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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Join us! Very fun and rewarding service.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now let’s try that but for the entire four years

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Back in my day, the CIA knew how to keep a secret

New York Times headline that reads "U.S. searches for Cuba's next leader while pressuring its government"

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The club-ification of international football is one of the worst things ever. Your national team isn't a lifestyle brand. You don't pick one. You have *one* and you root for them, period.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

But it's Mr Congo to the NYTimes

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Yeah, I still remember that too. Krul was an actual GK, though! I literally mean someone who only works on stopping penalties all day. A rich club in Europe could definitely afford one of those

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Surprised we haven’t seen a true penalty specialist goalkeeper yet. Every tournament team should have a third-choice keeper whose purpose is coming on for penalty shootouts. Marginal gains

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Very similar to their tactics board for mins -1:00 to 0:00 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ ⚽️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Same thing happened to me (review had made-up references, lots of the comments were irrelevant to the manuscript, etc.) Editor rejected the paper. I wrote back to the editor just to let them know.

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Jon Mackenzie @jonmackenzie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is an amazing study

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Fascinating work from @ssalinas.bsky.social and colleagues

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Ha, funny you say that! @cbo.bsky.social, James Holehouse, and I are working on something to make that case

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

12/12 Finally, some easter eggs (couldn't write a soccer paper without repping Newell's Old Boys): red and black in Fig. 1 and a dedication to Bielsa in the acknowledgments! 🔴⚫

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

10/12 The takeaway for scouting/analytics: we might be undervaluing players whose contributions emerge through team interactions rather than individual brilliance.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

9/12 Caveats: 3v3 isn't 11v11, sample is collegiate not pro, and ~65% of variance was residual (opponents, randomness, etc.). But the pattern was consistent across two independent datasets (men's and women's teams).

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

8/12 For the men, teams with three different player 'archetypes' (e.g., goal scorer + catalyst + defensive specialist) outperformed less diverse teams. Complementary roles seem to matter, though this one needs more work to confirm.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

7/12 We also found that players' rankings from these game contexts correlated only weakly with their scores on standard unopposed skill tests (passing, dribbling, shooting). Being good in drills ≠ being effective in games.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

6/12 The result? Teammate combinations explained 20-23% of variance in goal differential. Individual player effects? Only 11-12%. Teammate effects were roughly TWICE as large. And this held for both men and women.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

5/12 To get around this, we had 31 players compete in 3v3 matches where we systematically shuffled team compositions. 78 matches, lots of different teammate combinations per player.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

4/12 Biologists have tools to separate 'nature' from 'nurture.' We used the same logic: how much of performance is the player vs. the teammates around them? (In biology terms, players = genotypes, teammates = environment, performance = phenotype.)

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

3/12 The problem is that in regular football data, the same players appear together over and over. You can't separate individual skill from teammate effects. So we borrowed an idea from quantitative genetics...

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

2/12 The question: what matters more for team success, individual talent or who you play with? Coaches talk about "chemistry" all the time, but it's been hard to actually measure.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

1/12 Really proud of this paper! We borrowed tools from biology to ask a simple question: does who you play with actually matter in football? (Spoiler: it does, a lot.) 🧬 🤝 ⚽ Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUusArnpe...

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Wow! In the ~1.5 years since we launched the EEB section of microPublication Biology, we have published 69 articles with another 10 in review or revision. 🎉 🧪 Thanks to authors and reviewers for supporting the effort! 🙏🏼

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Love it! We need more creativity in scientific presentations people.kzoo.edu/santiago/ass...

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I started using E&E ideas to study soccer performance just because I thought it'd be fun. It's been surprising me how much more I'm enjoying doing my 'normal' fish work now, too, so there's an interaction effect there as well. The incentives issue I agree with, but luckily it doesn't impact me ...

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I was born in Argentina during the last dictatorship. This is *all* eerily similar to the way things were back then

Mothers of disappeared people during three last dictatorship in Argentina holding posters of their kids’ faces during one of their typical marches

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

career milestone unlocked: frantically finishing my conference talk hours before my presentation

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It may not be much, but @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social is the only Michigan SLAC on this list...

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

They could also walk over to the expert on foreign policy in the department of American Studies

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fuck Tom, I'm so sorry to hear. Hugs to my fave Steady Eddy

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🎉microPublications EEB is looking for new editors! -Editorial load is extremely light (but we work quickly) -Awesome format and journal, serves the EEB community well IMO -We cover all of EEB so we're looking for breath/generalists/complimentary expertise -DM me if interested (or suggest someone)!

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Pyramid is another great game show to review concepts

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"One thing is certain: The changes we make ourselves will be healthier than the ones our adversaries demand." New work for @undark.org: undark.org/2025/02/06/o...

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The End of Science’s Peacetime

Opinion | Defending the practice of science from its adversaries will require dealing with some uncomfortable truths.

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santiago salinas @ssalinas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This is such an astute observation

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