Our lab (Sayu Lab for Biomechanics and Locomotion) at the University of Utah is hiring a PhD Student to start Fall 2026! I can’t speak highly enough of Kota as a mentor, and on top of that we’re doing super neat science! Apply before Dec 1st. Job info below: biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

Very excited about our new pre-print on an open-source package that I developed with some of my GT labmates! Epically Powerful (EP) is a modular mechatronics infrastructure and open-source software package for building and operating wearable and general robotic systems. arxiv.org/abs/2511.05033

Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @antoinecomite.bsky.social

Foot placement control underlies stable locomotion across species | PNAS

Animals navigate their environment stably without inefficient course corrections despite unavoidable errors. In humans, this stability is achieved ...

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Nidhi Seethapathi@nidhise.bsky.social · 2y ago

How do animals walk stably in the presence of intrinsic noise or external perturbations? biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We lack a unified answer to this question across species. In this preprint, we find that legged species use a shared strategy for stable locomotion: foot placement control! (1/6)

Lab funding pays for a lot of things: researchers, equipment, training. Interested in how it all works? Join the new professional development series, hosted by us & @asb-postdocs.bsky.social, to learn from experts & ask questions!🤓💵 Registration is open to all: bit.ly/hiw-funding

Excited to be in DC for my first Neural Interfaces meeting! Really looking forward to the program this week.

The NIH has not issued a single new call for proposals since the end of January.

Thrilled to receive the Harvard Mind Brain Behavior Postdoc Fellowship! This will support my work surgically reconstructing peripheral neuromuscular physiology to bridge human and robotic control. Excited to continue this work with my advisor Dr. Shriya Srinivasan and co-mentor Dr. Matthew Carty.

A great new study from my Georgia Tech labmate, Dr. Pawel Golyski, on the influence of a passive elastic hip exo on stability and mechanical energetics. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Effects of an elastic hip exoskeleton on stability quantified by mechanical energetics and whole-body angular momentum during walking with treadmill belt speed perturbations

Relative to motorized devices, passive hip exoskeletons with elastic actuation provide cheaper and lower-profile solutions to assist locomotion during…

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An absolutely stellar labmate, scientist, engineer, and friend! Keep killing it, Dr. Davenport!

Black Biomechanists Association@blackbiomechs.bsky.social · last yr.

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This hasn’t been reported as much in the media, but this attack on international scholars at Harvard seems to also affect postdocs: ~40% (3/4 of international postdocs) are on J visas (based on FAS postdoc association data) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.

The main benefit of these is that we can study ground stiffness perturbations on a fully instrumented treadmill, as well as conduct experiments overground. I'm hoping to share results from a study investigating adaptation to a stiffness perturbation applied by these shoes very soon!

Go Jo!!! Thrilled to be working with Jo and the rest of the crew at Harvard Robotics to plan an NBD event this year. Huge thanks to the Disability Biomechanics Outreach program for the support! Looking forward to a fun event next month.

National Biomechanics Day@biomechanicsday.bsky.social · 2y ago

Announcing the winners of the NBD Disability Biomechanics Outreach Grant Program—congratulations to Jorie Budsikowski and Jordan Feldman! Special thanks to the American Society of Biomechanics for sponsoring this initiative and championing inclusive innovation in our field. #NBD2025 #Biomechanics

It's what you've all been waiting and hoping for; the deets on Dynamic Walking 2025! 🚶🎉 The when: July 14th - 17th The Where: Aachen (Germany, but bordering the Netherlands) The submission process: dynamicwalking2025.org The deadline: April 25th 🚶‍♀️Hope to see you soon <3 🚶

DW25 Abstract Submission

The conference will take place in Aachen, Germany (on the border with the Netherlands) from July 14 to 17, 2025. We’ll be based in one location, with easy access to three different countries! Contact:...

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Fantastic to hear Dr. Edward Chang from Berkeley discuss their work in restoring speech with neuroprostheses using high-density speech/motor cortical decoding!

Great start to the week visiting UMass Amherst yesterday to give a talk at the Kinesiology Graduate Seminar! Big thanks to @sarahroelker.bsky.social for hosting and to everyone who took the time to chat—so fun learning about the exciting biomechanics and wearable robotics projects happening there!

Postdoc opportunity to do digital twin research for human and humanoid agile locomotion with myself, Wouter Hoogkamer @umill.bsky.social and Donghyun Kim! See forms.gle/FRFtLNiY7j3z... for more info and to apply by 3/19.

If you are interested in learning about the state of the art in robotic exoskeletons to assist human movement, this is an incredible lineup of speakers at #ICRA!!! @doctorbobg.bsky.social @rai-maclean.bsky.social @helenhuang.bsky.social @mehuber.bsky.social sites.google.com/umich.edu/ic...

ICRA 2025 Workshop

FULL DAY WORKSHOP: Monday, May 19, 2025

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It was wonderful to have Jim Ewing visit our group! Jim was the first person to receive the Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) procedure. We got to chat with him about research participation, rehab, wearable tech, and innovation. Read more: www.brighamandwomensfaulkner.org/about-bwfh/n...

We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey

Just submitted my first research proposal from 35,000 feet. Feels like an academic milestone? Are there bonus points for hitting submit 30 seconds before the “put away your laptops” announcement?

@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

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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Our new paper is out! This was a fun collaboration across labs at Georgia Tech, led by Dr. Felicia Davenport. Title: Electromyography-informed estimates of joint contact forces within the lower back and knee joints during a diverse set of industry-relevant manual lifting tasks shorturl.at/tdl3B

Had a fantastic visit at UMass Lowell to give the Mechanical Engineering Grad Research Seminar! Loved seeing the incredible robotics and biomechanics research happening there—thanks to everyone for the great discussions and for showing me around!

They put people with zero relevant experience in charge of this, they aren't talking to the agencies to have analyses done on consequences and how to minimize unnecessary pain, they've given zero warning and zero transparency, and proposed no alternative to offset the key NIH supported work (1/2).

Meredith Wadman@meredithwadman.bsky.social · 2y ago

The latest from your government, brought to you by @science.org.bsky.social NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...