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The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida is conducting a broad search for tenure-track faculty.

One of the areas of focus is robotics. I'd love to welcome a new colleague and potential collaborator working at the interface of robotics and humans!

I'm looking for a PhD student to join the lab in Fall 2026! Please share with anyone who may be interested in biomechanics, gait, and using inertial measurement units to measure kinematics in real-world settings.

Brand new POSTDOC opportunity in my lab (!!) will help lead a multi-institutional collaboration designed to enhance understanding of anatomic variability in Achilles tendinopathy toward more effective, personalized clinical interventions.

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Kinesiology and Applied Physiology at UD is hiring a biomechanist! We invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with a preferred research focus in musuloskeletal modeling.
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Our next webinar "Balance is Vital: Quantitative Balance Testing To Support Clinical Decision Making Around Fall Risk" will be given by Ajit Chaudhari on Sept 24 at 2 pm ET. This webinar is free to anyone, and recording is available to members.
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We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

I have agreed to chair Models and Motor Control at ISB (tuesday morning). I'm looking for a co-chair who is student/postdoc in this area. If you have a mentee or person to suggest please let me know!

🚨 Now recruiting 2 PhD students @ MSU!

Join a funded study investigating early arthritis after knee surgery using:

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Yes, we do this to estimate ~sagittal axes from walking rather than relying on people calibrating each day. I like the idea of building in some constraints to improve estimations when uncertainty increases but wonder how this might impact cases where gait truly varies within or between people.

Thoughts on estimating or defining sensor-to-segment position and orientation for real-world uses where direct measurement is impractical? Our current approaches use functional orientation or assumptions about orientation relative to gravity but this limits which biomechanics you can estimate.

Enjoying this thread! "Knowing" the position and orientation of an IMU on a segment is an important step for biomechanics that require estimates of segment orientation. Thanks for sharing how you're measuring or defining this (I sometimes feel that we don't advertise assumptions enough).

Infographic for BBA Black History Month Town Hall. Feb 28th at 6pm EST. Lifting voices. Supporting community. Features new BBA logo and cartoon portraits of Black people.

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Cultivating allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia - Nature Human Behaviour We propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia: listening to marginalized voices, challenging one's own biases, speaking up to include disadvantaged groups, speaking out to confront bias, advocating for inclusive policies and dismantling institutional biases.

The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪

Hello, early career researchers. The deadline for applications for the Promising Young Scientist and Jacquelin Perry Emerging Female Scientist Award are coming up on Feb 28. I HIGHLY encourage you to submit an application. See details here isb2025.com/submission/a...

My department is hiring a new Athletic Training Program Director.

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Gait Biomechanics Lab members Julien, Grace, and Millissia presented their work on real-world gait, knee OA symptoms, and the impact of fatigue at yesterday's UD College of Health Sciences research day. Always fun to share our science with colleagues!