The moment has arrived to welcome the newest members of our Academy. To begin, we introduce Nikola Stokovic from Croatia 🇭🇷 . Nikola is passionate about crafting applications for bone 🦴 regeneration using #BMPs, all while savoring a delightful Mediterranean pizza 🍕 ! Be sure you check his ID card 👀!

Interested in joining the @ectssociety.bsky.social #Academy? Inspired by Young Academies, this allows emerging researchers to build their networks and connect with top scientists in #MSK studies across Europe. Hear from our co-chair @jakobstaruplinde.bsky.social: vimeo.com/user6900705/... #PhD

Stay updated with clinical breakthroughs at your pace! Our adaptable, evidence-based online course lets you enhance your skills from your practice. 🌟 🔹 Learn from top experts 🔹 Earn 10-12 EACCME credits 🔹 Implement practical strategies now #ClinicalEducation #BoneHealth buff.ly/ICa3ke6

#ECTS2026 Abstract Submission is open! Have research or a case to present to your medical and scientific colleagues at the #ECTS2026 meeting? Submit your work from 5 Sep to 8 Dec 2025. Acceptance notifications come via email in the week of 2 Feb 2026. buff.ly/8lNwngd

Renew your 2026 ECTS #membership today! Unlock career-boosting opportunities: educational resources, #grants, and #networking in the musculoskeletal field. Enjoy event discounts and cutting-edge webcasts. Special rates for students and more. Join now!

... Just following our famous #Academy members retreat! Apply to become an @ectssociety.bsky.social Young Academy member and enjoy benefits like this one! #Earlycareer #YoungPI #PhD

Secure your spot for the famous ECTS PhD training course! buff.ly/zUTBQ6h

We are delighted to invite you to the 53rd European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) annual congress taking place 24-27 April 2026 in Girona, Spain! Save the date: 24-27 April 2026 - an inspiring event awaits! buff.ly/DBkfLrV

Join our RARE BONE 🦴 DISEASE webinar on Thursday, 16 Oct, 16:00-17:00 CET! Explore "Early-Onset Osteoporosis: Genetics, Filtering, and Functional Modelling" with experts Pr Dr Melissa Formosa & Pr Dr Ralf Oheim. Secure your spot now: buff.ly/m06dHJq #RareDiseases #Osteoporosis

🎒 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

🌞 Back from holidays? Time to swap suitcases for science!✨ WEBINAR COMING SOON 💡📅 Thursday, 21 August | 4:00–5:00 PM CET Hyperphosphatemic Familial Tumoral Calcinosis is a rare subtype of hereditary familial tumoral calcinosis, where high blood phosphate drives calcium deposits around joints.

Did you know there’s a rare bone disorder that even experts find challenging? ✨ Join our Free webinar on rare bone disease Hereditary Familial Tumoral Calcinosis (HFTC) 🗓 Aug 21, 4–5 PM CET 🎤 Dr. Kelly Roszko & Prof. Natasha Appelman-Dijkstra 🎟 Register now 👉 ecampus.ectsoc.org/ects/2025/he...

Dario’s and Valentina’s families visited our lab yesterday! 💙 Thanks to their parents’ tireless efforts, we will start a joint project with the University of Barcelona to explore new therapeutic options for the #raredisease #FOP. #BMP #ISPA @rarascsic.bsky.social @csic.es www.lne.es/asturias/202...

New paper out in JBMRPlus ! Using a time-lapse co-culture approach with #osteoclasts and reversal cells, we show that reversal cells prefer pits over trenches, but that intermediate #CatK inhibition boosts their attraction and maturation into #osteoblasts. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Treating osteoporosis with denosumab or bisphosphonates in the long term: facts, uncertainties and assumptions. A narrative review by the clinical action group of the ECTS. AM Naciu et al. Bone 26 July 2025 shorturl.at/pyzoe

Call for Open Fora and Workshop Suggestions for ECTS 2026 Congress in Girona Open Fora offer a fantastic opportunity to inform the ECTS community on topics that are significant to you, achieve global recognition, and expand your influence by participating in the ECTS Annual Congress buff.ly/56T9C71

GDF8 and activin A are the key negative regulators of muscle mass in postmenopausal females: a randomized phase I trial www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The ECTS 2025 conference may be over, but ECTS 2026 is already on the horizon! Save the date for #ECTS2026 in Girona, Spain, 24-27 April

And we have a winner of our first #ECTSAcademy2025 Photo Competition!!! Vivi Mäkinen receives the award from Charlotte Verroken. 🎉🥳 #ECTS2025

Jelena Jadzic is the recipient of the Poster Forum Basic Award! Congratulations! The award is presented by Christina Andreasen and Felix von Brackel #ECTS2025

Congratulations Elizabeth Orhadje to win the Clinical Poster Forum!!! Academy members @jakobstaruplinde.bsky.social and Charlotte Verroken handing in the award #ECTS2025

Don't forget to drop by the #Academy Lounge to know the winner of the #ECTS2025 🇦🇹 Photo 📷 Competition!!! #ECTSAcademy2025

If you're not here yet, quickly move to Room Freiburg to visit the Poster "Deciphering early-onset hip osteoarthritis in COL2A1-related spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia and its corresponding mouse model" by the group of Dr. Tim Rolvien 🇩🇪. #ECTS2025

@ectssociety.bsky.social Young Academy Dr. Felix von Brackel 🇩🇪 will moderate the Poster Forum Basic starting at 13h in the room Freiburg! #ECTS2025

In some minutes, Assil-Ramin Alimy belonging to the group of Dr. Tim Rolvien 🇩🇪 will present the study "Identification of subchondral bone endotypes in hip osteoarthritis" in the Room Innsbruck at #ECTS2025. You can still hurry up and join the discussion!

The MuSkITYR Board is meeting in Innsbruck at the 52nd Congress of ECTS, the European Calcified Tissue Society! We love how translational the ECTS community is - scientists and clinicians working together to advance the field and better help our patients! 🧑‍🔬👩‍⚕️‪@ectssociety.bsky.social‬ #ECTS2025

For #ECTS2025, the ECTS Young Academy as set a Photo Competition! Take a fun picture of yourself with something that symbolizes bones or calcium. For example, you could snap a picture of yourself drinking 🥛 , eating 🧀 ! Post at ECTS Academy Bluesky academyects.bsky.social

So #ECTS2025 has started. What a first day. We had our workshop on the life long needs of people with OI. Great talks and great discussions. Meeting people and shaking hands all day. Great to see @michaellaurent.bsky.social for a quick catch up. @ectssociety.bsky.social in person meetings FTW.

The deadline for the #ECTSAcademy2025 photo competition is quickly approaching! If you want to compete for a fabulous prize 🏆, send us a photo with something that reminds you of bones 🦴 before 1:30 PM TODAY! What about you @richieabel.bsky.social? #ECTS2025 @ectssociety.bsky.social

Last day of #ECTS2025 🇦🇹 ! If you are at the Innsbruck Room, Dr. Biagio Palmisano 🇮🇹 will season your morning coffee ☕ time with the talk "Bone pain in Fibrous dysplasia does not rely on aberrant sensory nerve sprouting or neuroma formation".

If you liked his talk this morning, Jakob Starup-Linde 🇩🇰 also brought a poster this afternoon: "Indices of low bone turnover in males with type 2 diabetes" #ECTS2025 #T2D

Not one but two posters by Drenka Trivanovic 🇷🇸 : "Contribution of MSC to the metastatic bone niche of breast cancer patients: involvement of ALP" & "Association of ALP with inflammatory signature of bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells of hip OA patients". #ECTS2025

Another poster from the #Academy, this time by Adalbert Raimann 🇦🇹 "Lower limb deformities in rickets". Do not hesitate to drop by the poster loft and discuss with him these results! #ECTS2025

In a few minutes, you'll have time to visit P211 by @b-hauser.bsky.social 🇩🇪 entitled "Mortality and Cardiovascular events in patients with severe Osteoporosis Treated with Romosozumab Followed by Antiresorptive Therapy: A Comparative Analysis with Teriparatide in a Single-Centre Study". #ECTS2025

Jeroen Geurts 🇳🇱 has been very active during the entire #ECTS2025. For the coming minutes, he will be moderating the Plenary Symposium 3: Systems Bone Biology in the Room Tirol. A wonderful session not to be missed!

This time it is not Jeroen Geurts (he is just too busy 😅), but Léa Loisay from his team presenting the study "The Local Role of Antidiabetic Medications Liraglutide, Canagliflozin, and Metformin on BMAT and Bone in Knee OA: Insights from an Ex Vivo Model". #ECTS2025. We hope you will like it!

Good morning! Grab the leftovers of your breakfast 🥐 and join us at the Tirol Room for the talk "Fracture risk and treatment thresholds in patients with diabetes" by our danish 🇩🇰 MD Jakob Starup-Linde. Nothing better to kick off your day! #ECTS2025

This weekend we are following very closely the updates about 🦴 #ECTS2025 🩻 in Innsbruck 🇦🇹 by our fellow @academyects.bsky.social members. Despite we couldn’t make it this time, we’re already looking forward to seeing them all at #ECTS2026 🇪🇸!

Great discussions ongoing at NI mentoring session at #ECTS2025 organised by the #ECTSAcademy. Thanks to all our mentors!

Together with Tim Rolvien, I had the pleasure to chair the #ECTS AHP S1 with a beautiful overview on “When to start and stop OP Tx” by Anne-Sophie Sølling, on optimal hip fracture care,lessons from REDUCE study by Celia Gregson and a very practical talk on ONJ by Eric Hesse @academyects.bsky.social

To wrap up the day, we've organized an energetic Curling charity event, held in the Orangerie at Congress. From 20.30 onwards, attendees can participate in an ice stock competition and contribute to "Osteogenesis Imperfecta Austria." Get your sport shoes and meet us over there #ECTS2025

Join us at the New Orleans Room during #ECTS2025 for Tim Rolvien's 🇩🇪 presentation on "Relevance of subchondral bone remodeling and bone-targeted pharmacologic interventions in the development and progression of osteoarthritis".

Next in #ECTS2025, time for the famous New Investigator Mentoring session organized by the #ECTSAcademy! Alongside other mentors, Dr. Katharina Jähn-Rickert 🇩🇪 will be responsible to chair the discussion "from postdoc to Principal Investigator" in the Room Freiburg.

Grab your coffee and/or snacks and hurry up! ECTS Academy's co-chair Jeroen Geurts 🇳🇱 with the poster "Hormone replacement therapy and the risk of knee and hip replacement: Insights from the OsteoLaus cohort study" at the poster loft now!

Hurry up and join us at the Freiburg Room in 15 mins to celebrate the anniversary of the @ectssociety.bsky.social Young Academy. Our co-chair Jeroen Geurts 🇳🇱 will present the talk "ECTS Academy: A 10-year Celebration of Growth and Excellence" to sum up a whole decade of Academy success. #ECTS2025

Now at the poster hall in #ECTS2025: "TSF-6 promotes critical-sized bone repair and modulates osteogenesis" by @vrenifi.bsky.social 🇩🇪 .

"Surgical and Conservative Treatment of Osteoarthritis" is the title of the next oral presentation at the Strassburg Room in #ECTS2025, by the #Academy member Dr. Konstantin Horas 🇩🇪 .

Before a coffee break, join ECTS #Academy member Anne Sophie Sølling 🇩🇰 , who will now chair the session "Nurses & AHP Seminar 2" in Room Strassburg North. #ECTS2025

Now it is time for another member of the #Academy danish crew. Christina Andreasen 🇩🇰 will discuss the most recent insights on Spatial Transcriptomics and #MSK research during the Basic Science update 1 session. #ECTS2025