Yoshinobu Inada on how diving birds mitigate the forces of entering the water at high speed. Not shown here: an awesome catapult system for firing physical models at high speeds!

Danial Forouhar (from @dadriaens.bsky.social lab) had amazing 3D images of the muscluoskeletal system of seahorse tails, which opened lots of exciting questions about how these body muscles actuate tail prehension.

Estelle Klein @estelle-kl.bsky.social is studying how the digging mechanisms of moles can be understood and simplified for biomimetic applications

Peter Kappel @peterkappel.bsky.social from @poppingalab.bsky.social introduced me to the fascinatingly mobile, three-dimensional jaws of leeches with some clever imaging experiments

Girish Kumar (www.southerndragon.in) gave a fanstastic instroduction to praying mantis jumps...these sketches don't do justice to his videos!

Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social from our own @livevobiomech.bsky.social looked at how singing muscles age (and let me practice drawing birds!)

Charlie Woodrow @charliezoology.bsky.social on why bees buzz at different pitches-- really fun mix of ecology, physiology, and mechanics

Myriam Uhrhan (from htlinlab.com) got me thinking about how insects build their own "strain gauges" to sense how their wings are deforming

Lukas Hageneder from @uafunmorph.bsky.social is studying how the tongue and skeleton of ducks interact to successfully filter food

Helen Gorges helengorges.bsky.social introduced me to the projectile seeds of the spitting cucumber with some amazing videos!

Victor Colognesi vcolognesi.bsky.social from biologylu.bsky.social on wing pitch during flapping flight in birds

Merel Van Gorp @merelvangorp on the adorable--but no less skillful--swimming of boxfish

Chris Richards (@frogtronics.bsky.social) got me thinking in new ways about force-velocity curves, muscle-skeleton interactions and how they control motion.

Here come the science sketchnotes from @sebiology.bsky.social Meeting in Antwerp this July! These are shared with the presenter's permission (but all mistakes, especially spelling, are mine).

First, @sharrison09.bsky.social on the jumping kinematics and power of monkey grasshoppers

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/...