Matt Ventresca

@TheAcademyBlues

Postdoc & Visiting Fellow | Investigator of Science/Health/Media/Sport studying brain injury, opioids, cannabis | Musician | he/him

Welland, Ontario
Joined January 2013
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    6 Dec 2019

    It's official! Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussions is out TODAY with . Recommend it to your libraries and neighborhood sport sociologist or brain injury researcher!

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  2. Feb 26

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    WNBPA statement regarding announcement of sale of the
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  3. Feb 17

    👀 on Australia

    I have opinions about how professional sports should manage concussion and player welfare. Here are some of them regarding the AFL’s consideration of a $2bn support fund for sufferers of concussion:
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    Feb 11

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    Feb 2

    With the coming up, it's been interesting to see what the NFL will (and won't) say about racism and justice given all that has happened since the . For comparison, here's a snapshot from last year, written by and me

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    We have a book cover...! Thanks to my dear friend for being on it and thanks and for all the hard work. Details on a launch + how to purchase available closer to the Fall. Will tag contributors in the comments.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 22

    for this week's Good Form column at , I wrote about the problem with idea that it might be possible to "stick to sports" now that we're free of trump

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    5 Oct 2020

    Want to win a copy of 's new book "Changing on the Fly"? Enter the contest by replying to this tweet with the link of your favourite article (by any author), follow and follow Contest ends Friday Oct 9 @ end of day.

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  9. Retweeted
    28 Sep 2020

    The N.H.L. was right to delete a grotesque promotional video glorifying pain but the fact it thought this was a good way to get more viewers showed a disturbing embrace of violence, our columnist writes.

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  10. Retweeted
    17 Sep 2020

    New piece with on how the NFL’s concussion award settlement process reveals the ongoing negative influence of racial science + illustrates concerns experts have taken a stance against in .

    NFL concussion lawsuit payouts reveal how racial bias in science continues
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  11. 17 Sep 2020

    Kudos to for reporting the original story on the Henry/Davenport complaint:

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  12. 17 Sep 2020

    And (2020)

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  13. 17 Sep 2020

    And Pitts-Taylor (2019)

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  14. 17 Sep 2020

    And this is where sociology, STS, and related disciplines can greatly enrich TBI science - not just by looking at "psychosocial" dimensions of brain injury but by uncovering inequities within the scientific process itself. See Roberts & Rollins (2020)

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  15. 17 Sep 2020

    I've seen some encouraging dialogue among scientists on Concussion Twitter™ about how race impacts the diagnosis and treatment of TBI. But this conversation also has to examine how racist legacies of science are reproduced in how we study and measure neuro/psych processes.

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  16. 8 Sep 2020

    My article with about media coverage of Aaron Hernandez and CTE just dropped in the new issue of ! THREAD:👇👇👇👇

    Article w/ in the new issue of ! A snapshot of a larger project, it shows how popular narratives about and crime convey influential messages about inequality, science, and regulatory politics around
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  17. Retweeted
    20 Aug 2020

    Despite calls to and growing inequalities from , leaders are increasing funding for police surveillance tech New piece w/ based on our research and why that’s a bad idea

    Rather than defunding the police, politicians are increasing funding for body-worn cameras
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  18. Retweeted
    18 Aug 2020

    Unwritten rules in sport are racialized and gendered (see USWNT victory over Thailand in WWC2019). They are unwritten so they can selectively discipline players.

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    Fernando Tatís Jr. apologized for hitting a grand slam with a sizable lead on the . In your opinion did he need to apologize?
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  19. Retweeted
    17 Aug 2020

    "Objectivity is the ideology of the status quo." - Ramona Martinez and were SO good on this recent episode. In what ways are we shielding the real truth under the veil of "objectivity" in transformation efforts?

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    11 Aug 2020

    Many people don’t understand the mental health toll of playing in a bubble. It’s isolating, lacks boundaries, and has no outlet! Thinking about college athletes in a bubble makes me cringe because there are already high rates of mental health issues in college athletics.

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