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An excellent article on designing stepped wedge trials to evaluate physical activity interventions in schools. ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Co-Design Approach to Develop a Motivational Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Engagement and Maintenance Among Individuals in Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Settings important lessons for other populations HT @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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1/2: I am very happy to share the good news that DRIVEN will soon host its first Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doc fellow, funded by the EU. Timothy Budden will join us to work on the project "GoalFlex: Developing an integrative framework of goal flexibility, depression, and anxiety symptomatology".

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An umbrella review of digital health interventions to treat overweight and obesity in children and adolescents

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This systematic review concluded that 'healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ clusters remained highly stable over time: Tracking and changes in the clustering of physical activity, sedentary behavior, diet, and sleep across childhood and adolescence: A systematic review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A systematic review of blending teacher autonomy support and provision of structure in the classroom for optimal motivation, link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The American Psychologist has an article in its latest issue which highlights the late Daniel Kahneman's numerous contributions to science; psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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NEW paper, led by a group of Belgian colleagues. We found that a closer coach-athlete bond may exacerbate the detrimental impact of controlling coaching. Open access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Communicating physical activity messages with adolescents: what works? A scoping review with stakeholder consultation ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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A scoping review of health literacy and obesity; onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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An excellent special issue on methodological advances in sport, exercise, and performance psychology psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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This meta-analysis in Psychogical Bulletin suggests that parents favor daughters over sons. Good job I only have daughters!! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Dance on Cognition and Depression in Healthy Older Adults journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...

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A multidisciplinary group of authors have come together to discuss ideas about the potential future of peer review www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

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This Danish population-based study of 122,258 individuals found that loneliness is associated with adverse health behaviour and obesity. bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded my university a grant of about 68m Euros to establish a national PhD academy focusing on talent development across disciplines. I never understood why the national research councils don't do this. novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/new-...

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Umbrella review of systematic reviews to inform the development and translation of community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions

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So, government-funded research in the US that used terms related to equity and diversity could now be suspended! Under the Trump administration, the US is moving backwards at a fast pace. What's next, public burning of books on equity and diversity? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trumps-...

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American Statistical Association Statement on Ethical AI Principles for Statistical Practitioners; www.amstat.org/docs/default...

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Today, using an amazing AI tool, I have been able to create a conversational style audio based on a recent review on goal striving, goal progress, and well-being (psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...) we published in Motivation Science. Audio: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/401...

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Five years on, this is a detailed account of the various impacts of Brexit on UK's universities; www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-ba...

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Umbrella review of social inequality in digital interventions targeting dietary and physical activity behaviors - npj Digital Medicine

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Effectiveness of behavioural and psychological interventions for managing obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Anyone else being spammed in the last few months with regular requests to participate in the QS Academic Reputation Survey?

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Conceptual and Evidence Update on Incidental Physical Activity: A Scoping Review of Experimental and Observational Studies ,

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In this new pre-registered study, just accepted, we propose a new bedtime discrepancy assessment method, which correlated, in expected directions, with sleep quantity and chronotype. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Publishing a well-cited paper as a postdoc significantly increases one’s chances of staying in academia but the same effect is not seen for PhD students, a new longitudinal study suggests,

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Social Support in Physical Activity Interventions for Adults: An Overview of Reviews ,

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@ehps.bsky.social @ehps2025.bsky.social

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This systematic review and network meta-analysis of RCTs examined the effectiveness of physical activity interventions on cognitive functions in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders:

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This is an interesting study on the implementation of a national programme to train and support healthcare professionals in brief behavioural interventions, bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Long but rewarding day in Brussels for the kick-off of our new 10m Euros EU-funded Horizon project. Five years to develop solutions that target youth physical (PA, diet, sleep, sedentary behaviour) and mental health.

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I am very happy to join my university's Danish Institute of Advanced Study (DIAS; www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...) as a Chair in Health Sciences. According to its website, DIAS is an interdisciplinary elite research center that cuts across all Faculties in the university. www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

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This study provides longitudinal evidence of the motivational benefits and costs of 'goal shelving' as a strategy for goal prioritization;

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This meta-analysis of eHealth interventions to promote physical activity in young, middle-aged, and late middle-aged adults with obesity or overweight showed a) small to medium effects, and b) moderation by weight status and ethnicity;

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The study analyzes a CDC dataset on US adult obesity and physical activity from 2011 to 2022. Despite rising obesity rates and insufficient fruit consumption, physical activity levels are increasing and overweight rates are slightly declining.

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Introducing calorie labels in restaurants in England did not change customer behaviour; www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Efficacy of interventions aimed at reducing explicit and implicit weight bias in healthcare students: A systematic review and meta-analysis ;

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This paper argues that "while a great deal of past work has distinguished between automatic and reflective behaviors in one’s own decision making.. reasoning about automatic behavior in other people is an important and largely unexplored area in research into theory of mind"

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Even a small dose of physical activity can be good medicine; www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A jack of all trades...

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Understanding food choices in sustainable healthy diets – A systematic literature review on behavioral drivers and barriers; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Habit substitution toward more active commuting; iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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