Brecca Gaffney
breccagaffney.bsky.social
Brecca Gaffney
@breccagaffney.bsky.social
Assistant Professor ME and biomechanist @CUDenverENGR & @CUDenverBioE || Postdoc alum @wustl_pt || alum @coschoolofmines @UofDenver @RitchieSchool || ashe/her/hers
I’ve reached inbox 0 the week before finals. Where do I apply for early retirement? This will never be topped.
May 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Check out our new pub where we developed an OpenSim to FEA pipeline to estimate dynamic stresses in those with osseointgrated bone-anchored limbs. A game changing tool!

Thanks to the #NIH for funding this work and these people.
😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Tinsley et al described the development of a subject-specific method for estimating temporal bone-implant loading in patients with BALs. This platform allows prediction of patient-specific in-vivo stresses.
👀https://buff.ly/lNpqqZK
#BiomechSky
March 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This thread *chef’s kiss*
1/ THIS IS AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF NIH FUNDS TO ALL STATES. I have obtained the amounts per state of NIH funds received, number of jobs employed, amounts of revenue generated from NIH funds, and numbers of employments generated from NIH funds (2023 numbers).
February 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
January 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is all so terrifying. One phone call can’t circumvent the gravity of what’s happening, but thousands maybe can.
The antidote for despair is action ❤️

* Dial (202) 224-3121
* Enter zip code
* Leave voicemail
* Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so)

“The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.”

Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅
NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.

Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
January 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Glad to be part of the rush to BlueSky! I’m a biomechanist, love all things dog/craft beer/mountain related, and speak fluent meme-ese. Glad AI can be more articulate with what I do in my actual science life 👇🏽
November 21, 2024 at 11:34 PM