Excellent article about Douglas R. Wilkie, FRS., trainee of AV Hill, and muscle/mechanics connoisseur par excellence. royalsociety.org/blog/2026/02...

Attention musculoskeletal scientists! Only one week to go before the 8th annual student-organized UMOVE research symposium. An exciting day of muscle and movement science in animals including humans across molecular to organism scales @UMassLowell @KCSciences_UML

We are hiring a POSTDOC on an NIH award to measure inertial effects of (in)active muscle. Please share and re-post widely! Please send expressions of interest to my UML email.

Fish alter locomotor and feeding kinematics to capture aerial prey #ProcB #OpenAccess #Biomechanics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨 Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB looks at the impacts of #climatechange on #crops and how we can mitigate against these. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

New from #JRSocInterface: Automated analysis of bird head motion in unconstrained settings: a foundational study on semicircular canal evolution in #archosaurs. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #biomechanics

We are staring down a mass extintion event for American science. If the 2026 budget is enacted, NSF will be slashed in half. Biology funding by ca 75%. The same percentage of species that died at the end-Cretaceous. For what reason? Nobody campaigned on this. And it's not law yet. So SPEAK UP NOW.

To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Caroline Herschel's 1787 paper 'An Account of a New Comet' was the first scientific work by a woman to be fully credited in any scientific journal throughout the world buff.ly/RRsaLZ2

To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Edward Stone's 1763 paper on willow bark laid the groundwork for aspirin and NSAIDs, revolutionising the treatment of pain and fever: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Am I alone in being put off by monster-long editorial "desk" rejection times at @ScienceAdvances (@HoldenThorpe [51 days]) and @pnas.org‬ (@MaryBerenbaum [61 days]). #DoBetter

Cool paper. Designated Satutday morning coffee reed here.

Paper alert 🚨 Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New from the Near Lab, a super collaboration led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149

A lifeline for researchers with cancelled grants: www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Here is a great idea: Let's Establish a Dedicated Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Research Subgroup Within The Biophysical Society - Sign the Petition! chng.it/dy4dg7dJq2 via @Change

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Behavioural biomechanics: leaf-cutter ant cutting behaviour depends on leaf edge geometry royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #ProcB #Behaviour #Biomechanics

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6

Only a few hours left to submit your abstract for the 2025 SEB Conference in Antwerp. www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... If you work on muscle, and particularly if your work integrates across scales of biological organization, I encourage you to submit to session A1.

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

This executive order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Has some very concerning language affecting universities: "(b) Review of Covered Contracts and Grants. Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, shall review all existing covered contracts and grants and, "... 1/3

How do you measure what isn't there? Elska did a fantastic job leading this paper on how we can measure the volume of changing, 3D spaces inside XROMM skeletal animations. And, importantly, how good are those volume measurements? journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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.

Excited to announce the beginning of my service on the editorial board for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb I am experienced with, and would be happy to discuss your ideas for guest-edited special issues in the journal

I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less. Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.

Plasticity in the red squirrel feeding system wrt/ diet. Great work!

Great to see old pals and new results at #SICB2025, including Yara Haridy's deep dive into some of the earliest bony skeletons: www.science.org/content/arti...

I guess I hadn't posted this yet and didn't even know it had come out-- I was interviewed for (and co-wrote w/Daniel Rabosky) a Trends in Ecology & Evolution "TrendsTalk" article on "Disability in ecology and evolution" -- www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #DisabledInSTEM #academicchatter #academia

Lotsa new biomechanicist jobs coming up!

Looking forward to #SICB2025! I'm presenting in two symposiums on elephants and bio-inspired materials! The first symposium is Saturday, January 4, from 10:00 am-10:30 am in Marquis C. If you are interested in entanglement, collagen imaging techniques, or biological composites, come by!

Muscles growth by sarcomere divisions - how your muscles add new sarcomeres during developmental growth: they divide! Cool collaboration @friedrich-group.bsky.social @raunser-lab.bsky.social @Dirk Görlich @univ-amu.fr @cnrs.bsky.social sciencecast.org/casts/aspy9l... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stanford is hiring! The School of Engineering seeks an Executive Director for a new facility that will support student-led organizations that design and build things. Awesome opportunity. Feel free to reach out with questions: [email protected] careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/directo...

Reminder (Please Share & RT): Abstracts for SEB2024 meeting in Prague are due March 8th. If you work on #Biomechanics, #FunctionalMorphology, or #Ecomorphology in #plants or #animals, please submit to session A21, which I am programming, at: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-c...

A little under two weeks until (soft) close for applications to our #NSF funded #graduate student and #postdoc positions. If you are interested in #multiscale #biomechanics #research, #comparative #muscle function, and #functional #morphology, please PM me to discuss these openings. Pls share widely

We are hiring! Our NSF award unravels determinants of bite force across biological scales in rodent jaw systems. Several graduate student lines available (PM me and apply via tinyurl.com/UMLAPPLBIOLPhD ). Postdoc funds also available, see ad: tinyurl.com/KonowlabNSF - Please share and re-post widely

We are hiring! New NIH award to measure inertial effects of (in)active muscle mass. Collab w/ Harvard and Simon Fraser U. A graduate student RA (PM me and apply through tinyurl.com/UMLAPPLBIOLPhD ). Postdoc funds also available: Ad at: tinyurl.com/KonowlabNIH - Please share and re-post widely!