Matthew Shaw

Health > Performance

There must be a bookies doing odds for Matt Hancock joining Reform?

Haha was just about to say the same thing

Why are we still failing to prevent brain injuries in children’s sport? - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice Key words: Concussion; Brain Injuries; Youth Sport Greek physician Hippocrates is widely attributed to saying, “The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it”. The 16th-century Sw...

Good stuff @jackhardwicke.bsky.social

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I’ve often been told I look like Frasier

What day is it?

someone is peeling massive onions here somewhere

Who is “Adam” and why was he warned to “be nice”?

Do you see the problem of performance sport? @jackhardwicke.bsky.social and i certainly do. So we put this special issue together. Do get in touch if you have an idea. Cheers, CRM think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

A snippet from a brief talk I gave last week about brain injury in sport 🧠. The full talk is on my YouTube channel here:

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Big Herb sounds awesome. Was he a football player? According to @drcrmatthews.bsky.social, he was

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This has got be some of the worst negligence I’ve ever seen in sport. Eli Kotoa knocked unconscious in the WARM UP, allowed to play and sustain multiple brain injuries that lead to emergency surgery.

It’s 2025

Also have they just sat it on a fucking concrete floor?

Oh my good lord

What’s the latest with Twitter these days?

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homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field . ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

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Of course it fucking does

Isn’t this what Pre-print servers are for?

Mad!

Only since I’ve started doing work on brain injury and sport have I been called an activist (multiple times), which tells me I’m finally doing something worthwhile with my research time, and I’m probably doing it right.

I used to think I was a vampire but on reflection I might not be.

I noticed you didn’t have Høgskulen på Vestlandet as an option for institution. We have a pretty big health department at our Bergen campus

I don’t know why more stand up comedians don’t just take up university lecturing. It’s basically crowd work with references.

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Leadership also think students are computer literate - another sign of how far off it they are.

I think you need to be focusing on your sociology. Do better.

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