Too often, I see people talk about a replication as if the first study has established something, and the replication study is a double-check. What people often fail to understand is that we do not do replication studies to *check* a finding, but to *establish* a finding. 1/x

JEB author Giovanni Cavagna died on 16 January 2025 at the age of 90 in Milan, Italy

Mario Legramandi, Alberto Minetti, Gaspare Pavei and Matteo Pecchiari celebrate his life and career in their Obituary

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#elephants are incredibly economical movers, but it turns out that swinging their massive limbs uses 75% of the energy they consume when moving, which is an extraordinarily high cost compared to mice and men

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Congratulations to Ethan Wold @ethanswold.bsky.social sky.social, winner of the Journal of Experimental Biology Student Award at CNB 2025 for his talk, Scaling of muscle-driven resonant mechanics across insects. Ethan received the award from JEB Editor Monica Daley and @taylorjmdick.bsky.social

Super happy and honored!🥳😍 A big thanks to @jexpbiol.bsky.social for the award, and to the Comparative Neuromuscular Biomechanics group for an AMAZING meeting in Helsinki!

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

If you work in psychology in a research area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.

y’all are wild

DAGs are great for articulating belief systems. Here's my little blog on using them to articulate if "God matters"
#statsky #episky

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The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

Can you do a valid and meaningful "mediation analysis" without a full-fledged DAG? I have my doubts. #statsky #episky

We are inviting submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise.
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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

Are you interested in learning about how engineering and physics can be applied to study the motions of #plants, #invertebrates, and #animals? Here's a non-exhaustive list of Comparative Biomechanists to get started! 🦋 🐟 🦎 🌿 🧪
go.bsky.app/HvHFgvB

Apologies for any that I may have been missed.

🥁 Elisa Toscano idenitified a new subtype of propriospinal neurons and found a role in the execution of skilled movements🤸‍♂️. Great job from Elisa and everybody involved 💪. @alesantuz.bsky.social, @lowensteined.bsky.social. Check it out and let us know what you think:
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