Ok folks, time to help with actual science while scrolling social media!

Marine biologist Dr. Steve Haddock is conducting a study on public perception of this critter down below. He needs replies!

Please go talk to Steve and re-skeet far and wide!

YouTube video by Peter Falkingham Oxfordshire Dinosaur tracks - Falkingham Lab from Liverpool John Moores University

Oxford had a talented group make a video about the #dinosaur tracks in Oxfordshire this summer.
Birmingham also had a talented group make a video.

I made the video for our group. It is less professional. And has wildly inappropriate music:

youtu.be/6ULOHr7dkF0

Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws?

You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni

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Yoshinobu Inada on how diving birds mitigate the forces of entering the water at high speed. Not shown here: an awesome catapult system for firing physical models at high speeds!

Danial Forouhar (from @dadriaens.bsky.social lab) had amazing 3D images of the muscluoskeletal system of seahorse tails, which opened lots of exciting questions about how these body muscles actuate tail prehension.

Estelle Klein @estelle-kl.bsky.social is studying how the digging mechanisms of moles can be understood and simplified for biomimetic applications

Peter Kappel @peterkappel.bsky.social from @poppingalab.bsky.social introduced me to the fascinatingly mobile, three-dimensional jaws of leeches with some clever imaging experiments

Girish Kumar (www.southerndragon.in) gave a fanstastic instroduction to praying mantis jumps...these sketches don't do justice to his videos!

Lepidaspis by Nobu Tomura

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social from our own @livevobiomech.bsky.social looked at how singing muscles age (and let me practice drawing birds!)

Charlie Woodrow @charliezoology.bsky.social on why bees buzz at different pitches-- really fun mix of ecology, physiology, and mechanics

Myriam Uhrhan (from htlinlab.com) got me thinking about how insects build their own "strain gauges" to sense how their wings are deforming

Lukas Hageneder from @uafunmorph.bsky.social is studying how the tongue and skeleton of ducks interact to successfully filter food

Helen Gorges helengorges.bsky.social introduced me to the projectile seeds of the spitting cucumber with some amazing videos!

Victor Colognesi vcolognesi.bsky.social from biologylu.bsky.social on wing pitch during flapping flight in birds

Merel Van Gorp @merelvangorp on the adorable--but no less skillful--swimming of boxfish

Chris Richards (@frogtronics.bsky.social) got me thinking in new ways about force-velocity curves, muscle-skeleton interactions and how they control motion.

Here come the science sketchnotes from @sebiology.bsky.social Meeting in Antwerp this July! These are shared with the presenter's permission (but all mistakes, especially spelling, are mine).

First, @sharrison09.bsky.social on the jumping kinematics and power of monkey grasshoppers

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

Speed from fossil trackways: calculations not validated by extant birds on compliant substrates | Biology Letters Fossil trackways serve as a valuable tool in understanding the behaviour and locomotion of extinct animals. Calculating speeds from trackways has become a standard approach, particularly for dinosaurs...

New paper led by Tash Prescott - we applied equations for speed, etc that are commonly used on #dinosaur tracks to tracks made by living birds we could watch and time. TLDR: equations aren't even nearly close. Animals moving freely on compliant substrates very different to steady-state lab data

XROMM XROMM has 9 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

FYI for those doing #XROMM, we've now moved everything over to github: github.com/XROMMPackages

Thank you for summarizing my research program:

(and sharing beautiful fish artwork)

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Research Assistant in Anatomy - position for 6 months. Great short term project to get experience in dissection and work as part of a great team! Please spread yhe word!! @bridgetwaller.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ093/r...

🗓️ Save the date!

26-28 May 2025 | Université de Bordeaux, France.

Symposium and workshop :
Biomechanical simulation techniques in evolutionary morphology and biomedical sciences.

More info and registration: www.eventbrite.fr/e/1263754958...

SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025 Abstract submissions will open from Monday 6th January until Friday 7th March 2025

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

Try it yourself! We've put up a tutorial (figshare.com/collections/...)
All the Maya and Matlab codes: bitbucket.org/ArielCamp/dy...
The CT scans used in this paper: xmaportal.org/webportal/la...

I'd love to hear how people use this. My team are in the process of applying it to pufferfishes...

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/...

We are getting ready for the launch of our MSc! We strongly believe in the benefits of international exchange of expertise - and students! Here is your Programme Director presenting his work on gait and aging at the amazing Garden City University in Bangalore. #biomechanics #mastersdegree

Looking for an awesome Masters project with a fantastic supervisor?

The Cathedral of Our Lady stands on the Handschoenmarkt and is the main church of the diocese of Antwerp. It was dedicated to Mary. The church was a cathedral between 1559 and 1803 and from 1961 to the present. Photo was taken from the Grote Markt. On the right is the statue of Silvius Brabo, created by Jef Lambeaux.

Flyer of SEB Annual conference: 2025 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ANTWERP 8 - 11 JULY 2025 SEBIOLOGY.ORG #SEBCONFERENCE

Just back from #SICB2025 and already in need of more great conferences?

Abstract submission for #SEB2025 is open until Friday 7 March 2025!

We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Antwerp, 8-11 July 2025.

👉 www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

#SEBCONFERENCE