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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 · 27/05/2026

Smartest guy I know happens to also be a rheumatologist - Michael Kjaer in Copenhagen. Very, very busy, but extraordinarily bright

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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

Scientific publishers (Elseveir, Wiley, Springer, T&F, etc.) literally make *billions* per year off our (reviewers & scientists') work claiming they "add value". At least some of that cash should be doing simple things like checking references if they weren't full of shit

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

Snedecor, George W. "Statistical methods: Applied to experiments in agriculture and biology." (1946). 80 years ago...

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

Snedecor (1946) beat Tanner by 3 years: The Trouble with Ratios: an Overview "Unless there is reason to believe that the regression passes through the origin, the ratio is of dubious value. It may do for rough work, but careful experimentation deserves [a] more efficient statistical method"

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

Output as pdf, html, or docx, and you can export the figures as svg so they still look nice when zoomed in. I've checked pretty thoroughly, but please let me know if I stuffed anything up. Github repo here if you prefer to run locally as a flask app: github.com/whiteleyrod/...

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GitHub - whiteleyrod/Reliability: Web app for calculation reliability (inter-intra rater) and associated plots

Web app for calculation reliability (inter-intra rater) and associated plots - whiteleyrod/Reliability

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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

Makes me feel better, but now I wonder if I have given these parasites another idea for a grift

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

Makes this an easy choice at least...

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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 · 17/02/2026

Maybe I am misremembering, but I thought "Doh" had been clued in the NYT crossword as the first word in doh-re-me, so I thought that was US spelling

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Had similar thoughts about today's one, thought it was my lack of American English

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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 · 14/09/2025

No official protocol for me, but if it's going to work you should be seeing significant changes within 3 sessions, & only using if you genuinely tried conservative & it's not worked NB radial & focused shockwave quite different

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Rod Whiteley @rodwhiteley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Evidence seems to be there, only if conservative truly failed - means >3months of appropriate loading & addressing all contributing factors pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39572278/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38738305/ Not first line care for sure

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Extracorporeal shock wave therapy shows comparative results with other modalities for the management of plantar fasciitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed

Level 1 Meta-Analysis.

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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

If anyone from PEDRO and/or DiTA is on here, can you have a look and let me know

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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 said pressure pain thresholds were a bust - statistically we had an increase at the site of pain (not at Tib ant on the same leg or the lateral elbow) but I think this effect is pretty small when you look at the raw data, & maybe down to this group starting a wee bit lower

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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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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 · 30/06/2025

Such an indictment that many (maybe most) of us are given no real training or even much direction in peer review. Here's my tips on replying to reviewers comments & doing a review: youtu.be/6YSHRhe5iQA?... Fair warning: I also don't know what I'm doing

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Aspetar Writing Journal Club 2023

YouTube video by Aspetar سبيتار

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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 · 19/06/2025

The Tawny Frogmouths that lived in our paperback trees on the Central cost of NSW were pretty good at hiding too

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

Note the large variability in response though across all the domains in this experimentally induced muscle strain model. Real-world muscle injury study on the way, should be recruiting in the coming months & will determine if there is an appreciable difference between hot, cold, and thermo-neutral

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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 · 01/05/2025

Beautiful old town, lovely vibe

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

Taking a tangent here, but "nonplussed" is a term that's taking on the opposite of it's original meaning, like "quantum leap" (originally, literally the smallest possible jump in energy state). Any others you can think of?

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