I uploaded my submission about improving management of lactational breast abscesses just before 2.00pm. Now the website seems to be overwhelmed and not allowing submissions! Hope it gets fixed quickly!

Independent Media Australia.@indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d ago

My child needed ongoing medical care. Where was my own recovery? A mother’s call to the Senate inquiry into women’s health https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/my-child-needed-ongoing-medical-care-where-was-my-own-recovery-a-mothers-call-to-the-senate-inquiry-into-womens-health/ #AUSpol

Melbourne friends! If you happen to find a Pikachu somewhere between Elizabeth St and MCEC, could you please let me know? It has this tag on it and is one of my 2yo’s favourites. Please spread far and wide to help find it.

New @nejm.org Voices: how I write an introduction to a research manuscript “My first piece of advice…: write your introduction backwards. “My second piece of advice: innovate in your ideas, not in the structure of how you present the ideas.” voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Start Here to Write a Research Introduction Section

A step-by-step guide to writing a concise introduction to a clinical research manuscript

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Working on submission to Senate inquiry into women's health focusing on lactational breast absess Mx. New paper from India - I&D still standard care - "randomised" to I&D or percutaneous suction via "odd-even assignment". Surely surgeons could do a better job of randomisation? tinyurl.com/y38p9dt6

Percutaneous Suction Drain Versus Conventional Incision and Drainage for the Management of Acute Breast Abscess: A Prospective Comparative Study

Background Acute breast abscess is a common surgical condition requiring prompt and effective drainage for optimal resolution. Conventional incision and drainage (I&D), although widely practiced,...

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Working on submission to Senate inquiry into women's health focusing on lactational breast absess Mx. New paper from India - I&D still standard care - "randomised" to I&D or percutaneous suction via "odd-even assignment". Surely surgeons could do a better job of randomisation? tinyurl.com/y38p9dt6

Percutaneous Suction Drain Versus Conventional Incision and Drainage for the Management of Acute Breast Abscess: A Prospective Comparative Study

Background Acute breast abscess is a common surgical condition requiring prompt and effective drainage for optimal resolution. Conventional incision and drainage (I&D), although widely practiced,...

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3rd day of meeting at SAHMRI talking abt human milk! Thanks @CREHumanMilk4PretermInfants

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This Many Years Ago@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 2w ago

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Coming up this week!

Lisa Amir@lisahamir.bsky.social · last mo.

Adelaide event coming up for the CRE in Human Milk Nutrition for Preterm Infants on 30 Sept. I'm giving a keynote address, and lots of presentations by other researchers, and discussion about future work #breastmilk #preterm #NICU

Only 13% of women have hands large enough to play fast octaves on a standard piano vs 76% of men. Smaller-handed pianists get injured more often & blame their bodies instead of the design. String instruments are made in graduated sizes yet the piano is fixed. news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

Research questions piano’s one-size-fits-all keyboard

Only 13 percent of women can comfortably span an octave on a standard piano. Few thought to ask whether the piano was the problem.

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This report is from the UK, but likely to be similar worldwide.

The BMJ@bmj.com · last mo.

Nearly a third of the government’s nutrition advisors still have “significant” ties to the food industry including Coca Cola, Sainsbury’s, and Danone, reveals our new investigation. Despite a new code of conduct banning links to the food industry, members with ties are allowed to remain in post

Finding sturt desert peas 😀

Adelaide event coming up for the CRE in Human Milk Nutrition for Preterm Infants on 30 Sept. I'm giving a keynote address, and lots of presentations by other researchers, and discussion about future work #breastmilk #preterm #NICU

Babies. Photo from my collection - according to the back this is Lance and Fluffel in 1963.

Are you a researcher, organization or government or otherwise interested working towards women's, children's and adolescents' health? Here is a chance to shape future discussions and identify priorities beyond SDG 2030. Join this new initiative by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA & PMNCH: https://bit.ly/4xhwkBU

Happy Wattle Day! Wattle Day is a day of celebration in Australia on the first day of September each year, which is the start of spring. This is the time when many Acacia species (commonly called wattles in Australia) are in flower.

As a teenager, my mother asked her mother to buy "Deo-Dorant". Yes, she'd only read the word.

Bianca Nogrady@biancanogrady.bsky.social · last mo.

Guilty of pronouncing 'hyperbole' to rhyme with 'superbowl'.

#WordsOfToday "Start the day with a review of the completed items from your ToDo list from yesterday to show yourself that you do get stuff done!" Alma Hami Qayimat, 1994 #GetStuffDone #QuotesToLiveBy #WordsToLiveBy #QuotesDaily

Victoria has begun vaccinating about 5,000 little penguins at Phillip Island and St Kilda to protect them against the deadly H5 bird flu, in what is believed to be the world’s largest vaccination program involving wild birds.

Spring fire risk outlook just released by AFAC, in collaboration with state and territory fire agencies and BoM. Red = above average, grey = normal, blue = below average www.afac.com.au/public-resou... Full text at: afacprodpublicstorage.blob.core.windows.net/afac-cdn/fil...

The King Oak - Tullamore, Ireland Wonderful ancient oak, estimated as up to 800 years old Photo: Alan Holly

In the US and Sweden, there’s been a drop in the number of babies receiving the vitamin K injection. But Australia doesn’t collect national data.

Vitamin K shots stop internal bleeding in newborns. So why are some parents refusing them?

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#CochraneDaily On World Lion Day (www.worldanimalprotection.org/our-campaign...), Cochrane CENTRAL in the Cochrane Library contains LION trials in ophthalmology, weight loss, mental health and cancer #Lion #Worldlionday #RCT #CochraneLibrary

World Lion Day

Join us for World Lion Day on August 10th, find out our top lion facts and how the big cat at the top of the animal kingdom needs our help.

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Day trip to Sydney last Friday for #WorldBreastfeedingWeek conference organised by @elaineburns.bsky.social @westernsydneyu.bsky.social Proud supervisor moment: Bianca Blanch won best oral presentation for her talk on realist approach to breastfeeding and the workplace

Designing Trials for and with Breastfeeding Mothers. Breast milk and breastfeeding benefit mother, child, economy and environment, yet breastfeeding rates remain suboptimal globally, and particularly in the UK. Read Sarah's full article here: bit.ly/4wICbjC #WBW2026

Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

My publications on #Medicines and #Breastfeeding can be seen here: www.latrobe.edu.au/jlc/research...

Medicines and breastfeeding

Medicine use for breastfeeding women

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Lisa Amir@lisahamir.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great to meet @catrionawaitt.bsky.social today and discuss research ideas about medications and breastfeeding. How can we improve the evidence and reduce maternal meds as a barrier to breastfeeding? #Melbourne

My publications on #Medicines and #Breastfeeding can be seen here: www.latrobe.edu.au/jlc/research...

Medicines and breastfeeding

Medicine use for breastfeeding women

latrobe.edu.au

Lisa Amir@lisahamir.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great to meet @catrionawaitt.bsky.social today and discuss research ideas about medications and breastfeeding. How can we improve the evidence and reduce maternal meds as a barrier to breastfeeding? #Melbourne

Great to meet @catrionawaitt.bsky.social today and discuss research ideas about medications and breastfeeding. How can we improve the evidence and reduce maternal meds as a barrier to breastfeeding? #Melbourne

How to ensure urban design acts as a public health intervention – rather than threat www.croakey.org/how-to-ensur... #publichealth