Honestly, this kind of research gives me hope - looking beyond biomedicine (amazing but limited) into the wider spaces of potential. She's doing this based on (IIRC) 2.5ml of urine. 🥰

Thank fucking god. It's a low bar but I was scared we wouldn't achieve it. Now let's go a bit higher ... www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Have you noticed how many TV shows or movies use cancer as a way to move the plot along? It's the provider of tension, excuse for both patient & med staff bad behaviour, vehicle for moralising abt the 'big picture' & the ultimate saviou/martyr storyline. It's fucking annoying. *stalks off to chemo*

Damn, I continue to underestimate the emotional cost of my work reviewing or engaging with projects about death, dying & cancer. I've realised my doomscrolling is to avoid my current reading, rather than being captured by clickbait. I think a walk and a cuppa is indicated 😮‍💨🥹. Chemo restarts āpōpō.

I've been doomscrolling. Witnessing, I guess. I follow very few content creators on FB: dog trainers & people who highlight empathy. My favourite tl cleanse is @mansionsandmascara.bsky.social with his gorgeous accent, perfect eyebrows & balance between glittery humour & care. Kia tūpato e hoa ma 😘

My little work buddy, fully splooted and waiting for me to be done with this annoying computer. Those back legs are very ready to propel him towards the next poor sod who walks past our fence. How dare they! One more hour, then I'm off for the long weekend 🎉

I'm a bit scared to ask this, but has anyone here used Rayyan as an AI tool specifically for lit reviewing? I'm curious bc it doesn't seem to stray away from the articles that are loaded into it

I'm examining a PhD and, as usual, after the intro & pepeha I skipped to the end for refs, appendices and a peep at the conclusion. Safe to say I'm going to love this experience #goosebumps 🥰

If anyone in Hawke's Bay wants to catch up, I'll be at an event at the Havelock North library on Feb 12th!

www.facebook.com/story.php?st... The Cuba Press has announced my book!! Launch will be April 9th or 10th in Tāmaki - save the date if you can :) @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social your quote on the cover is 💯❤️

Yikes - from a high of 38 last weekend, to cardi & ugg boots all week, then tomorrow's forecast is for rain with 30deg??

I'm fascinated by how my care experience has changed since I started chemo. While I was 'wait & watch' I didn't get access to any help with emotions, symptoms, nutrition or wellbeing. Now I'm inundated with 'support' options. It's a big flaw in our system that I need to write about. Autoethnography?

Julian Dennison is married - omfg I'm so old I can't see him any other way than as a pre-teen in the bush 😱

Properly back at work today & utterly out of fucks already. Not good. However, do any of you know a qualitative research writer who's looking for a short term contract?

You know that thing where you have something imposed on you that doesn't feel 'right' but the majority pushes it through then there's obstacles at every turn? Yeah that. Every f'n day a new obstacle, but the commitment has been made and I have to find ways through. Time wasting, frustrating ARRGH! 🙄

Signed - thanks to all those who reposted so it appeared on my timeline 😘

How can anyone look at this land and think it's a good option for a subdivision? I know I only did 5th form geography, but doesn't that look like a perfect example of flood lands on the Napier coast?

Chemo forces me to create a new routine, even 'just' the tablet form! I've had to go from enjoying a leisurely morning coffee when I wake up to *alarm-eatrealfood-takepills-drinkafullcupofsomething-feelsick-gobacktosleep*. The evening dose is ok, but I resent having to reshape my mornings. 😑

33deg so far in Napier - only a slight breeze. I think I'm going to spend the afternoon watching TV and playing the arrows game on my tablet. Really hoping people are sensible & don't create sparks or forget to hydrate ... 🥵

I'm rereading Susan Cain's 'Quiet'. One question in her 7 steps is about your life project: if you had a terminal diagnosis would you use your remaining time to join a board? Laugh-snorted bc that's exactly what I did 😂 Hei Āhuru Mōwai: Māori cancer leadership is definitely worth my time ✊

Tony & I both caught in the MMH data breach - despite our practice having shifted to a different platform 2 years ago. I thought 'migrating your data' to a new place would have meant removing it from MMH so it's not in multiple e-places? MMH hasn't made contact, just handed a list to our GP.

First week of chemo done & dusted - yeah I know it's nothing time-wise, but still. No real nausea, just exhaustion with a kind of swimmy head. I opted out of the IV type bc I have a fear of hastening my frailty & dying that way + it's only slightly better than 60% that I'll see any effect & 0% cure

My summer break kicks off today, which usually means also no social media bc I only access it on my work computer. So I hope you all have a brilliant time over these next few weeks, however and wherever you are. Arohanui ki a tātou!

Absolutely challenging month. Last night I just wanted to hide & weep like a Victorian melodrama heroine 😭. X-ray, ECG, bloods etc this afternoon in prep for chemo are actually less stressful than all the relationship crap going on with one of my work roles. BUT!!! 35 year anniversary yesterday 🥰

Stoked to have been involved in the paper. Less pleased to have my own story profiled in it.

Random thoughts from a challenging week: tikanga does not mean I should have to follow advice from men who have conflicts of interest 🤬; the Koru lounge has paid for itself in peace & comfort, if not in food & drink 🥰; I agreed to start chemo next week 🥹; editing a book is an infinite process 😵‍💫.

I submitted a paper 6 months ago & got a rejection letter yesterday - not bc they didn't like the paper, but because they haven't been able to find more than one reviewer. Academic publishing is so broken! (the reviewer couldn't accept that we didn't do thematic analysis so their feedback was 🤦‍♀️)

I'm proofreading the final version of Ngākaurua before it goes off to the printer. I wanted to share this for everyone who has supported me and assured me that it's a story worth telling 😘. Very special mention to @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social @eloquentsonia.bsky.social @queenoliviaiii.com 🥰🥰🥰

I don't want to amplify the raru, but as usual John has provided a thoughtful & respectful analysis. “He mahi hōhā rawa te tangata kāore nei e āhei ki te titiro ahakoa pēhea te mārama o te kōrero" www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/08/j...

Any tips for the perfect pavlova? Mum used to make them - crisp, very slightly chewy - but I have no idea what recipe she used. I volunteered this year to avoid the tasteless commercial ones with the airy texture

I'm enjoying watching the Secret Santa deliveries! I don't partake bc I find buying gifts really stressful and struggle to receive them. But watching others is definitely fun 🥰

I'm at the 'final final final edits' stage of book production 😱

Too many things happening that I have no control over 😵‍💫. But I had a reactive meltdown in one of the spaces where I should have held my nerve & it's made that bit far worse. I've apologised but am being kept at arms length which leaves me feeling angrier & sorrier 😱. ARRGH. Thanks for listening 😅

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

Writing to understand here & would love input. 🧵follows. 1. Antiracism as a noun needs to give space to lots of ppl & agendas. Thus, a paper theorising antiracism praxis needs to make room for Māori, Pākehā, Pasifika and Asian whānaunga, and others too, as activists AND as non-activist resisters

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: Green Day Bryan Adams Queen w Adam Lambert Adele Melissa Etheridge

Got back from leave to 💯 vital computer updates so that took a day. Today the laptop has apparently stopped noticing that there are monitors attached 😭. This despite it notifying me if I unplug the connection. If it wasn't for a special issue deadline I'd declare it a long weekend. ARRGH

This 👇 "if Labour is enough for you then you're relatively privileged". Labour might repeal some of the damage, but they're not interested in healing it.

👇👇Can confirm that we're an awesome rōpū to work with 😂

@tepaatimaori.bsky.social kia ora - will there be a link to the hui-a-tau?

For everyone who hates what is happening in our institutions and organisations and wants to help 👇👇👇

Art speaking the truth ✊🥰

At least Hipkins is saying it out loud I guess. At this rate I'm not sure I'm going to be able to vote ...

Totally agree! "We protect the arts and humanities that create citizens, not just workers. We value research even when it’s inconvenient."

Trying to read a financial report and the budget variance page is doing my head in. Brackets = a negative amount, right? This one also has red downwards & green upwards arrows. But the green ones seem to show overspend, so my brain wants them to be red please 😂😵‍💫😱

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

Reactive hypoglycemia hit last night (rt gastric bypass). It's terrifying & I can't find any info abt what happens if I don't get up & eat! Do I just get over it? I'm usually very thirsty. It's a sign that my self-care is shit this week, not enough protein or fat, too many carbs, dehydrated. Ugh.