Pieter Van den Berghe

When you publish something, it is the highest form of compliment when others try to build on it.

You demean your reputation and cause direct harm to others when your work is not reproducible.

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Great work Sara Kim Hjortborg and @gregdowney.bsky.social!! Our new paper in Journal of Sports Sciences homes in on micromoments of skillful coaching interactions during and between rounds in a novice Muay Thai bout - thread below!

We’re hiring a postdoctoral associate in Biomechanics @UNOmaha! Focus: gait training for stroke survivors. Lab and/or field studies, collaboration with experts at the universty and medical center. PhD in PT, biomechanics, biomed eng, or related.
👉 biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

🚨🆕📝The association between the risk of relative energy deficiency in sports and performance outcomes: A real-world examination of international elite volleyball male athletes

Link: doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2025.2517967

Partners: INS Québec Volleyball Canada McGill University

Delighted to have another of my PhD papers published: ‘A preliminary multi-club project: Understanding player technical outcomes in European football academies training sessions’.

For full access to the paper, see the link below:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A breakdown below👇🏻
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Sorry to hear about the termination&rejection of your career grant. What will you do now?

a crowd of people standing at the side of the road and cheering at the tour de france. many of the people are wearing bright yellow hats. one person is waving a black and white striped flag. in front of them is an alpaca wearing a jaunty yellow kerchief

you can just bring your alpaca to watch the bike race. no one will stop you from doing this

I have agreed to chair Models and Motor Control at ISB (tuesday morning). I'm looking for a co-chair who is student/postdoc in this area. If you have a mentee or person to suggest please let me know!

Displayed are the centile curves at different percentiles for relative and absolute power at the individual lactate threshold.

📊 New Publication!
We analyzed 5000+ cycle ergometer tests (ages 14-64) to create reference standards of lactate thresholds for health studies and clinical practice.

Full text: doi.org/10.1080/0264...
#Exercise #SportsScience 🧪

A daily longitudinal analysis of reciprocal relationships between psychological states and performance in NHL players This study aimed to explore the temporal relationships between psychological states and performance among players in the National Hockey League (NHL). We used an intensive longitudinal design, with...

Think mood affects performance? Our new NHL study shows it's more the other way around. Psychological states don't predict performance, but performance does shape psychological states the next day. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The big news is here!

The De Luca Foundation launches the #AppliedEMGAward to support researchers in Latin America interested in conducting EMG-focused research!

📆 Applications Open Today!

delucafoundation.org/applied-emg-...

Thank you De Luca Foundation!

"Providing opportunities for scientists in the global south is not an act of charity. It is a strategic, forward-looking response to a more complex and demanding future."

Inspiring piece wrote by by Marcelo Knobel

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dr. Anaëlle Charles earned her PhD in Biomechanics and Kinesiology at the University of Nebraska, under advisement of Dr. Aaron Likens. Her dissertation was entitled ‘Do Structured Gait Patterns Promote Efficient Locomotion?’. Images show a headshot of Dr. Charles and the University of Nebraska academic logo.

@amsocbiomech.bsky.social @blackinx.bsky.social (3/7)

Exploratory research in sport and exercise science: Perceptions, challenges, and recommendations Quantitative exploratory research implies a flexible examination of a dataset with the purpose of finding patterns, associations, and interactions between variables to help formulate a hypothesis, ...

What makes exploratory research valuable? We discuss 6 factors: 1) Large and 2) Uncommon sample 3) Rigorous data collection 4) Widely used measures that 5) Reveal a coherent pattern across variables meaningful to others and 6) The potential to generate questions.
doi.org/10.1080/0264...

From full to partials: Investigating the impact of range of motion training on maximum isometric action, and muscle hypertrophy in young women pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40366729/

Sample size estimation revisited Published in Journal of Sports Sciences (Ahead of Print, 2025)

The journal of Sports and Sciences will now require mandatory sample size estimation and justification www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This is an excellent step that will improve scientific papers. I expect many other journals will follow.

🚨🆕📝New scientific publication: The relationship between match-play decision making and fatigue in elite women’s water polo: A novel recurrent events approach
doi.org/10.1080/0264...

Team: Lily Dong, Thomas Romeas, Ali Filali-Mouhim, Nicolas Berryman
Partners: INS Québec, Water Polo Canada, @uqam.ca

Exploratory research in sport and exercise science: Perceptions, challenges, and recommendations Quantitative exploratory research implies a flexible examination of a dataset with the purpose of finding patterns, associations, and interactions between variables to help formulate a hypothesis, ...

The latest from myself, @crist14n.bsky.social, Grant Abt, and @lakens.bsky.social on exploratory research in sport/exercise science.
doi.org/10.1080/0264...
We outline the differences between exploratory & confirmatory studies and best practice for conducting/reporting an exploratory study.

Outdoor time and multisport activities develop children’s motor competence | Univ. of Jyväskylä www.jyu.fi/en/news/outd...

Children’s outdoor time and multisport participation predict motor competence three years later | Journal of Sports Sciences www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#openaccess

Enhanced physical performance, attention, and mood states after a nap opportunity following a sleep restriction night in female athletes: A randomized controlled trial This study examined the effects of two nap durations (40 minutes (N40) and 90 minutes (N90)) on physical performance, sleepiness, attention, mood states (Profile of Mood States, POMS), perceived ex...

an interesting recent paper on nap & some performance index in athletic women: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elite versus non-elite cyclist – Stepping up to the international/elite ranks from U23 cycling This study investigated the physiological, performance and training characteristics of U23 cyclists and assessed the requirements of stepping up to the elite/international ranks. Twenty highly trai...

Comparison of U23 cyclists who turned pro vs. those who didn't. Elite riders had higher absolute power outputs, greater training volume, and superior race performance. Suggestion: workload management was key factor in progressing to the elite level.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Twenty-five years of blood flow restriction training: What we know, what we don’t, and where to next? Blood flow restriction is a technique that involves inflating a cuff at the proximal portion of the limb with the goal of reducing arterial inflow into the muscle and venous outflow from the muscle...

"Twenty-five years of blood flow restriction training: What we know, what we don’t, and where to next?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper by former lab visitor Max Ditroilo, "Exploratory research in sport and exercise science". We propose narrower definitions where hypothesis tests are confirmatory when error rates are controlled, and exploratory when not, and give reporting advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Meta-analysis of variation in sport and exercise science: Examples of application within resistance training research Meta-analysis has become commonplace within sport and exercise science for synthesising and summarising empirical studies. However, most research in the field focuses upon mean effects, particularl...

Oh to Greg's point I was referring to the meta analytic case like in section 3.2 & 3.4 here www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

But to Lorenzo's point the back transformation is admittedly only interprtable in cases where all effects are of the same unit of measurement.

🚨 Our new meta-analysis is out in Journal of Sports Sciences!

We reviewed 40 studies comparing semitendinosus vs. biceps femoris activation during hamstring strengthening exercises (knee vs hip based).
doi.org/10.1080/0264...
Here's what we found 🧵👇
#hamstrings

Your reminder that admission to Johns Hopkins University is completely free if you cannot afford the tuitions+fees.

In other words, if you would need a loan, then it's free.

Take grants and trainees out of the picture I would 100% just start publishing preprints with full raw data and code and abandon journals entirely. Productivity and joy goes up immensely. So would future grants I guess…

a black and white photo of an ostrich with a long neck Alt: Muybridge's trotting ostrich.

Hey, it's also Eadweard Muybridge's birthday! We love him!

Ah, you experienced Flemish cycling and its fanbase at their best 🙌

It may also depend on the journal's policy/preferences. Eg, "Nature journals prefer authors to write in the active voice ("we performed the experiment...") as experience has shown that readers find concepts and results to be conveyed more clearly if written directly"