I am learning something new every day about twitter. I just found out it is possible to produce a daily paper with a twitter aggregator.
So here it is:
The daily twitter science…presenting all tweets related to #science.
It looks good and it’s an easy way to get to read interesting news.
There is also an Olympics Daily for everything #Olympics.
Author: marcocardinale
I am the Executive Director of Research and Scientific Support in Aspetar (Qatar). The aim of this blog is to present and discuss issues related to sport and sports science.
While looking for software updates I came across the new improved website of Chronojump. The Chronojump project is an interesting example of an open source platform with some cheap hardware solution to allow coaches and sports scientists with limited budgets to perform vertical jump and sprint tests. The software looks interesting and actually better than many commercial editions I have seen. Chronojump is a free software distributed under the terms of GPL license which allows people to use it for free and modify and distribute it. For more information on GPL licences see GPL on Wikipedia.
The software has demos and is in various languages and allows the collection of data as well as the analysis. There is also a Mac version!
Finally, it is possible to buy the hardware (interface and contact mat) for a total of less than £150.00 (see below)
So, all in all a great concept and brilliant cheap solution for testing. I will try to get hold of the hardware to do some in-house testing on its reliability as well as functionality, but I have to say it looks great!
The 29th of September I was invited to contribute to a panel discussion in Brussels about research in sport. In that occasion I voiced the need for further funding from the EU for sports and exercise sciences. An article is now appeared here quoting one of the many things I said in the meeting.
I hope someone in the EU will listen!
Sports & Fitness Science 
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