Brian Umberger

YouTube video by Mobilize Center Webinar: Integrating Bone and Joint Geometry into Musculoskeletal Models, Part 1 of 2

Watch the @mobilizecenter.bsky.social/Restore Center webinar with @aclouthier.bsky.social and Erin Lee entitled “Integrating Bone and Joint Geometry into Musculoskeletal Models”

Research presentation: youtu.be/QtqDx3_uK9I
Tutorial: youtu.be/wqxQl3Dm9lc

Our lab (Sayu Lab for Biomechanics and Locomotion) at the University of Utah is hiring a PhD Student to start Fall 2026! I can’t speak highly enough of Kota as a mentor, and on top of that we’re doing super neat science! Apply before Dec 1st. Job info below:

biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

Very excited about our new pre-print on an open-source package that I developed with some of my GT labmates!

Epically Powerful (EP) is a modular mechatronics infrastructure and open-source software package for building and operating wearable and general robotic systems.

arxiv.org/abs/2511.05033

🧠Want to start a #PhD in sensorimotor #neuroscience in Fall 2026? Our NIH- and NSF-funded lab at
@iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or hjblock@iu.edu. Deadline is Dec. 15.

The Omnia bionic leg with a semipowered knee and ankle wins the Cybathlon 2024 leg prosthesis race Rehab Tech’s Omnia prosthesis excelled at Cybathlon, showcasing advanced lower-limb prostheses and user-centered innovation.

A new #ScienceRobotics Focus article describes the design of the Omnia bionic leg with semi-powered knee and ankle, which helped the Rehab Tech team clinch first place at the 2024 Cybathlon leg prosthesis race. https://scim.ag/3J71Xuj

Often lost in the hullabaloo over SNAP funding is the fact that the wealthiest country in the world has 42 million people who need the support of an anti-hunger program. Shameful.

Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.08.687367v1

Moss introduces resolution to put same-sex marriage on Michigan’s ballot amid SCOTUS concerns • Michigan Advance State Sen. Jeremy Moss, the first openly gay state senator in Michigan, has introduced a resolution in the Senate to put a proposal on the ballot that would remove Michigan’s constitutional ban on sam...

We must remove the language banning same-sex marriage that still exists in Michigan‘s Constitution. I’m taking the first step in the State Senate to put it on the ballot.

michiganadvance.com/2025/11/06/m...

A child's drawing of a female scientist, with the text: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Apparently the postings are up for several NIH director positions. Deadlines between 11/14 and 11/21. hr.nih.gov/careers/care...

Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.)

This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.

The bird branch of evolution separated from mammals hundreds of millions of years ago. Yet, their cerebellum has the same structure as ours, including the zebrin bands. Here is the cerebellum of the zebra finch and the most amazing flyer of them all, the hummingbird. doi.org/10.1159/0005...

What to call your prof

Living in the western part of the eastern time zone, we've reached that time of the year when I need to be careful not to complain about how early the sun is setting when talking with my relatives who live in Maine.

**Come work with us!!**

Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Please share!!

Aurora borealis glows green over Earth's horizon, seen from space with city lights below and the Moon shining above. Text says: Life above Earth. On 2 November 2000, the first crew arrived at the International Space Station, beginning 25 years of human presence in orbit.

Across the International Space Station's modules, hundreds of experiments explore how life, materials, and even stars behave in microgravity.

Orbit more cosmic knowledge ➡️ w.wiki/tTY

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!

#locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics

I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

Aging in Place Doesn’t Mean Making Your Home ‘Soulless’

“The interior designer Conway Van der Wolk, who contracted polio as a child and has had mobility challenges since, has adapted her 125-year-old cottage on Cape Cod, Mass. “There hasn’t been a playbook for me,” she said. “I’ve figured out creative ways that are helpful”

PSA: For most people in the U.S., don’t forget to set your clocks back to 1950 before you go to bed tonight.

A classic.

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

Cool research… but the first sentence of the post invokes a rather strong assumption given current circumstances

📣 Funded PhD combining anatomy, surgery and engineering!

💀 This project aims to characterise the biomechanical behaviour of jaw implants following mandibulectomy.

📍@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social Liverpool, UK
🥼@ukshaq.bsky.social @clairebrockett.bsky.social and me!

Lieber Institute For Brain Development - Staff Scientist I, Translational Neuroscience A little about us:The Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) was established in 2010 to plot a new course in biomedical research that would change the lives of individuals affected with develop...

We are hiring for a PhD-level Staff Scientist to join our teams in the Translational Neuroscience Division @lieberinstitute.bsky.social. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of human 🧠 neuroanatomy and molecular neuroscience

recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Two tiny genetic shifts helped early humans walk upright Scientists have linked bipedalism to changes in how the human pelvis developed millions of years ago.

Recent coverage of our Nature Paper on the Evolution of Human Bipedalism:
www.sciencenews.org/article/gene...

Be careful not to use "clear everything" as it will wipe your hard disk 😜

That is my understanding as well.

Do you get the speedup on subsequent runs if you change "clear" to "clear all"? That will clear not only variables, but also functions and anything MATLAB has cached in memory.