Great to hang out with our research group and plan some "Big Ideas" for the year ahead.

A reminder to submit to our Special Collection: Physical Activity and Mental Health: From Mechanisms to Global Implementation www.nature.com/collections/... An amazing team of guest editors - @BrendonStubbs23 @KMachaczek @simon_rosenbaum & Dr.P.S.Indu & many great submissions already

Looking forward to giving this plenary lecture with @fiona_bull - Responding to the physical inactivity pandemic: “just do it” or “do it right”? - at the ECSS conference in Lausanne later this year sport-science.org/index.php/pr...

Closing date extended for 2 PhD positions in my lab for 2026 for ARC-funded research: Rethinking lactate – from metabolic ‘prison’ to critical metabolic signal for mitochondrial biogenesis? More info: www.vu.edu.au/study-at-vu/... Open to Oz & international candidates. Contact me if interested.

As the year draws to a close, I'd like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported npj Exercise Medicine & Health www.nature.com/npjexercisem... by submitting manuscripts, reviewing manuscripts, or accepting to join the amazing editorial team.

Two PhD positions available in my lab for 2026 for ARC-funded research: "Rethinking lactate – from metabolic ‘prison’ to critical metabolic signal for mitochondrial biogenesis?" More info: www.vu.edu.au/study-at-vu/... Open to Australian & international candidates. Contact me if interested.

Really pleased with the number of submissions from all over the world that we have already received for 𝗻𝗽𝗷 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵. It would be great to paint this map entirely green next year! After all, exercise should be a medicine for everyone! #npjseries hashtag#npjexercisemed

With the increasing use of medications, we need more research like this academic.oup.com/jcem/advance... that investigates the influence of medications (such as Metformin) on adaptations to exercise.

Really chuffed to receive this momento of my time on the board of @VicInstSport A great organisation to be part of, and exciting times ahead.

MitoQ supplementation does not impact redox responses to acute exercise in the skeletal muscle of older individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... from @sophiecbroome & John Hawley

Cool little study: www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... highlighting that regular exercise reduces the resting heart rate over the long term, likely offsetting a transient increase in exertional heart rate.

A massive team effort to produce this joint ESSA & ACSM expert statement on “Physical Activity and Exercise Intensity Terminology”, which has been published in both JSaMS www.jsams.org/article/S144... & journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...   Thread 🧵👇🏽

More evidence that lactate is not just a metabolic intermediate, but also has an important role in exercise-induced signaling www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excellent resource to guide those doing research with females journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

Very pleased that npj Exercise Medicine & Health www.nature.com/npjexercisem... is a partner journal for this cross-journal Collection on Exercise & Physical Activity in Health & Disease www.nature.com/collections/... Submission deadline: 3 Sept 2026

Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Alessandra Ferri, who was awarded the Institute for Health & Sport (IHES) Senior Researcher of the year for her @nhmrc & @MND_RIA funded work on the role of exercise to improve quality of life in those with MND.

Our latest work in @natureComms, led by @javi_iup: Sprint exercise disrupts mitochondrial ultrastructure, driving a unique mitochondrial stress response & remodelling in men www.nature.com/articles/s41... supports targeted exercise prescriptions to achieve specific mitochondrial adaptations.

Excellent piece on the work of @JamesRBroatch alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... & bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/5... to develop targeted exercises for brain health www.theaustralian.com.au/special-repo...

Our latest work: "Sprint interval exercise disrupts mitochondrial ultrastructure, driving a unique mitochondrial stress response and remodelling in men" has been accepted in Nature Communications and will soon be online 😊

Higher levels of midlife and late-life physical activity were associated with similar reductions in risk of all-cause and Alzheimer's Disease dementia jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Great to have @GGouspillou present his group's excellent work on mitochondria & ageing pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39933528/ at our research Team meeting

Great primer on proteomics www.nature.com/articles/s44... by @atul_deshmukh1 & @BenParkerLab & others that explores key technical considerations.

Some excellent presentations today at the Victoria Muscle Network meeting.

We are recruiting a research fellow (1 y) at 0.6 FTE (3 days/week) to start Jan 2026 for the NHMRC-funded project "The neuroprotective potential of exercise in people with motor neuron disease". Position requirements: bit.ly/4oKSZlR Closing Sunday, 30 Nov 2025

Later exercise timing & higher exercise strain was associated with delayed sleep onset, shorter sleep duration, lower sleep quality, higher nocturnal resting heart rate, & lower nocturnal heart rate variability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intervening during and after allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation (allo-SCT) with a multicomponent exercise program is beneficial for preserving a patient’s cardiorespiratory fitness & exercise cardiac function. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

Great review article by @JamesRBroatch "The Influence of Post-Exercise Cold-Water Immersion on Adaptive Responses to Exercise: A Review of the Literature" link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Great day for a hike with the research group.

New study www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... suggests that while any physical activity is good, there is a lower mortality & CVD risk in those who accumulate most of their daily steps in longer than shorter bouts.

Very excited to launch our first Special Collection: Physical Activity and Mental Health: From Mechanisms to Global Implementation&https://www.nature.com/collections/abiffchhca with an amazing team of guest editors - @BrendonStubbs23 @KMachaczek @simon_rosenbaum & Dr.P.S.Indu

Interesting new study www.nature.com/articles/s44... reports that females achieved a CHD risk reduction of 30% with much less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) than males.

Interesting new study comparing the effects of 3 exercise intensities on adipose tissue transcriptome physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/... It would be cool to see a similar analysis of skeletal muscle.

New study www.cell.com/current-biol... indicates it is rare for metabolic rate to exceed 2.5 times BMR when averaged over periods of training and competition lasting 28 weeks or longer (but extremely high-calorie burn is possible for short bursts).

New study www.cell.com/iscience/ful... aims to identify reliable biomarkers that reflect training load and are suitable for personalising high-intensity exercise.

Just revisiting some old work with @KerryMcGawley that showed VO2 directly measured during repeated sprints was not significantly different from VO2max on sprint 5 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice new reviews on the neuroprotective mechanisms of exercise and the importance of fitness for healthy brain ageing www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Revisiting this 5-year study www.bmj.com/content/371/... that observed a lower all-cause mortality trend after HIIT compared with MICT & controls (followed national guidelines for physical activity).

Revisiting this 5-year study www.bmj.com/content/371/... that observed a lower all-cause mortality trend after HIIT compared with MICT & controls (followed national guidelines for physical activity).

Revisiting this 5-year study www.bmj.com/content/371/... that observed a lower all-cause mortality trend after HIIT compared with MICT & controls (followed national guidelines for physical activity).

Just revisiting this work by @NickSaner that highlights some of the transcriptional changes that underpin the detrimental effects associated with sleep loss www.frontiersin.org/journals/end...

A reminder of the great work Assoc Prof. Alessandra Ferri is doing to investigate if exercise might also be medicine for those with Motor Neuron Disease. Video here: bit.ly/3XMYaai

Exercise Intensity Terminology is a bit of a mess 😵‍💫 Our attempt to try & summarise some of the different approaches, and make some recommendations going forward, has finally been published in both MSSE: bit.ly/4nT7Pq5 & JSaMS: bit.ly/46U7ptq.

@shannon_fizer is seeking men to take part in a 12-day live-in study into Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDS): maribyrnonghobsonsbay.starweekly.com.au/news/men-wan... You can sign up here: www.vu.edu.au/institute-fo...

A Melbourne scientist just won the Nobel prize for chemistry: theconversation.com/an-australia... His achievements highlight that curiosity-driven research can have important real-world impacts.

Great to speak to coaches and trainers at the Aero Performance Day in Belgium. Thanks to the @aeroperformancelab for the invitation.

Excited to announce that Dr Marlou Dirks from Wageningen University will be an Associate Editor for the NEW nature portfolio journal - Exercise Medicine and Health: go.nature.com/43yf11W Please contact us about potential submissions.

Excited to see our latest work available as a pre-print: bit.ly/4lH8AAv “Exercise induces time-dependent but not sex-specific transcriptomic changes in healthy human skeletal muscle” Led by @DaleFTaylor with @LizReisman, @bluebirdi, @Romain_Barres, @NolanJHoffman & @JohnAHawley

It's been a great experience establishing the Australia China Exchange tennis program in Jingshan, China.

It's been a really positive response so far to the NEW nature portfolio journal - Exercise Medicine and Health: bit.ly/4oBBUuP which I've been appointed Editor-in-Chief. Please contact me about potential submissions or if interested in serving on the editorial board.

I like how this review by Simeon P. Cairns link.springer.com/article/10.1... highlights that even the experts have disagreed on the effects of 'lactic acidosis' on fatigue & performance.