Pieter Van den Berghe

@pieterveedeebee.bsky.social

Digital and social media Editor | driving engagement in sports medicine & exercise Science Journals (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Sports Sciences)

The Journal of Sports Sciences publishes research on various aspects of the sports and exercise sciences. So which research has been resonating strongly with the sports science community in the past year? The articles 👇 have been downloaded >100,000 times in 2025 alone!

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Study by Department of Human Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan on Changes in Knowledge and Compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations Among Youth Baseball Coaches: A Cross-Sectional Comparison at Two Time Points www.dovepress.com/changes-in-k...

Changes in Knowledge and Compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations A | OAJSM

Examining how such changes have influence coaches’ knowledge and compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations Among Youth Baseball Coaches

dovepress.com

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

politico.eu

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.