Calling Ballet Sports Scientists and Sports-Medicine Practitioners! Sara Saud Alshawi is conducting a research study titled "The Perspectives and Practices of Sport Scientists and Sports-Medicine Practitioners Within Ballet" and we need your help. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/th…

Seems like a good time to re-post my older (now edited) post about athletes with XY DSDs (Disorder, or Difference of Sex Development). Lots of graphs and detail about the relevant biology at the end. * * * First: People living with DSDs

Frankie Last If it is, as suspected, 5ARD, this means: The baby starts developing as a healthy male (XY, testes, testosterone, all the internal plumbing). But the baby lacks a protein needed to make a penis grow. This means that baby’s external genitals can develop as female-looking.

🚨 Breaking: The International Boxing Association has released the letter it sent to the IOC in June 2023, informing them that Algerian boxer, Khelif was ineligible to participate at the IBA World Championships as a female boxer due to their requirement of being female (XX). The

Spoken like a true Swede 😂😂

Correctly categorising athletes according to their biological sex is not optional, it's essential. #IOC #sexmatters 🥊

Three year postdoc position now available to join our team and work on an MS Society UK funded project: “Menstrual-related worsening of Multiple Sclerosis: when and why?” Please share - and get in touch for an informal chat! jobs.ac.uk/job/DJG303/res…

Looking for a podcast to listen to on your Sunday run, walk or cycle? Tune into our Team Lead Female Athlete Professor Kerry McGawley speaking on a new episode of Run with Fitpage about female athlete physiology and understanding the challenges female athletes face

"𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒕." - 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑚 We're excited to launch a new initiative at the

"Maximizing Female Performance: Uncovering the Power of Menstrual Cycles, Hormonal Contraception, and Training Optimization in Female Athletes", in Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance (Chandler, Chandler & Bishop). Routledge Books Routledge Sport, Leisure, and Tourism taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

This week Kerry McGawley and Tracy Isacke of ORRECO spent two great days working with the adidas Breaking Barriers team at Plug and Play in Paris. They spent time with the group discussing entrepreneurship, innovation and investment in Women's Sport. Our FitrWoman™ team were

Can anybody see the flaw in this system...? 🤣 Seriously, you have to laugh at the absurdity, else you'll lose the will to go on. Boston Marathon, major fail.

1. NEW #MetaAnalysis now SportRχiv. On average, boys are physically stronger than girls, even before puberty. At all stages of development, the sex difference in strength is more pronounced in upper- than lower-limb muscles. This pre-print is currently undergoing peer review.

This is such an important perspective. It communicates what I've always thought about REDs, but is written in a way that I never would/could have managed. Hat off to Asker Jeukendrup and co-authors.

Does the menstrual cycle influence the determinants of endurance performance? Our recent #FENDURA publication was published in print this month on Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. Here is a infographic to help translate some of our findings. 🔗: journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/abst…