Job Fransen

Skill acquisition specialist. University Medical Centre Groningen.

[Aaron Coutts @AaronJCoutts]

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: https://t.co/6HLVbh1NXq
Closes: Aug 26

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

@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.

[Gert-Jan Pepping @gjpepping]

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 https://t.co/BaLgephdx1

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

@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.

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

@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?

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

@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.

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

@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.

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

@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.

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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.

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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.

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

@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)

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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

[Job Fransen @JobFran]

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