Desmond Dekker vibes!!! (If you know you know …)

Feeling the need for speed!!! With son and daughter, and finally using gift voucher.

Pacific sunset sailing back to Sydney…

Mystery Island, Vanuatu.

Suva, Fiji is out there somewhere!!!

‘Pretzel logic’ the perfect accompaniment to arrival in a steamy 30°C Suva!!!

Recently published in #VoxSanguinis • Group B or AB platelets/plasma transfused to group O recipients carry a ⬆ risk of severe allergic reactions. • Risk is stronger with platelets than plasma, potentially linked to α-gal syndrome. Use ABO-identical platelets/plasma for group O whenever possible.

Justice sure took a long while… apnews.com/article/henr...

Not on my Winter Olympics bingo card!

Link: xcancel.com/springnuts_/...

Beautiful day at Albert Park Lake, as part of Run for Rui, raising money for research into fetomaternal/neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, #FNAIT. Funds will support the vital work of the Australian NAIT Registry. Please support us if you can! sleapys-foundation.grassrootz.com/run-for-rui

Probably too dark in our suburban Sydney backyard. But you might recognise recognise this …

Just published: CLIP-II trial of cryopreserved platelets for cardiac surgical bleeding doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.23355 Thanks to everyone who supported this important study!

Oh yeah!!

Great opportunity to get involved!

1 from 1 … 100% streak!!! Connections Puzzle #896 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Won’t happen again until they start repeating words. Daughter got it in 1/6 because I made the mistake of sharing my stats and she knows I always use the same starter word!!! Wordle 1,603 2/6 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Hope to see many of you at these upcoming @optimal-cre.bsky.social educational events on improving the use of immunoglobulins! Everyone is welcome, and it's free to register. More info below.

Day 1 down with a great selection of talks. Especially fascinating hearing from Prof Arnold Ju on the interface between engineering and thrombosis management. This was the first time at a meeting where there was a palpable ripple of excitement from the audience for possibilities of something new!!!

Wordle 1,590 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Reasonably logical progression until 50:50 at 4, chose wrong so got it in 5!

In Perth, Western Australia for the BLOOD-ISBT Congress. Time to top up the transfusion and immunohaematology knowledge banks!

From that other place … The Vikings and Amerigo Vespucci (his name is a huge giveaway) might have something to say - local Native Americans notwithstanding!!!

October 14, 1964 … www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Jigsaw finally completed … was a Xmas present in 2023, so it’s been a while though to be fair I didn’t start until earlier this year!!! I’m not really a jigsaw person as they frustrate me intensely and I don’t enjoy them.

Bit of a stinker today. 5 letters right on second go then 6 possible options for remaining 5. Ended up 50:50 on last go … !!! Wordle 1,576 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Thanks Erica! Should be a good session.

Nice win for Europe in the Ryder Cup. So GolfForce1’s magic didn’t help!

Happy to be representing the Australian Haemoglobinopathy Registry at ASCA's 4th Sickle Cell Scientific Conference. 24 October 2025, in person at Perth Children's Hospital, or online. Everyone is welcome! More info/registration: aussicklecelladvocacy.org

Great to see the platelet findings from the prospective worldwide InPUT study of transfusion practice in intensive care. Just published in Crit Care Med. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006880 @bloodsynergy.bsky.social

Hope you can join us, in person in Perth, or online, for the Myeloma and Related Diseases Registry annual breakfast meeting, this year on Mon 27 October as part of the Blood/ISBT conference. All are welcome and there is no cost to attend. More info/registration link: www.mrdr.net.au/news/mrdr-an...

Via www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

Looking forward to the Lymphoma & Related Diseases Registry @lardr.bsky.social annual breakfast meeting at BLOOD! A partnership with Lymphoma Australia and Australasian Lymphoma Alliance. In Perth + online on Tues 28 October. Everyone is welcome! Register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/alalardrla...

Back in the saddle - it’s been a while. Very nearly an armful of glorious O-!!!

Spring is here …

Congratulations!

Exciting news! The BloodCare CRE has been funded by the NHMRC to improve supportive care for people with blood cancers. Congratulations to the team, led by Prof Zoe McQuilten alongside @ericawood.bsky.social and many more Blood Synergy investigators.

Is it wrong to use the web to search for hints when Wordle doesn’t seem to make any sense!!! Asking for a friend …

album covers but with muppets: thread