoma and bone marrow of non-osteoporotic and osteoporotic mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Take care with the fireworks on New Year’s Eve, you don’t want to end up like Pinkie Pie. See below some guidelines for safe „Böllern“ from the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery #DGOU dgou.de/aktuelles/de...

Me reading the comments from #Reviewer2

An empty box? For me?? Best present ever!

Happy holidays to all who celebrate! Footnote: image is AI generated, I don’t have such wonderful Christmas decorations at home

Annual bone 🦴Christmas cookies baking in progress… some fractures occurred…

Save the date for our MuSkITYR symposium 2025! The perfect place for early career scientists and clinicians to give their first talk, but also advanced researchers are welcome! Mentoring sessions included!

Does someone has a .stl file from a whole mouse skeleton based on microCT data and willing to share it? We can’t find ours since we experienced a loss of old CT data on our sever.

A quick introduction as there is a mass migration to Bluesky at the moment: Hi, I am Melanie, apl. professor for orthopedic and trauma research! Bone is my passion, as it is such a fascinating organ which interacts with so many other tissues in the human body. Movement is life, not only for bone!

Have you ever wondered about astronauts and their musculoskeletal health? Upcoming ECTS webinar on 21.11. at 4pm CET - free of charge when viewing live: lnkd.in/ejA7C9Yw

Our latest paper: Very important topic of animal replacement, refinement, reduction! Embracing ethical research: Implementing the 3R principles into fracture healing research for sustainable scientific progress onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Some broken bones as Christmas gifts for my lab members!

My first post on blue sky ☺️ We had some illustrious guest at the Institute of Orthopeadic Research and Biomechanics today! Jerome Guicheux, Catherine Le Visage and team, thanks for your great talks about regenerative medicine in the skeleton!