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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/04/2024

This is the best Dennett obituary so far, not least because it mentions this perfect passage from 'Consciousness Explained' arstechnica.com/science/2024...

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🎃 beagle 🐈‍⬛ @beagle.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

statement by UT Austin faculty, announcing a strike tomorrow in protest of the police presence on campus

Too long for alt text here's a summary: faculty members at UT Austin are condemning the university administration's decision to invite heavily armed city police and state troopers to the campus in response to a planned peaceful educational event by the Palestine Solidarity Committee. The event was meant to include teach-ins, study sessions, pizza, and an art workshop, with no threat of violence or disruption. The faculty members witnessed police using excessive force against students, including punching a female student, knocking over a legal observer, and violently arresting students for standing at the front of the crowd. They are calling for no business as usual on campus and are urging the community to gather at the main mall in front of UT Tower the following day.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Imagine delivering this mini-tirade as the opener to your conference talk. Feels like we used to let scientists have more fun... psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/194... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

In most psychological ivory towers
there will be found an animal labora-
tory. The scientists who live there
think of themselves as theoretical psy-
chologists, since they obviously have no
other rationalization to explain their ex-
travagantly paid and idyllic sinecures.
These theoretical psychologists have one
great advantage over those psychological
citizens who study men and women.
The theoreticians can subject their sub-
human animals, be they rats, dogs, or
monkeys, to more rigorous controls than
can ordinarily be exerted over human
beings. The obligation of the theoreti-
cal psychologist is to discover general
laws of behavior applicable to mice,
monkeys, and men. In this obligation
the .theoretical psychologist has often
failed. His deductions frequently have
had no generality beyond the species
which he has studied, and his laws have
been so limited that attempts to apply
them to man have resulted in confusion
rather than clarification.

This paper was presented as the presiden-
tial address of the Midwestern Psychological
Association meetings in St. Paul, May 7, 1948.

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Michael Baggaley @mbaggaley.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Sports gambling could signify an interesting downfall of amateur sport. Should we care? www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

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Konow lab at UMass Lowell @konowlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

A little under two weeks until (soft) close for applications to our #NSF funded #graduate student and #postdoc positions. If you are interested in #multiscale #biomechanics #research, #comparative #muscle function, and #functional #morphology, please PM me to discuss these openings. Pls share widely

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Michael Baggaley @mbaggaley.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Why are all the large biomechanics conferences held June - August? #BiomechSky

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Seong-won Han @seongwonhan.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Paper alert!📢 We systematically explored the nature of sarcomere length non-uniformity using single myofibrils, and found that sarcomere length non-uniformity does NOT occur randomly in both active and passive states! Details can be found: 👇 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... #BiomechSky

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Gaining new understanding of sarcomere length non-uniformities in skeletal muscles

Sarcomere lengths are non-uniform on all structural levels of mammalian skeletal muscle. These nonuniformities have been associated with a variety of mechanical properties, including residual force en...

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UK Plant Biomech @ukplantbiomech.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Don't forget to register for UK Plant Biomechanics Day! Deadline: 18 December 2023 (40 GBP fee payment is not due until February). Register here: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/uk-plant-bio.... Organised by @robinsonsci.bsky.social, @slcuplants.bsky.social, Naomi Nakayama. #UKPlantBioMech

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keelin @keelin12ft.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Mets sports science job openings for any baseball peeps out there.

Post from Benjamin Hansen, NY Mets Director of Performance Technology, on LinkedIn:

"We are excited to announce four open positions in our Performance Technology Department at the New York Mets: Sports Scientist (Major League), Field Engineer (Scouting), Sports Science Associate (MiLB), Biomechanics Associate (BMA Lab)

These roles offer unique opportunities to contribute to our innovative team, focusing on sports technology and biomechanics.

For more information and to apply, please visit the following links:
Major League Sports Scientist: (https://lnkd.in/gbrwEQ2v)
Field Engineer: (https://lnkd.in/gJtKbdiN)
MiLB Sports Science Associate: (https://lnkd.in/gFk5TPcB)
Biomechanics Associate: (https://lnkd.in/gNMUVekn)"

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Konow lab at UMass Lowell @konowlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

We are hiring! Our NSF award unravels determinants of bite force across biological scales in rodent jaw systems. Several graduate student lines available (PM me and apply via tinyurl.com/UMLAPPLBIOLPhD ). Postdoc funds also available, see ad: tinyurl.com/KonowlabNSF - Please share and re-post widely

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Konow lab at UMass Lowell @konowlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

We are hiring! New NIH award to measure inertial effects of (in)active muscle mass. Collab w/ Harvard and Simon Fraser U. A graduate student RA (PM me and apply through tinyurl.com/UMLAPPLBIOLPhD ). Postdoc funds also available: Ad at: tinyurl.com/KonowlabNIH - Please share and re-post widely!

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Michael Baggaley @mbaggaley.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Why is this not standard practice? Although probably better without anonymous reviews. Maybe? Thoughts? "In our open peer review model, we will publish the editorial decision letters, reviews (in anonymized form), and the authors' responses to the critiques along with the article." #BiomechSky

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Michael Baggaley @mbaggaley.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

The funny thing about finding new music on youtube is that - for me - my interest is largely driven by the album artwork. Feels like we've come full circle.

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Nataliya Rokhmanova @nrokh.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

🚨#BiomechSky users!🚨 We have migrated to a new server to host our feed. Please re-like/re-pin/re-add this NEW feed to ensure you stay up to date on biomechanics updates: bsky.app/profile/did:... Thanks x 100 to @cvhammond.biomech.dev for pulling it off 👍

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Peter Fino @pcfino.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

We're recruiting funded PhD students who are focused on balance control, locomotion, and rehabilitation. Come join our multidisciplinary group of biomechanists, kinesiologists, rehab scientists, engineers, and neuroscientists. petercfino.wixsite.com/nallab

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Michael Baggaley @mbaggaley.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Two TT opportunities at UCalgary in ex phys and biomechics: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1341997... internal.careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1342032...

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 27/09/2023

Posting a preprint has become the moment that feels meaningful. As in: Here it is, the piece I worked so hard on, for the public to read and discuss. The legacy publication process feels like a frustrating bureaucratic routine. I’m usually bored of the paper by the time it’s published.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Evolution has an inordinate fondness for beetles. More than 400,000 species of beetles have been described, making up a quarter (!) of all known species. A new theory suggests why they have been so successful 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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The Secret to Beetles’ Unfathomable Diversity

The evolution of a chemical defense gland allowed the most diverse group of beetles to repel predators and go on to conquer wholly new environments

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Michael Baggaley @mbaggaley.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Are highlights necessary in manuscripts? Do they increase the likelihood that someone will read the article? I guess I wonder what the utility is when the abstract is already a brief overview.

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

It's graduate school application season, so here's your reminder that nobody should pay for a graduate degree in #ecoevo ! Here's a list of fully funded ecology, evolution, & organismal biology Masters' programs (please share!)! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Funded Organismal Biology MS Programs

Funded Organismal Biology MS Programs List of Departments that have a fully-funded Masters program that includes Ecology, Evolution, or Organsimal Biology Background on this list: Some Masters progra...

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Michael Baggaley @mbaggaley.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

What are your favourite biomechanics journals? Looking for something that would fit an experimental+modelling paper. I usually go with JBME (12k word limit and no $$), but I'd like to mix it up. Where do you like to submit? #biomechsky #academicsky

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Michael Baggaley @mbaggaley.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

I was fairly certain that people were measuring PT moment arms using ultrasound and a dynamometer, but all easy to find references use MRI. Is this a thing or am I out to lunch? Thanks!

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Assistant Professor job- Comparative Biomechanics - Integrative Biology Department: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04087

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Assistant Professor - Comparative Biomechanics - Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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