Research
The evidence behind the talks.
Every number in a talk comes from a paper. Each one is here, with what the talk takes from it, what it doesn’t show, and a DOI that resolves.
01 — What this list covers
These are the reconciled records. For each one I checked the title, the authors and the DOI against the source, and the link resolves to the paper it names.
The citations for the earlier talk, Shifting the Trajectory, are still being reconciled. Two of its records are wrong — a shortened title whose DOI leads to a different paper, and a book standing in for the chapter the talk actually cites. They are not published here until that is fixed.
02 — The sources
In the order the talk uses them, then the trial the team offer is read against. Where a paper is a framework rather than a measurement, it says so.
Cited in Building Resilience
Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of ChangeThe resilience framework behind the talk — process, not trait
What it doesn’t showAn edited volume of theory, across disciplines. It frames resilience as a process; it measures no outcome and prescribes no dose.
Ungar, M. (Ed.), 2021 · Oxford University Press · 10.1093/oso/9780190095888.001.0001
Cited in Building Resilience
Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and TransformabilityResilience as the capacity to change in order to sustain identity
What it doesn’t showWritten about social-ecological systems, not about bodies. It defines the terms the talk borrows; it is not evidence for anything you would do on a Tuesday.
Folke et al., 2010 · Ecology and Society · 10.5751/ES-03610-150420
Cited in Building Resilience
Structural spinal abnormalities on MRI and associations with weight status in a general pediatric populationMRI found a disc bulge in 73% of 559 Dutch children around age ten — it doesn’t show pain or cause
What it doesn’t showOne scan per child, at one moment, in a population cohort. Nothing in that design shows cause, or what happened to any of them afterwards.
van den Heuvel et al., 2021 · The Spine Journal · 10.1016/j.spinee.2020.10.003
Cited in Building Resilience
Effect of prolonged sitting and breaks in sitting time on endothelial functionThree hours of unbroken sitting reduced leg-artery dilation in 12 young men; 5-minute walking breaks prevented it
What it doesn’t showTwelve healthy young men, one afternoon in a laboratory. It measures an artery on the day, not health over a career.
Thosar et al., 2015 · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000479
Cited in Building Resilience
Insulin resistance induced by physical inactivityNine days of bed rest changed the expression of 4,500+ muscle genes in 20 healthy young men
What it doesn’t showNine days of bed rest in 20 healthy young men — a heavier dose of inactivity than desk work. It measures gene expression and insulin action, not disease.
Alibegovic et al., 2010 · American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism · 10.1152/ajpendo.00590.2009
Cited in Building Resilience
Resilience in the Salutogenic Model of HealthThe river of life — no one is on the shore
What it doesn’t showA restatement of Antonovsky’s model. A way of framing health, with no study and no outcome behind it.
Mittelmark, M. B., 2021 (after Antonovsky) · Multisystemic Resilience, chapter 8 (Oxford University Press) · 10.1093/oso/9780190095888.003.0009
Cited on the for-teams page
Effectiveness of an intervention for reducing sitting time and improving health in office workers: three arm cluster randomised controlled trialA workplace intervention tested in a three-arm cluster randomised trial: across 78 clusters and 756 desk-based employees, daily sitting time was 22 minutes lower at 12 months, and 64 minutes lower where a height-adjustable desk was added
What it doesn’t showIts primary outcome is sitting time, not disease. The improvements in stress, wellbeing and vigour were small, and follow-up stops at 12 months.
Edwardson et al., 2022 · BMJ 378:e069288 · 10.1136/bmj-2021-069288