Todd Pickering

Physical fitness or cognitive cunning, which is a better predictor of success on the court? 💪 vs 🧠 brnw.ch/21wLFEd | @ToddPickering10

Athletes are pushing the limits with physical training but what about their brains? Via @westernsydneyu senior lecturer Kylie A Steel, with Clare MacMahon and @ToddPickering10 from @latrobe theconversation.com/faster-stronge…

PSA: the current minimum Australian RTP stipend is $11,771 below the national minimum wage, with no superannuation entitlement and no ability to pay off (rapidly indexed) HECS loans. If you care about PhD students in Aus, please sign the petition: shorturl.at/yAs83

Agree or disagree with menstrual cycle tracking? Somewhere in between? We want to know your thoughts if you're a practitioner or athlete based in Australia.

Looking forward to both present on my applied learnings working at the @VicInstSport and connect with great individuals at the @LaTrobe_SPAN Ecological Dynamics Symposium. Hope to see you there, register via QR code on flyer 👇

🚨 Ecological Dynamics Symposium🚨 We are please to announce that we will be hosting a new symposium in early 2024. ➡️ in-person and online event 🗝️ keynotes by Keith Davids and Craig Morris 💰 $50 in-person, $25 online and for students 🌐 tinyurl.com/4w4kn3ur

Let’s speed up peer review! Life-saving new science is delayed by months or YEARS waiting to be reviewed. We can release new science sooner — with the same rigor — by designing better tools for peer reviewers. 🍿Watch this cartoon to see: youtu.be/J0yo3sE3Qyo

Announcement: Have you completed (or about to complete) a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science (or similar) and are you looking for the next step in your career? We are excited to be advertising our incredible Honours research projects for 2024. latrobe.edu.au/courses/bachel… 🧵

@JamesDanckert I think underutilisation is a big factor. I've recently gone down a rabbithole reading your work on restlessness, and feel that might be a factor too. The effort of trying to engage/re-engage with something boring might be what makes these tasks mentally fatiguing

@WolffWanja Glad you're intrigued! My follow up study has been looking at whether these different types of mental fatigue have different effects on physical performance as well (where people ran a slower time trial after a more boring cognitive task). Hoping to get that paper out soon!

Intriguing work by @ToddPickering10 et al: They investigate different fatigue inductions & find "passively fatiguing task had most negative influence on subjective fatigue & motivation, suggesting a (...) 'boringly fatiguing' task induces a more detrimental type of fatigue."

PhD students, and academics in general, are not paid enough, especially given the inflation. This is a major problem that is forcing many below the poverty line, and out of academia. To solve this problem, we’ve created a platform where academics can earn more money from their academic skills that they already have. It’s called “Academic Tasks Solutions” (@Academic_Tasks on Twitter, make sure to follow). It’s kind of like “Fiverr” for academia where academics can list academic services to help other academics, and get paid for them. For example, you might be good a programming. Posting a job where you can write codes for other academics can earn you more money. Or, perhaps you’re good at transcribing interviews. There are hundreds of thousands of academics who have interviews that need to be transcribed. By offering this academic service, you can earn more money. Or, maybe you’re good at making figures and images. EVERY academic needs good figures, and most of us don’t know how to make them. Providing this service allows every academic to get someone to help them make good figures for their research. Or, perhaps you have experience in a particular method, like running western blots. Many academics need to learn how and don’t have the expertise around them to learn from. By offering to teach them, they get to learn how to do it, as well as the tips and tricks for making it work better, and you earn more money. Or, maybe you’re good at writing CVs and helping people get jobs. Posting jobs to help academics with their CVs or other aspects of their job hunt will enable you to make more money. Or, perhaps you are good at statistics and can help someone determine the “p-values” of their work. Post a job offering this service and earn money off of this skill. These are just a few skills you might be able to offer, but they don’t even scratch the surface. You have so many skills to offer. Be creative and post jobs on every skill you have because there are academics out there who need them. Academic Tasks Solutions is a true community where academics help each other, and get fairly rewarded for their skills. All academics have valuable skills that they’ve developed through working in academia. Academic Tasks Solutions provides a way for you to make the money you deserve from them. And Academic Tasks Solutions operates on academic conduct where academics get acknowledged for their work. How does Academic Tasks Solutions work?...👇 @Academic_Tasks #PhDVoice @PostdocVoice

In case you missed it, the infograph @DrAntheaClarke and I shared at the end of our presentation can be found here 👉doi.org/10.26181/23508… This resource contains some considerations for the implementation menstrual cycle tracking with athletes

I'm still recruiting up to the end of March! If you live in Melbourne and are interested in doing some fitness and cognitive tests, send me an email! 🚴‍♀️

Are you working with female athletes? Complete this survey to improve our understanding of current practices to support female athlete health, wellbeing and performance in high performance sport 👉latrobe.questionpro.com/t/AV8vfZvhYH

Thank you to all of the presenters, panel members, and attendees for making #ASAN2022 a great conference. Special thanks to the @LaTrobe_SES staff and students for putting on a great 2 days. Next stop, Christchurch. See you at the University of Canterbury in 2023

#ASAN2022 @ASAN_Conference For anyone arriving by tram to ASAN this morning, here is a (very bumpy, sorry) time lapse of walking to the Pavilion from the tram stop. See you soon!

🚨We are excited to announce that registrations for #ASAN2022 are now open! 🚨 Price covers catering for both days of the conference. Please use the link⬇️to register your attendance. Looking forward to seeing you in Dec. Registrations close Nov 25 bit.ly/3wOBdFl

Announcement: Have you completed (or are about to complete) a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science (or similar) and you are looking for the next step by undertaking an Honours year? We are very excited to be advertising these incredible Honours research projects for 2023. 🧵

🚨ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨 We'd hate for you to miss out on the opportunity to present at our first face-to-face meeting in a while, so the abstract deadline has been extended a week to September 16th #asan2022 Submit ⬇️ bit.ly/asan2022