Vale Robert Redford. I had no idea you were 89 and that Sneakers, my favourite movie of yours, was from 1992...

Another day, another attempted coup at the RACP… #medsky

I'm so lucky to work at a hospital that has a music therapy (MT) department. The patients are even luckier. The other day my unwell patient was agitated and delirious - security were readied to sedate them. In walks the MT and a guitar. 70s acoustic rock ensued. No sedation required. #medsky

Asimov's R. Giskard Reventlov, who saves mankind from itself

What are you best examples of good AI application in science fiction? For me the gold standard was the computer in Star Trek the Next Generation. Didn't replace jobs so much as it replaced time spent doing jobs, and was an excellent decision support tool. Mr Data OTOH...security nightmare #AI

AI is going to add jobs in the field of correcting AI.

Arrived on the ward to find the junior doing the shouting MMSE match with her deaf older patient (many older people don’t know sign language Both laughing trying to understand each other. Tell your juniors about hearing amplifers #medsky !

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

also - when patients are called consumers or clients...!

Someone please explain to me why we have wars again? And what is happening to the brains of those exposed over and over to blasts? Say, in Gaza and Israel? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

#MedSky #OncSky #IDSky Prosp cohorts (China, N=74K): At 8-10 yrs, EBV VCA-IgA was assoc w/: Overall cancer risk ⬆️ 5x Lung cancer 1.8x Liver cancer 1.7x Nasopharyngeal cancer 26x Lymphoma 3.2x Dose-response +. 🔑 We need ways to prevent/treat mono. #DrugDevelopment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was talking with the interpreter after a visit today with a non-English speaking patient. He thanked me for staying kind with a challenging patient, as he often has to sit through not so kind situations and try to remain impartial. No one talks about vicarious trauma for interpreters. #medsky

Government level bargaining power vs private industry collusion with shareholders in government. #medsky

Ah yes, definitely misery, teenage, and female. Definitely not the complex interplay and understudied factors involved in the transition to adulthood, cyclical hormone fluctuations and their impact on immunity, and the effect of viruses on that highly dynamic state.

So President Trump is threatening 200% tariffs on Australian imported pharmaceuticals (including plasma) because apparently having immense bargaining power (ie the government doing the entirety of drug price negotiation rather than private insurance companies) is 'anticompetitive'.

Happy Medicare rorts season! Except this time it's not $8 billion, it's now $10 billion we're allegedly rorting, claimed by yet another organisation with a conflict of interest. How about we re-regulate practices back to clinicians instead of big business, a la pre-Howard era? #ausmedsky

Just your semi regular reminder that if you're 50 and above, heck, even earlier if you like, to go and get your hearing tested. And if required, get the damn hearing aids and put your ego in the bin about it. Your brain will thank you. #dementia #medsky #longevity #bluesky

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

Medicare altering item criteria to effectively say make an initial management plan for a complex patient and try to plan for different outcomes, but don't intend to follow them because if you do intend to follow them up you can't bill the followup code, you can only use the shorter time codes and...

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

I have now played so much Roblox with the kids since Covid that I have achieved billionaire status in multiple games so go around distributing my wealth for free to players just starting out. Can't get rid of it fast enough. 🤷‍♀️

Great read, especially if you live in Melbourne. We have a huge cohort of migrants who built this city. We have our food and culture and prosperity in many ways largely because of them. Many never learned to read and write, to this day. neoskosmos.com/en/2025/06/1...

There's an episode of Star Trek TNG in S6 where a talented peacemaker travels with his 'old senile crazy' mother. Turns out Mum is actually his 30 year old partner to whom he has telepathically transferred all of his rage and jealousy so he can give 100% at work. I think about this episode a lot.

You know...if I wanted to lead a world superpower I would hope that as that superpower I could be the one to end wars. Not start them.

Love it how the price of products and services increase with CPI but the people providing those products and services wages don't follow the same. You can't tell me that wages are the cause of inflation when you've got a mismatch like that. **context: hospital parking prices.

It's Independent Bookshop Week. Ways you can support them: -Don't browse a little bookshop, make a mental note of titles, then get them on Amazon. Buy the books then and there! Dare you! -Get them to order books in, they almost always can. -Just march in and present them with a huge bag of money.

Obligatory poster selfie! Come to 212 and chat to me about dementia rehabilitation! #ANZSGM2025

Now Dr Loveland on biomarkers for DLB! Where are we at alpha-synuclein biomarkers? Neurofilament light - neurodegenerate Amyloid and P-tau - Alzheimers GFAP and YKL-40 (astrocytes and glial proteins) - Neuroinflammation.

Now on. Dr Paula Loveland on the fairly recently proposed research criteria of the prodrome of DLB. MCI-LB: core criteria of DLB but MCI rather than dementia. Psych-onset: Late onset psychiatric symptoms Delirium-onset: Recurrent unexplained delirium.

Alright. Donanemab time. Dr Chris Pulle presenting on the TRAILBLAZER-ALZ2 trial re one of the first dementia drugs in a long time. Phase 3 trial. TAU-PET used to include/exclude (mod-high disease included). 78 weeks intervention (plus optional extension) and followed up for 44 weeks.

Hello from #ANZSGM2025 ! Wonderful wonderful Welcome to Country, truth telling and smoking ceremony by Uncle Brendan Kerin. Now hearing an update from Professor Maria Eriksdotter, geriatrician from the Karolinska Institute about quality in dementia care.

If I were the IDF I would be deeply embarrassed that my attempts to control the narrative were thwarted by an email auto-send function. Anyway as always, reposting things the MSM likes to avoid.

Get ready Bluesky. Attending ANZSGM in Sydney in person this year (first time!). I haven’t live tweeted anything since Covid and not sure anyone wants to hear my rants about how we look after older people anymore but #itson #geriatrics #geriatricmedicine #medsky

I was talking about why aggressors rarely respond to therapy with a colleague recently and something they said has stuck with me. "Everyone is the victim when they go to therapy". I think about this a lot now.

Not much for us ageing Xennials at the cons these days (shoutout to Darth Vader on the bass guitar outside) but was delighted to find this AND get it signed by the author, @trnapper.bsky.social ! Thankyou #Ozcoomic-con for another year - the kids loved it. @ozcomic-con.bsky.social

The LNP blaming the Trump effect when they've endorsed everything he said and did and never spoke a word against him....certainly is rich. #auspol

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Sitting with Mum and she is making me look up the backgrounds of our politicians. Reading about Adam Bandt and the topic of his PhD thesis right now, which looked at "the connection between globalisation and the trend of governments to take away peoples' rights by suspending the rule of law". 😮

Just beginning the journey of tween years and social media. We live in a confusing time...right now Rednote is the 'safest' because the censorship is so heavy in the child protection space that it winds up being the best of them all. 🤷‍♀️. The rest just seem to normalise sexual content for kids...

Irish rap band KNEECAP getting censored left right and centre in the US right now, lets contribute to their Spotify listens. 🥰

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

Okay people, I'm looking for some good guests for 3RRR - specifically I'm after people in physics, astronomy, earth sciences, chemistry, meteorology, etc. If you know somebody or you are interested yourself in some science radio DM me. ECRs very welcome. Interviews will be in-studio.

So old timers, we all aware that IRC is back with the kids and conspiracy theorists or no? #socialmedia

The business world craves certainty, which is why we've developed the brilliant game "Pin The Tariffs On The Country" with a world map, a random number generator and a blindfolded intern deciding who gets what. The intern is also drunk.

If you haven't seen the animated movie Flow, I highly recommend it. It was the perfect balm to everything happening in the world right now, in that it takes you far far away from it. 🥰