In his ECR Spotlight, Jarrod Petersen tells us about his research, which showed that ingesting a large meal does not affect how #boaconstrictors move, and that you can always learn something, even from failed experiments
"High Resolution Outdoor Videography of Insects Using Fast Lock-On Tracking"
We glue a tiny reflector on a bee. Using its reflection, robotic Fast Lock-On (FLO) tracking keeps a telescope focused on the bee flying in the wild. FLO also works from a drone.
Deep diving into motion capture used for biomechanics research. I know absolutely nothing about it, but it's always fascinating to peek into other disciplines to learn new terminology, workflows, software, and file formats. Seems .C3D files are used a lot for datasets.
After some searching, I found a dataset of individuals walking in C3D format. I eventually converted that into CSV so I can work with it easier. Then I fumbled with trying to convert 3D points to 2D points. But kept at it and got to this, which made it all worth while!
In their #JEB100 Review, Ijspeert & Daley discuss how comparative animal studies and neuromechanical modeling have revealed diversity in the integration of feedback and feedforward control, related to body size, mechanical stability, time to locomotor maturity and movement speed
New pape from my lab on how the exquisite biomechanical structure of joints, tendons, other doohickeys determine mechanosensory feature selectivity and establish a topographic map of joint angle among proprioceptive sensory neurons in the fly leg. The product of an expansive and fun collaboration across several labs.
Hello mastodon!
I'm a German biologist, currently doing a #PhD in Functional Morphology at the University of Antwerp. I study the biomechanics of beak movement in songbirds. 🐦
I'm here to connect with other scientists, share some bits and pieces about my research, and hopefully meet some nice people that are also interested in #animals, #birds, #evolution, #biomechanics, and #opensource software.
All articles in the journal's new #JEB100 Special Issue, Century of Comparative Biomechanics: Emerging and Historical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Field, are available for #Free