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Matthew Shaw

@mattshaw23.bsky.social
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Sports Lecturer (Førstelektor) HVL 🇳🇴 | Interested in 🏉🧠 | Born again sociologist | Podcaster - Idrettsforskning 🎧

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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A paper suggesting instrumented mouthguards are useful. I can’t imagine what the conflicts of interest section says… www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Predictors of Brain Injury: The Performance of Biomechanical Head Acceleration Severity Metrics for Concussion Prediction in Men’s and Women’s Rugby League Players
Objective Describe and compare the biomechanical severity of head acceleration events (HAEs) associated with diagnosed concussion in elite men’s and women’s rugby league using instrumented mouthguards...
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Mad to me how 🇬🇧 can’t seem work out heatpumps. Apparently they are too expensive / complicated to retrofit? I don’t know what any of that means but in our 🇳🇴 house I paid a fella about £2k to drill a hole in the wall, fit it, plug it in and it’s our primary heat source for the house at -20 outside
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#sportswashing I enjoyed the World Cup (not the last 20 minutes of that semi-final though 😢). But it should never have taken place in the US, and @julesboykoff.bsky.social put forward a solid argument as to why not A relatively short, but good, read on why FIFA probably needs abandoning now ⚽️
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Vi kartlegger helse- og medisinsk personells syn på formell utdanning innen fysisk aktivitet 📖 📈 Dersom du jobber i eller er utdannet innen et helseyrke, håper vi at du kan bruke 5 minutter på å svare på denne korte spørreundersøkelsen forms.cloud.microsoft/e/AbMs7RW0HU
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Microsoft Forms
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
You know you’re old (and depressed) when students only know Roy Keane as “that guy on podcasts”
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Have you heard of the term “Strava Jockey”?
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New bit from me & @jackhardwicke.bsky.social in the UK Coaching Research Journal. In this we briefly discuss the existing medical literature, along with safeguarding policy to ask if the costs of contact sport (preventable brain damage) are ethically acceptable. www.ukcoaching.org/getmedia/49f...
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“I am a leading academic, who publishes regularly in high impact journals, and I can assure you that the data are indeed available on request.”
Bob Mortimer holding up a card on game show Would I Lie to You?
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Thanks for today’s class reading @markstkhlm.bsky.social
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There needs to be an important discussion about the use of Open AI in the Norwegian higher education sector. Many organisations use Open AI via the University of Oslo. In due course I will contact @uio.no to ask how they will respond to this development.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Health > Performance
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
There must be a bookies doing odds for Matt Hancock joining Reform?
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Good stuff @jackhardwicke.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2026/01...
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Why are we still failing to prevent brain injuries in children’s sport? - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice
Key words: Concussion; Brain Injuries; Youth Sport Greek physician Hippocrates is widely attributed to saying, “The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it”. The 16th-century Sw...
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
What day is it?
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Do you see the problem of performance sport? @jackhardwicke.bsky.social and i certainly do. So we put this special issue together. Do get in touch if you have an idea. Cheers, CRM think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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The Problem of Performance Dominating Sport, Education and Society
Calling critical scholars of sport, physical education and health, submit to a special issue challenging 'The Problem of Performance Sport'.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A snippet from a brief talk I gave last week about brain injury in sport 🧠. The full talk is on my YouTube channel here: youtube.com/@matthew_sha... Feel free to like and subscribe!
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This has got be some of the worst negligence I’ve ever seen in sport. Eli Kotoa knocked unconscious in the WARM UP, allowed to play and sustain multiple brain injuries that lead to emergency surgery. It’s 2025
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
What’s the latest with Twitter these days?
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
UTI
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Only since I’ve started doing work on brain injury and sport have I been called an activist (multiple times), which tells me I’m finally doing something worthwhile with my research time, and I’m probably doing it right.
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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I used to think I was a vampire but on reflection I might not be.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I don’t know why more stand up comedians don’t just take up university lecturing. It’s basically crowd work with references.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
UTI
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Someone who supports my work has paid for 3 books for me to give away! I'll double that - so I have *six* to give away!!! To enter just repost & comment below. I'll announce the winners on friday (1st Aug). Please do share, thanks. 🙏🤟🍻 More info on the book here - www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧵New bit from me that’s been a nice side quest to develop my interviewing skills while exploring something I’m interested in, as a podcaster myself. Paper is open access so everyone can read it! 🎙️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“You’re the Gatekeeper”: Exploring Open-Access Podcast Creation in the Sport and Exercise Sciences
This study explores the motivations of individuals producing open-access podcasts related to sport and exercise science. Following interviews with 14 podcasters, we found that the podcasters demons...
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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New Zealand teen dies in viral rugby-style tackle game - BBC News
He was critically injured in a game of "run it straight", which has become a social media trend.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
RUNIT is absolutely shameful. Society has never been more aware of the brain injury risks related to contact sport. CTE is mainstream terminology. RUNIT have taken the (well-evidenced) most dangerous part of a dangerous sport and made it a sport itself. Someone will die from this.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Some epistemology from me & @drcrmatthews.bsky.social This wasn’t really about biobanding or parents understanding of it, this was more about the critique of the tools typically used to “measure” such understanding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Measuring’ methodological artefacts – thinking critically about surveys via knowledge of ‘biobanding’
Surveys can efficiently generate big datasets, but they can misrepresent participants’ understandings. Our article discusses the potential for surveys to produce ‘methodological artifacts’ when mea...
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
About time this guy was made to pay!
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Enjoyed talking last week about the work I’m doing with @jackhardwicke.bsky.social and @drcrmatthews.bsky.social around brain injury and rugby
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Jack Hardwicke @jackhardwicke.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
No child should acquire brain damage that is within adult control to prevent. Sport is no exception. New paper on this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Preventing sport-acquired brain damage in children: ‘If in doubt, sit them out’ on its own is not good enough
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Update on the new book, new papers and a few workshops and lectures that are free to attend: mailchi.mp/de419fe5dc50...
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Fucking hell, how hard is it. Tax. The. Rich.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Lol twitter
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I have finally got hold of images from an MRI of my brain from last year! Any suggestions of who may be willing to look at it in relation to brain injury? @alanpearcephd.bsky.social any suggestions?
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
JD Vance is definitely Jonathan Gullis’ idol isn’t he, you just know it.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Eagles' flyhalf Ronnie Kayondo succumbs to head injury in rugby match
Tragic loss of Kampani Eagles Rugby Club's Ronnie Kayondo, who passed away after a head injury sustained during a match.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Is “ludicrous” an appropriate word to use in an academic review? Asking for a friend (genuinely 😂)
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Damn, last week marked 14 years teaching. 2 FE colleges, 2 Universities, 4 cities, 2 countries. Must be time to write my autobiography?
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Does anyone have a good overview of science communication podcasts based in Norway. Doesn’t have to be Norwegian language, just the hosts (or a host) based in 🇳🇴 Obviously thinking of you @dsquintana.bsky.social and Everything Hertz
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Is there a social science equivalent here?
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
WWE doesn’t have a Bluesky account. So now I’m not sure why I’m here.
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Matthew Shaw @mattshaw23.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I am keen to follow anyone working with / interested in brain injury in sport! Let me know who to hit up 🙌🏻
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