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Are you a sports coach, educator or keen athlete? Have you always wondered what it takes to design more effective practice sessions for your athletes? You can now register on SkillACQ.com to join the waiting list, where you'll be notified first when we launch 15 Jan

Are you a researcher or practitioner working in talent identification and development? 🏆 We invite you to participate in a Delphi survey on the most effective TI&D practices in sports. If you are interested, please see below for more info. @JobFran3 @DylanPoulus @KyleJMBennett

We invite researchers and practitioners to participate in a live Delphi study on the most effective TID and TDE practices in sports. If you are interested, please message or email me (Kyle.Bennett@scu.edu.au). See below for more info. @JobFran3 @DylanPoulus @WilliamMcCalman

@lakens MI would like it to be more cooperative, where individuals fulfil distinct roles with are closely aligned to a collective aim. Ie ‘do research together’ maybe à la Human Frontiers Science Program Research Grants hfsp.org

Would you enjoy science more if it was more collaborative, and if there was more coordination?

Our department is hiring! Come join our team :) This is a 9-month, tenure-track position in Exercise or Sport Science. Start date is Fall 2025. Read more about it here: jobs.boisestate.edu/en-us/job/4985…

@FryRsquared Congratulations. You’re an inspiration to us all.

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@grantabt It’s also what I tend to use, but I can see some cases where the statement from the paper could be true.

@JobFran3 Yes, most institutions will have a repository that can be public facing where you could place a timestamped preregistration. I prefer the OSF templates, mostly because they’ve done much of the heavy lifting for us 😊.

"Our study conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki." Did you preregister? "No" Article 35 of the DoH... "Every research study involving human subjects must be registered in a publicly accessible database before recruitment of the first subject." wma.net/policies-post/…

@SciMed_Football @PCI_Health_Mov @PCI_RegReports @chrisdc77 @SciMed_Football really practices what it preaches. Excellent continuation of initiatives, alongside recently released updated guidelines for authors, driving more transparent and reproducible scientific practices.

Science and Medicine in Football is pleased to announce that, in addition to @PCI_Health_Mov, it is now also a @PCI_RegReports-friendly journal. This is another initiative to promote transparency and high-quality publications. Thanks to @chrisdc77 for the support and patience.

If you're a sports and exercise sci and med researcher, please help us by filling out this survey on #openscience. Thank @DrGSBullock for leading this important study and encouraging open science in our field, which is something @STORKinesiology has also been promoting for years.

@SCU_Australia and I are excited to share that we are hosting the @ASAN_Online Conference on our Gold Coast Campus this year. Join us on November 28/29th for a fantastic knowledge-sharing experience. See below for more information. scu.edu.au/health/researc…

@coach_samuelT Of course. Nonetheless we can sense things aren’t as cosy in decel-land as they look. The limitation here is really that we used ‘second hand’ info, where decel parameters were secondary outcomes, but perhaps decel is more difficult to train than we thought.

@JobFran3 I'm going to find this interesting. I experimented with a block of decel focus with a willing athlete. Increased soreness, decreased COD performance outcomes. Back to our usual style of COD against an opponent and soreness gone and pr's set. N=1 but still.

This open access work meta analyses the literature on deceleration ability. We showed that in the current literature, training interventions which measure deceleration outcomes (even if they were not targeting them specifically) favour the control over the intervention group.

The final study from my PhD is now available online! We found that: - Coach instruction is potentially linked to cooperative team behaviour. - Free-play without instruction may lead to more individual actions by players. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@andykirkland71 My field, skill acquisition science, would hardly be described as an established area, I would think. That being said, there are not a huge number of people interested in Open Science practices there.

@andykirkland71 I can’t speak for everyone of course, but I am realising I have only two choices left as an academic. Swim with the current or get out of the water. Being more interested in Open Science is my way of swimming to the shore.

Would most sport science research be viable if open science protocols & appropriate samples were insisted upon?

@andykirkland71 But that of course does not mean we can’t promote these practices (as you know). To me this is something I can do to make myself feel better about being an academic, so interestingly I do it for very selfish reasons.

@JobFran3 Really interesting (because I agree). I believe many areas of health science ‘have worked it out” philosophically (through using appropriate methods) but I often get blank looks when suggesting them in sport because they’re not the ‘status-quo’. Humans are typically always thus.

@timgill924 Peaceful rainfall = ‘sound of man urinating after 6 Duvels and a jug of water chaser to avoid old-man-hangover’. That’s a minute of sound. Loop that 100 times and show a looped video of rain falling on a tin roof. Then thank me later

If you are coaching elite team sports, we would love to understand how you use feedback with your athletes. See 👇🏿 to participate.