Biomechanics professor at the University of Michigan interested in the mechanics, energetics, and control of human locomotion
Brian Umberger
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Thread about Frontiers journals worth reading... 😱
Cameron Hill and co-authors from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social identified distinct distributions of #myosin motor conformations during contraction of slow and fast skeletal #muscle ⚙️ 🔬
📜 Read the study:
🔗 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
This sounds like an important job: "STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science… This is a new role at STAT.”
Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.
1/ How did the human skeleton evolve to support bipedalism and tool use? 🦴 A new study from my lab in Genome Biology and Evolution dives into the genomic changes that separate us from chimpanzees during skeletal development. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/.... Here's a quick overview of what we found:
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪
We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF
Tech CEO says he had no idea what he was talking about
(In Time Magazine... not The Onion)