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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Important letter to the editor from Steph Filbay & Tom Cross regarding the trial that purportedly showed very poor outcomes for the Cross bracing protocol (non-surgical care of ACL injury). How these flaws weren't picked up in the review process if beyond me.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This Goodreads promo begins today, chance to win a free copy. Good luck!

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

When you get a review that is clearly AI-generated, which means your manuscript has been uploaded to an AI and therefore in training models/public domain now, what should you say to the editor?

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

How does something as obvious as this make it through a Nature family of journals' peer-review process?

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Exploring your data before any analysis is such an important step to save lots of heartache later. Here's a free tool you might find useful: www.whiteley.work/research/eda/

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

At *least* 3x, up to 10x the cost of tickets to Qatar 2022, and accommodation starting at $80 per night. Reminder of how good the 2022 World Cup was for fans

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Nice one from James Wild: 7 years of pro rugby injury data looking at associations between contact time/flight time, and stride length/stride rate during a 20m max accel. doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Test-retest reliability is boring, but important to understand if differences between occasions are real or noise. Here's a free open-source app that will do a comprehensive reliability analysis for you: reliability-b5reo7jxacgvrabpbd2h3u.streamlit.app Upload your wide data, follow the prompts

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Scientific journals "adding value" episode# 658,447. As an exercise I wondered what they (Springer in this case) would charge for a figure to be cited & reproduced for use in freely accessible professional development - for 4 years, they want $1600. I wonder how much the authors get?

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The team at Sportfisio Suisse have put all the talks from their recent conference up on YouTube: youtube.com/@sportfisios... If you don't click that link, as HG would say, you're being a fool to yourself and a burden to others

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

All things bone stress injury in the latest Aspetar Journal here: journal.aspetar.com/archive/volu... As always, free, open access, no catches, no sign-up etc. One highlight for me is Evan Jeanguyot's Return to running after bone stress injury in runners: journal.aspetar.com/en/archive/v...

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing share.google/054wgu5Qw4E9... I'm looking at you, journals prioritising "punchy" titles and "sexy" findings

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 27/11/2025

This feels to me a bit like the NRA's argument that the solution to school shootings is more guns in school. We're not going to fix the problems with scientific publishing by doubling down on the current system and pouring even more resources into it. We need to try something new.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/11/2025

My point 1 could "just" have been about cloning 101 patients to get statistical significance. But the WBC stuff makes me think the entire dataset is fake.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/11/2025

You may have seen reports about a paper claiming that "Stem cell therapy prevents heart attacks": bmj.altmetric.com/details/1830... If so, you might want to grab some popcorn: pubpeer.com/publications...

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Report for: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (PREVENT-TAHA8)

In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Team physicians from Africa: great opportunity here from the IOC - no costs - registration, travel, meals, & accommodation for 2 docs/country to this year's Advanced Teams Physicians' courses in Senegal. Please share far and wide (your national Olympic Committee has the details)

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Trying to pool data from diagnostic studies means knowing the raw data, but that's not always given. This app lets you enter what is given, and it titerates through all possibilities to give you most likely candidates: whiteleyrod-confusionmatrixcalculator-app-rubass.streamlit.app Find the bugs!

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I honestly thought that the analgaesia from BFR was placebo, so we did a sham-controlled crossover RCT, and seems there's something there: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Probably not due to sensitisation-local or global When you need to do strength training but can't might be an option

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Scientific journals adding value again, and making reviewers' lives easy - here we have 2 sets of line numbers, one of which is conveniently superimposed over the reference numbers, presumably to make it easier for me to figure these our while doing my review

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Keith Baar @musclescience.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

🧪 New paper alert! We keep trying to understand muscle-tendon crosstalk. Here we determined whether exosomes could explain why serum after resistance exercise makes bigger stronger tendons. Contrary to our hypothesis, it is not exosomes. The search goes on. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Exosome enriched serum enhances engineered ligament mechanics and collagen content with no additional benefit of resistance exercise

Following resistance exercise, systemic changes foster improved functionality of tendons and ligaments. Post-exercise, muscle tissue releases exosomes…

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Some experiments advance science. Others advance the reviewer’s sense of power. Guess which costs more. #FridayThoughts

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The Sopranos Tony Soprano GIF

ALT: The Sopranos Tony Soprano GIF

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Spotted this guy eating his lunch while walking through downtown Kuala Lumpur today

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Outstanding practical review of the recovery modalities available and more importantly, when to implement from Martin Buchheit in this morning's Aspetar Rehab CPD session

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Finally in print physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/... Time to rethink cold/ice after muscle injury - cold slows everything down, including healing. Reminder that ice for injury was built on very shaky foundations. Better strength after just 4 days, hot water also better for pain

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In preparation for OSTRC 25th Anniversary, playing around thinking about the interaction of training types and parameters on different tissue types. Make an interactive app to explore here: tissueloadingsimulator-nqf3v5xzz3lysvz2wk365n.streamlit.app Feedback appreciated

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Just got an advance print version of the next edition of the Aspetar Journal - Imaging in Sports Medicine targeted topic. Maybe the best issue we've done? All issues free, open access of course (journal.aspetar.com/en/home#!) If sports medicine imaging is your thing, do yourself a favour

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Elsevier giving no shits ep#98237 "Log in here to confirm your co-authorship..." Password saved by browser rejected (too old) Login w ORCID "You have to link ORCID to Elsevier *for every single Elsevier journal*" Remind me who's generating content here? 3 password resets later & Elsevier's response:

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a man in a suit and tie is talking about bonus points .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking about bonus points .

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

We are recruiting @Aspetar Looking for #physiotherapists throughout career stages (>5yr grad) to join the Rehab Dept & greater multi-disciplinary team Apply Here: tinyurl.com/yj6s7jcu Any queries just reach out!

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I've seen lots of posts pointing out errors LLM's make, sometimes inferring this kind of AI is dumb or a dead end. This (long) video explained how LLM's really work, and gave me good insight on when and how to use & not use them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTG... Really helpful IMO

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Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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Lauren Pringels @laurenpringels.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🚀 New publication! Our RCT in BJSM shows reducing tendon compression improves rehab outcomes in insertional Achilles tendinopathy! 📊 Key findings: ✅ Greater pain relief & function ✅ Higher patient satisfaction ✅ Higher return-to-sport success 🔗 bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

New one from our group showing that 9 months wasn't a magic cut off point for return to sport after ACLR *if* you met our discharge criteria. bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl... *how* you return is much more important than *when* you return to sport. Criteria driven rehab was the key to our results

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Is 9 months the sweet spot for male athletes to return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction?

Objective Most studies examining the time to return to sport (RTS) after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) do not account for the athlete’s physical readiness. This study aimed to inves...

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

New from Lauren Pringels & co confirming previous research suggesting compressive aetiology of some tendinopathy & the need for different management (avoiding compression): bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp... (LTCR=Low tendon compression rehab)

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Excellent short overview of the state of play in muscle and tendon injury management in athletes from Michael Kjaer & co: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... importantly outlining where we should be focusing our efforts next. #OpenAccess

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Elsevier's review process adding more value to science...

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Nice trick from Hercules Pacquet here at Aspetar to get ankle DF ROM - pulley has 60kg (for this 100kg athlete) & patient self-mobilises. Saves my hands & better results. We did 3x6 mins, got 4.5cm DF ROM increase immediately, dropped to 3cm increase the next day.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

2025 is a great year to make sure all new studies you perform have a solid sample size justification, where your peers can see the study was designed to have high informational value for the question you are asking: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

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Sample Size Justification

An important step when designing an empirical study is to justify the sample size that will be collected. The key aim of a sample size justification for such studies is to explain how the collected da...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

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John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

That’s two more carolers. Time to reset the trap.

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Rachel Alter, MD MPH @rachelalter007.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Half my admissions tonight are for the flu. Get your flu shot.

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Wonderful graduation ceremony for the new physiotherapists graduating from the University of Otago. Impressive group indeed, looking forward to how they drive the prison forward.

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Finishing up the thigh muscle injury conference with the Aspetar Tuesday lecture from Martin Hägglund.

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Helen McKeever leading a great team working towards a summary of recommendations for care of rectus femoris injury in athletes. Great legacy from the Aspetar thigh muscle injury conference over the last few days

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