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Congrats!!

😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Moissenet et al. reviews and aggregates available datasets to establish Spartacus, a comprehensive reference for normal shoulder girdle kinematics.

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Tomorrow is the final day to submit your abstracts for Dynamic Walking 2025.
If you haven't submitted yet, don't walk, RUN! 🏃‍♀️👍

Interest in the ASB Postdoc Affinity Group 2025-26 Please input your information for your interest in the postdoc affinity group through the American Society of Biomechanics. This group provides a place for postdocs to come together and have conversat...

Hello, biomechanics community!

Are you a postdoc looking for a place to connect with fellow postdocs, network, and attend professional development events? Fill out this link to get involved with the American Society of Biomechanics Postdoc Affinity Group: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Super cool new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at MIT via the HEALS initiative. Biswas Fellows receive *4 years* of funding to pursue independent research with *any* MIT faculty member! Please share widely with the trainees in your life!

heals.mit.edu/biswas-fello...

Just published in JOSS: 'MocoExtendProblem: Interface Between OpenSim and MATLAB for Rapidly Developing Direct Collocation Goals in Moco' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07110

😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Crossley et al indicates that electromyogram-informed modelling is a valid computational approach to estimate knee and hip biomechanics during standard seated ergometer cycling.

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Now peer reviewed and out in IEEE TNSRE
doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3549641

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.

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)

Important Announcement!

The deadline for abstract submissions to the ISB Congress 2025 has been extended to February 14th, 2025!

Spread the word—and let’s get those abstracts submitted!
www.isb2025.com

😃New article published in J Biomech!

"Whole Body Angular Momentum Characterizes Reactive Balance Adaptations and Perturbation Intensity", by Adam et al.

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Screen shot of the top of the first page of the Journal of Experimental Biology Editorial, JEB launches a new article type for theory and modelling studies, written by S. N. Patek, Monica A. Daley, Matthew McHenry and Sanjay Sane. The first sentence of the Editorial reads: JEB recently launched a new article type called Theory & Modelling.

Find out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

New Year's resolutions: read more, think more, and no email (though that's impossible).

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the META MUSEUM project: Emotion and Biomarkers. This interdisciplinary project focuses on understanding emotion-induced bodily and neurophysiological biomarkers through experimental interventions. werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/po...

Upright stance is controlled close to critical stability across different postures Feedback stabilization of upright standing postures should be reflected by a time-lagged relationship between the ground reaction force (GRF) and the center of mass (COM) state. In this study, we prop...

Just in time for your Christmas reading list: new preprint with Yang Geng and @jvandieen.bsky.social: “ Upright stance is controlled close to critical stability across different postures” (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) feedback welcome!

Bipedal running simulations in Australopithecus afarensis!

Over the years, I’ve developed a unique skill: commenting on iterations of IPOPT like it’s my favorite sports team ⚽️🥅🏀

« And it went out the recovery mode !»

😃New article published in J Biomech!

"Modeling implications of the relationship between active and passive skeletal muscle mechanical properties", by Lieber et al.

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Matt Mulligan and Brian Umberger in academic regalia at the University of Michigan winter commencement.

Congrats to (skyless) Matt Mulligan! He is the first person in the 207-year history of the University of Michigan to graduate with a joint PhD in Movement Science & Scientific Computing! Now Matt is in a cool computational postdoc on aging & movement with Eline van der Kruk at TU Delft #biomechanics

Abstract deadline to be considered for an oral presentation at the 2025 Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology Conference is tomorrow (Dec 15) ⏱️✍️ @myoblue.bsky.social

Center of mass states render multi-joint torques throughout standing balance recovery | Journal of Neurophysiology Successful reactive balance control requires coordinated modulation of hip, knee, and ankle torques. Stabilizing joint torques arise from neurally-mediated feedforward tonic muscle activation that mod...

Center of mass states render multi-joint torques throughout standing balance recovery

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

@kjakubowski.bsky.social @lenating.bsky.social

My PSU colleagues Anne Martin and Meghan Vidt will co-chair the 2025 American Society of Biomechanics East Coast Meeting – ASB East – on Penn State’s University Park campus March 28-29, 2025. Abstracts are due by February 7, 2025. For more information, please visit

sites.psu.edu/asbeast2025/

Latest article from Journal of Biomechanics:

Modeling implications of the relationship between active and passive skeletal muscle mechanical properties

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.112423

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A screenshot of part of the advertisement, please email me at cclark@ucr.edu for the full advertisement

POSTDOC announcement! I am hiring a postdoc to study owl flight biomechanics. I will be at SICB. Please email me for the full advertisement, screenshot below. Please retweet!

Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics.

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GitHub - mad-lab-fau/BioMAC-Sim-Toolbox: The biomechanical motion analysis and creation (BioMAC) simulation toolbox can be used to analyse human movement, with a focus on gait simulations The biomechanical motion analysis and creation (BioMAC) simulation toolbox can be used to analyse human movement, with a focus on gait simulations - GitHub - mad-lab-fau/BioMAC-Sim-Toolbox: The bi...

We have open sourced our simulation toolbox: github.com/mad-lab-fau/.... We have been using it for many years in many publications, and I’m very happy that it is now available to all! Many thanks to all coauthors and to adidas for their support in the development and release. Happy simulating!

Entomologists, I need your help.

Metallic green sweat bees. Do they also lick the sweat off animals like other sweat bees? I've never seen them lick sweat off me like with the little black ones, but idk why they wouldn't.

@bugeric.bsky.social @amanatiala.bsky.social

Job Opportunity at the RVC: Research Engineer Research Engineer (instrumentation)We are looking for a part-time research engineer for 2 days per week (14 hours) to join the Structure and Motion Laboratory, a multi-disciplinary research group inve...

Are you a gadget-handy person who likes science, especially cutting-edge super-techy stuff involving figuring out how to measure things in animals? We have a part-time Research Engineer post open in the Structure & Motion Lab (not my employee). jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs - Nature A bird-inspired robot that can jump into flight, walk on the ground and hop over obstacles shows that jumping for take-off is more energy efficient than taking off without the jump.

A fun collaborative paper out in Nature on RAVEN: a bird-inspired robot that uses it’s legs to propel flight take off. An example of how robots can test ideas about integrated function in animals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...