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Lorenz Assländer

@cybal.bsky.social
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Researching the CYbernetics of human BALance multisensory integration | balance control | motor control | biomechanics VR to test balance | AR to improve balance Wannabe Entrepreneur

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 10/09/2026
Amazing talk @defcon.bsky.social by Bruce Schneier that nicely captures how the current situation goes far beyond AI systems hacking computers. youtu.be/eEBv0STiYhI?...
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DEF CON 34 - Hacking AI - Bruce Schneier
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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 30/04/2026
It’s time to submit your abstracts for this great conference www.posture.sk #posture @cybal.bsky.social @smbruijn.bsky.social @tobyellmers.bsky.social @elmarkal.bsky.social @eleagle.bsky.social @melvynroerdink.bsky.social @deepak-ravi.bsky.social @antoinelangeard.bsky.social @phterrier.bsky.social
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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🚨Two weeks away!🚨 Reminder that our first workshop of the year will happen in two weeks featuring @russpoldrack.org. 🧠 Better Code, Better Science 📅22 April 2026 🔗Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is... #OHBM #OpenScience
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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Lorenz Assländer (Uni Konstanz) to our #DHPRlab meeting. He spoke about the cybernetics of human balance -how the nervous system integrates sensory cues to maintain stability- and about Augmented Visual Orientation Cues technology. Thank you, @cybal.bsky.social🙏
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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 17/12/2025
Wir gratulieren! Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social und Matthias Albrecht von der #UniKonstanz erhalten den Dr. K. H. Eberle Preis 2025 für eine innovative Augmented-Reality-Brille, die das Gleichgewicht älterer Menschen und neurologischer PatientInnen verbessern soll. Details: t1p.de/jcafk
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 27/11/2025
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.
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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
📺 In the German primetime TV show JENKE Experiment, participants endured three hours of boredom - with a few theory-driven curveballs 😁 A vivid reminder that doing “nothing” can be tough & that boredom really matters. Very excited to have contributed to this project. www.joyn.de/bts/serien/j...
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Jenkes neues Selbst-Experiment: Würdest du drei Stunden quälende Langeweile überstehen?
Was passiert, wenn die ständige Reizüberflutung durch das Smartphone wegfällt? Jenke von Wilmsdorff und Kameramann Jan haben genau das in einem radikalen Selbst-Experiment ausprobiert: Drei Stunden ab...
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13/10/2025
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E
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Brian Umberger @brianumberger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Please repost! We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky
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Tenure-track Faculty Position in Biomechanics (Open Rank), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA - Biomch-L
The School of Kinesiology (http://kines.umich.edu) at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate...
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Is it me, or the train moving? We use vision to maintain balance. Just close your eyes while standing on one leg and you typically feel less stable. But if we use vision, how come we do not fall when looking at a moving visual reference, e.g. a train? 📈🧠🧪 #sensorimotor #balance #BiomechSky
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A new blog, written together with @academic-integrity.bsky.social
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 03/08/2025
Newton's Laws of Graduation, Part 1
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species
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Christopher McCrum @chrismccrum.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
New job vacancy! Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt Universities vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... with me, @melvynroerdink.bsky.social Pieter Meyns & @kennethmeijer.bsky.social @ispgr.bsky.social @worldfallssociety.bsky.social
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Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt University
Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt University
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Melvyn Roerdink @melvynroerdink.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Looking for a PhD-student position? Eager to work with advanced rehabtech and scalable augmented-reality solutions for fall-risk assessment and treatment? Learn from a team of scientists, Strolll entrepreneurs & developers and clinicians? Love interacting with older adults in NL & BE? Please apply!
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
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Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📢 New Publication 📢 Effort differentially shapes behavior before, during & after an action. w/ @bcheval.bsky.social, Silvio & Florent, we explore stage-specific effects of physical effort & how these dynamically modulate each other. Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🤩🤩 Curious? ⬇️
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 29/05/2025
I wrote an article earlier in the week arguing that we need to give junior researchers more independence earlier, and this should be our focus, not moonshot mega projects led by senior researchers. I was surprised how much agreement I'm seeing. So next question: how do we do this?
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Science question: we believe we have identified a mechanism for sensory integration in balance. We predicted distortions, tested and confirmed them. Reviewer: "..it is difficult to accept that these distortions provide additional support to the proposed model given there may be other sources." 🧪🧠📈
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Interested in sensory integration in human balance? We present a virtual reality app to measure sensory integration and applications in a conference workshop @ispgr.bsky.social ispgr.org/program/#wor... Presenters: Bob Peterka, Laurie King, Chris Away, Saskia Neumann @dart-llui.bsky.social and me
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ISPGR World Congress program - ISPGR
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
1/5) 🫤 I'm 100% not with you on this. Sorry, @ecologistgreen.bsky.social, but IMO this editorial is totally off the mark. What does peer review accomplish? Does it make science more trustworthy and credible? Nope. Let's get real for a moment... 🧪
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Interested in motor control or cerebellar function? We have two openings for graduate students for Fall 25. Join the sensorimotor superlab - our interdisciplinary research group Paul Gribble and Andrew Pruszynski. Application instructions at diedrichsenlab.org. Please repost 🙏
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I don't think the article is as noteworthy as the extraordinary open peer review and editorial summaries - imagine it was all done this way metaror.org/kotahi/artic...
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Approximately 1 in 7 Scientific Papers Are Fake
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
When the internal review process is the most rigorous, you mostly get helpful reviewer comments - and sometimes this. Thank you reviewer #2 😎
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Big day on our journey. Today we had the first vestibular patient testing our newest Augmented Reality AVOC device for Fall prevention. 🧵 #VRcademicSky #XR #balance #FallPrevention 🧠🧪
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Christopher McCrum @chrismccrum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Pleased to share our new preprint "The impact of perturbation intensity schedule on improvements in reactive balance control in young adults: an experimental study" together with @avrilmansfield.bsky.social #balance #stability #falls #openaccess 🧪
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Brian Wansink's whole gig getting blown up by him admitting to p-hacking in a smug blog post is just an all time great self-own. Well worth reading about if you don't know the story. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/step...
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Sliced And Diced: The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data ...
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Jaap van Dieen @jvandieen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Attention Motor Impairment Researchers and Clinicians! Registration and abstract submission for the International Motor Impairment Conference 2025 are now open. Visit our website and find our confirmed speakers, Abstract Submission & Early bird registration: motorimpairment.org
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International Motor Impairment Conference – Next conference: 8-10 October 2025, Amsterdam
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#preprint 📢 Writing this was time-consuming, effortful, but never boring 🤩 w/ @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social, @jamesdanckert.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social & @corimartarelli.bsky.social, we explored how boredom and effort dynamically shape our experience of time: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
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David A Muller @davidamuller.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In 2006 I plotted the number of Nature journals vs time and it sure looked like a Moore’s law: “the number of nature journals doubles every five years”. It’s slowed down to every 7.5 years, but we are still on track to get every scientist their own personal journal 🧪 #scipub
Log log plot showing a good fit to number of journals in the nature portfolio  vs time
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Marie McNeely @phdmarie.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
#Parkinsons #gait researchers, this is a great funding opportunity from MJFF! Pre-proposals are due Jan 14th. Learn more about their Personalized Approaches for Understanding, Assessing and Improving Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Research Program here: www.michaeljfox.org/grant/person... 🧠📈 🧪 🧠🔄
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Personalized Approaches for Understanding, Assessing and Improving Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Research Program
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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 10/12/2024
One of twitter's greatest science accounts is back!
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Deepak Ravi @deepak-ravi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Abstract submission for the ESB Congress is officially open - share your research with the European biomechanics community. esbiomech2025.org/abstract-sub...
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Abstract submission | ESBiomech 2025
Present your research in biomechanics during ESB 2025 in Zürich, Switzerland, on 6-9 July 2025! Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2025.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 02/12/2024
Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
A screenshot of a paper on bioarxiv illustrating the lack of blue sky share button!
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Just found this pretty cool study by skyless Barbusse, peer-review @pci-hms.bsky.social and recommended by @drannek.bsky.social. How do we adapt our movements to changes in force-fields? healthmovsci.peercommunityin.org/PCIHealthMov... #sensorimotor #neuroskyence
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An inverse gravity experiment supports the theory of an internal...
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This paper is now under review and preprinted for your convenience at osf.io/preprints/ps... Comments, feedback, questions, all welcome!
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Eric Leonardis @ericleonardis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I love how many brain signals that people thought were related to cognition are actually just related to breathing lol nice work everyone this is going great
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
In human balance, how do CoP and CoM relate to each other? A small thing, but it is amazing how often people get this wrong. CoP (relative to ankle joints) is a measure of torque, while CoM is a measure of body movement. #balance #posture 🧪
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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 22/11/2024
In my Q above I intend Chris' third (outcome) sense; balance (noun). But I don't think "stability" or "not-falling" are sufficiently well-defined to work in e.g. robot design without human interpretation for each special case. Can we do better? #neuroskyence #balance 🧪 bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Trying to create a feed for gait and posture research. Preview in @skyfeed.app works fine, but the feed itself differs from the preview. Is this a known issue?
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ESB Congress @esbcongress.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
⏳ 10 Days Left! ⏳ Ready to present your Perspective Talk at #ESB2025? We’re looking for speakers to: 🔸 Highlight advancements in biomechanics. 🔸 Synthesize findings from the field. 🔸 Map out future directions for innovation. 📅 Deadline: 30 Nov 2024 👉 Submit now: esbiomech2025.org #Biomechanics
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
@bsky.app I need Bookmarks to save #science posts that I can read later
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🌟 We're Hiring! 🌟 My team is looking for a Research Coordinator to support our portfolio of research activities. If you thrive organising complex projects and managing a range of activities, this is the role for you. 📢 More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49152/ 📄 Apply by: 29th November 2024
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Research Co-ordinator (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Co-ordinator (Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
ESB 2025 Congress will be held at ETH Zürich hosted by @wrtaylor.bsky.social and colleagues with famous @trackingactions.bsky.social and OpenSim creator Scott Delp giving keynotes. esbiomech2025.org #BiomechSky
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ESBiomech 2025 | ESB 2025 Congress
30th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics taking place on 6 - 9 July 2025 in Zürich, Switzerland. | AI in Biomechanics: Opportunities and Challenges
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 18/11/2024
Once the publishers do this + move their journal accounts here, it’s officially game over for academic X. Editors, please encourage your journals to open accounts here. Nature is already here…
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psudingwelllab.bsky.social @psudingwelllab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Recruiting Ph.D. Students!! The Penn State Locomotor Control (LoCo) Lab is actively recruiting highly qualified graduate students interested in starting in Fall (Aug) 2025 to study the biodynamics and motor control of human walking.
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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 17/11/2024
This starter pack is intended for researchers in all areas of gait and posture - just let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/UaoaLRZ
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