Neil Collins

🏉 Tackle higher or lower? 🤷‍♂️ Simulation to evaluate how changing the tackle height would impact the number of concussions and head acceleration events in men’s professional rugby league 🤔 NEW #OriginalResearch 📄 Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/48BsARn

Leinster using a different route to climb their Everest. Another summit attempt starts Sunday v Edinburgh. #LEIvEDI READ HERE: thecurrency.news/articles/22249…

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

Distance covered is the most abused stat. It is not a measure of conscientiousness. It is mostly a measure of psychological safety to press, break forward into space, create space at expense of compactness, execute an intact game plan etc, which all disappear upon getting panned

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“Fail fast to learn fast”: integrating lean startup thinking to manage innovations in performance support workflows tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Can play it here: nicksimulator.com

ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations" #Gaza

This is great stuff from Jack Conan as Tadhg Beirne goes for a blast of the smelling salts at half time.

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✏️New paper! Head acceleration event (HAE) exposure in professional men’s rugby league: 📉Fewer HAEs per player match in rugby league compared to union 📉HAEs less likely in rugby league tackles compared to union 📈Individuals with elevated HAE values 🔓rdcu.be/epNCc

Welcome to ‘Boomerville'. @Lewis_Goodall criticises the idea that ‘pensioners are a special group’ as the government U-turns on winter fuel payments.

Latest TUG is youtu.be/69F7g8F33Qw Presentations by @_CJMayes about "golden set" in tennis and Harry Sharman shared how Tableau centralizes data from various tech sources. LOTS of awesome content @ @TeamDataFam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@TeamDataFam #DataFam

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Footballers are reduced to numbers and statistics in every way, including their body composition. But is body composition testing being done in the right way? Or is it being overused and over interpreted in a potentially damaging way? nytimes.com/athletic/62525…

New research from the group @D_Glassbrook and colleagues with the latest publication titled’ Position specific peak running demands, and influence of bout type in professional rugby union’ available now in @PLOSONE Link to full text below 👇🏻👇🏻 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

A PhD is a valuable qualification, signalling to future employers your ability to work hard while mentally unwell

@RobGutmann I don't know if you've seen this but it's simply incredible. x.com/CFCyoung_/stat…

Leeds is probably the most unlucky city in Western Europe 🎭 European City of Culture funding? Sorry we're leaving the EU. 🚄HS2? Sorry we spent too much in the chilterns. 🛫New Airport terminal? Sorry that's not climate friendly, but London Airport expansions are fine. (1/X)

Of course, much of that wealth is locked up in family homes. But the point remains. The triple lock is funnelling an ever-larger amount of cash to many, many people who really don’t need it - at the expense of younger families who are statistically likely to be in greater need.