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Annabelle Singer @drannabellesinger.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Check out this podcast highlighting our research and BME research more broadly. Thanks @danzigerzachary.bsky.social and Erin Buckley for making this happen
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Kiisa Nishikawa @kiisa.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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ISPGR @ispgr.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
One of ISPGR's own! Virtual tickets still available for those wanting to hear a variety of talks. More information can be found on their website.
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Garrett Stanley and I are leading the recruitment of a senior faculty position in BME at Georgia Tech and Emory, focused on Neural Engineering. Come talk to us, we're looking for a leader in research and training, in areas with neurotranslation potential. More details here: lnkd.in/eusCqCSR
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Fred Crevecoeur @fredcrevecoeur.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🚨🚨 We're hiring !! Looking for postdoc? Come work in an international, collaborative and stimulating environment on mechanisms of human upper limb motor control 👇👇👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/386645
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Postdoc Position on Systems Neuroscience, Motor Control at UCLouvain, Belgium
Project Title: Multi-disciplinary, multi-lab investigations of the neural bases of human sensorimotor control Project Description:
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Stoked to see our study out in final form! Big kudos to @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social for driving this along for the past 5 years.
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hey y'all, when/where is the SfN Neurorehabilitation Social?
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Get your panel and talk submission to NCM Japan! The meeting is in Kobe in April 2026. Hope to see you there!
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
You have to read @kelseytea.bsky.social excellent work on dexterity in deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. A powerful example of cross species comparisons to study principles of motor control ✅
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
wow, I'm proud of PhD student Jake Stephens' work with Tim Cope and me on understanding multi sensory proprioceptive integration on this work.
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Holy Shift! Podcast @holyshiftresearch.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow : Vision Rewired | Ming-Fai Fong. Have a listen:
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Vision Rewired | Ming-Fai Fong
In this episode of Holy Shift!, host Zachary Danziger talks with Dr....
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our department started a podcast to let people know about our research and the impact that it has on the public! Please have a listen and subscribe to the series! Also available on Apple podcast, Spotify, and Transistor, www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Holy Shift! Podcast @holyshiftresearch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow : A Life in Balance | Lena Ting. Have a listen:
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A Life in Balance | Lena Ting
In this episode of Holy Shift!, host Angela Gill Nelms talks with Dr....
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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New nationwide data links TCE exposure to higher Parkinson’s risk. Trichloroethylene or TCE is a widely used industrial solvent and environmental contaminant that can be found in air, soil and water. New paper: TCE associated w/ increased risk of Parkinson’s in older adults across USA.
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Congrats @vulcnethologist.bsky.social on a great paper! This a cool technology that is the future of tracking motion within the body during behavior. @movementscience.bsky.social this might be what we need for tracking muscles and tendon during movement!
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Sign the petition to restore eligibility of 2nd year grad students to the NSF GRFP. They are being robbed of the opportunities to advance their innovative science. @chubicki.bsky.social
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Zach Danziger @danzigerzachary.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Our new podcast is out about why biomedical science is so important to our communities: Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow Please Share! Our first episode is Dr. Mike Davis on repairing congenital heart defects in children. ❣️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvO...
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Holy Shift: Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow - Episode 1: YOUR NEW HEART | Mike Davis
YouTube video by Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My colleagues in BME started a podcast to explain the importance of biomedical engineering research and why we need to prioritize keeping these impactful innovations funded. Go Zach and Erin!
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Emory Biology is hiring a neuroscientist! We have a great supportive and innovative neuroscience and neural engineering community here!
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Malu Murugan @malu-murugan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.
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Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience - Atlanta, Georgia job with malia.escobar@emory.edu | 675335
Candidate uses experimental approaches to examine any aspect of neural function, including molecular, cellular, systems, or developmental neuroscience
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Annabelle Singer @drannabellesinger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Check out our latest paper today in Nature: “Goal specific hippocampal inhibition gates learning” www.nature.com/articles/s41... By Nuri Jeong, Xiao Zheng, Abby Paulson, Steph Prince and colleagues.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 29/03/2025
We are excited to announce our official partnership with @indivisible.org for the National Day of Action on April 5th! Stand Up for Science says: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE! #standupforscience #handsoffourscience Find and register for an event near you: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
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Liz Borkowski @lizborkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 05/11/2024
saw this piece being shared around on the bird site and sharing it here cuz it's so good genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We stood up for science! Hoping to keep making our voices heard.
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ASNR @asnrehab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Don't miss our #ASNR2025 session on #AI and computational modeling to diagnose and treat functional mobility deficits! We can't wait to hear the latest from Drs. @lenating.bsky.social, @jlucasmckay.bsky.social, @peabody124.bsky.social, Trisha Kesar, & Hyeok Kwon! 🧠🔄 🧠📈 🧪 www.asnr.com/i4a/pages/in...
The text at the top reads, "#ASNR2025 Scientific Symposium 2: Artificial Intelligence and Computational Modeling for Diagnosis and Treatment of Functional Mobility Deficits". there are headshot photos below of each of the speakers named in the post. The text at the bottom reads, "Wednesday, April 23, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm ET, Grand Hyatt Buckhead in Atlanta, GA". The logo for the American Society of Neurorehabilitation appears in the lower right.
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I don’t see an end to this problem. Is there a way to challenge the fag order on NIH so grant review can proceed? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...
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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
@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
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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...
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This will send shock waves through academia. It’s not just about the students but also the labs trying to keep research programs going. A personnel gap could set things back significantly.
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is going to affect a lot of people in the field, from professors to postdoc and students.
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American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) @aimbe-official.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
AIMBE has posted a public statement on the impact of federal policy changes on biomedical research: aimbe.org/advocate/wri... Above, we have also developed an advocacy letter for members of the medical & biological engineering community to send to their congressional representatives on this matter.
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Write Your Lawmakers - AIMBE
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The inability to make public announcements has effectively frozen all grant review activity by the NIH.
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Chris Rozell @crozell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I’m inviting you to attend a conference May 7-8 at Georgia Tech called InterfaceNeuro (interfaceneuro.org), targeting the intersection of neuroscience, neuroengineering, clinical/translational research, neurotech industry, and individuals with lived experiences. Please share! #neuroskyence 🧠🧪
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InterfaceNeuro | Conference on Neuroengineering
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🤩🤩 this is going to be amazing!
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Having an evolutionary perspective is absolutely critical to understanding the brain! If you haven’t heard Paul Cisek talk about it, here’s your chance!
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Amazing work! I was once asked by my biomechanics class whether I’d like to fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses. I tried to explain scaling to them and why I’d definitely pick the horse-sized duck. Can y’all run that simulation for me please?
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Congrats @taylorjmdick.bsky.social @cjclemente.bsky.social Can we get Friedl on Bluesky?
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Find out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Screen shot of the top of the first page of the Journal of Experimental Biology Editorial, JEB launches a new article type for theory and modelling studies, written by S. N. Patek, Monica A. Daley, Matthew McHenry and Sanjay Sane. The first sentence of the Editorial reads: JEB recently launched a new article type called Theory & Modelling.
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Takaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Targeted stimulation of motor cortex neural ensembles drives learned movements
During the execution of learned motor skills, the neural population in the layer 2/3 (L2/3) of the primary motor cortex (M1) expresses a reproducible spatiotemporal activity pattern. It is debated whe...
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
More jobs for biomechanists!
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ASNR @asnrehab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
For our 1st #FollowFriday of the #NewYear, follow ASNR Board Member @karuneshganguly.bsky.social to learn more about his research using #sleep, #engineering, #neuromodulation, & brain-computer interfaces (#BCI) to augment motor function! #neurorehabilitation #rehabilitation #neuroscience 🧪
On the left side of the image, the text reads, "Get connected with ASNR members and build your network! Dr. Karunesh Ganguly @karuneshganguly.bsky.social #FollowFriday. On the right side of the image, there is a headshot photo of Karunesh, and the logo for the American Society of Neurorehabilitation is displayed below.
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Continuing the #SICB2025 thread, we also have two talks about muscle modeling and muscle spindles on Tuesday.
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
As #SICB2025 is in Atlanta, it'll be one of my rare visits to my first scientific conference when it was American Society of Zoologists. Here are the posters we will be presenting Sunday afternoon about muscle spindles and golgi tendon organs by Surabhi Simha and Jake Stephens with Sawicki and Cope.
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If you're headed to #SICB2025, Tuthill/ @bingbrunton.bsky.social lab graduate student extraordinaire Raveena Chhibber will be presenting a talk on her PhD project in the primo slot of Sunday morning at 9:00 AM.
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Its @kjakubowski.bsky.social's first paper from the lab! Delayed center of mass feedback decomposes multiple sources of joint torque in response to perturbations. One bump creates a sequence of intrinsic feedback, subcortical, and then cortical sensorimotor feedback joint torque contributions.
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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Why is recovering from a loss of balance sometimes harder when we overthink it? In our new EEG study (now out in Jneuro!), we show that consciously controlling balance dampens the cortical response to a sudden loss of balance (and balance gets worse)! www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...
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A “Conscious” Loss of Balance: Directing Attention to Movement Can Impair the Cortical Response to Postural Perturbations
“Trying too hard” can interfere with skilled movement, such as sports and music playing. Postural control can similarly suffer when conscious attention is directed toward it (“conscious movement proce...
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I’m giving a career talk for SfN Online this afternoon at 1pm EST. Free for members or $15. neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-r...
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Finding Balance Outside the Box: Neuromechanics of Skilled and Impaired Movements
<p>Just as the unique experiences of each individual shape the way they move, this session will recount how interdisciplinary training in biomechanics, neurophysiology, and engineering, coupled with d...
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Lets get some muscle and neuro folks in these jobs! GT Biological Sciences Integrative Physiologist academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/262... Emory Biology Theoretical Biologist apply.interfolio.com/131940 GT/Emory BME Robotics, AI, Aging, Cancer, Synthetic Biology bme.gatech.edu/bme/job/mult...
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Gordon Berman @gordonberman.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Come join us here in Emory Biology! Open rank TT position in Theoretical Biology, defined very broadly. Hang out in Atlanta with a great group of colleagues studying the theory and modeling of living systems! If anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out to me! apply.interfolio.com/131940
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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
I'm happy that my debut post is to announce that our long-awaited Gait Signatures paper is finally out. Kudos to the perseverance and talent of Taniel Winner for driving this collaboration with @gordonberman.bsky.social and Trisha Kesar. Individual differences in movement are real!
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