David Bishop (🦋 also bluespotscience.bsky.social)

Our latest work in @natureComms, led by @javi_iup: Sprint exercise disrupts mitochondrial ultrastructure, driving a unique mito stress response & remodelling in men go.nature.com/48yZIbJ supports targeted exercise prescriptions to achieve specific mito adaptations. Thread 🧵👇🏽

Mitochondrial quality control in health and disease: mechanisms and therapeutic targets: go.nature.com/4vWIzSV

Australian & International PhD Scholarship Applications Now Open More info here: vu.edu.au/study-at-vu/ap… Contact me for more information.

Transcription Factor Movement and Exercise-Induced Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Human Skeletal Muscle: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives:pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35163441/

Thanks to everyone who submitted applications for the Postdoc position in my lab (new biological roles for lactate as a regulator of skeletal muscle) I'm doing my best to quickly work through the more than 50 applications.

AussieMit is coming to Brisbane this year, and the program looks great: aussiemit.com.au

Thanks to everyone for their support of npj Exercise Medicine & Health nature.com/npjexercisemed/ The journal continues to grow: > 20 submissions in July from many countries we'll publish our first papers in August aiming to apply for indexing before the end of the year

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Interesting article on how endurance sports can help you to be a better researcher: nature.com/articles/d4158…

🔥 #Consensus on #WarmUp Protocols for #Athletes 🔥 👉🏻 journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…

Applications for a Postdoc position in my lab close THIS Friday, 24 July 🗓️ We're looking for a molecular biologist with cell culture experience to discover new biological roles for lactate as a regulator of skeletal muscle. More info here: bit.ly/3ReFUFQ

Some great collections currently open and accepting submissions at npj Exercise Medicine and Health: nature.com/npjexercisemed…

This meta-analysis found no evidence that walking training significantly improves cognitive function in older adults frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

New review in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation The use of high-density surface electromyography in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a scoping review bit.ly/4bmuAyk

Your brain has an overnight clean-up crew while you sleep & exercise might help it work better. 🧠😴 🏋️‍♀️ Watch Dr James Broatch from Victoria University explain it on the Nine Today Show this morning bit.ly/4he0Gjw, and read the full study 👉 bit.ly/4pnVrjh

Exercise attenuates 14 hallmarks of aging: bit.ly/3T0L6xH

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Research Fellow position in my lab. We're looking for a molecular biologist with cell culture experience to discover new biological roles for lactate as a regulator of skeletal muscle. 🗓️ Closing date: 24 Jul 2026 More info here: bit.ly/3ReFUFQ

WINS WORTH SHARING Congratulations to members of our IHES EMCR community on recent achievements spanning travel funding, conference recognition and collaborative grant development. #VUResearch #IHES #EMCR #SportsScience #Neuroscience #ResearchGrants

Impressive presentation by Patricia bayer at the #ECSS2026 in Lausanne - some cool data using high-density EMG to investigate changes in sksletal muscle activation in people with MND.

Excellent presentation by Jia Wei at the #ECSS2026 in Lausanne - the effects of exercise intensity on metabolomic and transcriptomic responses in human skeletal muscle.