SAVE THE DATE: The Cancer and Bone Society is BACK IN PERSON  June 8-10, 2023 at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA!!! Details coming soon at cancerandbone.org. CABS

This email from a student, when I taught remote, lives rent free in my head 😂

When it's your turn to remove the frost from the -80C

Fluctuating levels of sex hormones have long been used as an excuse to exclude women from clinical trials, and female mice from laboratory studies. Guess what? At least among mice, behavior of males is significantly more variable than that of females: cell.com/current-biolog… 🤔

Really delighted to have been awarded this #SFI FFP project award to study a new role for osteocytes in knee joint injury and disease. We’ll be looking to fill postdoc and PhD positions soon, so watch this space! RCSI TERG AMBER RCSI Research and Innovation @scienceirel

The Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Ghazal Vahidi Hope Welhaven, PhD Taraneh Rezaee @ramina_behzad Check out our graphical abstract for our study! We found that germ free mice indeed have increased bone mass and important alterations to bone matrix properties and cortical bone tissue metabolism, but that bone fracture resistance is not decreased.

Just out in Cell Stem Cell: "Getting physical: Material mechanics is an intrinsic cell cue" - Thanks the Chaudhuri lab, Yu Suk CHOI for a great collab! authors.elsevier.com/a/1hAs9_h-CqUQ…

Attention biomechanics & mechanobiology folks! We are super-excited to announce that we will be hosting the next MechBio Symposium CU Boulder 🦬 BioFrontiers 💻🦠🧬🧪🧫💉📊📓 on April 6-7, 2024! Please visit tinyurl.com/cumechbio24, save the date, and fill a short information form. RT+amplify 1/N

CABS is so my favorite meeting 😍 #CABS2023 CABS

Download our free database of funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS/FACULTY. We list 546 (!) funding opportunities. For each entry, we provide including description (with a link), $ amount, eligibility, and deadline. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

Abstract Vs. Results

Work/life balance

Best part of being a (old) faculty member? ❤️ running into PhD 🎓 at #ASBMR2023 Fun to see Maureen, Chris & Frank ASBMR

This was one of the best conferences yet! ASBMR #ASBMR2023. Not only because the social event has returned...

IMF Report on the significant economic return of investment in basic research. "We find that basic scientific research affects more sectors, in more countries and for a longer time than applied research (commercially oriented R&D by firms)" See it here: imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Last year, former ASBMR President, Bart L. Clarke, M.D., shared the impact your donation can have on Young Investigators when you donate to the Fund for Research and Education. #StepUpForResearch today and support the next generation. ow.ly/rY8F50Q9vQ3

Buckle up. It's the end of the semester, meaning the students in my Tissue Engineering course have been making memes! Going to share more later, but this one... Whew!!

When you're out with your friends and try to resist the urge to check your phone to see if your paper was rejected

Attention biomech-mechbio folks: Reminder that abstract submission for the 2024 MechBio Symposium is currently open, and the submission deadline is extended until July 15, 2024. Standard registration for all participants is also now open. Check out details on website+RT/Amplify!