I know this pic has been posted by others already, but... what on earth @rcphysicians.bsky.social?! 😱 #NoMoreManels #DiversityAndInclusion
Lisa Amir
@lisahamir.bsky.social
Research Professor at the Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne Editor-in-Chief, International Breastfeeding Journal
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 · 2w agoMy 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,...
tinyurl.com
3rd day of meeting at SAHMRI talking abt human milk! Thanks @CREHumanMilk4PretermInfants
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This Many Years Ago@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 4w ago64 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 🗃️
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
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 · 2mo agoGuilty 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
"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 agoAcademics 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
latrobe.edu.au
Lisa Amir@lisahamir.bsky.social · 3mo agoGreat 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 agoGreat 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