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Pieter Van den Berghe

@pieterveedeebee.bsky.social
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Digital and social media Editor | driving engagement in sports medicine & exercise Science Journals (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Sports Sciences)

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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We’re excited to welcome more Registered Reports at the Journal of Sports Sciences. This means all Registered Reports will be free to download for a month after publication! Join a growing movement towards better, fairer sport and exercise science. #Sports #Science @tandfonline
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🆕 Factors influencing the invitation for national squad selection in youth basketball: The role of relative age, maturity, and birthplace www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🆕 Does match phase affect high-speed running and sprinting peak period performance and recovery kinetics in professional male football players? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🆕 The give and take of social support in professional athlete career pathways www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🆕 The effects of isothermic heat acclimation on simple and complex cognitive performance in the heat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🆕 See how they run: Characteristics of 114,324 runs from 227 runners with and without a history of knee surgery www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🆕 The impact of cognitive load on lower limb biomechanics during the take-off phase before service in tennis players of different levels www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
🆕 Does technology assist physical activity engagement in adolescent girls and young women? Repeated cross-sectional analysis
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🆕 The role of psychological and environmental characteristics in talent development in sport: A mixed methods study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🆕 “I literally played seven minutes and then got scouted for England”: Player experiences of talent identification and development in women’s blind football www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🆕 What are the demands of volleyball match-play? A systematic review of the external and internal loads encountered according to playing position, number of sets, and player sex. Including Open Data and Open Materials. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🆕 Expanding our understanding of talent development environments in English female youth football: Player, parent and coach perspectives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Journal of Sports Sciences has just published its first Registered Report since introducing this article type in 2021! Here, the introduction & methods were peer-reviewed before receiving the data. We look forward to receiving more of these articles. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pieter Van den Berghe @pieterveedeebee.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Journal of Sports Sciences publishes research on various aspects of the sports and exercise sciences. So which research has been resonating strongly with the sports science community in the past year? The articles 👇 have been downloaded >100,000 times in 2025 alone!
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Hamish Ferguson PhD @coachfergnz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Twenty-Four-Hour Low Energy Availability Induced by Diet or Exercise Exhibits Divergent Influences on Sleep and Recovery Indices among Female and Male Cyclists journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...
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Sportrix A. Birklbauer @sportrixanita.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
American College of Sports Medicine Expert Consensus Statement: Blood Doping in Sport journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
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bluespotscience.bsky.social @bluespotscience.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A massive team effort to produce this joint ESSA & ACSM expert statement on “Physical Activity and Exercise Intensity Terminology”, which has been published in both JSaMS www.jsams.org/article/S144... & journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...   Thread 🧵👇🏽
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David Morales-Alamo @davidmoralesalamo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
New in MSSE: Adding blood flow restriction (BFR) during rest intervals of HIIT significantly boosts endurance performance — bigger gains in max power, time to exhaustion & faster 20 km trial times — without extra sprint or strength benefits. journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
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NPB on reddit @npb-reddit.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Study by Department of Human Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan on Changes in Knowledge and Compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations Among Youth Baseball Coaches: A Cross-Sectional Comparison at Two Time Points www.dovepress.com/changes-in-k...
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Changes in Knowledge and Compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations A | OAJSM
Examining how such changes have influence coaches’ knowledge and compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations Among Youth Baseball Coaches
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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
'Coach–athlete interaction in Muay Thai: A microethnographic analysis of skill learning in a real-world combat sport' - open access in Journal of Sports Sciences: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Coach–athlete interaction in Muay Thai: A microethnographic analysis of skill learning in a real-world combat sport
Coach–athlete interaction is a central component of skill learning in sports. When done well, interventions by a coach can shape an athlete’s perceptual, motivational, and physical capacities and d...
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Nick Bray, PhD, CSEP-CEP @nickwbray.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🚨 Final form: journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab... Big thanks to everyone involved! @munmed.bsky.social
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
For those skeptical short sprints could be so effective, many studies. See: ~12-16 min of intensity > 45 min of long slow distance: “High-intensity aerobic interval training resulted in significantly increased VO2max compared with long slow distance… (P < 0.01).” journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
Bar chart showing percent change in absolute VO₂max (open bars) and absolute stroke volume (filled bars) from pre- to post-training across four exercise programs: LSD (long slow distance), LT (lactate threshold), 15/15 intervals, and 4×4 minute intervals. VO₂max and stroke volume changes are plotted on the y-axis from −5% to +15%. In LSD and LT groups, both VO₂max and stroke volume changes are minimal and near zero, with slight negative values in LSD. In the 15/15 group, VO₂max increases by about 5% and stroke volume increases by about 8%, with stroke volume showing statistical significance (*). In the 4×4 min interval group, VO₂max increases by approximately 7% and stroke volume by approximately 10%, both statistically significant (** to ***). Error bars show standard error. Statistical significance markers above bars indicate within-group significant changes: 15/15 shows *, and 4×4 shows ** and ***. Legend identifies open bars as VO₂max and filled bars as stroke volume.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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Kiisa Nishikawa @kiisa.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
david ginola, former professional soccer player, attending a motion capture session for fifa soccer 97 (1996) archive.org/details/play...
david ginola, sitting, shirtless, smiling, wearing motion capture gear/dots.david ginola, white singlet, blue jeans, dark cap, looking at a crt monitor along with 2 other dudes and 1 woman.david ginola, sitting at a computer in a cluttered space.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New US research: Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation after Sub-Maximal Exercise in Individuals with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab... #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #LongCovid #PostExertionalMalaise
Purpose: 
In individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), physical activity can exacerbate symptoms for days-to-weeks, referred to as post-exertional symptom exacerbation (PESE). This study characterized the trajectory of PESE symptoms before and for 7 days after a sub-maximal exercise task in individuals with ME/CFS or PASC.

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Individuals with ME/CFS (n=30) or PASC (n=30) and matched controls (n=30) were recruited from a university hospital and the community setting. Participants completed a 25-minute moderate intensity exercise on a whole-body cycle ergometer. The trajectory of 8 commonly reported PESE symptoms (physical fatigue, mental fatigue, pain, physical function, flu-like symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, sleep dysfunction, anxiety) before and for 7 days after exercise.

Results: 
There was variability in the proportion of those who experienced increased symptoms ranging from 46/60 reporting physical fatigue to only 18/30 reporting anxiety. There was no change in any of the symptoms across the 7-day period when analyzed individually. An aggregate score of 4-5 symptoms that includes physical fatigue, mental fatigue, physical function and flu-like symptoms, with or without pain, was more comprehensive in capturing maximal changes in PESE. Changes were greatest during the 72h post-exercise and for those with ME/CFS. The aggregate score shows 8/30 of individuals with ME/CFS and 12/30 with PASC show minimal-to-no increase in PESE, while 6-7/30 show increases greater than 3/10 points.

Conclusions: 
PESE to a clinically relevant exercise task is variable in individuals with ME/CFS and PASC as submaximal exercise does not exacerbate symptoms for some, while modifications of intensity may be necessary to minimize PESE in others.
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Tiina Savikangas @tiinasavikangas.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Ai niin, julkaisu-uutisia! Mun eka ykklskirjoittama huippulehdessä julkaistu juttu on nähnyt päivänvalon 🥳🎉 💡Metabolisen terveyden näkökulmasta kannattaa liikkua läpi aikuisuuden ja treenata lihaskuntoa 💪 Tulossa avoimeksi, sitten tarkemmin löydöksistä. Thx @eerohaapala.bsky.social 💎
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Bieke Purnelle @biekepurnelle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Nog 113 dagen tot de Omloop.
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Wei Wen @wwenneuro.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New study exploring a potential strategy for increasing affective responses during exercise while emphasizing the need to rigorously test related auxiliary assumptions and determine an SESOI for confirmatory research: doi.org/10.1080/0264...
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Making the exercise experience more pleasurable: Exploring the psychological effect of allowing intensity adjustments during exercise
Feeling good during exercise is a key predictor of whether people stay active. One factor thought to influence this is whether exercisers perceive control over their training intensity. A meta-anal...
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Michele Zanini @mzaniniphysiology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
7/7 This highlights the importance of training specificity (i.e. long runs) and higher mileage for sustaining economy during prolonged exercise – key for events from 10k to marathon. 🔄 Share & discuss! 📄 Free full text (AoP): journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...
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Regular Long Runs and Higher Training Volumes are... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
rences in RE durability. Therefore, this study aimed to compare RE durability during a 90 min run and the decrements in neuromuscular capabilities, between athletes that did, or did not, practice regu...
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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hot But Not Cold Water Immersion Mitigates the Decline in Rate of Force Development Following Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...
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Hot But Not Cold Water Immersion Mitigates the Decline in... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
mage (EIMD) is lacking. Methods Thirty physically active males completed an individualized and tailored EIMD protocol immediately followed by one of the following recovery interventions: cold water...
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The Lundquist Institute @thelundquist.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
In a new review from TLI, Investigators Carrie Ferguson, PhD and @harrybrossiter.bsky.social present evidence that, for most individuals, combining #resistance and #endurance training can be complementary — not contradictory — in boosting performance and overall #health: bit.ly/3J2fyTA.
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Power and Endurance: A New Review from The Lundquist Institute Says They Might Actually Be Teammates
A new review from TLI Investigators Carrie Ferguson, PhD and Harry Rossiter, PhD offers a fresh perspective on the interaction between power and endurance training.
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Jem Arnold @jemarnold.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Spencer MR, Gastin PB. (2001) Energy System Contribution during 200- to 1500-M Running in Highly Trained Athletes. journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu... Duffield R, Dawson B, Goodman C. (2005) Energy System Contribution to 1500- and 3000-Metre Track Running. doi.org/10.1080/0264...
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Energy system contribution during 200- to 1500-m running in ... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
ring high-speed treadmill exercise that simulated 200-, 400-, 800-, and 1500-m track running events. Methods: Twenty highly trained athletes (Australian National Standard) participated in the stud...
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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“Healthy control data showed no such decrease… the observed decrease in cardiorespiratory fitness after a SARS-CoV-2 infection is attributed to the infection itself and could not be reasoned by other pandemic circumstances from the time of data collection.” journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
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COVID-19’s Impact on Athletes: Reduced Cardiorespiratory... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
opulmonary exercise testing on treadmills or bicycle ergometers involving 2314 athletes (39.6% female) was conducted. German federal squad members (59.6%) and non-squad athletes were included in the s...
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Michele Zanini @mzaniniphysiology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🚨 The last paper of my PhD is out in @MSSE Regular Long Runs and Higher Training Volumes are Associated with Better Running Economy Durability in Performance Matched Well-Trained Male Runners 🙏🏻 Rich Blagrove & Jonathan Folland Temporary free download. 🔗 journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab... 🧵 1/7
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Craig A. Goodman @craigagoodman1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Impact of Vegan Diets on Resistance Exercise-Mediated Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis in Healthy Young Males and Females: A Randomized Controlled Trial journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...
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Impact of Vegan Diets on Resistance Exercise-Mediated... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
orous (OMN) and vegan (VGN) dietary patterns may differentially stimulate MPS. Moreover, the distribution and frequency of protein intake may also play an important anabolic regulatory role. Objectiv...
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Harry Rossiter @harrybrossiter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Just out - Power and Endurance: Polar Opposites or Willing Partners? journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...
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Power and Endurance: Polar Opposites or Willing Partners? : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
erred by measurement of critical power/speed or cardiopulmonary exercise testing to determine e.g., gas exchange threshold (GET), maximum oxygen uptake (V̇O2max) and exercise economy. Specificity is a...
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Centinel @centinel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Estudio sobre gasto energético y ciclos menstruales: El gasto energético en reposo de mujeres que no toman anticonceptivos es ligeramente mayor después de la ovulación. Sí toman anticonceptivos no hay diferencia. journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
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Resting Energy Expenditure, Metabolic and Sex Hormones in... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
distinct groups, naturally menstruating women (NoOC) and women using monophasic combined oral contraceptives (COC). Methods Measurements included REE by indirect calorimetry, body composition by bi...
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Milan Betz @milanwbetz.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Conclusion: Cold-water immersion should be avoided during post-exercise recovery to ensure proper nutrient delivery to muscle tissue to maximize post-exercise muscle conditioning. 6/6 Have a look at the full article for more details: journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...
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Post-Exercise Cooling Lowers Skeletal Muscle Microvascular... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
known. Methods Twelve young males (24 ± 4 y) performed a single resistance exercise session followed by water immersion for 20 min with one leg immersed in cold water (8 °C: COLD) and the contralat...
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“Another New research paper” once again supporting inclusion for trans women athletes. Physical Fitness and Exercise Performance of Transgender Women There were no significant differences in anaerobic power between reference females and transgender women. journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...
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Physical Fitness and Exercise Performance of Transgender... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
f physical fitness of transgender women who had undergone gender-affirming orchiectomy (30 ± 4 years; n = 15) and who had not (27 ± 4 years: n = 15) were compared with reference males (28 ± 5 years; n...
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Daniel Sanabria @danielsanabria.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Interested in the details? Check out our full study journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab... or drop your thoughts below!
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Individualized Cognitive Effort to Failure Does Not Impact... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
eassessment of the mechanisms linking cognitive load to physical performance. This study introduces a novel approach to address methodological limitations, emphasizing individualized cognitive task di...
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ǝʞɐlq ǝʌɐp @blakestah.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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. 8/8
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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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 · 01/09/2025
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 · 05/08/2025
🚨🆕📝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 · 09/08/2025
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👇🏻 1/5
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 12/07/2025
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 · 10/07/2025
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 · 23/06/2025
📊 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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