Job Fransen

NEW POSITION | Associate Professor in Clinical Exercise Physiology Come join our team as an Assoc Prof & Course Director of new Clinical Exercise Physiology program @UTS. Require right to work in Australia Location: Moore Park, Sydney See: seek.com.au/job/57881517 Closes: Aug 26

@LisaDeBruine @elborgo9 Good initiative. I write ineffective code, but I am not embarrassed by it. I know enough to get by and sufficiently little to not have a misplaced sense of expertise. If I were to think about publishing more code these resources will come in handy.

Come and join a great Exercise Science team at the School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, ACU Brisbane! 👉 Check out this job at Australian Catholic University: Lecturer in Exercise Science linkedin.com/jobs/view/3179…

@AlanDunton @singh_harjiv @Robertson_SJ Of course… I agree and have used it as such before. But of course we are not recommending a new drug treatment or a new falls prevention program in older people without sound evidence supporting it either. So why would this be any different. But I get what you’re saying.

@JobFran @singh_harjiv @Robertson_SJ Yes, should have made that clear - I agree that there is certainly a long way to go in terms of empirical evidence in this area but some experiential application with inevitable trial and error could inform elements of the research

@AlanDunton @singh_harjiv @Robertson_SJ Hi Alan. Thanks. I’m aware. Yet this is a conceptual piece. As far as I’m aware the (hard) empirical evidence to support the implementation of this conceptual framework has yet to be collected?

@singh_harjiv @JobFran Damien Farrow & @Robertson_SJ put forward interesting recommendations on this in their skill acquisition periodization framework in relation to progression and overload link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@singh_harjiv Additionally, I am not sure Guadagnoli and Lee (2004) (fig reference) I fended it as such either. Why would we consider task difficulties on either side of the challenge point to have higher or lower skill load? This is about task difficulty.

@singh_harjiv Manipulating task difficulty is potentially useful for practice design. However, there is no hard empirical evidence that ‘skill load’ can be and should be monitored using optimal challenge point % and encouraging it is likely premature.

@chris_papic Can’t go wrong by starting with Bob Malina and researcher hopping from there if needed.

Does anyone in the #ExerciseScience / exercise phys world know of any great researchers in the paediatric exercise/physical activity space. Would appreciate any retweets/suggestions! Cheers

@iamsandrovella But multiple players competing within one team to be the best could bring about even better performances in those players? I follow your reasoning I just don’t know if it’s that straightforward.

@JobFran Cooperation ➡️ quality communication ↔️ trust ➡️ good team performance and probably better performance. (Football)

To anyone out there: What do you think is central to good team (any type of team) performance? Cooperation or competition? Definitions in 🧵. Would be great to get perspectives from all fields so please state your field when responding. Thanks for sharing among others.

@francoimpell Thanks. The question now is if a level of competitiveness within a team also contributes to team success, and if so, how much?

@JobFran Collaborate within the team but compete (with others) as a team. From a management perspective there are challenges anyway,ie, easier said than done 😅. This based on what I read some time ago (mainly on selling). Curious to read other comments

@MilenaHeinsch Thanks Milena. Could you point me towards that work?

@JobFran I’ve done some work looking at ideal forms of cooperation and collaboration between researchers and clinicians

If you happen to know of research that studies the contribution of competition and cooperation in team performance, I’d love to hear from you. Please DM, email or respond.

Competition = Everyone aims to thrive individually because individual performance comes first, if that also happens to help achieve the collective’s aim, then great) 3/3

@brianmccormick @32Reith Has there ever been a more mysterious concept than ‘muscle memory’ that is so inherent in our every day language?

@32Reith 1) To what do you disagree? 2) What is muscle memory? 3) That’s my team. That’s a drill that I use. I did not say the drill is bad. I said it’s not to practice “moves”.

The average trainer’s video: 5-10 players stand in line as trainer demonstrates a multi-dribble move vs no defense at a cone to insure all players use same angle on every rep & uses exact instructions on foot, hand, head etc, while facing away from players (toward basket).

@DhruvSeshadri Sounds good. In our area, narrative reviews can be interesting, but the risk of systematic bias (eg storytelling) is too high. But it can have a place (eg narrative review by absolute expert in the area)

This would allow students to learn how to write diff types of manuscripts but also learn how to conduct diff types of research. As a biomedical engineer, this hopefully would allow them to bridge the basic science-translational/clinical gap to ultimately engineer better health

Thank you for sharing. I am planning the move to academia but have given this some thought. My 3/4 research topics: 1) narrative review, 2) systematic/meta review of the tech student is working on, 3) engineering development manuscript(s), 4) pre-clinical/clinical validation

I would love to hear what others are doing in this space, especially those outside of sport and exercise. Do you feel you have the freedom to de-emphasise publication volume as a supervisor? As always, DM or email with follow-ups that are personal. 9/9

I cannot predict the future, but the arms race for publication volume in early career researchers is not one my students can win. So I need to help aspiring academics develop skills that distinguish them from their peers. Being better researchers overall could be 1 of those. 8/9

Lately, under the influence of @francoimpell I have made a huge shift in the supervision of projects of new PhD students, here is what has changed. This may be relevant for those new to, or unfamiliar with, research student supervision. 1/9