#HappyNewYear! 2026 is the year to connect, collaborate and push surgical innovation forward. Start with our Future of Surgery Festival, where bold ideas take centre stage. Book now to save up to £100 on tickets: https://ow.ly/e2sL50XNAAP#HappyNewYear

Same, Michele (@artologica.net), same. ✊️ #Teamwork

That most iconic of trees In that most iconic of States A flaming masterpiece of nature #MyHome Gold Coast #GC Queensland #Qld Australia

Thank you to all the lovely folks acknowledging my culture in their New Year wishes, but- hold your horses! 🤣 It isn't the Year of the Horse until Chinese New Year, beginning Feb 17 this (Gregorian) year. Until then, we're still in a Snake year.

Wow, never thought I'd see the USA replicate the White Australia policy circa 1900-1970. It was a failure btw, causing social injustice and hampering progress in a multitude of areas (political, economic, education, cuisine...) Those who fail to study history etc etc 👀

the word of 2026 is absolutely 'slopaganda' and I love it, I'm glad we have this word that's useful, I will get a lot of mileage out of this word

Ideas for 2026 #4 Shorten supply chains Local food. Local trades. Local services. This cuts emissions, keeps money circulating locally, and builds resilience.

New Year, new pav

I feel like Australians are just fucking with us, this is a real product??

Starting the New Year by slaying that old myth about not re-boiling water for tea because of oxygen 🫖. The bubbling of boiling water is water in gaseous phase. It's actually rather hard to completely remove dissolved oxygen from water, let alone the bound O in H₂O.

Shout out to @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social for her richly deserved OBE!!

One last publication for 2025! I'm so proud of the interdisciplinary team that provided robust debate on this umbrella review of the effects of Enhanced Recovery on SSI and 30 day readmission. Team psychological safety = better research. #MedSky

Adieu 2025, It was awful, hit on all fronts but I survived thanks to kindness, encouragement, good will & humour. It's what you do next that matters #Resilience

You can just imagine the thought process - should I make the entire map smaller to squeeze NZ in? Nah, I'll just shuffle it around, it'll be fine

Countries and car keys. Never staying where you left them.

Aotearoa NZ is *where* now?! 😱🤣

Aotearoa NZ is *where* now?! 😱🤣

This year we launched a two-year project aimed celebrate women in surgery. The project launched with an exhibition exploring the history of women in surgery and a commissioned artwork representing eleven remarkable surgeons. You can read more here: surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/a...

It's lovely to know that humans can still be good and wonderful in this world. And also that technology is a marvel when used properly. 🤗

It's easy to forget Xmas lasts 12 days when shops replace it so quickly with New Year paraphernalia. But anyway, it is the fifth day of Xmas today, which means we all have an excuse to spontaneously break out with FIVE GOLDEN RIIIIIIIINGS 🎶🎵🤣🎁 (and the rest...)

No-one's perfect. And so, even though the later racism of Bardot was regrettable, I will always admire the barriers she broke for women, and her animal rights work. ♥️

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Ok, Auckland, that was a pretty good sunset. Good job.

So can we start valuing educators more now, or? 😉 #MedEd

So MIL has bought tickets for a family outing to a BeeGees tribute band tonight and we've just discovered she HAS NO IDEA WHO THE BEEGEES ARE. This is going to be the cutest thing ever. 🤣

Delighted for England, but seriously, can the tests be more 'testy' and less like an augmented ODI? 🥴 🏏 #Ashes

A thread of observations while giftwrapping for charity, in the style of @georgepenney.bsky.social. A Māori family with kids speak to each other in te reo (Māori language) while getting gifts wrapped. I attempt 'Meri Kirihimete'... botch it, and still get 'chur!', big smiles, and 👍👍👍 back. 1/-

Oooh #MedEd #SurgEd community, look at this! The @surgicaleducation.bsky.social conference in Atlanta, Georgia, April 28-30, 2026 has the excellent theme Family, Fun and the Future *and* it has a free onsite childcare program. More- www.surgicaleducation.com/little-scrub...

If you want to contribute from Australia, here's an excellent non-religious charity that makes a very practical difference- orangesky.org.au

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Today’s pumpkin pie—I’m terrible at baking aesthetics but I tried!

I’ve noticed this too! Also you can buy secondhand red things or green things at any point in the year and only wear them together in December. Better living everyone.

Well this is a rather lovely touch of humanity - merry Xmas Rhea

One thing I miss about the Aussie Xmas is the adorable kitsch of Xmas jumpers. It's too hot here- we'd all get heatstroke in them. But what would be a nice equivalent? Xmas togs? 🏖🩱

A thread of observations while giftwrapping for charity, in the style of @georgepenney.bsky.social. A Māori family with kids speak to each other in te reo (Māori language) while getting gifts wrapped. I attempt 'Meri Kirihimete'... botch it, and still get 'chur!', big smiles, and 👍👍👍 back. 1/-

Some great examples are all of the names for a narrow path between houses. urbanformation.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/m...

This is fantastic but needs correlation outside of W Yorkshire.

Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!

A very tawny Christmas to you all!

This is my dad’s Christmas tree. He has been using the same live tree for more than 20 years. It’s in a pot on wheels and it goes back to the yard after Christmas.

A 'full send'! We need to correlate RUDOLPHS in Australasian terminology. 🤣 #MedSky

Poinsettias and holly wouldn't survive in the tropics, but we have Xmas reds that are just as showy. Wishing everyone a wonderful Xmas! 🤗🎁 #Gardening #GardenSky

Astonishing light on the GC as storms roll just north of us. There are lightning flashes and nearly continuous thunder, but overhead is just a clear sky bathed in an orange glow that lights up the trunks of the eucalypts.

how I'm turning up to the Bluesky Xmas party

[11/n] This is about whether or not the government has the right to your data. When someone argues that sex is binary and that biology is simple, the argument isn't ACTUALLY about biology. It's about if the government has a right to look down your pants, or in your blood, or collect your DNA...

And the finest Christmas tradition has arrived — #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is today! 1) Follow @rhodri.biz 2) post your pics of your makeshift Christmas Eve sleeping arrangements and 3) give money to the homeless @centrepointuk.bsky.social

'“Needless to say, his own ‘patriots’ seemed to use the word ‘rhetorical rape’ beyond its academic or literal meaning,” she said.' Good. Bail denied. Neo-Nazi using racist, sexist threats will spend Xmas in jail.

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

“These are young people living in abject misery and severe distress, unable to lead normal lives and socialise with their peers at a crucial time as they are developing into adults…” Denying healthcare to young trans people is abuse. Trans folk deserve so much better from our politicians and media.