Nick McMahon

Last year I was asked to give a talk on dietary #nitrate supplementation. I decided to update our last paper: bit.ly/2DyqTXo for it. I found +26 trials. Here it is: bit.ly/2KsRBCh . No journal submission, but it has been peer-reviewed by the big guy 😇:

Newest paper from our research group: Nitrate, nitrite and nitrosamines in the global food supply: Reference database doi.org/10.1080/104083… Systematic review, 448 publications, 1980 food and beverages, 65 countries - As of August 22' #nitrate #vegetables #research #scicomm

New paper: Estimating nitrate intake in the Australian diet: design and validation of a food frequency questionnaire onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jh… #nitrate #vegetables #research #scicomm

@Oli_Shannon Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to more research in this area. Hopefully, more of these meat substitute/vegan/veg companies step up and fund research. Quorn has with promising results: exeter.ac.uk/news/research/… Hopefully others like @gethuel jump in

Interesting study out in the Journal of Nutrition - could higher consumption of ultra-processed foods, including meat substitutes, negate some of the benefits of a plant-based diet? academic.oup.com/jn/article-abs…

On Friday the govt announced its plan to radically change uni fees, and the headlines rightfully focussed on those 110% hikes to humanities degrees. But now the full plan is out and the real story is clear: this is a massive defunding of tertiary education. THREAD.

@vanhatilator @ExeterSHS And I bet Prof Jones thanks his lucky stars every day (until he's replaced😂). You're 1 of the most knowledgeable and helpful people I've ever met. I visited for 6 weeks and your office light was always on when I left after 6pm so the PhD->Prof in 13 yrs is no surprise at all 💪

13 years ago today I was sat at my desk at Aberystwyth writing this cover letter for a 1-year post doc job @ExeterSHS. Had 2 publications on my CV, lots of curiosity and pretty low confidence. #ecrchat #TBThursday

Add them to your email block lists. A lot of these authors/publishers not only want your money but they also contain malware so it's important to check before clicking. Don't assume your virus software will save you.

Need a list of predatory or pseudoscientific publishers and journals? This is helpful: professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list Beware of e-mails from E. Padron, Ph.D., Dr. L. Smith, M.D., P. Jimenez, Ph.D., A. Siozos, M.D., A. Lesnevskyi, M.D., A. Nikitakis, MSc, Ph.D., A. Umana, M.D. #scicomm

😨😠😥😩😑1 error... #fridayfeels

"Elsevier’s scientific publishing arm reported profits of £724m on just over £2bn in revenue. It was a 36% margin – higher than Apple, Google, or Amazon posted that year." Bad for science?😬it's a £19bn shakedown. theguardian.com/science/2017/j… #science #scicomm #change 💰🤫

@LJJ_nutrition @Jeukendrup @bendesbrow @irwin_cg That was my first thought when I saw this. As mentioned, another study on the topic by Rogers et al. at @Griffith_Health (22 participants) jsams.org/article/S1440-… "The influence of skin tattoos on localised sweat responses may have previously been over-estimated." 🌞🏃‍♂️💧

@Jeukendrup Although this nice work from @bendesbrow @irwin_cg et al. suggests when sweat is induced by exercise tatoos have no effect on either. Likely related to the much greater sweat rate seen with exercise.

Tattoos can impair the sweating response bit.ly/2ukGMJ6

Happy Festivus everyone! Good luck during the airing of grievances.

@DrDaveWebber @Joelrookwood 100% Reviewing journal articles under the guise of "giving back to science"🤔. The novelty wears off quickly especially when Open Access Journals expect you to get it done in a week. At least buy me dinner first.

Absolutely no need for academic conferences to have a €400-500 registration fee. Institutional budgets are tightening and this isn’t helping. Streamline your events. They’re supposed to facilitate ideas, development, collaboration and networks, not marginalise the un(der)funded

@T_Jones5 @UQHealth Thank you for the opportunity 👍

Great work by Nick and his team on analysing our food diaries @UQHealth. #dietarynitrate #beetrootjuice #collaboration

Massive thank you to Tony Ng, Chester Goodsell, @wylie_lee24 and @matthewianblack for the help and feedback along the way 👍

During my first PhD meeting my supervisor @michaelleveritt mentioned the importance of knowledge translation - getting it into the hands of people/orgs that can put it to practical use. Foodworks was the aim. As for the name...I couldn't resist🤣 #nitrate #scicomm #nutrition

Our latest paper, in which we explored knowledge and beliefs about dietary nitrate in UK-based nutrition professionals, is out now: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/10/e…

My battle with knowledge translation. #MEMES #scicomm #nitrate #CatsOfTwitter #RHOBH

Very excited to share the first publication from my research collaboration with @BangorUni : researchgate.net/publication/33… Our first opportunity to use the updated nitrate/nitrite database 🖥️. More changes to come as @XyrisFoodWorks and I look to improve the UI #research @UQHealth

A full-colour PDF is provided. Images get around naming confusion that arises w/ international food products. The idea was to have a list big enough without increasing participant burden. Control for nitrate/nitrite because some foods have just as much as a beetroot juice shot.

I continually see studies conducting vascular measures without dietary standardisation.Measuring dietary nitrate/nitrite intake prior to a trial is essential to control for a variable that can significantly impact results.This will help: researchgate.net/publication/33… #research #scicomm