I'm a selective tyrant. Experienced presenters, sure, ding that bell. On the other hand, students and first-timers? Lots of micro-encouragement and judicious extra time. 🤗

If I were asked as a politician what Australian values mean to me, I would be clear. Being an Australian is about defending the underdog, fighting for unfashionable causes, and protecting the less privileged!!!!!! I don't see any of this in, the LNP, One Nation or LAB.

Fifteen years ago, I was a mum of four who was dying of a brain tumour. I was preparing for a future I did not expect to see. And now, somehow, I am in the middle of my PhD. open.substack.com/pub/julesrob... @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social @lissbee.bsky.social @liangrhea.bsky.social

I have never had a long hospital stay, but I am sure I would be a terrible surgical patient: I would completely lose it if they woke me up during AM rounds, I would refuse NG tubes/central lines/labs, I would never want to ambulate.

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍 I am beside myself with excitement at this news! www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...

I'm putting together a 45 minute workshop & I maintain that the only way to do a really good workshop that responds to the needs of participants is to prepare a lot of material that you're prepared to ditch to roll with the flow. Otherwise it's just a lecture, & you might as well be a recording.

Voting for New Zealand Bug of the Year closes in a few short hours! You don't need to be local to vote. This year I'm team Hellraiser Mite, because every year I pick the freakiest l'il guy I can find and just look at him. bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...

The #DadPodium of the three medallists of the men's double moguls is my favourite moment of #MilanoCortina2026 so far. I hope we get some Mum Podiums too. 🤗♥️

Too many quote posts are jumping to conclusions and badmouthing QLD parents without reading the article. 'Professor Leask said the problem, particularly in regional areas like Cairns, was driven by system strain rather than ideology.' #MedSky 1/3

Question for med students, recent grads, and trainers/supervisors- this is what is taught to students for the first nerve-wracking after-hours shifts as an intern/PGY1/FY1. What else needs to be in there? ('Non-clinical' suggestions also welcome). #MedEd

Unable to sleep in hospital? It's not just a horrible zombie feeling- it increases postop complication rates. 😱 '...each 10-minute reduction in change in total sleep duration was associated with higher odds of Clavien-Dindo grades I and II complications.' #MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

banks +taylor r both stark raving mad !! They have no idea what the situation is in all rural areas. Malaysian,Nigerian,Syrian,Iranian, Singaporean +that list doesn't cover the nationality of nurses,radiographers,porters ect. That's just some of medics 4 3towns 30km apart and all r vital +respected

I've nearly finished my nursing course, and several students i know have been seriously questioning whether they want to continue after their final practical placement. Not to mention the difficulty of finding a graduate training year. The system could definitely be improved.

“Vote for us, we’ll deport all your health care workers!”

I feel sorry for the seat of Farrer. During my cancer treatment, I have been looked after by mostly nurses from overseas! All of them compassionate, caring and extremely capable. What is their problem with this? Just seems like they are racist to the core.

"Well I'm alive, that was a close one and I'm thankful to those who saved me. Still it's a pity my Doctor wasn't white."

You know, I've been receiving treatment for cancer for 8 yrs in 2 major Sydney hospitals. When anyone is administering chemo/ canulating/ drawing blood/ prescribing meds/ recommending treatment/ reading scans etc. I hope it's the BEST person for the job. Could. Not. Care. Less where they were born.

Why the heck would you ban overseas doctors That doesn’t sound sensible at all

I live in Farrer. My GP is Syrian and my specialist is Chinese. I spent some time in hospital last year and was cared for by people from a wide range of backgrounds. It beggars belief that people hold these views. They are utterly destructive and will decimate regional and rural healthcare

So doctors, nurses and healthcare practitioners are the ‘bad’ migrants??? They are making no sense (well less sense than usual)

I’m angry! 👇 Not only is it morally wrong, but surely it is illegal. Do you mean no workers from NZ? England? Ireland? Italy? Not even if they have a working visa, or are Australian citizens? So you want to staff your seat with HC workers who are born here? Hmmm 🤔 I think there is a word for that…

Speaking as a journal editor, the pause in US-based research and parallel rise in AI slop from high income sites means high quality submissions more often come from LMICs. And oh gosh do we have a problem. Too much of this- Reviewer 1: <sensible feedback👍> Reviewer2: <colonialism intensifies👎> 😱

Did someone solve the healthcare worker shortage in rural and regional areas while I wasn't watching? Why would anyone think this is a good idea?

Too many commentators equate 'overseas' with 'non-white' instead of 'non-Indigenous'. Many local students do medical school overseas due to insufficient domestic places. The fix is not 'less overseas doctors' nor 'more domestic places'. It is better workforce retention.

Um... what's not good is when science is used to justify 'right' actions such as slavery, forced sterilisation, and industrial disasters 'for the greater good'. We must remain alert to misuse of science everywhere; this supersedes any simplistic left:right binary.

Went to put the recycling in the bin. Discovered a Tawny Frogmouth.

'...the ruling means transgender men could join WI groups. “That is likely to be far more confronting and alarming for women than a trans woman,” she said. “...we also haven’t been contacted about this and given any guidance... the WI just haven’t thought any of this through properly at all”

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Who is that fabulously enthusiastic and multilingual man doing the announcements onsite at Livigno #MilanoCortina2026? He should get a medal too 🤗🥇

You know when things started to go wrong with in the world? When we stopped carving good puppers onto our furniture.

Celebrating the anniversary of the opening of New Zealands National Museum - Te Papa Tongarewa - with a video filmed by Capital Kiwi. This video features a Kahukiwi woven by my mum, Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, especially for Te Papa

Bottom line: “PRISMA-compliance” can mask questionable practices. For complex evidence, we need better training/oversight, methods + topic expertise, and new synthesis approaches designed for complexity—combining formal tools with interpretive, context-rich judgment. 9/

I tell my residents not to be surprised if patients sometimes a bit grumpy. They aren’t well, probably a bit scared and there’s probably been a machine going bing bong all night plus another confused patient keeping everyone awake

Unable to sleep in hospital? It's not just a horrible zombie feeling- it increases postop complication rates. 😱 '...each 10-minute reduction in change in total sleep duration was associated with higher odds of Clavien-Dindo grades I and II complications.' #MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Question for med students, recent grads, and trainers/supervisors- this is what is taught to students for the first nerve-wracking after-hours shifts as an intern/PGY1/FY1. What else needs to be in there? ('Non-clinical' suggestions also welcome). #MedEd

Post of the day. Love your work, Dr Liang.

"coz paper forms" was not on my 2026 bingo card

10K condoms for 17 days for 3K athletes in the prime of their physical lives = one encounter every 5 days or so. By comparison, the Paris Olympics provided enough condoms (300K) for every athlete to have sex twice a day. Are Italians really that chaste? 🤭

Too many quote posts are jumping to conclusions and badmouthing QLD parents without reading the article. 'Professor Leask said the problem, particularly in regional areas like Cairns, was driven by system strain rather than ideology.' #MedSky 1/3

Here are some sexy Valentine's Day aubergines for anyone who needs to see them. (Much more in alt text😊)

It's predictable how Watson will define 'bad' immigration. Mere hours in power and he wants to leap decades back in time already. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm back - @liangrhea.bsky.social dropped this post on Twitter that reminded me that civil discourse exists on other corners of the internet. Also. I would love to meet a professor of rare moths.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

The Benin Bronzes are going home! 🤗🎉

Her name, Whetū (=star 🌟) is so apt. 🥰

My first knitting in nearly 40 years, to turn some 10mm yarn (too chunky for crochet) into dementia sleeves. Hooray for Youtube instruction videos 🤣. Knitting feels very 'two left thumbs' to me- I'll stick to crochet. 🧶

There may be awful things going on in the world @hobiechick.bsky.social, but Spotlight had rainbow yarn mill-ends on discount, so I'm going to make some more sunshine. 🤗🧶

Horrified at violence in Sydney, but unsurprised- there's a reason NSW police have a tainted presence at Mardi Gras, in Indigeous communities, in mental health spaces- not to mention the unlawful strip searches, even on minors, which went on for YEARS. They have a deeply entrenched culture problem.

The Olafur Eliasson: Presence exhibition at QAGOMA is such a joy for science nerds. It's art first- but underpinned by physics and materials science. Have a look at this illusion of a sun created by mirrors and moiré. It moves as you do 🤯 (video in next post)