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Joel Boerckel

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Assc Prof @pennmedicine.bsky.social. Co-Director, McKay Orthopaedic Research Labs. Mechanobiology of development & regeneration. Prov. 25:2. 🦛 Philadelphia, PA

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Jun 19

Out latest preprint, from @cpane94.bsky.social in the lab, is out today!

Maternal exercise rescues fetal akinesia-impaired joint and bone development.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So excited for this one - a wonderful collab with Niamh Nowlan, supported by the US-Ireland Partnership Programme ❤️

“Supervised” maternal wheel running exercise from E13.5-E16.5

Maternal exercise induces passive movements that rescue the effects of fetal akinesia on forelimb bone and joint development.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Sep 7

I spy Ike!

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you, dear friend!

Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Jul 3

castrates and bids the geldings be fruitful…

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats Kate! So deserved!!

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$isfrfractures.bsky.social$

ORS ISFR @isfrfractures.bsky.social · Jun 26

HUGE congratulations to Aboubacar Wague for 🏆 winning the ISFR 3-MT Research Pitch Competition today! Aboubacar presented his work on the anti-bacterial properties of Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors in infection control during fracture repair! 🦴🦠🔬 #bonehealing

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Annemarie Lang @amilangscience.bsky.social · Jun 16

Such a pleasure to contribute to this nice session 🧫🦴🔬 thanks for the shout out @ricgottardi.bsky.social so glad for your contribution to the project I just highlighted. Looking forward to amazing days in #Davos at #eors2025 🩻🎉

Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Jun 16

Go @amilangscience.bsky.social! Great talk at #eors2025 from in vitro models to in vivo and back in vitro to study fracture healing and the role of vasculature! @umich.edu @jboerckel.bsky.social

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Jun 15

lol

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Emily Quarato @emy9941.bsky.social · Jun 12

Today @asbmr.bsky.social celebrates another superstar in the MSK field! @gkotsaris90.bsky.social at UPenn focuses on how mechanical cues influence the immune landscape during tissue regeneration ! Check out his bibliography and follow him to keep up with his work #ASBMR #memberspotlight ‍🔬

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Jun 14

Such a bittersweet day in the lab - so proud of you @madhura0327.bsky.social! 🙌🏻

I’m so excited to see everything you’ll discover next with @cjrosenlab.bsky.social!

Madhura Nijsure, PhD @madhura0327.bsky.social · Jun 14

Wrapping up my last day in @jboerckel.bsky.social’s lab with one last round of imaging with @gkotsaris90.bsky.social! Philly’s been home for six incredible years—full of science, laughter, and amazing friends. It’s a tough world, but the besties make it less scary. On to the next adventure ❤️

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Jun 4

Proud to see @cpane94.bsky.social giving an @asbmr.bsky.social Member Spotlight Webinar next week (Thursday the 12th)!

He'll be talking about his latest work: "Maternal exercise rescues fetal akinesia-impaired joint and bone development"

Register here: d5jjrf04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/5I+113/d...

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Jun 1

The latest version me was the worst of the whole franchise. The New Yorker described it as “expository blather” and there has never been a more perfect phrase for a movie.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 31

Down with acronyms

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 31

I made it today too!

Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 30

Congratulations, Frank!

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Frank Beier @beierlab.bsky.social · May 29

Honoured to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Connective Tissue Society! A testament to the great work by our fantastic lab members and collaborators over the last 25 years or so. Thank you all!!

Scientific Program

The 29th Annual Canadian Connective Tissue ConferenceMontreal, QC, May 26-28, 2025 Overview Download the complete program booklet: CCTC 2025 Program Booklet DATE / TIME EVENT DETAILS DAY 1 Monday, May...

connective-tissue-canada.com

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 29

Congrats Terry! Effective leadership matters always, but especially at times like these.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 28

Congrats @clarissacoveney.bsky.social & @tdcapellini.bsky.social!

tdcapellini.bsky.social @tdcapellini.bsky.social · May 21

1) Despite the chaos, I am very pleased to present the terrific research conducted by my post-doc @clarissacoveney.bsky.social. acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Complex regulatory interactions at GDF5 shape joint morphology and osteoarthritis disease risk

Objectives To reveal causal level osteoarthritis (OA) disease biology by targeting regulatory interactions at GDF5. Methods By investigating different GDF5 regulatory regions (R2, R3-5, R7-R9, R18...

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 27

Praying for you, Frank! Much love from Philadelphia ❤️

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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · May 24

One problem we face today is how few people understand the science that helps us all. Some scientists are able to explain the importance of their work. @baym.lol of Harvard University is one of them. Science is for everyone, and benefits us all more than most people know.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 24

Eadweard in the wild @cpane94.bsky.social

Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · May 24

Eadweard Muybridge did this cat motion study in 1887. Just posting it for everyone who thinks Edwardian and late Victorian cats had to sit still for 5 minutes to be photographed. ☺️ www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/c...

$Series of black and white photos in four rows of six, each one capturing a fraction of a second of a shorthaired mackerel tabby cat running. It resembled the frames of a film.$

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 21

amazing. you rarely get an inverse baby!

Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 20

RNA? 😂

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · May 18

Alcian blue staining of cartilage in a two-headed zebrafish embryo. Credit to @jakeleyhr.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Ventral view of a two-headed zebrafish stained with a dye that marks collagen. You can see the developed structure of the jaw and head.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · May 18

Im not generally a fatalist, but we’re going to send this generation into an epistemological tailspin.