Catriana McKie
@catrianam.bsky.social
Engineer, breastfeeding counsellor, citizen, human (she/her) 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🏁🏎🚀🛰🤱🕷️ 🏳️🌈💙
Dear @the-rsc.bsky.social. My teenage Macbeth superfan daughter & I are still buzzing after seeing the brilliant Macbeth performance Monday night at The Other Place. We’d go again in a heartbeat. My daughter did this artwork, which Sam Heughan was gracious enough to sign afterwards 🤩 👑 🗡️
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Dear @the-rsc.bsky.social. My teenage Macbeth superfan daughter & I are still buzzing after seeing the brilliant Macbeth performance Monday night at The Other Place. We’d go again in a heartbeat. My daughter did this artwork, which Sam Heughan was gracious enough to sign afterwards 🤩 👑 🗡️
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
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And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
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February 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
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We're back after lunch for the last session, welcomed back by @ndzitina.bsky.social, chair for this afternoon #BFConf
She's had us all on our feet applauding the Baby Friendly team, & ourselves for the work that we do 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
You can see some of Ernestine's work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs8C...
She's had us all on our feet applauding the Baby Friendly team, & ourselves for the work that we do 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
You can see some of Ernestine's work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs8C...
Breastfeeding: Not on the Agenda
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November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're back after lunch for the last session, welcomed back by @ndzitina.bsky.social, chair for this afternoon #BFConf
She's had us all on our feet applauding the Baby Friendly team, & ourselves for the work that we do 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
You can see some of Ernestine's work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs8C...
She's had us all on our feet applauding the Baby Friendly team, & ourselves for the work that we do 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
You can see some of Ernestine's work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs8C...
Illiyin's talk was so moving and powerful. We all have lots of work to do here!
Next up is Illiyin Morrison speaking on Racism, perinatal choice and body autonomy
Morrison is a specialist perinatal trauma midwife, debrief faciitator, anti racism educator, author (and baker on series 15 of GBBO 🍰)
Morrison is a specialist perinatal trauma midwife, debrief faciitator, anti racism educator, author (and baker on series 15 of GBBO 🍰)
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Illiyin's talk was so moving and powerful. We all have lots of work to do here!
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Welcome back after the break. Next up is @drnaomidowibclc.bsky.social speaking about “It’s Not Thrush!”: Challenging the Candida Narrative
Naomi is a GP, IBCLC and founding member of MiLC - Medics' Lactation Community #BFConf
Naomi is a GP, IBCLC and founding member of MiLC - Medics' Lactation Community #BFConf
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Welcome back after the break. Next up is @drnaomidowibclc.bsky.social speaking about “It’s Not Thrush!”: Challenging the Candida Narrative
Naomi is a GP, IBCLC and founding member of MiLC - Medics' Lactation Community #BFConf
Naomi is a GP, IBCLC and founding member of MiLC - Medics' Lactation Community #BFConf
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Next up we are hearing from @philbakernz.bsky.social on The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress #BFConf
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Next up we are hearing from @philbakernz.bsky.social on The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress #BFConf
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Good morning from Day 2 of the @unicef-uk.bsky.social Baby Friendly Initiative Annual Conference in Telford. @vicky-thomas.bsky.social welcomed us back to this very special conference, describing it as a combination of an academic symposium, a hen party and a therapy session 😄 #BFConf
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Good morning from Day 2 of the @unicef-uk.bsky.social Baby Friendly Initiative Annual Conference in Telford. @vicky-thomas.bsky.social welcomed us back to this very special conference, describing it as a combination of an academic symposium, a hen party and a therapy session 😄 #BFConf
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Back from the break for the last session of the day with Britta Stordal speaking about how Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer, a call for action in high income countries with low rates of breastfeeding #BFConf
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Back from the break for the last session of the day with Britta Stordal speaking about how Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer, a call for action in high income countries with low rates of breastfeeding #BFConf
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Next Yafa Ajweh and Reem Al Soufi of the Gaza Infant Nutrition Alliance (GINA) will be speaking about S-upporting, protecting & sustaining breastfeeding in conflict zones
Al Soufi begins by speaking about how bf her daughter in October 2023 moved her to work to support other parents #BFConf
Al Soufi begins by speaking about how bf her daughter in October 2023 moved her to work to support other parents #BFConf
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Next Yafa Ajweh and Reem Al Soufi of the Gaza Infant Nutrition Alliance (GINA) will be speaking about S-upporting, protecting & sustaining breastfeeding in conflict zones
Al Soufi begins by speaking about how bf her daughter in October 2023 moved her to work to support other parents #BFConf
Al Soufi begins by speaking about how bf her daughter in October 2023 moved her to work to support other parents #BFConf
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Welcome back after lunch. Vicky Sibson of @1stepsnutrition.bsky.social is chairing this afternoon's session. Karen Read is speaking now about 10 years of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Neonatal Standards #BFConf
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Welcome back after lunch. Vicky Sibson of @1stepsnutrition.bsky.social is chairing this afternoon's session. Karen Read is speaking now about 10 years of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Neonatal Standards #BFConf
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Welcome back to the 2025 Baby Friendly Conference #BFConf. We're hearing now from @aaloysius.bsky.social who is speaking now about what supports mothers of very preterm babies to start & continue breastmilk feeding in neonatal units
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Welcome back to the 2025 Baby Friendly Conference #BFConf. We're hearing now from @aaloysius.bsky.social who is speaking now about what supports mothers of very preterm babies to start & continue breastmilk feeding in neonatal units
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Now morning chair @profamcf.bsky.social is introducing Anna Byrom from @all4maternity.bsky.social whose talk is called From Ravines to Relationships:
Building bridges with Baby Friendly
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Now morning chair @profamcf.bsky.social is introducing Anna Byrom from @all4maternity.bsky.social whose talk is called From Ravines to Relationships:
Building bridges with Baby Friendly
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Good morning from the 2025 Baby Friendly Conference in Telford. Philip Goodwin, head of @unicef-uk.bsky.social is welcoming everyone to the largest ever #BFConf
Goodwin: Globally UNICEF is looking to strengthen systems that protect children globally. We must ensure children's rights are upheld
Goodwin: Globally UNICEF is looking to strengthen systems that protect children globally. We must ensure children's rights are upheld
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Good morning from the 2025 Baby Friendly Conference in Telford. Philip Goodwin, head of @unicef-uk.bsky.social is welcoming everyone to the largest ever #BFConf
Goodwin: Globally UNICEF is looking to strengthen systems that protect children globally. We must ensure children's rights are upheld
Goodwin: Globally UNICEF is looking to strengthen systems that protect children globally. We must ensure children's rights are upheld
I'm looking forward to being back in-person at Baby Friendly and helping people follow along! #BFConf
It's this week! @unicef-uk.bsky.social's Annual #BabyFriendlyConference is back in person in Telford Wednesday & Thursday at the #TelfordInternationalCentre. If you can't make it follow along here & with #BFConf. Timetable www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly...
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'm looking forward to being back in-person at Baby Friendly and helping people follow along! #BFConf
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From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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CHT co-founder Tristan Harris returns to "The Daily Show" for an incisive conversation about the reckless AI path we're on, driven by the race to achieve market dominance: "This is an insane way to roll out a technology."
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo
Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show
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October 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
CHT co-founder Tristan Harris returns to "The Daily Show" for an incisive conversation about the reckless AI path we're on, driven by the race to achieve market dominance: "This is an insane way to roll out a technology."
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo
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You gotta give ‘em hop.
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
You gotta give ‘em hop.
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History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.
September 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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🏳️⚧️ Trans people, and the queer community, deserve a regulator that stands up for their rights - free from interference or political bias.
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-request-uncovers-gender-critical-bias-within-ehrc/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-request-uncovers-gender-critical-bias-within-ehrc/
Freedom of information request uncovers gender critical bias within EHRC
A new investigation has revealed significant lobbying efforts by gender critical groups.
www.wearequeeraf.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🏳️⚧️ Trans people, and the queer community, deserve a regulator that stands up for their rights - free from interference or political bias.
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-request-uncovers-gender-critical-bias-within-ehrc/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-request-uncovers-gender-critical-bias-within-ehrc/
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Good afternoon from the APPG on Infant Feeding and Inequalities chaired by @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social. Today we're hearing from @helengray.bsky.social about the 2024 WBTi report Action on feeding babies in the UK, a follow up from the first, baseline report from 2016 #APPGIFI
June 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Good afternoon from the APPG on Infant Feeding and Inequalities chaired by @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social. Today we're hearing from @helengray.bsky.social about the 2024 WBTi report Action on feeding babies in the UK, a follow up from the first, baseline report from 2016 #APPGIFI
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
July 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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