Not feeling very Christmassy, this year - but had a wee glimmer of festive spirit today, thanks to this local pōhutukawa, blue skies & my #SecretSantaAoNZ 🎅🎁🎄

Opinion from Auckland University: The Govt’s boldest tertiary policy shift in years barely mentions the arts, humanities and social sciences. That’s a problem.

People Watching: HomeGround - Auckland City Mission's housing, healthcare & social services centre, central Auckland, on a Tuesday morning

The NZ government is making changes to how health research is funded and managed. Health Research Council will be disestablished... [A select few, privileged] researchers will have the option to pay for a fast-track process for ethics review. #AcademicSky #Kikorangi

Caffeine is my drug of choice. Without coffee there is only darkness. #SecretSantaAoNZ

No allergies but I'm pretty intolerant of misogyny, transphobia, misinformation and misplaced apostrophes. #SecretSantaAoNZ

Apologies to my 🎅 #SecretSantaAoNZ as I haven't had much time for SoMe, but thanks in advance. Honestly, I will appreciate whatever you enjoy giving. Easy ideas = lined notebooks, fine-nibbed pens, whole coffee beans or dark chocolate.

Some of the most important conversations we have in emergency care are with the acutely bereaved. After presenting at #ACPIC25, I was invited to share my framework for compassionate communication with a wider emergency services 🚑 audience #DeathNotification #EMSSky #EMSky #paramedicine

Spread the word. Sign-ups close on the 19th

Some interesting reading, here. Rapidly developing technology is making it increasingly difficult to ensure that de-identified health data remains that way. Food for thought for researchers and ethics committees 🤔 #ResearchEthics #ResearchDataManagement www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to be in beautiful Brisbane at the @acparamedicine.bsky.social conference amongst fabulous folk continuing to advance #paramedicine. I'm presenting this morning on paramedic student learning and this afternoon about important conversations when patients die. #ACPIC25

Applications are now open for the 2025 College Research Impact Grants, offering up to $2,000 to support paramedicine researchers in sharing their work through conferences, publications and more. Apply by Friday 10 October at bit.ly/Impact-Grants-Open

Health NZ nurses are striking again, today. Senior doctors are considering doing the same. My ED SMO colleague is telling it how it is, in emergency care, right now. The worst I've seen it, this century [yep, I'm that old]. #EMSky #EMSSky www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Quality Improvement and Workplace Wellbeing Capacity and Capability in Aotearoa New Zealand Emergency Departments. A Nationwide Mixed Methods Survey url: academic.oup.com/intqhc/artic...

What do you do for a broken health system and burnt out healthcare workers? My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Healthcare #Nurses

Paramedics are key providers of care to families during death, dying & bereavement, but this is not a well-recognised part of their role. We explored current clinical guidance across Australian & New Zealand ambulance services 🚑📤 #EMSky #EMSSky #OpenAccess #Paramedic #EoLC

We should be investing in employing health graduates and retaining them in New Zealand. Politicians choose easy, short-term 'wins' like opening new medical schools and funding cancer drugs. But who is going to look after you when you're old and frail? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nurses srriking for a better health care system outside Auckland City Hospital / Te Toka Tumai

"Like any great tool, LLMs' impact will depend on how we collectively use them - and what we choose to build." Food for thought. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you're a researcher in NZ please do our very short survey on the Vision Mātauranga policy! We are keen to hear your opinions. DM for the survey link

Well worth a watch/listen ⬇️

Uplifted by the generous, innovative, passionate group of people at the inaugural New Zealand Palliative Care Paramedicine Study Day 🚑📤 Pockets of important work highlighted, but still so much we want to do. #EMSky #EMSSky #hapc @acparamedicine.bsky.social

Most CPR manikins resemble slim, white men. BLS training needs to acknowledge that people in cardiac arrest can have breasts, fat, or dark skin. Fear of exposing & touching breasts in #OHCA costs lives. Pleased to be a co-author of this survey of CPR manikin diversity & call to do better.

When a patient presents with mottling among their constellation of signs, symptoms, and labs, there is a look that team members give each other that we've all seen. It's not a positive look. Here is some data reinforcing our intuition. 🎩 tip to the authors. eddyjoemd.com/foamed

#MWSecretSantaAoNZ Mid Winter Secret Santa quite proudly the wokest thing you will find on the internet today Just a bunch of virtual strangers spreading aroha and kindness in a literal sense - you will not find anything better, that ain't a challenge it's simply the truth!

Thanks to my #MWSecretSantaAoNZ - a book featuring some of my photos & thoughtful AoNZ #birds nerdiness...and delish chocolate. Absolutely love ❤️ 😍

Busy slides don’t make you look clever. They make your message harder to follow. Here’s how to say more — with less: 🔗 speakhuman.kit.com/posts/say-le... #PublicSpeaking #PresentationTips

Bye, Helsinki 👋🏼🇫🇮 Thanks for putting on some gorgeous Spring weather for #EAPC2025 @eapcvzw.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sheila Payne and colleagues for the award of the Journal of Palliative Medicine paper award at #EAPC2025

Great to see over 100 posters on the management of psychological symptoms & needs at #eapc2025. Check out our poster on research required in this area. And feel free to join our network to exchange ideas on research and practice in this space: www.mainexchange.org.uk

@eapcvzw.bsky.social #EAPC2025 .thankyou Caroline Hertler - winner of the EAPC Post Doctoral award for an inspiring description of the journey - ‘ from bench to bedside and beyond’

Congratulations to Matthew Allsop and colleagues for the award of Palliative Medicine 'Paper of the Year' awarded today at #EAPC2025. Very well done for an excellent paper. #hpm #hapc

@eapcvzw.bsky.social and we’re off ! Powerful opening words and inspiration across generations

It’s officially open. 👏👏 A warm welcome to all joining us at #EAPC2025! Over 2,000 delegates from around the world have come together to share, learn, and shape the future of palliative care. Let the conversations begin!

Congratulations to @andreabruun.bsky.social for winning the @eapcvzw.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Award #EAPC2025 - so well deserved! Brilliant to hear about your career development from PhD @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Research Dept and current work on learning disabilities

My Grief My Way: delighted to present a poster on our bereavement support resource at #eapc2025. Our website content is free to use by all, with further material coming soon! mygriefmyway.co.uk Funded by @mariecurieuk.bsky.social

Excited to be in beautiful Helsinki 🇫🇮 for the 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care #EAPC2025

48 hours very well spent birding, dining & exploring Singapore 📷🦜🍴🏞 🛫Next stop Helsinki 🇫🇮 for #EAPC2025

This is an important story. The place where I have worked for over 25 years, full of caring people trying to meet the ever growing needs of the community. I have seen the moral injury to staff and the harm to patients. A slow burn of a problem. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/more-than...

Those of us working in NZ EDs are facing escalating violence, aggression, threats & abuse. I am fortunate to work with fabulous dedicated health security, but it is sad that the only band-aid on systemic issues driving this behaviour is (just) more security 😞 #EMSky ace.mn/NZviolencere...

Nice work #MWSecretSantaAoNZ getting my gift to me already. I am off overseas for a few weeks ✈️ 🇦🇺🇸🇬🇫🇮🇭🇰 but will be back in NZ in time for opening day 🧑‍🎄🎁

Finding flow and making links in academic writing can be troublesome Here’s a strategy patthomson.net/2025/05/12/f...

An interesting study exploring Australian paramedics' perceptions of culturally safe care: "I always just respected everyone the same way. I didn’t really change my approach to anything." 🦘🚑🤦 #EMSky #EMSSky #ParamedicSky #PreHospitalSky #CulturalSafety #CulturalCompetency doi.org/10.1186/s129...

This year, give women what they really want for Mother’s Day: pockets, willingly doing your fair share of the domestic labour and a promise to vote for the people who care about paying women what they are worth.

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

STAR (Specialist Telehealth AoteaRoa), a peer-to-peer telehealth service, avoided hospital for 58% of patients. This has the potential to reduce EDs overcrowding, and deliver the right care in the right place at the right time. @emajournal.bsky.social #EMSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Generative artificial intelligence use in evidence synthesis: A systematic review. #AcademicSky #ResearchMethods #GenAI doi.org/10.1017/rsm....

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (40s?) wearing a soft-looking knitted green dress kneels down in front of a small human (5?). He's vision impaired and as he's enveloped in a big hug, he exclaims: "It's the teddy dress!" She laughs: "Yeah kiddo. Just for you." (1)

Short busy week, so I missed match day for #MWSecretSantaAoNZ. Apologies to my 🎅. I will appreciate whatever you enjoy giving, but ideas = cute lined notebooks, fine-nibbed pens, coffee beans (whole) or dark chocolate. A donation to @forestandbird.bsky.social is another option.