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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · May 6

We are recruiting a postdoc for an exciting multi-disciplinary project that explores the use of quantum sensors to measure muscle behaviour - looking for someone with skills in ultrasound, mocap, and EMG - funded by QLD Government's Quantum 2032 Challenge uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Neuromechanics

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Full-time, fixed-term position for 3 years Base salary will range from $80,448 – $107,104 (Academic Level A) + 17% Superannuation Based at our vibrant St L...

uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Mar 7

great opportunity here !

Monica Daley @birdbiomech.bsky.social · Mar 6

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

IMSI Summer Institute 2025: Now Recruiting Trainees! – Center for Integrative Movement Science

cims.uci.edu

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Feb 21

@jexpbiol.bsky.social Special Issue is now out...

Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics and Ecology in Locomotion

Was fun to be part of this paper led by Glen Lichtwark "Integrating muscle energetics into biomechanical models to understand variance in the cost of movement"

tinyurl.com/2xvkwbra

Integrating muscle energetics into biomechanical models to understand variance in the cost of movement

Summary: This Review considers how muscle energetics knowledge is integrated into biomechanical models and how this might be improved to better predict how changing locomotion requirements impacts met...

journals.biologists.com

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Feb 2

Less than 2 weeks until abstracts are due for our satellite meeting "Muscle-tendon mechanics across species" with a great line up of speakers across the human and comparative biomechanics fields (and student grants available via the ISB website: isbweb.org/students/stu...)

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Monica Daley @birdbiomech.bsky.social · Jan 25

A reminder that registration is open for this CNB Muscle-tendon mechanics satellite meeting!

Students can apply for the ISB Technical Meeting grant for $500USD to attend

isbweb.org/students/28-...
(see grant #5: CNB isn't listed because it is a new group, but the funding does apply)

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 16

MTUs cross joints!! they are oh so important :) already looking forward to your talk

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 16

...and more awesome invited speakers:

Kirsten Albracht
Peter Magnusson
Cameron Taylor
Bart Bolsterlee
Jan-Henning Dirks
Benedicte Vanwanseele
Massimo Sartori
Stephanie Ross
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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 16

An all-star line up of invited speakers:

@abigailmackey1.bsky.social
@konowlab.bsky.social
@armanafzadeh.bsky.social
@thebadlizard.bsky.social
@cjclemente.bsky.social
@pashavanb.bsky.social
@francoishug.bsky.social
@lenating.bsky.social
Emma Hodson-Tole
Dominic Farris
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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 16

Registration and abstract submission are now open for the CNB Muscle-tendon mechanics across species Satellite meeting in Helsinki Finland July 23rd-26th 2025 before the main ISB meeting.

Meeting website: www.jyu.fi/en/events/mu...

Abstracts due Feb 14th
registration.contio.fi/jyu/Registra...

Muscle-tendon mechanics across species

ISB2025 satellite event organized by the University of Jyväskylä with the Comparative Neuromuscular Biomechanics Technical Group (CNB).

www.jyu.fi

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 14

@pashavanb.bsky.social so is this our side project when you come visit us us Australia :)? @cjclemente.bsky.social

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 13

haha @lenating.bsky.social , now @cjclemente.bsky.social is looking for CT scans of ducks :) so maybe...

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 13

Simulations reveal the ideal mix of size and muscle strength for high speed creatures.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Thanks @J_Exp_Biol for the great write up on our recent @NatureComms paper

@cjclemente.bsky.social
@FriedlDeGroote

Simulations reveal the ideal mix of size and muscle strength for high speed creatures

When you think of the fastest animal, a cheetah might come to mind. Or an antelope. But it likely isn't a mouse or an elephant. It has long intrigued scientists that the fastest animals are of an inte...

journals.biologists.com

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 13

thanks Lena! Yes we definitely do.

Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Jan 13

thank you!

Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Dec 19

The fast and the furriest
stories.uq.edu.au/news/2024/wh...

Thank you @UQ News for featuring our recent paper in Nature Comms nature.com/articles/s41...

with the dream team of collaborators
@cclemente4
@FriedlDeGroote

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Dec 5

Muscle peeps...pennation angle matters, but does NOT belong in the equation for PCSA. Please, as a field, let's start using the correct equation. We tried to explain a bit of these here -
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Dec 5

So proud of these students and all that they do!

Heading home from a wonderful #ABCANZORS2024
Thanks to ANZSB and ANZORS for putting on a great meeting.

High-quality science and Incredible presentations all round, with India Lindemann and James Williamson taking home conference awards !

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Nov 25

All dressed up to celebrate a successful year of science with the lab family at the UQ School of Biomedical Sciences Year end Gala!
So proud of these superbly talented students and post docs

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Brian Umberger @brianumberger.bsky.social · Nov 25

Postdoc position in skeletal muscle biomechanics with Andy Biewener at Harvard! #Myoblue

biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Muscle Biomechanics - Biomch-L

A postdoctoral position is available to study the effects of muscle size (inactive muscle mass) on the contractile properties of skeletal muscle in the laboratory of Andrew Biewener at the Concord Fie...

biomch-l.isbweb.org

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Nov 19

this is great, would love to be added.

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Mar 12

Ever wondered why cheetahs are so dang fast, but smaller animals, like mice, or larger animals, like elephants, are much slower? Thrilled to share our new study in Nat Comm led by @EvoBiomech & @cclemente4 w/ Peter Bishop. A conversation that started nearly 10 y ago
rdcu.be/dANSE

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thrilled to have our research supported by ALS Association.

We will explore the potential for exoskeletons to assist movement in #ALS. Exciting collab between my team, @SteynLab, @Ngo_Lab, @J_L_Williamson9, Zach Lerner & @biomotum

www.als.org/blog/enhanci...

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Felipe Carpes @felipecarpes.bsky.social · Feb 27

The International Society of Biomechanics is currently accepting bids to host the 2027 Congress. The Executive Council of the ISB is responsible for selecting the site for the biennial International Congress of the Society and for offering guidance and assistance to the Organizing Committee.

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Steve Collins @stevecollins.bsky.social · Dec 6

The addbiomechanics.org tool is now citable!

Article: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Automatic model scaling for more accurate inverse kinematics and dynamics, in minutes.

Fun collab led by Karen Liu, kicked off by a survey here :-)

Much improved in past few months. Give it a try!

Illustration of addbiomechanics's role in the motion capture and data processing pipeline.

Automatic scaling by addbiomechanics takes just a few minutes, compared to about one day for an expert, and results in severalfold lower errors and residual forces and torques.

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · Dec 7

Thanks @brianumberger.bsky.social

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