Rhea Liang
@liangrhea.bsky.social
General + breast surgeon, MedEd, DiversityAndInclusion, #KnittingLady (IT'S CROCHET). Bond University Clinical Curriculum Lead. Posts own opinion.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Trolls yes, but Twitter also has the BEST anti-trolls 🤣
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Trolls yes, but Twitter also has the BEST anti-trolls 🤣
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To go through minor revisions and then have the editor send out to a whole new round of reviewers is the absolute worst
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
To go through minor revisions and then have the editor send out to a whole new round of reviewers is the absolute worst
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Obviously URGH but Mrs Vinnicombe sounds like a top notch human.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Obviously URGH but Mrs Vinnicombe sounds like a top notch human.
I caught up with a surgical colleague just now who has been through 7 (SEVEN!) rounds of revision with a mid range journal, each one more nitpicky than the last, now involving no fewer than 6 reviewers.
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I caught up with a surgical colleague just now who has been through 7 (SEVEN!) rounds of revision with a mid range journal, each one more nitpicky than the last, now involving no fewer than 6 reviewers.
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
#qualitative research thoughts.
The wording of themes can encode bias. For example, 'the demands of parenthood conflict with work' positions the conflict within an individual.
Why not, for example, 'workplaces are insufficiently adaptable for parents'?
#stance #reflexivity
The wording of themes can encode bias. For example, 'the demands of parenthood conflict with work' positions the conflict within an individual.
Why not, for example, 'workplaces are insufficiently adaptable for parents'?
#stance #reflexivity
a man sitting at a table with the words words do matter on the table
Alt: a man sitting at a table with the caption words do matter
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#qualitative research thoughts.
The wording of themes can encode bias. For example, 'the demands of parenthood conflict with work' positions the conflict within an individual.
Why not, for example, 'workplaces are insufficiently adaptable for parents'?
#stance #reflexivity
The wording of themes can encode bias. For example, 'the demands of parenthood conflict with work' positions the conflict within an individual.
Why not, for example, 'workplaces are insufficiently adaptable for parents'?
#stance #reflexivity
Astonishing light just now on the Gold Coast. A combination of sunset and a storm rolling in from right of picture. 😍
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Astonishing light just now on the Gold Coast. A combination of sunset and a storm rolling in from right of picture. 😍
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People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
'...spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts' is... quite the opening sentence 😱.
May we all be like Mrs Vinnicombe, who 'shouted 'what the f**k are you doing' at Dr Johnson.'
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
May we all be like Mrs Vinnicombe, who 'shouted 'what the f**k are you doing' at Dr Johnson.'
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Doctor who committed lewd act at work party is suspended for a year
A consultant pathologist has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months after spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts.
Mark...
www.bmj.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
'...spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts' is... quite the opening sentence 😱.
May we all be like Mrs Vinnicombe, who 'shouted 'what the f**k are you doing' at Dr Johnson.'
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
May we all be like Mrs Vinnicombe, who 'shouted 'what the f**k are you doing' at Dr Johnson.'
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
'He'?
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
'He'?
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
We need a Posts Without Context aggregator on this site 🤣🌭
I have cooked hotdogs in an autoclave. It's very hard to get anything sterilized after that to not smell like hotdogs.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We need a Posts Without Context aggregator on this site 🤣🌭
Amidst debates about physician associates and similar roles that supplant trained doctors and increase inequity, it's interesting to consider how roles could be developed that do the opposite. Diagnostic dumpling delivery isn't perfect- but it's a start.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
From dumplings to diagnoses: how China’s delivery drivers became healthcare heroes
China’s “barefoot doctors” have expanded since the pandemic—with a modern twist: food delivery drivers now doubling as health workers. Sally Howard and Iris Liuyi report
In 2020, Mr Huang was working...
www.bmj.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Amidst debates about physician associates and similar roles that supplant trained doctors and increase inequity, it's interesting to consider how roles could be developed that do the opposite. Diagnostic dumpling delivery isn't perfect- but it's a start.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Gosh. Thursday. 😭
Incredible poem in BMJ Emergency Medicine from QLD-based registrar Dr Kirsty Whitmore.
Incredible poem in BMJ Emergency Medicine from QLD-based registrar Dr Kirsty Whitmore.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Gosh. Thursday. 😭
Incredible poem in BMJ Emergency Medicine from QLD-based registrar Dr Kirsty Whitmore.
Incredible poem in BMJ Emergency Medicine from QLD-based registrar Dr Kirsty Whitmore.
People get so negative about more electrons 🤭
(The replies to this post are physics nerd perfection. 🤣)
(The replies to this post are physics nerd perfection. 🤣)
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
People get so negative about more electrons 🤭
(The replies to this post are physics nerd perfection. 🤣)
(The replies to this post are physics nerd perfection. 🤣)
Seriously though, maybe some immigrant cows would improve the butter. On the left, homebrand Aussie pasture-fed butter, packed with natural beta-carotene (vitamin A). On the right, imported US butter, packed with goodness only knows what. Not beta carotene, that's for sure. 😱
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Seriously though, maybe some immigrant cows would improve the butter. On the left, homebrand Aussie pasture-fed butter, packed with natural beta-carotene (vitamin A). On the right, imported US butter, packed with goodness only knows what. Not beta carotene, that's for sure. 😱
So, if pears are in season and rhubarb is also in season... obviously it's time for pear and rhubarb crumble cake. Crunchy oat crumble, tart pear and rhubarb, and a vanilla pound cake base. 😋
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
So, if pears are in season and rhubarb is also in season... obviously it's time for pear and rhubarb crumble cake. Crunchy oat crumble, tart pear and rhubarb, and a vanilla pound cake base. 😋
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I had the good fortune once of serving with a man who heard an insult to a woman colleague from the man in leadership.
He said, in his usual calm voice, “You know how you just said (insult)?”
Took a beat.
“Never say that again.”
He said, in his usual calm voice, “You know how you just said (insult)?”
Took a beat.
“Never say that again.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I had the good fortune once of serving with a man who heard an insult to a woman colleague from the man in leadership.
He said, in his usual calm voice, “You know how you just said (insult)?”
Took a beat.
“Never say that again.”
He said, in his usual calm voice, “You know how you just said (insult)?”
Took a beat.
“Never say that again.”
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It’s the time of the year (Summer) when the Pōhutukawa trees (also called New Zealand Christmas Trees) begin to bloom. Most bloom brilliant red flowers but this gorgeous beast blooms bright yellow.
This is how it looked this afternoon. 💛
This is how it looked this afternoon. 💛
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It’s the time of the year (Summer) when the Pōhutukawa trees (also called New Zealand Christmas Trees) begin to bloom. Most bloom brilliant red flowers but this gorgeous beast blooms bright yellow.
This is how it looked this afternoon. 💛
This is how it looked this afternoon. 💛
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Waiting for a specialist who is running late… will he apologise? 🤔😅
Trying to be normal…
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trying to be normal…
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Sorry for Holding You Up”: Surgeons’ Apologies for Lateness in Clinic Settings
Doctors running late may convey a lack of respect which can impair the therapeutic relationship. This study examines how surgeons address lateness in consultations with patients. We analyzed 52 con...
www.tandfonline.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Waiting for a specialist who is running late… will he apologise? 🤔😅
Trying to be normal…
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trying to be normal…
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Possibly a typo from Nine news, but it's kinda apt 🤣
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Possibly a typo from Nine news, but it's kinda apt 🤣
This is astonishing. We routinely teach about venous *neck* pulsation/Lancisi sign in tricuspid regurg, but... all the way up to her forehead?! Is there any blood left in the heart to go antegrade? 🤯
#MedEd #MedSky
#MedEd #MedSky
An 89-year-old woman with severe tricuspid regurgitation presented with fever and cough after a recent diagnosis of influenza. Prominent forehead venous pulsations were noted on examination. Read the full case details: nej.md/3LtKUn3
#MedSky #CardioSky
#MedSky #CardioSky
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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'*Little* words, *little* statements make such a huge impact'. 👏
Fabulous podcast from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Miss Maria Satchi, Miss Tharani Nitkunan and Miss Tina Rashid with advice for everyone (not just women).
#MedSky #GenderEquity #ILookLikeASurgeon
Fabulous podcast from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Miss Maria Satchi, Miss Tharani Nitkunan and Miss Tina Rashid with advice for everyone (not just women).
#MedSky #GenderEquity #ILookLikeASurgeon
Leadership, Surgery & Motherhood
open.spotify.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
'*Little* words, *little* statements make such a huge impact'. 👏
Fabulous podcast from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Miss Maria Satchi, Miss Tharani Nitkunan and Miss Tina Rashid with advice for everyone (not just women).
#MedSky #GenderEquity #ILookLikeASurgeon
Fabulous podcast from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Miss Maria Satchi, Miss Tharani Nitkunan and Miss Tina Rashid with advice for everyone (not just women).
#MedSky #GenderEquity #ILookLikeASurgeon
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THIS is how youth crime should be tackled. Kids don't need curfews, youth detention, tougher sentences, withdrawal of pill testing etc. They need a safe night-time place where they can get a meal- possibly their only meal all day- with support and conversation and good near-peer role models.
This is the world I want to see for Australian kids, particularly indigenous kids where stats show they have a greater chance of being in prison that being in further education. That's on us, and that needs to change. Let them eat cake.
fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social
fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social
Fitzroy Crossing community believes Night Space has broken cycle of crime
As Kununurra battles with a surge in youth crime, residents in Fitzroy Crossing are celebrating their success in reducing rates through a community-led initiative.
www.abc.net.au
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
THIS is how youth crime should be tackled. Kids don't need curfews, youth detention, tougher sentences, withdrawal of pill testing etc. They need a safe night-time place where they can get a meal- possibly their only meal all day- with support and conversation and good near-peer role models.