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The ISB Executive Council has had a busy quarter, and I’m pleased to provide some updates for our members.

The ISB have recently completed an internal review of the ISB Congress hosting guidelines, to help improve transparency and clarity of what is involved in hosting an ISB congress, and how the applications will be assessed. This is great timing because we are calling for bids for the ISB Congress in 2027. If you are interested in hosting the ISB congress in 2027 – NOW is the time to get in touch with us and discuss (contact our wonderful President-Elect Felipe: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

ISB is also very pleased to announce our support for a Women in Biomechanics “Wikibomb” event, initiated by our new Affiliate Society, International Women in Biomechanics. The event will help increase the visibility of Women biomechanists on Wikipedia. You can find more details about this event in this newsletter, and in coming newsletters, and we are also working with ISB Affiliate Societies to promote the event. I hope you will consider signing up to participate in this event.

We are also continuing to support the development of “ISB recommendations on the assessment, estimation and reporting of joint kinematics in human motion analysis applications using wearable inertial sensing technology”.  Many of you would have seen the fantastic presentation on this topic in Fukuoka, and hopefully you completed the survey to provide input or feedback on this important topic. ISB have made additional social media posts through X and Facebook to seek final feedback and input on this topic, and now the responses are being incorporated by the authors into their paper. I want to thank the authors for proposing this topic, and for providing the opportunity to our members to have input, and of course thank you to all ISB members who have provided comments and feedback through the survey.

In addition, ISB is continuing to work on the 50th anniversary special editions and special papers. Thank you to our Past-President Alberto for continuing to lead this, and to the many ISB members who have contributed to and supported this initiative.

I hope you enjoy this edition of the ISB Now Newsletter, and I hope you all have an enjoyable end-of-year and New Year 2024. It’s summer time for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere, and I’m looking forward to the summer break!

 

Elizabeth Clarke

ISB President 

 

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