Professor @bournemouthuni, Chartered Psychologist, Sport & Exercise Scientist, Founder "Group Works®", Author "Great British Medalists"

Bournemouth, UK
Joined June 2011
Motivation is good, but discipline is better psyche.co/notes-to-self/why-… My latest Note to Self for Psyche magazine features the amazing @usykaa The boxing champ's recent claim that ‘discipline is better than motivation’ was psychologically astute
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What separates elite from *super-elite* athletes? In our final Great British Medalists paper, we found one key difference: coach support—especially at the highest level. Watch this short explainer 👇 📄 Full article: bit.ly/40rG3av #sportsci #coaching #olympics
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In our new study (with @TimJRees), we show that genetically predicted memory capacity is independently associated with self-reported foreign language proficiency in both children and adults. More memory-enhancing alleles = better language skills. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4042…
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Tim Rees retweeted
"kids who thought going to university to learn coding may be in trouble now?... YES" Nobel Laureate, Geoffrey Hinton: AI tutors could outperform humans by using data to pinpoint misunderstandings. it will make universities less necessary for undergraduate learning, but vital for research training.
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Our latest article just published in @BJSM_BMJ "Group-mediated exercise for chronic conditions – an urgent need for implementation and scale-up" Thanks @TimJRees for leading this work & great collaboration @MarkRBeauchamp @MarkStevens2411 @MattLowPT bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2…
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This week, with @MarkRBeauchamp @MarkStevens2411 @MattLowPT @twwainwright we published in @BJSM_BMJ on the potential for group exercise to help those with chronic conditions. Please take a look and/or try the Word version (linked tweet). bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2…
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Accepted version with CC BY licence eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/40…
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🚨 Excited to announce, I’m seeking my next role in football analytics!🚨 👉HIRE ME 😃 ; Let’s turn data into winning strategies together! 👉Explore my work at themachineball.com or check out my analytics page on X (@DataAnalyticEPL )
🚨 Excited to announce, I’m seeking my next role in football analytics! 🚨 👉HIRE ME 😃; Let’s turn data into winning strategies together! 👉Explore my work at themachineball.com or check out my analytics page on X (@DataAnalyticEPL), where I dive deep into Premier League data. Let’s connect! ⚽📊 👉With a PhD in "Football Injury Prediction" (VIVA passed!) at Bournemouth University in collaboration with AFC Bournemouth, I specialize in turning complex football data into actionable insights. From statistical analysis and machine learning to NLP and cloud-based solutions, my expertise spans injury prediction, event data analysis, and scalable end-to-end systems. 👉Roles I qualify for: Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Machine Leaning Engineer, AI Engineer 👉Thank you so much everyone for the Help and Support. 🤝🤝
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We are proud of this book. Note the 30% discount for community members! jasp-stats.org/2024/11/21/di…
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Very excited to share our new preprint! 📢 We investigated how often researchers misinterpret statistically nonsignificant results as the absence of an effect. Spoiler: it’s a lot (~81% of 599 articles)! Dive into our findings and their implications here: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/hm…
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Very excited to see this: a National Geographic documentary about one of the biggest frauds in social science—the Stanford Prison Experiment. Based on all the new evidence. Thibault Le Texier in particular deserves major credit for his work uncovering the truth.
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Replying to @andykirkland71
@andykirkland71 - I think you are referring to Dan's interviewing? I'd agree. I'm always impressed at the skill of interviewers. But as an aside, when UKS set up the project, they advertised for PHDs to conduct the GBM project . . .
Replying to @TimJRees
@TimJRees I have just used it as an exemplar in a 'Research Methods' module, exploring the importance of expertise/understanding of the topic to conduct good interviews. Also helps me in 'Case Formulation' as a way to understand lifecourse & complexity.
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Interviewees can be very "no nonsense" and unforgiving. I was interviewing people I'd seen on tv at Olympic Games, and was now asking about very personal aspects of their lives
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I was heavily tested and challenged at the outset of one interview, but felt confident, experienced, and well-enough prepared to ride that initial storm, and ended up with great data
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It's wonderful, and gratifying, that there is still interest in this project. Thanks to @andykirkland71 and all the other commenters in this thread
This is one of my fav papers. What differentiates super-elite & elite athletes from a psychosocial perspective? Wouldn't it be great to replicate this study in pro-peleton to see if findings were similar i.e. could the themes they identified explain 'unbelievable' performances?
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Geoff Capes, British shot put record holder and two-time world's strongest man, has died aged 75. In 1976, Tonight spent some time with him as he prepared for the Olympics lifting tonnes of weights, consuming countless calories and breeding budgies.
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Huberman: "Cold, in particular, can be leveraged to improve mental health, physical health, and performance... for endurance exercise, for recovering from various forms of exercise, for actually improving strength and power..." One thing almost unequivocal about cold immersion is that it inhibits recovery and diminishes strength and muscle mass adaptations. 🧵1/4
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We have two new preprints up today! One is on exploratory research, written for sport scientists doi.org/10.51224/SRXIV.457, the other is on measurement development, reporting the next step in developing an academic research values scale by @andreakis_psy! osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c4…
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Interested in a PhD in Sport Psych at Florida State in Fall '25? Come join our team of researchers, below: Drs Eklund, DeCouto, Foster, Wolf, and Eccles, and admin wizard Aubrey We have plentiful funding for PhD students, and year-round sunshine. See cehhs.fsu.edu/sport-psycholo…
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