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Chia-Lung Wu @chialungwu.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint led by Eloise Fadial (@efadial.bsky.social) 🥳🎉! Using PRDM16 cKO mice, hiPSC models, scRNA-seq & CUT&RUN, Eloise shows that PRDM16 is a key genetic and epigenetic regulator of knee chondrogenesis and chondrocyte identity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Blaine Christiansen @blainechristiansen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Happy to share our new publication investigating factors and justifications that California orthopaedic surgeons use to decide whether or not to provide TKA or THA for patients with higher BMI: rdcu.be/d8elM

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Justification of Body Mass Index cutoffs for hip and knee joint arthroplasty among California orthopedic surgeons

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Anne-Marie Malfait @jointsintheworld.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

@oacjournal.bsky.social Follow OAC journal for the latest on osteoarthritis!

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Annemarie Lang @amilangscience.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My first week is in the books & I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined UMich Orthopaedic Surgery as an Assistant Prof 🦴🎉 I’m beyond excited for this new chapter chasing unsolved research questions 🥳👩‍🔬 Special thanks to the best mentor ever @jboerckel.bsky.social 🙏 Here’s to what’s ahead #GoBlue💛💙

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Jason C. Marvin, Ph.D. (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈 @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hey #ORS2025 Annual Meeting attendees! Save the date for our advocacy session on Feb. 8 from 12:45-1:45 PM 🗓️ We're excited to host esteemed musculoskeletal leaders, Drs. Mary Bouxsein & Tamara Alliston, to share their experiences working within the @asbmr.bsky.social! 🤩 @orssociety.bsky.social

A flyer for this session entitled "Evidence-Based Advocacy to Inform Science Policy Decisions: An Orthopaedics Case Study."

The session will be held on Saturday, February 8th, 2025 from 12:45-1:45 PM MT (Room Location TBD). Hosted By The ORS Public Outreach Committee.

The featured speakers are Drs. Mary Bouxsein (Harvard Medical School) and Tamara Alliston (UCSF). Organizers are Drs. Jason Marvin (Harvard Medical School), Erin Mannen (Boise State Univeristy), and Sade Clayton (Washington University in St. Louis) and Bonnie Walton (Vanderbilt).

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Sarah Rice @grainofscience.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We are advertising a fully funded PhD project starting September 2025. We’ve been excited for this for a long time- biologically unravelling the results of genetic studies to understand the mechanism of cartilage breakdown conferred by SNPs. Reach out if interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Investigating the role of COLGALT2 in osteoarthritis using a stem cell model of cartilage health and disease at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Investigating the role of COLGALT2 in osteoarthritis using a stem cell model of cartilage health and disease at Newcastle University, listed on F...

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Best way to end 2024. Our latest preprint, from @cpane94, is out today @biorxivpreprint!! Dynamics of postnatal bone development and epiphyseal synostosis in the caprine autopod. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A paper thread (complete with morphogenesis, mechanobiology, and murder):

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Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD @tuhinaneogi.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Join the first C-COMP seminar of 2025, Jan 16 8 am CST. Dr. Luana Colloca will discuss placebo effects in osteoarthritis — a topic I co-authored with her (see link below). Must register at the C-COMP website for link. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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