ORS Tendon Section @ors-tendon.bsky.social Official handle for the @orssociety.bsky.social Tendon Section. Posts curated by faculty and trainees on the Tendon Section Membership Committee. #TeamTendon #ORSNation 😎
Brianne Connizzo @brianneconnizzo.bsky.social www.connizzolab.com
Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UPenn - Biomaterials and Bioengineering Lab at CHOP - views are my own 🇮🇹🇺🇸🏳️🌈 www.gottardilab.com
Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social #blacklivesmatter | #translivesmatter | 🍉
Harvard & MIT trained bioengineer
Professor @ U. Illinois & Cancer Center at Illinois
health | society | Imagination & discovery
Partner @kateclancy.bsky.social | runner | dad | nerd
Jason C. Marvin, Ph.D. (he/they) 🏳️🌈 @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social #BlackLivesMatter | Director of Outreach & Engagement @aimbe-official.bsky.social | Biomedical Engineer & Advocate for Science | Views Are My Own | 📍 D.C.
Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social Bottlebrush polymers and bioengineering!
🦡 Assistant Prof, UW-Madison BME •
🥼 Postdoc, CU Boulder • Anseth Lab •
🎓PhD, UMN • Reineke/Bates •
📚BS, Hope College •
http://ohnsorglab.engr.wisc.edu
Hobbies: ☕️ 🖼️ 👩🎨⛷️🏕️🏔️🪴🍁🥾
Megan Killian @megankillian.bsky.social I was a #firstgen college student in engineering, now tenured professor at UMich. Skeets are my own.
I lead a team studying musculoskeletal physiology, development, and healing. We study how the skeleton grows and how connective tissues guide this process.
Kelsey H. Collins @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social #fatchat and novel therapies for OA/RA structure and pain, musculoskeletal interorgan crosstalk, aging, obesity
Assistant Professor, UCSF
collinslab.ucsf.edu
Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD @tuhinaneogi.bsky.social Rheumatologist & Epidemiologist Researcher in #osteoarthritis & #gout | Prof. of Medicine & Epidemiology | Chief of Rheumatology | 🇨🇦 | Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine & Boston Medical Center
#RheumSky #MedSky #Rheumatology
The Chow Lab @thechowlab.bsky.social Modular #Biomaterials Lab // bleats by PI: Dr Lesley Chow (she/her) // Lehigh University MSE & BIOE // #BLM 🏳️🌈 ally // Assoc Ed npj Regenerative Medicine // thechowlab.com
Karen Kruger PhD @karenkruger.bsky.social Shriners Children's Motion Analysis & Imaging Research | Marquette Engineering. Yooper. Love biomechanics, running, travel & dogs. she/her. Views my own.
Marian Hettiaratchi @marianhh.bsky.social Bioengineer working on biomaterials and drug delivery 👩🏾🔬 Assistant professor at @uoknightcampus.bsky.social 🦆 🇨🇦 🇱🇰 hettiaratchi-lab.com
Stephanie Fung @stephaniefung.bsky.social Postdoc in the Gottardi Lab @ CHOP/UPenn | Rutgers BME PhD👩🏻🔬 | MIT BE alum 🎓| succulent mom 🌵
@tdcapellini.bsky.social @tdcapellini.bsky.social 
pashuck lab @pashucklab.bsky.social We are a lab that loves peptides and biomaterials. Bioengineering at Lehigh University.
Nicole Friend, PhD @nicolefriend.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow | NIH F32 - NIAMS | Anseth Group | CU Boulder | Grad: UMich | Undergrad: UCSD | BME👩🔬🫧📚
✨Vasculature ~ Microgels ~ Granular Materials ~ Extracellular Vesicles ~ Tissue Engineering ~ Regenerative Medicine ✨
Hope Welhaven, PhD @thehopefulscie1.bsky.social PhD in Biochemistry | Postdoc UCSF ortho | #massspec meets #ortho | she/her
Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social Irish bioengineer, Lecturer in #MedTech at @QMULSEMS & @QMULCPM
Interested in musculoskeletal #mechanobiology & #metastasis (he/him) 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
https://www.theverbruggenlab.com/
Anthony A. Gatti @aagatti.bsky.social Dad | Husband | @McMasterU PhD | @StanfordRad & @WuTsaiAlliance Postdoc | @CIHR_IRSC Fellow | Runner. Biker. Adventurer. Big science geek. http://anthonygattiphd.com
Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social Salute to me, I’m your rheumatology queen.
Rheumatologist in Boston. NIH-funded clinical researcher. Epidemiology. Cats, baking, reading, Taylor Swift references. https://profiles.bu.edu/Jean.Liew
Rabeeh Majidi, PhD @rabeehm.bsky.social President and CEO @Orthokintrack, ex-Lead R&D Eng @Sensata ,ex-Research fellow @Harvard ,Alumni @UofR @WPI Social Media Committee @orssociety.bsky.social #ORSSMC, femvocate, she/her
The Sheyn Lab @sheynlab.bsky.social Orthopedic Stem Cell Research Lab of Dmitriy Sheyn, PhD develops disease models and stem cell therapies for #BackPain #Spine #Tendon #SportsMedicine #MSK
https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-sciences-university/research/labs/sheyn.html
Kevin Baker @orthoengineer.bsky.social Husband | Father | Assoc. Scientist @hfhs-bjc.bsky.social, Assoc. Professor @ Michigan State CHM | Orthopaedic Research (mostly osteoarthritis and intervertebral disc degeneration) | All things: #Detroit, U.P., Great Lakes Freighters, Local Sports
Kayla Seymore @kseymore.bsky.social Postdoc, USC Biokinesiology & PT
PhD, University of Delaware BIOMS
Biomechanics, clinical rehab, tendons
Co-founder: Black Biomechanists Association
@callie-weber.bsky.social @callie-weber.bsky.social @StanfordMed Postdoc | @UMDBIOE PhD | @VandyBME alum
Cellular metabolism in bone regeneration 🧪
Mikayla Moody, PhD @profmoody.bsky.social MSOE ME Assistant Professor | BME PhD | MSE BS | 🇻🇪 and 🇵🇹 American | bi + nb 🏳️🌈 | they/she
Prof Stephanie Dakin @dakinlabgroup.bsky.social Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences interested in advancing understanding of inflammation and fibrosis, horse vet and horse crazy
SettonLab @WashU @settonlab.bsky.social WashU BME faculty & trainees - lovers of science, engineering and St. Louis!
Jude Meakin (she/they) @judemeakin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Spine Biomechanics, University of Exeter - I study spine biomechanics through imaging and modelling to understand how structural variations affect function.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/18779-jude-meakin
Chao lab @gracechao.bsky.social Cell and tissue engineering laboratory at National Taiwan University, with particular interest in orthopedic and vascular mechanobiology and tissue engineering
Sarah Orr @saraheorr.bsky.social Epigenetics, Osteoarthritis and Computational Biology🧬🦴
PhD Candidate in the Rice Lab, Newcastle University
she/her
https://ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/sarah-orr
Tim Fleagle @tfleagle.bsky.social PT and PhD candidate interested in personalized treatment for MSK pain.
Sebastien Callens @sebcallens.bsky.social Assistant Professor at TU Eindhoven | Chair-elect TERMIS SYIS-EU | Engineering (micro)tissues, 3D printing, mehanobiology, microscopy | husband & dad | he/him 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇧🇪
Marlène Mengoni @mengomarlene.bsky.social A/Prof of Computational Medical Engineering, School of MechEng at U. of Leeds; EPSRC/OpenFellow; FHEA; working in joint biomechanics, particularly spine; council of Eur Soc Biomech; open science; she/her; Belgian in the UK
Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social Scientist-Developmental Biology, Skeleton
Seeking knowledge in all things-Cooking, Music, Beer, Running
Haven't met a rabbit hole I didn't like
Edmonton, Canada
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/fredberrylab/ 
Cathy Cares - Health Science Researcher @cathycares.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Stirling exploring adolescent health, self-management, and chronic musculoskeletal pain. Sharing my research journey, connecting with peers, and advocating for person-centred care. 
Julien Ochala @droch.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen - https://bmi.ku.dk/english/research/exercise-and-muscle/ochala-group/
Luke Kelly @footscience.bsky.social A/Prof. Griffith University, Australia
PhD Biomechanics & Motor Control @UQ | Understanding human foot function for health & performance | Footwear Innovation |
Neelima Thottappillil @nthottappillil.bsky.social NHLBI K99/R00 Postdoctoral fellow @HopkinsMedicine
Studying blood vessels, stem cells and bone
#HumaninSTEM
Alumnus @SCTIMST @EdinburghUniv
#FilledwithLaughter🐾
Matthew Alexander, PhD @mattmuscleguy.bsky.social Geneticist, Skeletal Muscle, Drug development, Gene therapies. Non-coding RNA, and Zebrafish Aficionado. Lover of all things muscle. All posts are my own. Instagram @thealexanderlab
Lab website: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/peds/research/division-researc
Allison Clouthier @aclouthier.bsky.social Biomechanics researcher.
Interests: person specific musculoskeletal modelling, medical imaging, patellofemoral instability, statistical shape modelling.
School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa
MR_Mahaki @mrmahaki.bsky.social PhD| Lab manager of biomechanics lab
🥋 2 Dan
Josh Goreham @goreham.bsky.social Sport Scientist/Performance Analyst working in professional baseball. PhD in sports biomechanics/physiology. Dad and Husband. 🇨🇦 ⚾️🧑🎓
Tomer Yona @tomerpt.bsky.social Postdoc researcher.
PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Physiotherapist.
Research focus = movement analysis, sport science, rehabilitation, wearable sensors and physiology.
Jared Fletcher @jaredrfletcher.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Integrative Physiology and Biomechanics. Director of the Fascicles, Tendons and Energetics Research (FasTER) Lab at Mount Royal University.
Monica Daley @birdbiomech.bsky.social Integrative physiologist, biomechanist, JEB editor, robot enthusiast, STEM diversity advocate, she/her, Professor @UCI
http://neuromechanics.bio.uci.edu
http://cims.uci.edu
Mark Robinson @mark-a-robinson.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Biomechanics at LJMU, UK.
Interested in injuries, gait, spm1d, load monitoring.
https://mark-a-robinson.uk/
Irene Yang (she/her) @ireneyang.bsky.social Proud ♀ Biomed Engineer | Specialty Editor @BoneJointRes | Assistant Prof in Orthopaedic Engineering @westernu, Canada | Lab: @westlab.sky.social | Edinburgh & Oxford alum | Views my own
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9316-6787
Scott Telfer @telfer-scott.bsky.social Biomechanics researcher | Seattle
Oliver O’Sullivan @ollieosul.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham | Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Medicine Doctor, British Army | NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer | A/Editor, BMJ Military Health | Three rugrats | Sports fan | Runner | He/him
Brocha Stern @brochasternot.bsky.social HealthServicesResearch. Ortho. Value. Quality. Equity. PROMs. PROMIS. Rehab. OccupationalTherapy. ImpSci.
My opinions/biases. Follow | Like ≠endorsement. (she/her)
https://BrochaSternOT.com/
Evan Buettmann, PhD @evanbuettmann.bsky.social He|Him @NIH_NIAMS K99 and @BCMSpaceHealth #postdoc fellow in @BESTLabVCU @VCU_BME | Alum of @washu_ortho_res | @ORSsociety @isfrfractures 
Satanik Mukherjee @satanikm.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher in Guilak Lab @WashU. PhD @ KU Leuven. Member of #ORSSMC. Co-chair of #CartilageGRS2025
Lindsey Lammlin @zlammlin.bsky.social Post doctoral researcher studying PTOA🐭
Joanna Laing @jojolaing.bsky.social PhD Student Biomechanics Aberdeen University 🏴.
Modelling Tendon Transfer Surgeries. Hands ✋️ 👐
Former Sports Biomechanics specialisms: swimming, curling, football, boxing and rugby.
Farshid Guilak @farsh-g.bsky.social @ShrinersStLouis @wustlortho @washubme @washudevbio @wustlCRM @theNAMedicine @theNAEng @AcadofInventors @cytexortho @MyAOCConnect #racquetball
Alexander Knights @ajknights7.bsky.social Assistant Professor studying tissue crosstalk in joint health and disease • WashU Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery and Center of Regenerative Medicine • nature and history enthusiast 🕊️
Frank Beier @beierlab.bsky.social Researcher working on skeletal biology & #osteoarthritis. Chair of Physiology and Pharmacology @westernu. Living with stage 4 #AdenoidCysticCarcinoma. Interested in environment, EDI, & other woke things.
www.westernconnect.ca/beier
Matt Harkey, PhD @mattharkeyphd.bsky.social 🦵 Researching why patients after knee injury are at 📈risk for arthritis 🧪
🔎 Early OA Detection •🩻 Ultrasound Imaging •⚙️ Biomechanics
Assistant Professor • Michigan State University 🏛️
Director • Athletic Injuries & Rehabilitation (AIR) Labs 
Jen Westendorf @jwestendorf.bsky.social Bone and osteoarthritis researcher. humbled to be Chair, Dept Biochemistry & Molecular Biology@MayoClinic President@ASBMR. Views expressed are my own.
WEST Lab @UWO @westlab.bsky.social Western Engineering for Spine and Trauma - Orthopaedic Biomechanics Research Lab,📍Victoria Hospital, London, ON, Canada, University of Western Ontario.
https://sites.google.com/view/westlab-wu
Anne-Marie Malfait @jointsintheworld.bsky.social for the Chicago Center on Musculoskeletal Pain (C-COMP)
please see https://mskpain.center
Chelsea Heveran @cheveran.bsky.social Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engineering @ Montana State
Bone quality, osteocyte interactions with bone matrix, engineered living materials
When not in the lab - mountains, canyons, dogs
George Kotsaris @gkotsaris90.bsky.social 
Soslowsky Lab @soslowskylab.bsky.social Tendon-enthusiasts! Putting the FUN in structure-FUNction!
(Student-run account... in case it was not painfully obvious)
Annemarie Lang @amilangscience.bsky.social Assistant Prof @University of Michigan -> Orthopaedic Surgery #GoBlue
Regenerating bone 😎, cartilage lover 🔬, 3R enthusiast 🐀
Studying oxygen and blood cell progenitors in ortho (ORTHO2) 🩸🫧🦴
https://lang.lab.medicine.umich.edu/
Christopher Panebianco, PhD @cpane94.bsky.social Biomedical Engiqueer👨🏻🔬🏳️🌈 PennPORT IRACDA Postdoc | PhD ‘22 | ChemE ‘16 |🥋🚴🏼♂️🧘🏻♂️🏂👨🏻🍳
Sébastien Gauvrit @sebgauvrit.bsky.social Studying Vascular morphogenesis using Zebrafish|Mouse. Assistant Professor in the APP Department, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan #USask. Alumni #Stainierlab MPI and Collège de France. 🇫🇷 in 🇨🇦. https://sebgzlab.github.io/LabWebsite/
Leah Greenspan @ljgreenspan.bsky.social Developmental biologist using zebrafish to study the mechanisms of acute and chronic cutaneous wound healing
Ben Goult @bengoult.bsky.social Talin as a memory molecule #MeshCODE.
Talin shock absorbing materials #TSAM.
Professor of Mechanistic Cell Biology at University of Liverpool
Dad, Husband. Hobbies: Mechanobiology, talin, looking at the sky
Mechanobiology @ UCT @mechanobiology-uct.bsky.social We study pathogen, cell & tissue mechanobiology in cardiac diseases and cancers ~ Team from Cameroon, Eswatini, South Africa & Uganda.
mechanobiology.uct.ac.za
Martin Humphries @martinhumphries.bsky.social Professor of Biochemistry, University of Manchester. Career interest in mechanisms of cell-matrix adhesion. Current interest in mechanosensing in pancreatic cancer and vascular dementia.
Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social We study the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying tissue morphogenesis @poldresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @embo.org
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-groups/barriga
Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social Postdoc at Columbia BME, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Lab. Tissue Engineer.🩸🔬| Interested in 3D models of blood stem cells, the immune system, and cancer | Alum of Columbia & UVa | #TSwift fan 🏳️🌈
sites.google.com/view/naveedtavakol/
Dr. Emma Lång @emmalaang.bsky.social I am a senior scientist in the Cell & Tissue Dynamics research group at Oslo University Hospital, Norway.
My main interests are mechanical and biochemical processes that regulate cell migration during tissue development, wound healing & cancer metastasis.
Placenta Lab @placentalab.bsky.social Dr. Shannon Bainbridge (She/Her) - Professor, Health Sciences @UOttawa. Wife, mom to 3 awesome girls, and big time admirer of the Placenta. Also really dig DOHAD and STEM. Oh, and cats.
Ben Hogan @benjhogan.bsky.social Cell & Developmental Biology. Vascular Biology. Lymphatics. Zebrafish.
Associate Director of Laboratory Research at Peter Mac Cancer Centre. Professor at The University of Melbourne.
Osama Harraz @osamaharraz.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Bloomfield Professor in Cardiovascular Research - decoding the complexity of vascular physiology and blood flow control, one ion channel at a time. Univ. of Vermont
www.HarrazLab.com
Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra.bsky.social Professor and Chair of WashU Chemistry. I’m a researcher, but I’m a #MentorFirst. Author of Labwork to Leadership.
Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social Biophysics / Cell Migration / Active matter / Mechanobiology
https://mpzpm.mpg.de/research/benoit-ladoux
https://ladoux-mege-lab.cnrs.fr
the Node @the-node.bsky.social the Node is a community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists, covering news, meetings, and research. Hosted by Development @dev-journal.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social. #DevBio #StemCell
https://thenode.biologists.com
Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social Facilitating rapid review for accessible research - an online only, #OpenAccess @biologists.bsky.social peer reviewed journal for research across all aspects of the biological sciences.
DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social Disease Models & Mechanisms - discovery for human health. A
@biologists.bsky.social Open Access journal that publishes human disease research. 
Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social Journal of Cell Science (JCS) publishes cutting-edge science encompassing all aspects of cell biology. JCS is a community journal published by The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social), a not-for-profit organisation. #cellbiology #cellbio
Development @dev-journal.bsky.social Development is a leading research journal in the field of developmental biology, covering stem cells, regeneration, evo-devo, epigenetics, morphogenesis and more. @biologists.bsky.social
Vermot Lab @vermotlab.bsky.social We study mechanotransduction during heart valve morphogenesis, blood vessel formation and left-right asymmetry in zebrafish at #ImperialCollegeLondon
vermotlab.com
x.com/VermotLab
Renato Sam Navarro @rsnavarro.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor at UF MSE | K99 MOSAIC Postdoc at Stanford University | Biomaterial Scientist Interested in Injectable Hydrogels for Cardiovascular Engineering | Equity in Science | Husband, human dad, cat dad
@gentlemanlab.bsky.social @gentlemanlab.bsky.social Professor of Bioengineering King's College London
& University of Lausanne #stemcells #biomaterials #organoids #diseasemodelling
John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social Studying cells inside embryos since way before it was cool.
https://www.wallingfordlab.org/
Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social Principal investigator of a cell and #DevBio research lab at UC Davis School of Vet. Med. Co-Editor In Chief of @diffjournal.bsky.social. Posts are my own. https://www.crystalrogersphd.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-9549-1089
Sade Clayton @sadewill.bsky.social Bibliophile, scientist, dog mom
https://sadewill93.wixsite.com/sadewill
Lena Batoon @lenabatoon.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow📍Mayo Clinic 👩🔬 #bone #breastcancer
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Maureen Dubreuil, MD MSc @spondymd.bsky.social Spondyloarthritis-focused Rheumatologist
Boston U School of Med | VA Boston
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/profile/maureen-dubreuil/
Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social Chemical biologist, basketball aficianado, proud homebody. Personal account.
Madhura Nijsure, PhD @madhura0327.bsky.social Postdoc at MaineHealth Institute for Research
Currently studying how bones respond to dietary changes! 🍔🥗🦴🔬
Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social Co-founder & CSO @ArcadiaScience. Head of Open Science @AsteraInstitute. Immigrant. she/her
Still post frequently on X (@PracheeAC)
Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social Chair, Computational BIology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.
Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto.
Disclosures: https://github.com/michaelmhoffman/disclosure/
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Kōnane Bay, Ph.D. @konanebay.bsky.social Kanaka 'ōiwi | polymers & biofilms enthusiast | Assistant Prof
@CUEngineering | HuliLab PI | 😺 parent | she/her