Matt McHenry
@mchenrylab.bsky.social
Biologist who studies the #biomechanics, sensing, and control of animal #locomotion at UC Irvine. https://mchenrylab.bio.uci.edu/
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We are inviting submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We are inviting submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise.
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Our first extraordinary biologist this week is Holly Shiels, cardiac physiologist at the @official-uom.bsky.social , who is a Director of @biologists.bsky.social and Organisation Committee Chair for the Biologists @ 100 conference.
#100biologists
#100biologists
February 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Our first extraordinary biologist this week is Holly Shiels, cardiac physiologist at the @official-uom.bsky.social , who is a Director of @biologists.bsky.social and Organisation Committee Chair for the Biologists @ 100 conference.
#100biologists
#100biologists
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February 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.
February 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.
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Our new paper is out as OA! shorturl.at/BueUy
Tuna keels aren't just for hydrodynamics—they're mechanosensory! 🐟 They contain a modified lateral line, possibly adapted to detect stimuli in high-noise environments
@georgelauder.bsky.social @jackiew8.bsky.social + Dylan Wainwright + Connor White
Tuna keels aren't just for hydrodynamics—they're mechanosensory! 🐟 They contain a modified lateral line, possibly adapted to detect stimuli in high-noise environments
@georgelauder.bsky.social @jackiew8.bsky.social + Dylan Wainwright + Connor White
January 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Our new paper is out as OA! shorturl.at/BueUy
Tuna keels aren't just for hydrodynamics—they're mechanosensory! 🐟 They contain a modified lateral line, possibly adapted to detect stimuli in high-noise environments
@georgelauder.bsky.social @jackiew8.bsky.social + Dylan Wainwright + Connor White
Tuna keels aren't just for hydrodynamics—they're mechanosensory! 🐟 They contain a modified lateral line, possibly adapted to detect stimuli in high-noise environments
@georgelauder.bsky.social @jackiew8.bsky.social + Dylan Wainwright + Connor White
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🌀 Meet SpiRobs – soft robots shaped by the logarithmic spiral for adaptable grasping! Inspired by octopus arms, these scalable, 3D-printed robots use simple cable actuation to grip objects across sizes. Applications from drones to multi-robot arrays! #Robotics #SoftRobotics #Bioinspired
SpiRobs: Logarithmic spiral-shaped robots for versatile grasping across scales
YouTube video by Zhanchi Wang
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🌀 Meet SpiRobs – soft robots shaped by the logarithmic spiral for adaptable grasping! Inspired by octopus arms, these scalable, 3D-printed robots use simple cable actuation to grip objects across sizes. Applications from drones to multi-robot arrays! #Robotics #SoftRobotics #Bioinspired
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Airbnb offers temporary housing to people impacted by Los Angeles wildfires
Airbnb Offers Temporary Housing to People Impacted by Los Angeles Wildfires
Airbnb is offering temporary housing to people impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires. Here's how to host or find housing on Airbnb.
variety.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Airbnb offers temporary housing to people impacted by Los Angeles wildfires
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Happy New Year from The Company of Biologists! 🎉
In 2025 we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary. Follow us on social media or visit biologists.com/100-years to find out more about our activities throughout the year.
#biologists100
In 2025 we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary. Follow us on social media or visit biologists.com/100-years to find out more about our activities throughout the year.
#biologists100
January 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Happy New Year from The Company of Biologists! 🎉
In 2025 we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary. Follow us on social media or visit biologists.com/100-years to find out more about our activities throughout the year.
#biologists100
In 2025 we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary. Follow us on social media or visit biologists.com/100-years to find out more about our activities throughout the year.
#biologists100
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Find out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial
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January 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Find out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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If you’re coming to #SICB2025, make sure you visit the JEB exhibition stand (booths 23/24) to pick up JEB goodies and find out what we do for our authors that makes @J_Exp_Biol the best place to publish your #comparativephysiology and #biomechanics research.
January 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
If you’re coming to #SICB2025, make sure you visit the JEB exhibition stand (booths 23/24) to pick up JEB goodies and find out what we do for our authors that makes @J_Exp_Biol the best place to publish your #comparativephysiology and #biomechanics research.
The MARTA subway system has a direct route to the hotel for #sicb2026 attendees. Cheap and easy. Follow the signs from baggage claim at ATL.
January 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The MARTA subway system has a direct route to the hotel for #sicb2026 attendees. Cheap and easy. Follow the signs from baggage claim at ATL.
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#SICB is looking for nominees to important society-wide positions: #SICBSecretary #SICBProgramOfficer #SICBMemberAtLarge. As one of this year's #NominationsCommittee I'm interested in your ideas! Please DM, email, or find me in Atlanta #SICB2025
December 23, 2024 at 7:13 PM
#SICB is looking for nominees to important society-wide positions: #SICBSecretary #SICBProgramOfficer #SICBMemberAtLarge. As one of this year's #NominationsCommittee I'm interested in your ideas! Please DM, email, or find me in Atlanta #SICB2025
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Getting excited for #SICB2025! We have a jam-packed line up of talks from ourIntegrative Movement Sciences Institute (IMSI) students and faculty! See the full schedule here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-faculty...
IMSI faculty and student researchers at SICB 2025 – Center for Integrative Movement Science
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December 31, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Getting excited for #SICB2025! We have a jam-packed line up of talks from ourIntegrative Movement Sciences Institute (IMSI) students and faculty! See the full schedule here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-faculty...
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🥳 We got our Christmas present - our paper was accepted in PNAS!! @pnas.org 😀🎄🎅
Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀
We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀
We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM
🥳 We got our Christmas present - our paper was accepted in PNAS!! @pnas.org 😀🎄🎅
Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀
We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀
We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Testing out a new feed for @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #SICB2025
December 24, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Testing out a new feed for @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #SICB2025
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Are you going to SICB 2025? If so, visit the JEB and Company of Biologists stand (booths 23/24) to pick up JEB goodies and find out what we do for our authors that makes Journal of Experimental Biology the best place to publish your comparative physiology and biomechanics research
December 18, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Are you going to SICB 2025? If so, visit the JEB and Company of Biologists stand (booths 23/24) to pick up JEB goodies and find out what we do for our authors that makes Journal of Experimental Biology the best place to publish your comparative physiology and biomechanics research
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🧪🌎🦑🦈🌊 Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K! 📹👏
WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
youtu.be
December 17, 2024 at 7:52 PM
🧪🌎🦑🦈🌊 Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K! 📹👏
WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
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POSTDOC announcement! I am hiring a postdoc to study owl flight biomechanics. I will be at SICB. Please email me for the full advertisement, screenshot below. Please retweet!
Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics.
#SICB2025
Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics.
#SICB2025
December 9, 2024 at 5:29 PM
POSTDOC announcement! I am hiring a postdoc to study owl flight biomechanics. I will be at SICB. Please email me for the full advertisement, screenshot below. Please retweet!
Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics.
#SICB2025
Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics.
#SICB2025
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A fantastic program run by two dedicated mentors and housed on our beautiful Coral Gables campus 👇🏼👇🏼
Please reshare widely!! 🎙️🚩 😀
We are running a NSF funded REU program in Physical Sciences in Summer 2025 at @univmiami.bsky.social
A program flyer is attached below, and more details can be found here: bit.ly/miami-reu
Please encourage your students to apply! 😀😀
We are running a NSF funded REU program in Physical Sciences in Summer 2025 at @univmiami.bsky.social
A program flyer is attached below, and more details can be found here: bit.ly/miami-reu
Please encourage your students to apply! 😀😀
December 14, 2024 at 1:38 AM
A fantastic program run by two dedicated mentors and housed on our beautiful Coral Gables campus 👇🏼👇🏼
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Just launching the APS CEPS Bluesky account. Hopefully, our friends at @jexpbiol.bsky.social and @sebiology.bsky.social can connect us with the community!
December 11, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Just launching the APS CEPS Bluesky account. Hopefully, our friends at @jexpbiol.bsky.social and @sebiology.bsky.social can connect us with the community!
If a journal wants to thinker with a new model, it would be a good idea to retain some standards for publishing. Impact factor aside, it doesn’t mean much to have a paper published in eLife any more.
December 8, 2024 at 2:27 PM
If a journal wants to thinker with a new model, it would be a good idea to retain some standards for publishing. Impact factor aside, it doesn’t mean much to have a paper published in eLife any more.
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Now that we’re on Bluesky, it’s a good time to bring back #badsciencedrawings – a collection of figures that prove that science is more science than art.
Before Biorender, all we had was MS Paint and a dream. But ovals, lines, and lightning bolts were all we needed
Morales-Botello et al., 2012
Before Biorender, all we had was MS Paint and a dream. But ovals, lines, and lightning bolts were all we needed
Morales-Botello et al., 2012
December 4, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Now that we’re on Bluesky, it’s a good time to bring back #badsciencedrawings – a collection of figures that prove that science is more science than art.
Before Biorender, all we had was MS Paint and a dream. But ovals, lines, and lightning bolts were all we needed
Morales-Botello et al., 2012
Before Biorender, all we had was MS Paint and a dream. But ovals, lines, and lightning bolts were all we needed
Morales-Botello et al., 2012