Wondering what to wear to #ICCA2026? You can buy a shirt here! I'll add more in the coming week or so if people are keen. Also this is not official merch and I get maybe $3 an item sold, so it really is just to help with my coffee purchasing!

Taking a photo of your food is the agnostic form of grace. We pause and appreciate before we eat.

I assumed everyone did this? Maybe it’s why I’m so slow at getting articles published. 🤔

At bedtime Miss 7 told me she thought she’d become a maths professional because she’s quite good at it. 😍

Theme dressing for my bday.

I run a company that specialises in communication training and research. I have self-paced online courses. One in particular requires a written submission which I give feedback on. As an expert in conversations, it's a great opportunity to give feedback and provide individualised support.

It’s strange seeing images of people at academic events for futures that didn’t eventuate for me. A course I’d written into a grant application is now on and I’m not there because the project didn’t get funded.

It’s been 15 years since my PhD was accepted after revisions (thanks to past me for sharing on FB). My career trajectory has been different to what I imagined, but I’ve been able to stay in the same place and have a family while meeting my central goal of helping improve communication in health.

Had a follow up with my surgeon and mostly just asked him about my bicornuate uterus, which I no longer have, and explaining the inconsistencies with the discharge information I received from the hospital compared to his information. Very normal.

“Asking women for labour without payment? Groundbreaking.” Just getting into this book - such a good read so far!

Once I had a student I didn’t know recognise me in public and then told me how great my recorded lectures were. Turns out they’d been using them after I’d left. “Students paying $56,000 to watch six-year-old taped lectures at Australia’s most prestigious university” apple.news/Amy79pyKhR3u...

Almost 6 weeks ago I had surgery. I received four different discharge documents which had conflicting information on them as well as some other issues around clarity and detail.

It really doesn’t matter because uterus has been removed and I had three successful pregnancies prior to that BUT I have so many questions about this. Like how did it get missed despite many scans including MRIs? Would the painful IUD been avoided if I’d known? And many others!

It would be very interesting to analyse a recording of this meeting. There’s some good existing research on conflict but it could be such a rich data source. It might also help parties figure out why they came to a different understanding of what occurred. #emca

Not much of an artist, but made a quick little sketch of my recently removed uterus based on the surgery report. Bicornuate! What a surprise!

There were some issues with the communication with my recent surgery. Much of it was around contradictory discharge info. So as a little gift I’m going to map out the discrepancies so that the surgeon knows the different info the hospital provides to patients. 😅

Deciding whether to blog about my most recent surgery experience 🤔

It’s amazing just how much having a named diagnosis has made me reflect on the past 18 months of particularly ill health & acknowledge that I’ve been really quite unwell. It’s as if having a name has made it legitimate even though I never thought it mattered to me.

Omg it just dawned on me that the seeds for my talk on the problems with over simplification in assessment were sown many years ago with Scott Hastings 😅

Finally introducing Strictly Ballroom to my kids - can’t believe it’s taken me this long!

Bones? At a cemetery? Groundbreaking.

Taking it a little easier because of surgery during #endometriosis awareness month, which then moves to #adenomyosis awareness month in April. I was luckily diagnosed with adenomyosis about 9 years ago, so have had a few different management strategies before needing a hysterectomy.

How is diagnostic delay calculated for endometriosis?

Asking for precariously employed academics to constantly undertake services to the profession (peer reviewing, etc) without any prospect of compensation or reward is unsustainable

• Using Conversation Analysis, we reframe ASD engagement as co-constructed, not a deficit through 3 phases. • Our analysis calls for a fundamental shift in autism intervention: recognizing interactional coordination and shared achievements as core metrics of therapeutic engagement. 2/3

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A third of women no longer work in academia eight years after having a child, according to new research that suggests extra childcare responsibilities are hindering women’s abilities to climb the career ladder. Juliette Rowsell reports #EduSky #leakypipeline https://ow.ly/nhXa50Yzicp

Why is it that Target and Kmart offer the same products at wildly different prices when they are the same company? Today’s example: Barbie dream house is $249 at Target but at Kmart its full price was $199 reduced to $129 (though out of stock). How is this ok from the same company?

Chatting with a friend recently and she said she’d been told by a medical friend that the best doctors are the worst communicators. This myth is so tiresome. If a doctor can’t ask questions well, can’t explain well, can’t work in a team, then they can’t be a safe doctor.

I’m still trying to feel settled with the amount of pain I was initially in post operative last week. It was excruciating. It was just in the first hour or so after waking.

Though did love the nurse saying to me, pointedly so my husband could hear “you should do no housework for 12 months”. 😅

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Debating whether I write something up about my post op experiences… because the communication 👀

"Qualitative methods are criticized [because they] don't provide “hard” data. [On] inspection, hard data turn out to be produced by unavoidably “soft” human interaction & activities. That means that psychologists must work directly with what people do & say" 1/2 drive.google.com/file/d/1htyZ...

A practice charging someone for a full telehealth appointment for a repeat prescription for a long term medication when it’s not necessary (esp if the doctor doesn’t think there needs to be an appt) seems a bit on the nose. Is there @racgp.bsky.social guidance on this?

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

Another one again today. Openings and closings are messed up.

To that end, unofficial advertising for my online modules on communication. 😅 bedsidemanners.thinkific.com

oh hey, convenient. new paper out with some wonderful colleagues on exactly this! (thanks @lizstokoe.bsky.social, @charlesantaki.bsky.social, Leanne Chrisostomou, and @drsimonstewart.bsky.social for bringing me along for this 💗) psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Australian O&G and surgery folks: I’ve looked online to no avail and was wondering if there was a RANZCOG guidance document re fee setting (private hospital)? I can see some advice from RACS. Not for work but for me!

Shouldn’t still be up!

I got to teach in the Quadrangle Building at the University of Sydney - maybe my great great grandfather sat in this very room as a student 113 years ago.

out of pocket expenses for surgery: *eyes water* cost benefit analysis: better quality of life and able to work more

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What happened to this paper? It's missing from the journal website... @anaesjournal.bsky.social

This is coming up fast! The self-paced modules I run through bedside manners will still available to enrol in while I’m off, so if you need to do some CPD and want to learn more about an evidence based approach to communication, check them out!

The make up on the ANTM documentary is, as a friend put it, “high definition karma”.

Our dishwasher has been broken for a week and it’s definitely made me a more efficient cook! Just like tweeting made a more succinct writer 😅

Had a slight panic where I realised I've cited this anthropologist but then @notalawyer.bsky.social said it was an ok book at the start. David Graeber wrote a great paper on the violent simplification of bureaucracy and whenever I talk about the term, people audibly react to the feeling of it!