Lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences @Sydney_Uni | PhD in Exercise and Environmental Physiology
Joined December 2011
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Peter McDonald retweeted
May 4
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📌 Conclusion
Across a large heterogeneous cohort:
- V̇O₂max economy explain ~95% of performance variance
- Fractional utilisation has limited discriminative power
- LT could be estimated somewhat accurately from LTP
🔄 Shares appreciated
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Peter McDonald retweeted
1 Jun 2025
New in Comprehensive Physiology by McDonald, @DrJPeriard and colleagues
Influence of Exercise Heat Acclimation Protocol Characteristics on Adaptation Kinetics: A Quantitative Review With Bayesian Meta-Regressions
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Peter McDonald retweeted
30 May 2025
Incredibly happy to see this review from @Petermc8's PhD published in Comprehensive Physiology...with an online heat acclimation predictor!
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Peter McDonald retweeted
17 May 2025
Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical…
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Peter McDonald retweeted
18 Mar 2025
🚨Heat Training Survey🚨
Massive thanks to @CASESsocial for putting the word out regarding my PhD survey!
If you’re a practitioner prescribing heat training for national to elite level athletes, we’d love to hear from you! 🔥🏃♂️🏆
Please share to get the word out 🙏👇
17 Mar 2025
We have been made aware of a survey investigating current heat acclimation and heat acclimatisation practices within high-performance sport. If this sounds like something you would be interested in completing, please head to the link to find out more: bit.ly/43RDgtv
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Peter McDonald retweeted
12 Dec 2024
Delighted that our @EnvPhysiolLab won the @UniCanberra Excellence in Engagement and Impact award!
@_HarryBrown2, Brad Clark, @mt_topham, @Petermc8, @Kevin_John08, @JoshJelliott97, @UC_RISE
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Peter McDonald retweeted
28 Nov 2024
Footballers at ‘very high risk of extreme heat stress’ during World Cup 2026
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Peter McDonald retweeted
26 Nov 2024
Top quality work-in-progress presentation by @Petermc8, now to the final push 🙌 @UC_RISE @EnvPhysiolLab
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Peter McDonald retweeted
26 Nov 2024
Home stretch for @Petermc8 presenting his pre-submission seminar on the influence of heat acclimation protocol characteristics on the adaptive response!
@UC_RISE @EnvPhysiolLab
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16 Nov 2024
Commentators for #TaylorSerrano2 are on another planet, give the woman some respect. Another Win for Katie Taylor 🇮🇪
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Peter McDonald retweeted
11 Nov 2024
Please share: we will be hosting a first-of-its-kind Global School on Heat Adaptation in Montreal, July 21-25, 2025. We are seeking current master's and PhD students to participate in the school. Deadline to apply is December 1st. All info below.
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🚨 PhD Scholarship Alert! 🚨
Join UC in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) on the "2032SKILLS" project
📅 Start Date: Early 2025
💰 Stipend Scholarship: $35,000 p/a
🎯 Apply by: Dec 2, 2024
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Peter McDonald retweeted
3 Nov 2024
New @japplphysiol Editorial by @ChrisMinson & @DrMJoyner
Carbon Monoxide Inhalation for Performance: Dancing with the Devil?
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1 Nov 2024
Congrats @Kevin_John08 and @ThorSci, couldn’t have gone to two bigger science nerds!
1 Nov 2024
@PhysRep: Winners of our ECR Short Review competition announced and articles published today! See doi.org/10.14814/phy2.70102 for information and links
@APSPhysiology @physoc @WileyBiomedical
@Physiology
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30 Oct 2024
We used this tool with our Exercise Physiology students @UniCanberra, and it was great—really helped them build a better understanding of physiological concepts. Highly recommend for teaching!
@exphyslab
28 Oct 2024
🎉 Thrilled to announce that ExPhysLab has surpassed last year's total user count! Thank you to all the students and educators who have made our platform a success. And there's more to come - we are launching a new version by the end of this year 🚀
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Peter McDonald retweeted
8 Oct 2024
If you are a second year university student looking for a placement year, applications are now open for our Gatorade Sport Science Institute role!
📍 Location: Leicester, UK
📅 Deadline: 23rd Oct
💵 Salary: £23,800
More info here under Sport Sciences:
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Peter McDonald retweeted
13 Sep 2024
Delighted with this result! A huge thank you to @UCGradResearch for an amazing event! And to my esteemed panel for their support of my #physiotherapy research!
@angiefearon @AndrewFlood_ @DrPeteMalliaras and @DrGWaddington
@UC_RISE
12 Sep 2024
👏 A big congratulations to our 2024 Three Minute Thesis winners in the UC @3MT Final!
🥇1st place: @mest_jack (@UC_RISE)
🥈Runner-up: Matt Vestal (@UCSciTech)
🏆People’s Choice: Milad Esmaeilbeigi (@UCSciTech)
Congratulations to all the UC finalists!
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Peter McDonald retweeted
🧑🔬 PhD scholarship available in my lab to investigate:
"Mitochondrial Adaptations to Exercise" 🚴♂️
🗓️ Applications close: 15 Sept 2024;
✅ Eligibility: Open to Australian & International students bit.ly/4dyPitY
Please contact me for more info
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25 Jul 2024
Nice work @Kevin_John08 have enjoyed hearing about this one
25 Jul 2024
Absolutely delighted to see my Masters project published in @EJAP_official. I consider myself extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to learn and grow under @MarkWaldron13 @DrJPeriard and the wider team @SUSciEng @UC_RISE link.springer.com/article/10…
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Peter McDonald retweeted
3 Jul 2024
100 'essential' papers in sports and exercise physiology, mapped (nearly completely) by references & citations between them
This is a great resource for ‘keystone’ papers to learn about foundational concepts in sports science & exercise physiology
Link to this map below👇🧵
1 Jul 2024
A view on the 100 ‘essential’ articles in sports and exercise physiology. journals.humankinetics.com/v…
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