Konow lab at UMass Lowell
@konowlab.bsky.social
How musculoskeletal mechanics let animals feed and avoid becoming food
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🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
May 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
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A new theme issue of #PhilTransB looks at the impacts of #climatechange on #crops and how we can mitigate against these. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
May 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A new theme issue of #PhilTransB looks at the impacts of #climatechange on #crops and how we can mitigate against these. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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New from #JRSocInterface: Automated analysis of bird head motion in unconstrained settings: a foundational study on semicircular canal evolution in #archosaurs. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #biomechanics
May 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New from #JRSocInterface: Automated analysis of bird head motion in unconstrained settings: a foundational study on semicircular canal evolution in #archosaurs. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #biomechanics
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We are staring down a mass extintion event for American science.
If the 2026 budget is enacted, NSF will be slashed in half. Biology funding by ca 75%. The same percentage of species that died at the end-Cretaceous.
For what reason? Nobody campaigned on this. And it's not law yet. So SPEAK UP NOW.
If the 2026 budget is enacted, NSF will be slashed in half. Biology funding by ca 75%. The same percentage of species that died at the end-Cretaceous.
For what reason? Nobody campaigned on this. And it's not law yet. So SPEAK UP NOW.
May 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We are staring down a mass extintion event for American science.
If the 2026 budget is enacted, NSF will be slashed in half. Biology funding by ca 75%. The same percentage of species that died at the end-Cretaceous.
For what reason? Nobody campaigned on this. And it's not law yet. So SPEAK UP NOW.
If the 2026 budget is enacted, NSF will be slashed in half. Biology funding by ca 75%. The same percentage of species that died at the end-Cretaceous.
For what reason? Nobody campaigned on this. And it's not law yet. So SPEAK UP NOW.
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To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Caroline Herschel's 1787 paper 'An Account of a New Comet' was the first scientific work by a woman to be fully credited in any scientific journal throughout the world buff.ly/RRsaLZ2
May 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Caroline Herschel's 1787 paper 'An Account of a New Comet' was the first scientific work by a woman to be fully credited in any scientific journal throughout the world buff.ly/RRsaLZ2
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To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Edward Stone's 1763 paper on willow bark laid the groundwork for aspirin and NSAIDs, revolutionising the treatment of pain and fever: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
May 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Edward Stone's 1763 paper on willow bark laid the groundwork for aspirin and NSAIDs, revolutionising the treatment of pain and fever: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Cool paper. Designated Satutday morning coffee reed here.
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
phys.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Cool paper. Designated Satutday morning coffee reed here.
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Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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New from the Near Lab, a super collaboration led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social
Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149
Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149
Phylogenomics establishes an Early Miocene reconstruction of reef vertebrate diversity
Phylogenomics reveals a younger-than-expected age of reef fish diversification.
www.science.org
May 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New from the Near Lab, a super collaboration led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social
Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149
Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149
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A lifeline for researchers with cancelled grants: www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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May 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A lifeline for researchers with cancelled grants: www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Here is a great idea: Let's Establish a Dedicated Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Research Subgroup Within The Biophysical Society - Sign the Petition! chng.it/dy4dg7dJq2 via @Change
This campaign needs you now
Establish a Dedicated Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Research Subgroup Within The Biophysical Society
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May 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Here is a great idea: Let's Establish a Dedicated Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Research Subgroup Within The Biophysical Society - Sign the Petition! chng.it/dy4dg7dJq2 via @Change
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I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
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March 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
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Behavioural biomechanics: leaf-cutter ant cutting behaviour depends on leaf edge geometry royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #ProcB #Behaviour #Biomechanics
April 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Behavioural biomechanics: leaf-cutter ant cutting behaviour depends on leaf edge geometry royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #ProcB #Behaviour #Biomechanics
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🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
April 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
Only a few hours left to submit your abstract for the 2025 SEB Conference in Antwerp.
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
If you work on muscle, and particularly if your work integrates across scales of biological organization, I encourage you to submit to session A1.
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
If you work on muscle, and particularly if your work integrates across scales of biological organization, I encourage you to submit to session A1.
SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025
Abstract submissions will open from Monday 6th January until Friday 7th March 2025
www.sebiology.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Only a few hours left to submit your abstract for the 2025 SEB Conference in Antwerp.
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
If you work on muscle, and particularly if your work integrates across scales of biological organization, I encourage you to submit to session A1.
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
If you work on muscle, and particularly if your work integrates across scales of biological organization, I encourage you to submit to session A1.
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Abstract submission for @sebiology.bsky.social in Antwerp is open until Fri 7th March! #SEB2025
Plenty of #Biomechanics Special Sessions—pick your poison!
🦕 Bringing Fossils "Back to Life"
🏃♀️ Musculoskeletal Mechanics & Modelling
🤖 Kinematics & Robotics
🔧 Innovative Methods
🎖️ Tribute to Peter Aerts
Plenty of #Biomechanics Special Sessions—pick your poison!
🦕 Bringing Fossils "Back to Life"
🏃♀️ Musculoskeletal Mechanics & Modelling
🤖 Kinematics & Robotics
🔧 Innovative Methods
🎖️ Tribute to Peter Aerts
SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025
Abstract submissions will open from Monday 6th January until Friday 7th March 2025
www.sebiology.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Abstract submission for @sebiology.bsky.social in Antwerp is open until Fri 7th March! #SEB2025
Plenty of #Biomechanics Special Sessions—pick your poison!
🦕 Bringing Fossils "Back to Life"
🏃♀️ Musculoskeletal Mechanics & Modelling
🤖 Kinematics & Robotics
🔧 Innovative Methods
🎖️ Tribute to Peter Aerts
Plenty of #Biomechanics Special Sessions—pick your poison!
🦕 Bringing Fossils "Back to Life"
🏃♀️ Musculoskeletal Mechanics & Modelling
🤖 Kinematics & Robotics
🔧 Innovative Methods
🎖️ Tribute to Peter Aerts
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This executive order:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Has some very concerning language affecting universities:
"(b) Review of Covered Contracts and Grants. Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, shall review all existing covered contracts and grants and, "...
1/3
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Has some very concerning language affecting universities:
"(b) Review of Covered Contracts and Grants. Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, shall review all existing covered contracts and grants and, "...
1/3
Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This executive order:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Has some very concerning language affecting universities:
"(b) Review of Covered Contracts and Grants. Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, shall review all existing covered contracts and grants and, "...
1/3
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Has some very concerning language affecting universities:
"(b) Review of Covered Contracts and Grants. Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, shall review all existing covered contracts and grants and, "...
1/3
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How do you measure what isn't there?
Elska did a fantastic job leading this paper on how we can measure the volume of changing, 3D spaces inside XROMM skeletal animations. And, importantly, how good are those volume measurements?
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Elska did a fantastic job leading this paper on how we can measure the volume of changing, 3D spaces inside XROMM skeletal animations. And, importantly, how good are those volume measurements?
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
February 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
How do you measure what isn't there?
Elska did a fantastic job leading this paper on how we can measure the volume of changing, 3D spaces inside XROMM skeletal animations. And, importantly, how good are those volume measurements?
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Elska did a fantastic job leading this paper on how we can measure the volume of changing, 3D spaces inside XROMM skeletal animations. And, importantly, how good are those volume measurements?
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Reminder: abstracts for the '25 Society for Experimental Biology meeting in Antwerp BE (July 7th-11th) are due March 7th.
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I'll run a session on Multiscale Musculoskeletal Mechanics and Modeling. Please DM me for information and submit to session A1 if your work fits our theme.
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I'll run a session on Multiscale Musculoskeletal Mechanics and Modeling. Please DM me for information and submit to session A1 if your work fits our theme.
February 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reminder: abstracts for the '25 Society for Experimental Biology meeting in Antwerp BE (July 7th-11th) are due March 7th.
t.co/VawfbYRCsu
I'll run a session on Multiscale Musculoskeletal Mechanics and Modeling. Please DM me for information and submit to session A1 if your work fits our theme.
t.co/VawfbYRCsu
I'll run a session on Multiscale Musculoskeletal Mechanics and Modeling. Please DM me for information and submit to session A1 if your work fits our theme.
Excited to announce the beginning of my service on the editorial board for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb I am experienced with, and would be happy to discuss your ideas for guest-edited special issues in the journal
Home | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Continuing its long history of influential scientific publishing, Philosophical Transactions B publishes high quality theme issues on topics of current importance and general interest within the life sciences, guest-edited by leading authorities and comprising new research, reviews and opinions from prominent researchers.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Excited to announce the beginning of my service on the editorial board for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb I am experienced with, and would be happy to discuss your ideas for guest-edited special issues in the journal
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I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
January 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
Plasticity in the red squirrel feeding system wrt/ diet. Great work!
Delighted to have the first paper of my PhD out in Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Morphological change in an isolated population of red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in Britain | Royal Society Open Science
The mechanical properties of dietary items are known to influence skull morphology,
either through evolution or by phenotypic plasticity. Here, we investigated the impact
of supplementary feeding of p...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Plasticity in the red squirrel feeding system wrt/ diet. Great work!