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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Thrilled to be in 🇯🇵 at NIFS Kanoya with to study the neuromechanics of sprinting 🏃‍♂️💨 A 52m force platform + kinematics + EMG = the perfect setup to explore sprint performance. Thanks to a @WBIworld fellowship—great timing with the FNRS project starting soon! 🙌

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Happy #WorldElephantDay! 🐘 For a conference paper, we found elephants walk & change gait at lower relative speeds than dynamic similarity predicts, hinting that in giant animals like dinosaurs 🦕, absolute speed & musculoskeletal limits matter more than scaling laws hal.science/hal-05191706...

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Good news: I’ve been awarded a postdoc grant from the FNRS! 🎉 Allowing me to continue working at UCLouvain, in collaboration with UMaastricht & KULeuven. Grateful for the support — and still buzzing from an inspiring week at ECSS in Rimini! #postdoc

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hi Felipe, should be Milan San Remo. So you're looking at the Italian coast between Savona and San Remo www.castelli-cycling.com/BE/nl/storie...

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MILANO-SANREMO 2021 - Castelli Cycling

MILANO-SANREMO 2021

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Alberto Comoretto @albertocomoretto.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Autonomous locomotion simply with tubes as limbs, and no brain? 🎈🤖 Yes, through physical synchronization! Our article is out today in Science (@science.org) Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Authors: @albertocomoretto.bsky.social, H.A.H. Schomaker, J.T.B. Overvelde More below 🧪 ⚛️ (1/6)

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Nice to see that this data is still being used! Being part of the other lab that took part in those experiments, our last paper on this was in 2020. We still use the same force plates! Will be happy to read this research! Good luck!

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Everyone is free to attend! Also if you wish to attend online, let me know if you need a link!

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I will be defending my thesis publicly on the 25th of March at 1730 (GMT+1) It will be a comprehensive-to-all type of presentation of about 45 minutes on some of the projects we've worked with over the years! Including running against a wind, while turning or with altered step frequency!

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Jaap van Dieen @jvandieen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We have just published this pre-print. doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025.... We show that linear and angular momentum are both controlled during bipedal walking. This study resulted from discussions we had on the use of foot placement to stabilise gait. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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Simultaneous stabilizing feedback control of linear and angular momentum in human walking

Stabilizing bipedal gait is mechanically challenging. Previous studies have used the assumption that the linear momentum of the body center of mass (CoM) is controlled to analyze how gait is stabilize...

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Really nice conference at the 3D AHM, subgroup of the ISB, in Montevideo! Really impressive keynote speakers and great talks :)

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

On my way to Montevideo for some good end of year science! Looking forward to hearing some big speakers! I'll also be presenting something about the upper and lower limb coordination in running with a change in step frequency.

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Thomas Geijtenbeek @tgeijten.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Now that Bluesky has native video support, I figured it's time for a repost: Teaching a biomechanical model to run using reinforcement learning. New results coming soon! #BiomechSky

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Raphael Mesquita @raphmesquita.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

This week I had the chance to present classes in the electrophysiology of gait analysis for the EURON initiative 🧠 and an introductory class in the biomechanics of trail running 🏃‍♂️ Two integral parts of my research 😊

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