🗓️ March 27 Early registration deadline #WCB2026 🦴 World Congress of Biomechanics 🇨🇦 July 11-15, Vancouver, Canada #Biomechanics #Mechanobiology

Waterfalls! One of the joys of living in the Finger Lakes. 💦 Aunt Sarah's Falls #FingerLakes #FLX #I❤️NY

Happy Pi Day! 😋 @vdmlab.bsky.social celebrated a day early

Upsetting news for the musculoskeletal research community. Thank you Lindsey for your leadership of NIAMS.

Great opportunity to pitch your technology at #WCB2026!

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃 from [email protected] 🙏 @orrenshachaf.bsky.social our costume lead!

🦴 🏃‍♀️ Take steps for your musculoskeletal health! #WhiteSneakers #ASBMR2025

🦴 Congratulations to Deepak Vashishth on receiving Adele L Boskey Award from @asbmr.bsky.social #ASBMR2025

“Much of U.S. power & influence is derived from our science & technology supremacy” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

The eviceration of US biomedical and engineering research…for what purpose? “At Johns Hopkins University, a bastion of scientific research, officials announced the layoffs of more than 2,000 people after losing $800 million in government grants” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

🎥 Livestream in hour 68 now! ⛅️ Dr Clare Singer claresinger.github.io #SaveAmericasForecasts

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Devasting that clinical trial for Jim's PediaFlow baby heart pump is on hold due the stop on all DOD funding at Cornell. Funded by DOD CDMRP, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, yet White House stopped Congress funds #ResearchSavesLives #Standup4Science youtu.be/a7aUBvBcPV4

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

Please read & act now!

“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨 1/ @paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it. paulwaldman.substack...

🥧 Happy Pi Day! Yummy early celebration yesterday thanks to @vdmlab.bsky.social #PiDay

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Proud of the many amazing scientists who’ve been mentors, collaborators, colleagues, protégés, friends, etc #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #IDWGS

“Unity through our shared passion for research” Looking forward to leadership from Suzanne Maher, new president of @orssociety.bsky.social #ORS2025 #OrthoScience #CornellHSSCameo

Inspiring to be in a room full of orthopaedic researchers for the start of #ORS2025 @orssociety.bsky.social

“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

“A huge gift to the PR of China” what abolishing USAID accomplishes globally. Listen to @samanthapower.bsky.social explain on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, courtesy of @latenightercom.bsky.social

“Leaders in the Foxhole”We’re all waiting for our leaders to emerge … Excellent piece on need for authentic #AcademicSky leadership from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com

🔬🦴 @vdmlab.bsky.social looks forward to sharing & talking science at #ORS2025

"One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." chemsky 🧪⚗️ www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

🧪⚛️ Holy cow. Threats to layoff 25-50% of NSF (!!!). This would be a complete disaster. Anyone who thinks cutting the workforce at a $9B/yr agency by this much will lead to greater efficiency is just out of their mind. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Horrendous & painful come to mind. The disaster this would cause is hard to fathom, & yet, that’s the point of such threats & possible actions. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

The NSF is the US engine of basic science discovery and technology innovation. This decision is a gift to our overseas competitors.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

From @washingtonpost.com

🦴 Wonderful to have PhD 🎓Maureen back for #CornellBME seminar! Great way to kick off the semester 🔬 #science

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

🐭🕶️ Super fun to see @sn-lab.bsky.social mouse VR goggles featured in a joke on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @naturemethods.bsky.social #MouseGoggles

🔬🍺 @vdmlab.bsky.social takeout dinner at Science & Suds at Hopshire Farms & Brewery tonight. 🦴 Cool to hear @cornellengineering.bsky.social Lara Estroff talk about many forms of biomineralization

Wonderful to see Chris Shoemaker tonight. Chris joined #CornellCEE faculty in 1973 & was the first woman tenured in @cornellengineering.bsky.social #CornellEng140yrsWomen

Always fun at the annual #CornellBME faculty & staff holiday lunch

Lots of updates & news to share from #CornellBME in 2024 20th Anniversary Newsletter #CornellBME20 issuu.com/cornellbme/d...

✨ An engaging weekend in Vancouver 🎤 Lots of joy & sparkle + catch up w/ @CornellBME 🎓 fellow Swifty Alex #TaylorSwift #TheErasTour #SwiftiesOver50

🏐 Awesome to catch part of Stanford’s sweep of UNC today #BlockParty #SUWVball Fun to see the Carolina blue Carmichael arena & Ramses too

vdM_lab outing to support Emma & Less than Three #acapella