We celebrated my nanna turning 90 years young! 🎂🍰💐🎁

Sunday #bird #photography #Newcastle #Nature 📸 🌳 Snowy Egret, Heron, Snipe, Robin

If you’re going to do stats on a Saturday, at least liven it up with some sushi stationery (perfect post-it notes 🍣🗒️😄) #Stata #Saturday #Data 📊👩🏼‍💻 #PhD -20 months down, 28 months to go

The #Kingfisher is a shy, elusive bird. Small & extremely fast, making photographing it challenging. It has been on my bucket list for FIVE YEARS…. Then today I saw him! Majestic in blue and orange, perched on a reed. It was a magical moment for me ♥️ #Nature #Bird #Photography #Newcastle 📷

Having a long walk through a field of bright yellow sunflowers is quite the mood booster 🌻🌻🌻🌻 🐝 #Nature #Photography #Durham 📸

Beautiful #Wildflowers 💐 If I ask my daughter if she’d like to help in our own garden…..its as if I’ve suggested child labour 🪏🪴 Yet she was super excited to rent an old jam jar & pair of scissors to trim a field of wild flowers ✂️🫙🌱😆 #Northumberland

Happy #InternationalCatDay - perfect time to start reading “We’ll prescribe you a cat” 🐈 #BookSky #Books 📚

Proud to have been part of this great collaboration between @alicehousehospice.bsky.social, Hart Gables LGBT & #Hartlepool college to create a 20 minute film, as part of training to improve LGBTQ+ inclusive #hospice care, esp for #trans people 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🥰 🎥 lnkd.in/grfJwT7x Tackling #Inequalities

We ordered this bespoke jewellery from the US for my 40th birthday in January 🎁🍰 ….. 📆 7 months later & it’s finally here Belated #Birthday Joy 🎉 Happy #Thursday 🪷

Good luck to our #Lionesses today. Bring home that trophy again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Do you ever look at artwork in museums and think….actually my #art might not be so bad after all? 🤔 This person made these interesting (checks sign 👀 ) BIRD jugs and boom 💥 4,000 years later they’re being admired in a museum Book tickets now for my art exhibition in the year 6025 🎟️ #EarlyBird 😆

Hyperfocus #Sunday 👩🏼‍💻 Up early, powering through work 💪🏻 To get stuff finished ✅ Before I go on holiday tomorrow ✈️ #AcademicSky #PhD Life Vs #SchoolHolidays #Momademia

The first rule of Rejection Club is that no one can be accepted in to it.

Who else can relate?? 🤣🤣🤣

People ask me how I fit so much in….. Well I was already helping my child pretend to be an archeologist, digging through plaster for gem stones AT 7AM ON A SUNDAY💥🔨💎⏰ So had time to multitask laundry 🧺 And searching for #Qualitative methodology courses ……All before 10am #Momademia ☕️☕️☕️

#Lungs 🫁 or seaweed 🌊 I’ve embroidered, baked, linocut & painted lung artwork 🎨- but today it’s the hottest day of the year so we’re in the sea finding lung-themed seaweed 👧🏼😂 The beaches of #Northumberland are pretty much empty, the water crystal clear, the sand soft and golden …… #HappyWeekend 😄

Excited to have our inaugural (& start my new role in the) #NorthEast & North Cumbria regional #Mesothelioma MDT today 🫁👩🏼‍💻🎉 *And the perfect reason to use the #lung mug I painted ☕️ 🎨

It’s been a productive weekend of writing with #Coffee✍️ ☕️ Celebrating #SmallWins with my favourite flowers…..photographed up close #Nature #Photography 📷 🌻

#Mesothelioma is rarer than other types of cancer so does not receive the attention it deserves. Most cases due to #asbestos - making it a preventable killer Infographics from @mesouk.bsky.social highlight why we must act to tackle this major #PublicHealth problem, causing incurable #cancer 🫁

Today is national Action #Mesothelioma Day #AMD2025 Where we #GoBlueForMeso to raise awareness of the dangers of #asbestos and in memory of the people we have loved & lost to this (mainly) preventable disease- especially my wonderful grandpa (as well as many of my lovely patients) 🫁 💙 🩵 💙 🩵 💙

I went into hyper-focus mode and cut down my ♥️ beloved ♥️ #SystematicReview paper by a whopping 661 words…..now where’s my Nobel prize?? 🏆😂 (It may not sound much but it pains me to cut down stuff I’ve spent months writing ✂️ ) #PhD Life #AcademicSky 👩🏼‍💻 Super focus #Friday

I just e-mailed a colleague, who has as their automatic e-mail reply “please note I may take days, week or many months to reply” and I am here for this level of refreshing honesty 😄

The long awaited #NHS #10YearPlan is here & whilst I am hopeful at the sight of tackling health #Inequalities 🎉 I am not filled with confidence at the mention of digital technology when the NHS currently can’t even sort the BASICS of IT 💻🤷‍♀️- like joining up community & hospital IT systems

The thread below did cheer me up from my miserable day….

Golden hour at @universityofhull.bsky.social 🌅 Is there anything better than the sight & smell of lovely lavender 💜 Back from a productive academic writing workshop ✍️ #PhD Life 📚🚙

£45,000 - pretty standard cost of a train ticket in the UK now 🚂

My favourite time is #Puffin time, on the beautiful #Northumberland coast 🌊 #BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside #Bird #Nature #Photography 📸

If you’re looking for a #book to read- #Tunnel29 is brilliant! 📚 The true story about the lives of people trapped in East Germany when the Berlin wall went up & how they bravely risked their lives (surrounded by Stassi informants) worked to escape & free others. I couldn’t put it down #BookSky

Studies have highlighted in the US 🇺🇸 people face substantial financial burden & bankruptcy due to cancer This Italian 🇮🇹 study shows that even in universal healthcare systems, patients can’t afford out of pocket expenses (incl pain relief), leading to worse symptom control 💰 #Cancer #Inequalities

I gave my child one job☝️ “Remind me to get your swimsuit off the washing line before school tomorrow”🩱 These post-its appeared on her bedroom door, my bedroom door, the bathroom door, the living room door, the kitchen door and the front door….. 🚪 Better buy some shares in post-its 😂

7pm and still 27° The water looked so crystal clear and tempting, as gentle waves rolled in….. But this is the North Sea 🌊 And its always icy cold Pools of sea water warmed & shimmering in the last of the sun were more appealing, whilst still refreshingly cool #SouthShields #NorthEast 📸

Only 30% of pall care is NHS funded. Given today's vote, will Keir Starmer at least commit to dramatically increasing palliative care provision so that patients don't "choose" to end their lives because we, society, fail to give them the care that might make life worth living?

Access to #PalliativeCare in the Uk is underfunded and access is inequitable - with those from disadvantaged groups less likely to receive it Are we bypassing improving care and going directly to assisted dying? This risks disproportionately affect those who currently struggle to access care…..

People said to joined LinkedIn I joined I am yet to understand it….. Does anyone understand it?

I will never give up sharing the importance of #PalliativeCare for people with #Mesothelioma 🫁 📣 Grateful to be invited to present at the inaugural @btsrespiratory.bsky.social Pleural & Mesothelioma short-course in #Manchester Unfortunately I am off home as everyone heads to #BTSSummer2025

Today, I paid my respects to #AlanTuring One of the most talented minds of the 20th century, who helped crack Enigma in WWII saving millions of lives He was persecuted for being gay & died (aged 41) in 1954 He only received a pardon in *2013* Remember that when you ask why we need #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈

This #book is life changing I have been gaslit into believing that sleep is “lazy” That sleeping as little as possible is virtuous, a sign of working hard #WhyWeSleep has shocked me, explaining why less sleep diminishes our ability to perform to our best….& literally KILLS US #BookSky #Books 📚

When you were considering being offended at being called a nerd last week ……but you’ve spent the weekend at a #Lego fayre & find yourself excited to take your Dr Hibbert (& his little x-ray! 🩻) to the hospital to show your friends 🏥 🩺 …..& realise its true 🤓😆 #NerdsAreCool 😎

✉️ 📰 Every #Friday I open the @arcnenc.bsky.social newsletter e-mail for a read… Today it was a lovely surprise to see our Family’s Voice Diary📕✍️ #research featured. The aim to support family/friends when someone is dying Excellently timed during #CarersWeek arc-nenc.nihr.ac.uk/evidence/how...

“Whats the password?” 🐄 Bovine bouncer to walk into #Newcastle city centre this morning 😆 I am going to #BoardGame club at lunch time, so she was probably hired by my competitors 🏆

I *finally* produced the 1st draft of my #SystematicReview 🎉 📆 After 18 months 📑 Started with 10,572 papers 📖 Read 1,073 full texts The paper is 30 pages long 😵‍💫 so needs more editing ✍️ Good to have some #PhD progress Break from the desk 👩🏼‍💻 for some stress relieving boxing & weight training 🏋️‍♂️ 🥊

I am in the supermarket fruit & veg aisle 🛒 🫑 I’ll take the vegetable on the top left please….. #Health

✨New #book day 📚✨ When I proposed my #PhD on #inequalities, some were dismissive, saying it is an insurmountable problem…. And after reading the opening page (that in New Orleans there is a 2️⃣5️⃣ YEAR gap in life expectancy between richest & poorest areas 🏚️💰) I can see why people feel that way….1/2

111,000 people die in poverty each year in the UK. This is unacceptable. Early access to the state pension for people with a terminal illness will give people the financial security they need. It’s good to see Communities Minister Gordon Lyons back our call. 👏

I don’t think there is anything more freeing After years of always saying “yes” to everything Of giving time away freely* Because you want to please everyone Just saying “no” “I don’t want” is a valid reason (*I could be wrong but I bet men aren’t asked this frequently to work for free)

Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Thatcher in NE England #womensart

My to-do list 📋 after being off sick for 3 days…… 🤪 ☕️

Open access (free) digital version of new book with @profbambra.bsky.social & @jlynch13.bsky.social exploring successful examples of reducing health inequalities now available: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

🌊🏊‍♀️ 🕰️ I could get used to a sea swim at 10:30pm! 🧖‍♀️ 🌅 Followed by a selection of saunas with views of the sunset 🪵🔥 And drinks by the wood fire #Helsinki #Finland 🇫🇮 Post #EAPC2025 decompress www.loylyhelsinki.fi

Its been absolutely brilliant seeing so many people & having so many interesting discussions at #EAPC2025 in #Helsinki 🇫🇮 - wonderful to see everyone & wishing you a safe journey home ✈️ Hope to see you again next year in #Prague 🇨🇿 for #EAPC2026…..