Did you know that when you peer review for JEB, @biologists.bsky.social will protect a tree in Great Knott Wood, the Lake District, as part of its #ForestOfBiologists initiative to foster biodiversity? Every time you peer review for us we help the planet

Fish suck... but species that feed on algae suck differently! 🐟 A new publication in Communications Biology by #UAFunMorph members Jana De Ridder, Peter Aerts, and Sam Van Wassenbergh, demonstrates how head motion patterns for generating suction are finetuned to the species' main diets.

Needless to say: I’m out of the office 👋

😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Funaro et al estimates both patient-specific material coefficients and friction coefficient between two subtendon layers in vivo for patients with Achilles tendinopathy. 👀 buff.ly/0uEIe4W

@microsoft.com Windows’ “update and *shut down*” is one of the biggest lies of this era. #NeverShutsDown #RestartingAndDrainingBatteryOvernight #Why #Betrayal #Judas

📣I’m hiring! Two weeks to apply for an October start. Start date is also flexible. #PhD #Morphology #evolution

ISB 2025: 🗣️ Interested in surface #EMG electrode placement? I will present on Wednesday, July 30: 🕝 15:20 - 15:30 🔎 SENIAM-guided electromyography electrode placement is suboptimal for triceps surae muscles 📍 Room C1 💪 Parallel session 10D - Muscle Structure & Function

Conferences are hard. #CNB2025 #Nuuksio #🇫🇮

Fun night out with the team after a full day of testing in the lab on an exciting #EMG project. All excited now for comparative muscle biomechanics at the upcoming @sebiology.bsky.social conference in (soon-to-be) sunny Antwerp! #BrusselNeuromuscularBiomechanicsLab #BRRC #VUB

The IRIS - MSCA postdoctoral programme (ULB - VUB), and the European Commission is OPEN for applications. Are you working in the space of "Health and Wellness", are eligible and have an excellent CV and motivation? Get in touch to discuss possible collaborations! iris-cofund.eu/call-informa...

Wrapping the transverse foot arch improves running economy! doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Are you interested in muscle #biomechanics and looking for #postdoc opportunities? If you have skills in (statistical) shape modelling, advanced data analyses or 3D imaging/model reconstructions, get in touch with me! I will be at #SEB2025 (Antwerp), #CNB2025 (Helsinki), and #ISB2025 (Stockholm).

⏰ Final countdown: You have until 13 June to register for the 2025 #SEBconference in Antwerp! Don’t miss one of the most exciting biology events of the year 🌱🧬🧫 Book now: 🔗 www.sebiology.org/resource/seb... 🧵👇 Here’s why you should be there (view thread)

If you are a graduate student or a postdoc, consider applying for one of our‬ Travelling Fellowships and you could receive up to £3000 to visit another lab & collaborate with other researchers. Deadline 8 August 2025 For more information visit: www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

This paper in #ProcB investigates a creative question: how human vocalisation relates to body dynamics, especially with some muscles attached to the torso, and finding that there is indeed a relationship: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Very interesting lecture at @uantwerpen.be on the extinct Tasmanian tiger, by author of this book Charlotte Van Den Boeck at the first #BioTalks.

#NeverFlyingWithRyanairAgain @ryanairofficial.bsky.social horrible service, rude and mean people, absolutely disgraceful. #RyanairDublin

We are recruiting a postdoc for an exciting multi-disciplinary project that explores the use of quantum sensors to measure muscle behaviour - looking for someone with skills in ultrasound, mocap, and EMG - funded by QLD Government's Quantum 2032 Challenge uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

Always nice when I can work on the University of Antwerp campus, especially when the sheep (left, not right on photo) are there!

It saddens me to read (in job applications) statements from women on what skills they developed during (<5 month) maternity leave & how they managed to stay productive. As if taking care of a child is not enough. That is a full-time job. Period. No need for “what else did you do during that time?”.

👟 Is het slim om te joggen met loopschoenen van 14 euro van een huismerk? Of kies je toch beter voor een duur merk met hoogtechnologische superfoam? 💡 Jeroen Aeles, PhD, professor biomechanica aan de VUB, en Matthias Valkeniers, wereldwijde productmanager van KIPRUN, geven raad. lnkd.in/ed-2Hp6r

It’s funny how we, as scientists, never fully agree with each other. Until we reply to reviewer comments. #It’sOkToDisagree

The PowerLab ( uofgpowerlab.weebly.com ) is having some big turnover this summer and this opens the door to take on new PhD students to work on projects related to muscular adaptations to use/disuse across various structural levels. Happy to chat!!

Very important work that we all need to consider as researchers, authors, reviewers, and editors in Biomechanics (and other fields…). Thanks Eline for this great work.

Officially Twitter-free 🥳 It took me a while, but I no longer want to support enemies of science and diversity. All in on BlueSky!

Pleased to share our work on childhood muscle growth with the wider community! Thanks @neuraimaging.bsky.social for supporting this important research.

Haven’t read it yet, but that would be quite impactful!

😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Bolsterlee et al explores how the force-generating properties of animal muscles are scaled to human muscles, and for how the functional capacity of muscles is predicted from muscle architecture. 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #BiomechSky

Final week of the @UAFunMorph Galápagos expedition! 🎥 Capturing high-speed footage of Darwin's finches while they feed and sing to study beak movement. Best of luck to Irene, Cas, and Jan for the final data collection! 🙌 We are grateful to our helpers and sponsors. #DarwinsFinches #Galapagos

Postdoc opportunity to do digital twin research for human and humanoid agile locomotion with myself, Wouter Hoogkamer @umill.bsky.social and Donghyun Kim! See forms.gle/FRFtLNiY7j3z... for more info and to apply by 3/19.

Abstract submission for @sebiology.bsky.social in Antwerp is open until Fri 7th March! #SEB2025 Plenty of #Biomechanics Special Sessions—pick your poison! 🦕 Bringing Fossils "Back to Life" 🏃‍♀️ Musculoskeletal Mechanics & Modelling 🤖 Kinematics & Robotics 🔧 Innovative Methods 🎖️ Tribute to Peter Aerts

Ok, sky help me out here. If doing inverse kinematics using IMUs, is really only the orientation of the sensors used? It would seem that if you have a reasonable estimate of pos of sensor on segment, given kinematic chain, you would also know acc, and hence, could use that info for better fit. 1/2

Hello world! The Functional Morphology Lab of the UAntwerp Biology Department is finally on Bluesky! Let us share with you our research, academic activities, and our passion for #science. 🦎🐦 🐟 🦩 🐓 👩‍🔬 🎓 👨‍🔬 Here are some of the animals that keep us busy at the moment.

Reminder: abstracts for the '25 Society for Experimental Biology meeting in Antwerp BE (July 7th-11th) are due March 7th. t.co/VawfbYRCsu I'll run a session on Multiscale Musculoskeletal Mechanics and Modeling. Please DM me for information and submit to session A1 if your work fits our theme.

While we're rightfully lamenting DEI policy changes and program elimination, be sure to embrace the positive impact we can each have in our own circles, whether large or small. No one in Washington can prevent you from personally valuing diversity, treating others respectfully, or promoting equity.

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

The darkness makes some animals bolder, but artificially illuminating our nights makes animals more visible and venture out less. Recently Dissegna & Chiandetti showed that brighter nights make even tiny animals like woodlice hesitate before moving about journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

Interested in #Functional #Morphology and imaging? Looking to apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship? We have an opening at the FunMorph/DynX Lab at the University of Antwerp. If you do not have a project idea but are interested, I have some for you (contact me)! www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

In their recent Perspective, Janneke Schwaner and Ksenia Keplinger point out that achieving gender balance remains a challenge in experimental biology, while also proposing ways to further close the gender gap and foster diversity & allyship journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A reminder that registration is open for this CNB Muscle-tendon mechanics satellite meeting! Students can apply for the ISB Technical Meeting grant for $500USD to attend isbweb.org/students/28-... (see grant #5: CNB isn't listed because it is a new group, but the funding does apply)

we provide recommendations for researchers to eliminate the misguided assumption that specific rTMS protocols are inherently excitatory or inhibitory when designing and interpreting their own work 😱

We are hiring! We are looking for a motivated #PhD candidate to work on our MUSCLE3D project! Please find more information attached. Sharing among your network and encouraging excellent candidates would be greatly appreciated. w/ Brent Raiteri & Tom Verstraten tomato-sybyl-33.tiiny.site

Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature. Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn

Registration and abstract submission are now open for the CNB Muscle-tendon mechanics across species Satellite meeting in Helsinki Finland July 23rd-26th 2025 before the main ISB meeting. Meeting website: www.jyu.fi/en/events/mu... Abstracts due Feb 14th registration.contio.fi/jyu/Registra...

The American Society of Biomechanics Postdoc Affinity Group is hosting a panel on Faculty Interviews and Negotiations this Friday (1/17) at 2pm Eastern! Zoom link can be found in the ASB postdoc slack, or feel free to DM me. Please spread the word!

Come join us in Antwerp 🇧🇪 this July for the Society of Experimental Biology Conference!

NBA launching league-wide biomechanics program Work is still needed to understand how best to use the data to improve player health and performance, but it is cool to see all 30 NBA teams getting biomechanics labs. And that will expand a career path that didn't even exist when I was in grad school.