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Raphael Mesquita
@raphmesquita.bsky.social
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PhD - Neuromechanics of locomotion at UCLouvain, Belgium. Very much into sports science 🏃‍♂️ and all things running.
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Also, congratulations to @arthurdewolf.bsky.social and colleagues for their brand new (more serious) paper looking at locomotor efficiency and mechanical work of elephants!

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Locomotion efficiency of elephants: mechanical work and energetics
Highlighted Article: Despite their massive size, elephants achieve high locomotor efficiency, with limb swing accounting for up to 75% of total mechanical work, challenging assumptions about scaling i...
journals.biologists.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Hi Felipe, should be Milan San Remo. So you're looking at the Italian coast between Savona and San Remo

www.castelli-cycling.com/BE/nl/storie...
MILANO-SANREMO 2021 - Castelli Cycling
MILANO-SANREMO 2021
www.castelli-cycling.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Nice to see that this data is still being used! Being part of the other lab that took part in those experiments, our last paper on this was in 2020. We still use the same force plates!

Will be happy to read this research! Good luck!
March 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Everyone is free to attend!

Also if you wish to attend online, let me know if you need a link!
February 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM