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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚴The finals of the UCI E-cycling World Championships are approaching, and our paper on the topic has just been published in the Journal of Science and Cycling (open-access) on the 2023 edition held on @gozwift.bsky.social @zwiftinsider.com
👉https://jsc-journal.com/index.php/JSC/article/view/1043

Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 22

🎊 new paper out!
The last one of my Postdoc at Nantes Université, where we evaluated the effect of additional cognitive load on top of habitual training in reducing fatigue after 5 weeks.
DM for full-txt
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

My views refer in particular to one of the field I work on (exercise physiology/sport science). If you made it until here, I hope you will tell me your opinions😊 12/12

Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

Additionally, I saw lately several preprints that does not contain results. Like views, opinion papers, comments or stuff like that. Why? Is it not like a blogpost? I read these preprints in my field and I understand that some might be hard to publish, but are preprints to express “opinions”? 11/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

In the past, I published some preprints of works with limited access to the data (and no code) and respect a journal word count. After reading some good preprints, I try to be more selective and see if I can allocate additional work to make the preprint as I think it should be 10/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

Preprints might be good to tell the whole story, show data (data and code, even synthetic/simulated data, are still rare on preprints). Of course this requires more work, and several works (where data cannot be freely shared, for example) not suitable for preprints. 9/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

I now think that not all work are suitable for preprints, or I might just disagree with the current format/conception of preprints. In particular, why are most of people still using the “journal formats” also for preprints? I mean limited world counts, static figures, etc 8/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

A 3rd advantage (and I’ll stop to 3) is that it might boost impact of your work and get feedbck from the community (not really). What this means is that you can share the number of “downloads and reads” of the preprint in the cover letter to tell the editor “hey look, it received interest”! 7/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

…to be able to access an “history” of the paper, from pre- to post-peer review. I like this idea, as peer-review is not always as fair and transparent as it should be.
even though I think it is more a responsibility of the journal to do so (publish peer-review history). 6/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

But ofc the same paper could still contain major methodological flaws, that ✨peer-review✨should prevent from being published. I’m putting stars around peer-review to imdicate what pr-rw should be and not what it sometimes(?) is. So, as a more senior colleague told me, once another advantage is… 5/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

One strength is probably that you can share your RESULTS with the community openly and immediately. But this often translates to “I need to cite my work for a follow up paper or for my grant”. I don’t really think one would share smth knowing that it is garbage as there is your name on it. 4/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

I was of course supporting preprints (I still am), but now I understand better why my mentors and senior colleagues had doubts. And I better understand (not fully! Looking for your opinions here) the strengths and limitations of preprints, and why we should ask ourselves if our work is suitable 3/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

As student, I was seeing the discussion on preprints as: old scientists -reluctant to changes- vs. Young enlightened scientists aiming to improve “openness” in science (whatever it means those days, we were united under the preprint flag, but we had very different views of OpenScience) 2/12

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · May 4

Since I was a student, preprint is a very discussed topic in open science, and I had the opportunity to discuss it in several steps of my academic journey. After reading this, I wanted to share some thoughts 1/12
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/17/g...

Guest Post: Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen

Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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The Jet Lag Guy @the-jet-lag-guy.bsky.social · Apr 18

A new podcast interview has dropped! @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social discusses his work with speed skaters and how they have recovered from jet lag much more quickly than expected.

#jetlag #circadianrhythm #performance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UL9...

Dr Giorgio Varesco from Université de Montréal

YouTube video by The Jet Lag Guy

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Réseau Sommeil @reseausommeil.bsky.social · Mar 21

🌟 Mise en lumière de nos incroyables stagiaires au 12ᵉ Congrès de la Société Canadienne du Sommeil ! 🌟
La semaine dernière, nos talentueux stagiaires ont présenté leurs recherches à travers des communications orales et des affiches, contribuant ainsi à l’avancement des sciences du sommeil ! 🧠💡 💤

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · Mar 16

Sport science guys at the 12th canadian sleep society conference. Glad to be working in such nice group

Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · Mar 15

Attending the 12th Canadian Sleep Society Conference? Sport fan? Come have a chat tomorrow (16th March) 👇
@umontreal.ca
@reseausommeil.bsky.social

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The Jet Lag Guy @the-jet-lag-guy.bsky.social · Mar 12

My latest podcast episode is up! We talk about @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social's work with speed skaters, the best times to wear the Re-Timer jet lag glasses, and the importance of social media in modern business.

#jetlag #circadianrhythm #speedskating #performance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=261U...

Whatever Happened to Baby Jet Lag? Episode 11 12/03/25

YouTube video by The Jet Lag Guy

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · Mar 3

Yes, might depends on the little circle, and as you are telling me, on the personal experiences on the platforms. But the results feels about right, I hope science proceeds at a different pace tweets. I might miss a couple of tweets and it’s ok but I shouldn’t miss a paper on my topic when citing.

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · Mar 3

2. Probably for 1 paper you are citing because you heard about it on your social media circle, you cite 10 that none ever twitted about

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · Mar 3

I think there are 2 points here: 1.When I cite I should know the literature and the paper that support my statement, regardless if its a manuscript lost in the vatican library or the lastest paper from my friend with a huge kardashan index. Transfer of knowledge, I guess that’s another thing. And

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · Feb 26

an interesting recent paper on nap & some performance index in athletic women: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Enhanced physical performance, attention, and mood states after a nap opportunity following a sleep restriction night in female athletes: A randomized controlled trial

This study examined the effects of two nap durations (40 minutes (N40) and 90 minutes (N90)) on physical performance, sleepiness, attention, mood states (Profile of Mood States, POMS), perceived ex...

www.tandfonline.com

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Giorgio Varesco @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social · Feb 13

Bel reportage de Radio Canada sur nos travaux sur le décalage horaire et comment reduire la durée des symptomes -comme la fatigue- une fois à destination

ici.radio-canada.ca/sports/21389...

Vaincre le décalage horaire en patinage de vitesse sur courte piste

Les athlètes de cette discipline ont une grande capacité d’adaptation au décalage horaire, révèle une étude.

ici.radio-canada.ca

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The Jet Lag Guy @the-jet-lag-guy.bsky.social · Feb 10

Some VERY exciting jet lag research! @giorgiovaresco.bsky.social analysed Canada's speed skating team travelling to Asia and found that the athletes adjusted more quickly than expected while they slept more.

#jetlag #sports #skating #speedskating #performance

nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

Getting over a 13-hour jet lag: how do Canada’s speed-skaters do it?

Researchers analyzed how the country’s short-track speed-skating team adapts to major time-zone differences when they fly to competitions in Asia.

nouvelles.umontreal.ca

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