Armita R. Manafzadeh

Amazing, congrats to the whole team! Can’t wait to teach with this.

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access!

doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!

Our paper on entry point-transition point angle elevation in patellofemoral instability patients, led by PhD student Johannes Sieberer and featuring his awesome Python/C# 3D curvature visualization tool (zenodo.org/records/1121...), is out now in OJSM: doi.org/10.1177/2325...

Thanks to generous funding from the Institute, we’ll be launching a world-class #XROMM facility dedicated to tech innovation. Opportunities to come for students (through the Quantitative Biosciences, Biology, or Applied Physiology PhD programs) and postdocs beginning in August 2026.

✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!

Congratulations, Anwyn!! 🥳

Great writeup by @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social! 🐢

A nice conceptual summary of what we’ve learned so far in the Fulkerson group about the importance of studying kneecaps in 3D, led by med student Nancy Park (who just matched ortho at Duke — congrats, Nancy!!), is out today in Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review: journals.lww.com/sportsmedart...

Very much looking forward to this symposium (even though I'll be Zooming in while everyone's in Bordeaux). Thanks to @hugodutel.bsky.social for the invitation!

🗓️ 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...

Our latest Fulkerson group paper, led by student J. Sieberer, is out in The Knee (my favorite journal name yet). We create & test an AI-driven workflow to automatically calculate patellar tilt in 3-D, facilitating clinical diagnosis of patellar instability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey

I'm the guest editor on this special issue on TBI. Awesome work from the Dean lab 🧪 💀

Our paper led by Mike Schindler is out #OA in @anatrecord.bsky.social. We explore how the craniofacial hinge joint balances mobility & stability in helmeted hornbills, birds w/ high-impact head-butting behavior. Thanks to Mason Dean for inviting me to join the fun! tinyurl.com/595v6dzz

So proud of Dr. @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social, PhD for his successful dissertation defense yesterday. Listening to the way Caleb talks about his research reminds us all of why we got into this business to begin with. Congratulations, Dr. Gordon 🐬🦖

Finally took a trip on the ferry to hang out with the anatomy crew down at Stony Brook — thanks so much to Kimi Chapelle and Drew Moore for the invitation!!

Had a lovely time chatting with The Parrot Club of Connecticut about avian joints from beaks to toes last night 🦜🦴

Congratulations, Daniel!!

So excited for you, @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social!! Can't wait! 🦎🌊

Hey BlueSky! I’ll be defending my PhD dissertation on Monday, Feb 24 from 1–2pm US ET. Message me for Zoom info if you’re interested!

Fun to see our recent work on the landing page for Research at Yale today!

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Very pleased to have been invited to crash the muscle-tendon party in Finland this summer – will be speaking on 24 July and subjecting everyone to a side of #joints. Come join us!

10 yrs ago (oof), a real grown-up scientist™️ (Sarah Werning) came to my first talk and made me feel like I could make it in science. I still haven't decided whether to forgive her. It's fun/weird to be back at #SICB2025 a whole decade later. Catch my talk tomorrow (Saturday) @ 2:45pm.

Shab-e Yalda Mobarak! || Happy Solstice! 🍉❄️
شب یلدا مبارک

Aw, what a lovely start to my Friday. Thanks so much, @stevebrusatte.bsky.social! ☺️

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...

Are you interested in learning about how engineering and physics can be applied to study the motions of #plants, #invertebrates, and #animals? Here's a non-exhaustive list of Comparative Biomechanists to get started! 🦋 🐟 🦎 🌿 🧪
go.bsky.app/HvHFgvB

Apologies for any that I may have been missed.