Julia van Beesel

Post-doc in the Biomechanical Engineering Lab @TUDelft / Palaeoanthropologist / human evolution/ shoulder biomechanics

[Oxford Biology @OxfordBiology]

🎉 Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, lost to science since 1961, has been rediscovered!

The team battled leeches, malaria, and >11,000m of climbing in the Cyclops Mountains to capture the first ever images of the species 👇

Read the incredible story ⏩ https://t.co/r4DdKXLjLc

[Zewdi Tsegai @ZewdiT]

🚨Postdoc alert!

My lab is hiring a postdoc to work on biomechanics of the human and great ape foot.

Apply now if you’re interested in #humanevolution, #biomechanics, #anatomy and #XROMM!

More info here: https://t.co/Lwtcgv8F2S

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@ArchaeoAshleigh Always a pleasure working with you! Had so much fun! Hope we'll repeat this soon!

[Dr Ashleigh Wiseman @ArchaeoAshleigh]

Head by the Sidlaw Room @ 12.30 #SEB2023 to hear & see some sneak previews of hominin reconstructions 👀👀

'From discovery to simulation: the challenges of musculoskeletal modelling in fossil specimens' 🦴🦵🤠☠️
W/ @JuliasShoulder @MartMLahr @james_charles90 @JohnRHutchinson

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

Fantastic PhD contribution by Rihanna @DrummondRhianna! She gave an awesome talk at the most difficult time slot, as she was the last to present at #ESHE2022 and she did an amazingly good job! Congratulations!

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@DrummondRhianna @ESHE_society @TracyKivell @GMERC_TZ Fantastic talk and super interesting thesis! Congratulations! Wonderful and important contribution to the field! Looking forward to seeing your results published!

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

Congratulations to Marie for winning the Pecka Kucha prize! It was such a fantastic talk!

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

Great Talk by Marie Vanhoof adding to the discussion about ulnar styloid process shape and wrist mobility in primates. Fantastic PhD thesis!
#Eshe2022

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

Great Talk by Marie Vanhoof adding to the discussion about ulnar styloid process shape and wrist mobility in primates. Fantastic PhD thesis!
#Eshe2022

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

Congratulations to @ArchaeoAshleigh for such an interesting talk @ESHE_society! Very hands-on presentation on the fantastic methods used to reconstruct the soft tissue of Lucy!
#Eshe2022

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@adamkewley_com Good luck with the presentation Adam!
And have a safe trip! 😊

[Adam Kewley @adamkewley_com]

OpenSim Creator 0.3.0 is now available:

https://t.co/W8fzgEeGRE

It comes with a cool new feature: live muscle plotting (video below).

Shoutout to @JuliasShoulder and @tgeijten, who helped test parts of 0.3.0 and gave valuable feedback on it!

[Adam Kewley @adamkewley_com]

After some great feedback from @JuliasShoulder, OpenSim Creator's live muscle plots will also have:

- Buttons for freezing/reverting-to existing curves
- Pixel-accurate curve-tracking crosshairs
- Automatically labelled legend entries

... assuming I can get it through QA ;-)

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@adamkewley_com The live plots are such a wonderful new feature! I love them!

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

Must read of any scientist working on ROM and joint kinematics! Amazing work by Dr. Herbst and colleagues! Fantastic way of presenting complex 3D data. 👏

[Dr. Eva Herbst @EvaCHerbst]

How do salamanders move, and how can we visualize joint range of motion (RoM)? Excited that the final papers from my PhD are now out! We developed a method to collect and visualize joint RoM, and use it to compare salamander hindlimb in vivo and ex vivo RoM. Thread [1/n]

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@ArchaeoAshleigh this might come too late for you now, but I think this is exactly what you were looking for (given the plots can also get exported). Hope you'll be able to use it for your next project :)

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

So excited about OpenSim Creator 0.3.0! It will make building musculoskeletal models so much easier! And the new live plotting feature looks amazing! Can't wait!
#biomechanics #OpenSimCreator

[Adam Kewley @adamkewley_com]

OpenSim Creator 0.3.0 will include *experimental* support for "live plotting" muscle curves. Including drawing the curves as they are computed, showing previous curves, and importing your own curves as an overlay :)

We plan to improve support as the project progresses!

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@MirjamYoung @jjhublin @a_bony_process @JohnRHutchinson Danke Mirjam! 😍

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

After years of research, excitement, emotional crises and the best support I could have imagined, my PhD has come to an end. I can't believe it is actually over. Thanks to all of you who joined me on this journey! Hugs and kisses ❤️❤️❤️

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@jjhublin @a_bony_process @JohnRHutchinson Thank you so much Jean-Jacques! I am so grateful to you for giving me the opportunity to do my PhD in your department! Your praise means a lot to me! 😊

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@tdogandzic @jjhublin @a_bony_process @JohnRHutchinson Thank you Tamara! Same club now 🎓🥳

[Julia van Beesel @JuliasShoulder]

@MathiotSinet @jjhublin @a_bony_process @JohnRHutchinson Thank you Virginie! Looking forward to congratulate you back soon! :)