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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · Sep 8

When you publish something, it is the highest form of compliment when others try to build on it.

You demean your reputation and cause direct harm to others when your work is not reproducible.

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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great work Sara Kim Hjortborg and @gregdowney.bsky.social!! Our new paper in Journal of Sports Sciences homes in on micromoments of skillful coaching interactions during and between rounds in a novice Muay Thai bout - thread below!

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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · Sep 1

We’re hiring a postdoctoral associate in Biomechanics @UNOmaha! Focus: gait training for stroke survivors. Lab and/or field studies, collaboration with experts at the universty and medical center. PhD in PT, biomechanics, biomed eng, or related.
👉 biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨🆕📝The association between the risk of relative energy deficiency in sports and performance outcomes: A real-world examination of international elite volleyball male athletes

Link: doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2025.2517967

Partners: INS Québec Volleyball Canada McGill University

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Dr Nick Gearing @nickgearing1.bsky.social · Aug 9

Delighted to have another of my PhD papers published: ‘A preliminary multi-club project: Understanding player technical outcomes in European football academies training sessions’.

For full access to the paper, see the link below:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A breakdown below👇🏻
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · Jul 19

Sorry to hear about the termination&rejection of your career grant. What will you do now?

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trick van treat @derek.bike · Jul 12

you can just bring your alpaca to watch the bike race. no one will stop you from doing this

a crowd of people standing at the side of the road and cheering at the tour de france. many of the people are wearing bright yellow hats. one person is waving a black and white striped flag. in front of them is an alpaca wearing a jaunty yellow kerchief

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Katherine Boyer @katherineaboyer.bsky.social · Jul 10

I have agreed to chair Models and Motor Control at ISB (tuesday morning). I'm looking for a co-chair who is student/postdoc in this area. If you have a mentee or person to suggest please let me know!

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Janis Fiedler @fiejanis.bsky.social · Jun 23

📊 New Publication!
We analyzed 5000+ cycle ergometer tests (ages 14-64) to create reference standards of lactate thresholds for health studies and clinical practice.

Full text: doi.org/10.1080/0264...
#Exercise #SportsScience 🧪

Displayed are the centile curves at different percentiles for relative and absolute power at the individual lactate threshold.

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Erik Selim Lundkvist @erikselim.bsky.social · Jun 19

Think mood affects performance? Our new NHL study shows it's more the other way around. Psychological states don't predict performance, but performance does shape psychological states the next day. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A daily longitudinal analysis of reciprocal relationships between psychological states and performance in NHL players

This study aimed to explore the temporal relationships between psychological states and performance among players in the National Hockey League (NHL). We used an intensive longitudinal design, with...

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Felipe Carpes @felipecarpes.bsky.social · Jun 26

The big news is here!

The De Luca Foundation launches the #AppliedEMGAward to support researchers in Latin America interested in conducting EMG-focused research!

📆 Applications Open Today!

delucafoundation.org/applied-emg-...

Thank you De Luca Foundation!

Applied EMG Award – De Luca Foundation

delucafoundation.org

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Felipe Carpes @felipecarpes.bsky.social · Jun 11

"Providing opportunities for scientists in the global south is not an act of charity. It is a strategic, forward-looking response to a more complex and demanding future."

Inspiring piece wrote by by Marcelo Knobel

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Black Biomechanists Association @blackbiomechs.bsky.social · May 31

@amsocbiomech.bsky.social @blackinx.bsky.social (3/7)

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · May 22

What makes exploratory research valuable? We discuss 6 factors: 1) Large and 2) Uncommon sample 3) Rigorous data collection 4) Widely used measures that 5) Reveal a coherent pattern across variables meaningful to others and 6) The potential to generate questions.
doi.org/10.1080/0264...

Exploratory research in sport and exercise science: Perceptions, challenges, and recommendations

Quantitative exploratory research implies a flexible examination of a dataset with the purpose of finding patterns, associations, and interactions between variables to help formulate a hypothesis, ...

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kinetoplastids papers @kinetoplastpapers.bsky.social · May 15

From full to partials: Investigating the impact of range of motion training on maximum isometric action, and muscle hypertrophy in young women pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40366729/

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · May 7

The journal of Sports and Sciences will now require mandatory sample size estimation and justification www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This is an excellent step that will improve scientific papers. I expect many other journals will follow.

Sample size estimation revisited

Published in Journal of Sports Sciences (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · May 1

🚨🆕📝New scientific publication: The relationship between match-play decision making and fatigue in elite women’s water polo: A novel recurrent events approach
doi.org/10.1080/0264...

Team: Lily Dong, Thomas Romeas, Ali Filali-Mouhim, Nicolas Berryman
Partners: INS Québec, Water Polo Canada, @uqam.ca

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Max Ditroilo @ditroilo.bsky.social · Apr 9

The latest from myself, @crist14n.bsky.social, Grant Abt, and @lakens.bsky.social on exploratory research in sport/exercise science.
doi.org/10.1080/0264...
We outline the differences between exploratory & confirmatory studies and best practice for conducting/reporting an exploratory study.

Exploratory research in sport and exercise science: Perceptions, challenges, and recommendations

Quantitative exploratory research implies a flexible examination of a dataset with the purpose of finding patterns, associations, and interactions between variables to help formulate a hypothesis, ...

doi.org

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · Apr 5

Outdoor time and multisport activities develop children’s motor competence | Univ. of Jyväskylä www.jyu.fi/en/news/outd...

Children’s outdoor time and multisport participation predict motor competence three years later | Journal of Sports Sciences www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#openaccess

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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...

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Matthias Hovorka, PhD @matthiashovorka.bsky.social · Mar 6

Comparison of U23 cyclists who turned pro vs. those who didn't. Elite riders had higher absolute power outputs, greater training volume, and superior race performance. Suggestion: workload management was key factor in progressing to the elite level.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elite versus non-elite cyclist – Stepping up to the international/elite ranks from U23 cycling

This study investigated the physiological, performance and training characteristics of U23 cyclists and assessed the requirements of stepping up to the elite/international ranks. Twenty highly trai...

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Greg Atkinson @gregatki.bsky.social · Mar 27

"Twenty-five years of blood flow restriction training: What we know, what we don’t, and where to next?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Twenty-five years of blood flow restriction training: What we know, what we don’t, and where to next?

Blood flow restriction is a technique that involves inflating a cuff at the proximal portion of the limb with the goal of reducing arterial inflow into the muscle and venous outflow from the muscle...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Apr 8

New paper by former lab visitor Max Ditroilo, "Exploratory research in sport and exercise science". We propose narrower definitions where hypothesis tests are confirmatory when error rates are controlled, and exploratory when not, and give reporting advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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James Steele @jamessteeleii.bsky.social · Apr 18

Oh to Greg's point I was referring to the meta analytic case like in section 3.2 & 3.4 here www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

But to Lorenzo's point the back transformation is admittedly only interprtable in cases where all effects are of the same unit of measurement.

Meta-analysis of variation in sport and exercise science: Examples of application within resistance training research

Meta-analysis has become commonplace within sport and exercise science for synthesising and summarising empirical studies. However, most research in the field focuses upon mean effects, particularl...

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Chrysostomos Sahinis @sahinischrysosto.bsky.social · Apr 18

🚨 Our new meta-analysis is out in Journal of Sports Sciences!

We reviewed 40 studies comparing semitendinosus vs. biceps femoris activation during hamstring strengthening exercises (knee vs hip based).
doi.org/10.1080/0264...
Here's what we found 🧵👇
#hamstrings

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