Amazing.

Nature and nurture in early adulthood. The graph shows the extent to which individual differences in a range of traits are associated with differences in:

-genes (red)
-the family home (dark blue)
-other environmental factors + random noise (light blue)

doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.1…

Kopplad till senaste händelser här - German football club St. Pauli has announced it will no longer deal with player agents and private agencies in youth football. The move comes as the treatment of young players comes increasingly under the spotlight.
dw.com/en/st-pauli-to…

Should genetic testing be used for talent ID in sport?

❌ Current evidence suggests no - genetic testing can't predict top athletes.

✅ But perhaps it could help with talent INCLUSION - keeping more athletes in sport systems by identifying those with 'potential'...

No surprise, a thoroughly thoughtful commentary from Duarte Araujo and Keith on our paper proposing the best use of athlete genetic testing is for ‘inclusion’. ciss-journal.org/article/downlo…

3 yrs PhD fellowship at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.

Visual perception & scanning in professional hockey players.

Project funded by/in collaboration with USA Hockey, Norwegian Ice Hockey Association & Pittsburgh Penguins.

DM me for details.
jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Coming soon...

Thanks to all our contributors!!

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Revisiting this from Joe Baker The Tyranny of Talent. Competitors are needed. “

“We may not want talent identification and athlete selection to be much more accurate since increasing increasing accuracy my result in near-elites leaving the system when they are needed most”

Spoiler: the best senior athletes are rarely the best junior athletes.

This is a fine example of what can be achieved when sports work together, when people work together, when there is openness, diversity and a growth mindset …

#talent #sport #development #coaching #leadership

British Gymnastics and BritishWeightLifting 👏

Huge meta-analysis (>1000 studies) and systematic review: Physical exercise is (on avg) more effective than psychotherapy or drugs for alleviating depression.
bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…
ht: Steve Stewart-Williams

Exciting first week at the new school!! U of T Kinesiology & Phys Ed

Job alert! You have a background in computer science, game development or a related field and look for an exciting opportunity to conduct research in AR and VR. Apply and join our interdisciplinary research team at the University of Jena, Germany.
jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/b65…

'[Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences] is a neuromyth that should not be taught to teachers, and MI teaching strategies should not be used in the classroom.' doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.…

'Single diagnosticians achieved 46% accuracy; pooling the decisions of ten diagnosticians increased this to 76%. These results demonstrate that collective intelligence can reduce diagnostic errors.' doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

The longer people are in academia, the more they realize that when reading papers it's best to ignore Intro, Discussion etc. and just look at Methods and Results
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

With wildfire smoke blanketing much of BC, here are a series of resources with information on reducing risk of exercising when air pollution is bad. ⁦UBC Centre for Sport and Sustainability⁩ ⁦UBC School of Kinesiology⁩ ⁦UBC Department of Family Practice⁩ ⁦UBC Medicine⁩ #wildfire #airpollution #aqhi sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/digital-museum…

Lol who did this

To show the need for our checklist for ML research, we looked for a study to refute. It took just 1 or 2 hours to find that a model claimed to be 97% accurate is no better than random. My working assumption is that most ML-based science these days is junk. aisnakeoil.com/p/introducing-…

“There is no one-size-fits-all. So why are we using generic, linear models to try to find unique people?”
~ mark o sullivan