Justin Parreno @justinparreno.bsky.social We study yhe role actin reorganization plays in mechanotransduction in the pathogenesis of disease
parrenolab.com
Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social 🔬 Assistant Prof, Pathology @Duke | Director, Clin Micro Lab
🧫 Former Clin Micro Fellow @Memorial Sloan Kettering
👩🏻🔬 Former Postdoc @broadinstitute.org
🎓 PhD @The Rockefeller University
Focus: Diagnostics, AMR, Structural Biology
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 😎
Jarod Forer @jarodforer.bsky.social BioE PhD candidate studying tendon biomechanics and regen rehab @uoregon in the Hahn/Willett Labs
@chris-rodell.bsky.social @chris-rodell.bsky.social 
Josephine Wu, PhD @josephineywu.bsky.social the cell is the best #tissueengineer but I try • currently msca postdoc in daniel kelly lab at trinity college dublin • previously columbia & uc berkeley
FutureHouse @futurehousesf.bsky.social Philanthropically-funded moonshot building semi-autonomous AI to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery in biology.
San Francisco, CA
Scanzello Lab @scanzellolab.bsky.social 
@maerzlab.bsky.social @maerzlab.bsky.social 
Anna Rapp @aerapp.bsky.social Research Associate @ UPenn Rheumatology | OA & cartilage enthusiast 
@RMeS_Lab @rmes-lab.bsky.social Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton, Nantes, France
A cutting-edge research laboratory dedicated to musculoskeletal #health and #regenerativemedicine #aging #biomaterials #skeleton #inflammation #chronic diseases
INSERM | Nantes Université | ONIRIS
Neharika Bhadouria @neharikabhadouria.bsky.social -Postdoctoral Fellow at Mount Sinai, NYC
-ORS Spine Section Committee Member
-Driven by science, mentorship, leadership and values driven life
-Spine research enthusiast, aiming to help the world live pain-free
Natalia Harasymowicz @nharasymowicz.bsky.social Macrophage-obsessed Salt Lake City-based Polish Expat. Mom to 🧜♀️🧜🏼♀️
Sonia Bansal @soniabansal.bsky.social Co-Director of Biomedical Engineering Education and Teaching Laboratory (https://beetl.pratt.duke.edu/)
BME educator at Duke BME
Formerly at HSS Biomechanics | MauckLab Alum 🦄 | Columbia BME ‘14 🦁
she/her
Sun H. Peck @sunhpeck.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry, and Biomedical Engineering at VUMC/VU/Nashville VA. Researching extracellular matrix and inflammation in musculoskeletal health. Army wife, bunny mom, runner. She/her 🇰🇷
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Rosanne Raftery @rmraftery.bsky.social Researcher interested in cartilage development, maintenance, and regeneration strategies for treatment of cartilage damage
Lecturer in Physiology at University College Cork
Kyle Allen @orthobme.bsky.social Dad, husband, engineer, scientist, and teacher. My lab tries to understand how joint degeneration leads to chronic pain and disability, while finding some solutions to pain along the way. www.orthobme.com
WUTang Lab @simonytanglab.bsky.social Focused on investigating mechanisms of skeletal diseases. Ph.D., MSCI. Associate Prof Orthopedic Research at WUSM. 2024-2025 Chair of
@orsspinesection
Audrey McAlinden @mcalinden-lab.bsky.social Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Wash U Medicine. Skeletal biologist. We like RNA, especially micro-sized. 🧬🦴🐈⬛ 🏴
@davebrowe.bsky.social @davebrowe.bsky.social 
Farshid Guilak @farsh-g.bsky.social @ShrinersStLouis @wustlortho @washubme @washudevbio @wustlCRM @theNAMedicine @theNAEng @AcadofInventors @cytexortho @MyAOCConnect #racquetball
University of Colorado | Department of Orthopedics @cuorthopedics.bsky.social Uniquely positioned at the forefront of innovation in research, education, and patient care, we are a recognized global leader in the field of orthopedics, and Colorado’s most trusted orthopedic group for adults and children. 
@iatridislab.bsky.social @iatridislab.bsky.social 
Journal of Orthopaedic Research® @jorthopres.bsky.social JOR, a publication of @orssociety.bsky.social, is the forum for rapid publication of high quality reports of new information on the full spectrum of orthopaedic research. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1554527x?journalRedirectCheck=true
Journal of Orthopaedic Research - Spine® @jorspine.bsky.social JOR Spine is a fully open-access journal from @orssociety.bsky.social, dedicated to publishing high-quality spine research. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/25721143?journalRedirectCheck=true 
Madhura Nijsure, PhD @madhura0327.bsky.social Postdoc at MaineHealth Institute for Research
Currently studying how bones respond to dietary changes! 🍔🥗🦴🔬
@genetoslab.bsky.social @genetoslab.bsky.social 
Isabel Amado @isabelanatomy.bsky.social Postdoc @TamaraAlliston lab @UCSF & former PhD student and Anatomy demonstrator @rcsi_irl. EdUni Alumni. Enthusiastic runner, who also enjoys jazz and theatre.
Journal of Biomechanics @jbiomech.bsky.social Official Bluesky feed of the Journal of Biomechanics
Editors-in-Chief: Frank Gijsen, Stephen Piazza, and Saeed Shirazi-Adl.
Posts by Associate Editor: Felipe Carpes.
André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chemistry
Ben Peterson, PhD @benpetersonmgh.bsky.social Investigating the molecular biology and biomechanics relationships that drive tendon development, regeneration, and disease.
| Post-doc in the Galloway Lab |
Mass. General Hospital & Harvard Medical School. | NSRA Postdoctoral Fellow
Gulzada Kulzhanova @kazakhcheburek.bsky.social PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at University of Rochester | Laboratory of Dr. Chia-Lung Wu 🧸🌻
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journal @oacjournal.bsky.social Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, and Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open - official journals of OARSI. Impact factor 9.
http://www.oarsijournal.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social VP for Research, T.H. Smoot Professor
Depts Chemical and Biomolecular Engn, Pathology, Oncology, INBT
Johns Hopkins University
3D multi-omic, CAR T therapy, cell migration and mechanics
Lab: https://wirtzlab.johnshopkins.edu
Fiona Freeman @fionafreeman.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCD Mech Eng and Conway Institute | Principal Investigator on #ERCStG #METACHIP | #Osteosarcoma #Biomaterials #3Dbioprinting #OrganOnAChip #immunoengineering
Sara McBride-Gagyi @mcb-g.bsky.social BME Asst. Prof at THE Ohio State | Bone Regeneration | Clemson 🐅 | Spouse, Mom of 2 Firecrckers, Proud Mentor of Controled Chaos
Talayah @talayahjohnson.bsky.social Bioengineering Ph.D student | Penn |
Ryan Tomlinson @ryanet.bsky.social Bone is best. Associate Professor. Philadelphia.
Elizabeth R. Balmayor @erbalmayor.bsky.social Prof. Experimental Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery @RWTH Aachen University Hospital. Dog mom and a scientist. ♥️ my favorite person @mvangriensven | RNA Technologies | Gene Therapies | Regenerative Medicine
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
Martijn van Griensven @mvangriensven.bsky.social Prof. of Regenerative Medicine, chair cBITE @MERLN-UM.bsky.social. Roadbiking, trying to run, love my Labrador, but most in love with @erbalmayor.bsky.social
Joint Crosstalk Lab @jointcrosstalk.bsky.social WashU Department of Orthopaedic Surgery | Center of Regenerative Medicine
Jon Blank PhD @blankjonathon.bsky.social Engineer, tendon/ligament enthusiast, & noninvasive sensing aficionado
F32 Postdoctoral Fellow | Sowlowsky Lab | McKay Orthopaedic Research Lab
UW-Madison PhD Mechanical Engineering ‘23
Ohio State BS Mechanical Engineering ‘18
George Kotsaris @gkotsaris90.bsky.social 
Jana Riegger-Koch @janariegger.bsky.social PI @ Division for Biochemistry of Joint and Connective Tissue Diseases, University of Ulm; www.riegger-lab.de
Puetzer Lab @puetzerlab.bsky.social Musculoskeletal tissue engineering lab for meniscus, tendon, and ligament replacement and repair at Virginia Commonwealth University
http://puetzerlab.com
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.
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 
Sarah Rice @grainofscience.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Genetics and Epigenetics
Osteoarthritis Researcher 🎩
Versus Arthritis Career Development Fellow.
Newcastle University
research.ncl.ac.uk/ricelab
Nat Thurlow @nat-thurlow.bsky.social Penn BE PhD Student @soslowskylab || UF Alum || matrix and tendon development lover || they/them 🏳️🌈
Helen @helendietmar.bsky.social Postdoc @ Heidelberg University Hospital, interested in cartilage & the extracellular matrix. Views are my own.
Always be kind. 
Nina Shirley Tang, PhD @ninastang.bsky.social NIH T32 Postdoc @Guilak_Lab| @OrsSpineSection Membership Committee| Mapping the epigenome in joint disease and pain |She/her #1stgen | Sometimes I Art
The Greising Lab @greisinglab.bsky.social UMN lab interested in neuromuscular physiology & regenerative rehabilitation | Account managed in part by trainees, views are our own | https://smprl.umn.edu/
@dudli.bsky.social @dudli.bsky.social 
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Prof Fergal O’Brien @fjobrien.bsky.social Bioengineer, sports fan, dad to twins | RCSI DVC of Research & Innovation | AMBER Centre & RCSI TERG PI | ERC PI | Member RIA
Olivares-Navarrete Lab @regenimmunolab.bsky.social Engineering the immune response to materials @ VCU BME.
Formerly ImmunoEng_Lab on Twitter
Olivares-navarretelab.com
Bethany Andoko @bethanyandoko.bsky.social Incoming Bioengineering PhD @ UC Berkeley–UCSF
UCSF Collins Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Crosstalk
#ORSsociety #ORSSMC 💫
collinslab.ucsf.edu
Christopher Panebianco, PhD @cpane94.bsky.social Biomedical Engiqueer👨🏻🔬🏳️🌈 PennPORT IRACDA Postdoc | PhD ‘22 | ChemE ‘16 |🥋🚴🏼♂️🧘🏻♂️🏂👨🏻🍳
Dino Samartzis @dinosamartzis.bsky.social Professor I Director I Researcher I Author I Editor I Educator I Advocate I Family man & Friend I Focus on spine disorders, omics & making an impact
Jerome Guicheux @jeromeguicheux.bsky.social Professor & Director, the Regenerative medicine and skeleton research center, Inserm U1229 & Nantes University hospital, France. Running, Surf & ski addict Dad.
jachoe @jachoe.bsky.social #doubledoc from @UWMSTP @UWMadison_BME, Ortho Resident. dogs, plants, travel, biomaterials + 🦴 mRNA delivery | views are my own. 🏳️🌈he/him
Meagan Makarczyk @meaganmakarczyk.bsky.social 🧬PhD candidate in the Lin Lab at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Bioengineering. Interested in musculoskeletal pain research and aging and osteoarthritis.
🌟OAC Communications Editor-Basic Science
🥼MSK GRS Co-chair 2026
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/
Brian Umberger @brianumberger.bsky.social Biomechanics professor at the University of Michigan interested in the mechanics, energetics, and control of human locomotion
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
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 🕊️
Hoey Lab @hoeylab.bsky.social Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Musculoskeletal Mechanobiology and Materials for Regeneration
https://www.hoeylab.com/
Terence McSweeney @termcs.bsky.social Doctoral researcher: AI, medical imaging, radiomics, spine and low back pain
Also cycling, running, and a bit of jiu jitsu.
Living in Oulu, Finland 🇫🇮
Bregje de Wildt @bregjedewildt.bsky.social 🇳🇱 Postdoc at ETH Zurich🇨🇭| Bioengineering and in vitro modeling of musculoskeletal tissues 🦴 | Biomineralization enthusiast ✨
OOEC_Oxford @ooec-oxford.bsky.social Research Group based at NDORMS, @universityofoxford.bsky.social and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre employing engineering to improve joint replacement. Home of the Oxford Unicompartmental Knee Replacement #orthosky #biomechanics #knees 
Soslowsky Lab @soslowskylab.bsky.social Tendon-enthusiasts! Putting the FUN in structure-FUNction!
(Student-run account... in case it was not painfully obvious)
Neelima Thottappillil @nthottappillil.bsky.social NHLBI K99/R00 Postdoctoral fellow @HopkinsMedicine
!!In Faculty job market!!
Studying blood vessels, stem cells and bone
#HumaninSTEM
Alumnus @SCTIMST @EdinburghUniv
#FilledwithLaughter🐾
Chia-Lung Wu @chialungwu.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Orthopaedics-University of Rochester @ROC_CMSR | Proud dad of 3 cats/6 ducks & inspired by their unconditional love every day | Coffee addict
Lindsey Lammlin @zlammlin.bsky.social Post doctoral researcher studying PTOA🐭
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 
Dan Grimes @dangrimes.bsky.social Biologist asking how the embryo makes the heart and gut asymmetric but keeps the spine and limbs symmetric. Arsenal fan.
Human disease | Scoliosis | Zebrafish | Cilia | DevBio | EvoDevo
Professor @ University of Oregon — https://www.grimes-lab.com
@diannelittlephd.bsky.social @diannelittlephd.bsky.social 
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
Rachel Miller @rem7106.bsky.social Assoc Prof, Division of Rheumatology, Rush, Chicago Center on Musculoskeletal Pain.
Please see mskpain.center
MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@mads100tist@mastodon.social
Satanik Mukherjee @satanikm.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher in Guilak Lab @WashU. PhD @ KU Leuven. Member of #ORSSMC. Co-chair of #CartilageGRS2025
Elena Della Bella @elena-db.bsky.social Senior Scientist at AO Research Institute Davos. Bone and stem cell research. Passionate about science, space, and cats.
She/her
Elizabeth Seidl @eseidlscience.bsky.social PhD student in the Boerckel Lab 🔬👩🔬🧪🧬 | @PennBioengineering | Musculoskeletal, mechanobiology and education outreach enthusiast
Devina Purmessur Walter @purmessurwalter.bsky.social Biomedical Engineer and Spine Researcher
Victoria Grace Muir, Ph.D. @victoriagmuir.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Delaware Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering • Fan of #Biomaterials #Microbes #Bioprinting #Hydrogels #MusculoskeletalRepair and #Phages • https://www.themuirlab.com/
John Drazan @sports2stem.bsky.social Biomechanics and sport science researcher.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Fairfield University.
#billsmafia
Blandine @blandinep84.bsky.social French-british Biomedical scientist at the University of Liverpool, working on osteoarthritis research.
Mustafa Unal @drmustafaunal.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow @harvardmed @bidmchealth | Elected Member of @AcademyECTS I Editor-in-Chief @IFMRSHubLE | Co-Editor @Jointdrs | #Bone & #Cartilage Researcher | #BoneBiomechanics #Ramanspectroscopy
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/
Karyn @kaesser.bsky.social Scientist who loves most things muscle and circadian clocks. Lives in Florida and is part of the UF Myology community. Considers Chicago her home, Chicago Cubs fan and loves all dogs. Pronouns: She/Her
ORCID: 0000-0002-5791-1441
Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social The home of your global orthopaedic research community. Accelerating musculoskeletal discovery to improve health. #orthoresearch #ORSAmbassador #ORSSMC #ORSSML
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. 
Allison Bean, MD, PhD @allisonbeanmdphd.bsky.social Asst Prof, Physician-Scientist @ Pitt Physical Medicine & Rehab, Bethel MSK Research Center. Musculoskeletal regenerative rehabilitation researcher and sports medicine physician. She/her.
Garrett Easson @garretteasson.bsky.social STL-WashU | Biotech Equity | STL City
Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Jonathan.
Andrea Malandrino @ma1andrea.bsky.social Bioengineer interested in mechanobiology. Research assistant in JKU Linz.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com