Rhea Liang
@liangrhea.bsky.social
General + breast surgeon, MedEd, DiversityAndInclusion, #KnittingLady (IT'S CROCHET). Bond University Clinical Curriculum Lead. Posts own opinion.
#ANZPMEF sure knows how to throw a masquerade gala dinner. What a incredible setting. My mask is very bling-y (thanks Spotlight!) and it's not even the most sparkly thing here 🤩
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#ANZPMEF sure knows how to throw a masquerade gala dinner. What a incredible setting. My mask is very bling-y (thanks Spotlight!) and it's not even the most sparkly thing here 🤩
'Med school is a walk in the park if the park is on fire and you're being chased by wild dogs'. Michelle Leech, president of Medical Deans ANZ notes multiple factors causing 60% of medical students to be on Centrelink. The success of widening access, needs to be matched by SUPPORT. #MedEd #MedSky
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A/Prof Leonnie Griffiths presents fab qualitative work about feedback in #MedEd and notes that we pay insufficient attention to the emotional and temporal content of feedback. 'Lack of insight' might very well be an appropriate, self-aware pause to allow sense-making. #ANZPMEF
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Christopher Watling #ANZPMEF talks about the unease of supervisors doing both assessment and feedback; how high-frequency tools like EPAs can drive poor quality; and the need for lots of 'no-stakes time' to avoid CBME-based programs feeling like an extended job interview. #MedSky #MedEd
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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My partner @dylangriff10.bsky.social recently had to go to the ED at Fiona Stanley and had only good things to say about his experience. Not surprised that things are organised well behind the scenes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
My partner @dylangriff10.bsky.social recently had to go to the ED at Fiona Stanley and had only good things to say about his experience. Not surprised that things are organised well behind the scenes.
Dr Anvesh Chalasani, PGY2, describes initiatives such as Low Paging Hour to improve resident nutrition as a human factors QI intervention. Still much to be done however- residents self-rated their nutrition only 6.6/10 on non surgical and 5.4/10 on surgical terms.
#ANZPMEF
#ANZPMEF
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Dr Anvesh Chalasani, PGY2, describes initiatives such as Low Paging Hour to improve resident nutrition as a human factors QI intervention. Still much to be done however- residents self-rated their nutrition only 6.6/10 on non surgical and 5.4/10 on surgical terms.
#ANZPMEF
#ANZPMEF
Rory Trawber reports on co-locating med ed, workforce (HR) and strategy and service (research and QI) into a single Doctor Support Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital Perth. A 'Never Say No' leave policy! Paid in-person attendance at Grand Rounds! Better doctor retention! 🎉
#ANZPMEF
#ANZPMEF
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Rory Trawber reports on co-locating med ed, workforce (HR) and strategy and service (research and QI) into a single Doctor Support Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital Perth. A 'Never Say No' leave policy! Paid in-person attendance at Grand Rounds! Better doctor retention! 🎉
#ANZPMEF
#ANZPMEF
Prof Phillippa Poole compares graduation intention vs actual workforce, with surgery over- and GP under-subscribed. However, PhD of Antonia Verstappen, longitudinally tracking individual drs, busts the idea of a 'pipeline' and highlights pitfalls of selecting too early.
#ANZPMEF25 #MedSky
#ANZPMEF25 #MedSky
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Prof Phillippa Poole compares graduation intention vs actual workforce, with surgery over- and GP under-subscribed. However, PhD of Antonia Verstappen, longitudinally tracking individual drs, busts the idea of a 'pipeline' and highlights pitfalls of selecting too early.
#ANZPMEF25 #MedSky
#ANZPMEF25 #MedSky
Opening keynote at #ANZPMEF25 by Prof Sheona Macleod paints a level of support in the NHS for neurodiverse doctors that is almost unimaginable in Australia. Neurodiversity *assessments* provided by the majority of trusts! (In Oz we all pay $$$ privately). #MedSky #MedEd
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Opening keynote at #ANZPMEF25 by Prof Sheona Macleod paints a level of support in the NHS for neurodiverse doctors that is almost unimaginable in Australia. Neurodiversity *assessments* provided by the majority of trusts! (In Oz we all pay $$$ privately). #MedSky #MedEd
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I don’t quite know why we are #snailposting today but it seems to ba a ‘thing’ so here goes:
Trochulus hispidus the Hairy #Snail seen in Dudley, UK.
I haven’t seen them often so I was excited to see this little they/them moving across a limestone quarry.
#gastropod
#mollusc
Trochulus hispidus the Hairy #Snail seen in Dudley, UK.
I haven’t seen them often so I was excited to see this little they/them moving across a limestone quarry.
#gastropod
#mollusc
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I don’t quite know why we are #snailposting today but it seems to ba a ‘thing’ so here goes:
Trochulus hispidus the Hairy #Snail seen in Dudley, UK.
I haven’t seen them often so I was excited to see this little they/them moving across a limestone quarry.
#gastropod
#mollusc
Trochulus hispidus the Hairy #Snail seen in Dudley, UK.
I haven’t seen them often so I was excited to see this little they/them moving across a limestone quarry.
#gastropod
#mollusc
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Ping @liangrhea.bsky.social. Seems like your kinda problem.
Anyone else wide awake and panicked only to discover the thing scaring you from across the room in the middle of the night was the #glowinthedarkyarn that does, in fact, glow in the dark?
#crochet is not for the faint of heart.
Who needs horror movies?
#crochet is not for the faint of heart.
Who needs horror movies?
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Ping @liangrhea.bsky.social. Seems like your kinda problem.
Mmmm, fresh-baked bread smell. I do a pretty good impression of 'trad wife'. 🤣
(Laucke multigrain mix + extra cup of buckwhear flour + 8g dried yeast, double-risen in the usual way then braided into a pull-apart loaf).
(Laucke multigrain mix + extra cup of buckwhear flour + 8g dried yeast, double-risen in the usual way then braided into a pull-apart loaf).
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Mmmm, fresh-baked bread smell. I do a pretty good impression of 'trad wife'. 🤣
(Laucke multigrain mix + extra cup of buckwhear flour + 8g dried yeast, double-risen in the usual way then braided into a pull-apart loaf).
(Laucke multigrain mix + extra cup of buckwhear flour + 8g dried yeast, double-risen in the usual way then braided into a pull-apart loaf).
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When I was doing my DPhil in Oxford I went to a talk he gave. It was excruciating: in content & his then views. A senior colleague said “you can only get away with this if you have a Nobel prize” I’ve met other Nobel Laureates who were amazing intellects but also humble: I’d hope he was an outlier
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
When I was doing my DPhil in Oxford I went to a talk he gave. It was excruciating: in content & his then views. A senior colleague said “you can only get away with this if you have a Nobel prize” I’ve met other Nobel Laureates who were amazing intellects but also humble: I’d hope he was an outlier
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You need a lot less than a nobel prize to get away with a lot of bigotry in science even today. It's a myth to pretend like it's just happens because of some imagined exceptional genius outweighs it. Neither is half as true as they think and we lose out on the geniuses they push away.
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
You need a lot less than a nobel prize to get away with a lot of bigotry in science even today. It's a myth to pretend like it's just happens because of some imagined exceptional genius outweighs it. Neither is half as true as they think and we lose out on the geniuses they push away.
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Certainly learnt to be resilient, creative & persistent in an environment where you were tolerated but not ‘enabled to thrive’ . The idea that Ginger Roger’s did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backwards & in high heels resonated, as well as this quote👇🏽. Also defined my own view of ‘success’
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Certainly learnt to be resilient, creative & persistent in an environment where you were tolerated but not ‘enabled to thrive’ . The idea that Ginger Roger’s did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backwards & in high heels resonated, as well as this quote👇🏽. Also defined my own view of ‘success’
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“Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed”
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed”
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And wasn't it Rosalind Franklin who actually did most of discovery? And then 3 men got the Nobel prize?
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
And wasn't it Rosalind Franklin who actually did most of discovery? And then 3 men got the Nobel prize?
This discovery eventually won the Eureka Award. The initial response of the HOD is such a powerful example of how systemic sexism bakes bias into any selection process based on conventional measures of 'merit' or 'achievement'.
I recall writing to my head of institution once, that our team, led by my female colleague and I, had made a fundamental discovery that advance knowledge on how ALL flowering plants function. His response? 🦗
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This discovery eventually won the Eureka Award. The initial response of the HOD is such a powerful example of how systemic sexism bakes bias into any selection process based on conventional measures of 'merit' or 'achievement'.
Utterly tragic- not helped by Nine news editors' dreadful double negative that implies blame. (To be clear- there is NO blame for train driver or parents at this time). 💔
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Utterly tragic- not helped by Nine news editors' dreadful double negative that implies blame. (To be clear- there is NO blame for train driver or parents at this time). 💔
Yikes. Time to batten the hatches... 😱⛈️
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Yikes. Time to batten the hatches... 😱⛈️
Oh boy. Just wait until the 'No More Woke Woollies' Facebook pages get a load of this 🤣.
💪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖤💛❤️
💪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖤💛❤️
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Oh boy. Just wait until the 'No More Woke Woollies' Facebook pages get a load of this 🤣.
💪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖤💛❤️
💪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖤💛❤️
For those saying James Watson's intellectual brilliance made his bigotry an acceptable trade-off, might I point out (Exhibit A below 👇) that one brain ought to be easily big enough to be a genius AND a decent human being. We don't call bigotry 'small mindedness' for nothing.
"The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
~ Albert Einstein
~ Albert Einstein
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
For those saying James Watson's intellectual brilliance made his bigotry an acceptable trade-off, might I point out (Exhibit A below 👇) that one brain ought to be easily big enough to be a genius AND a decent human being. We don't call bigotry 'small mindedness' for nothing.
I love that bubble tea toppings are now available online, because they're still scarce in Asian groceries. Cheaper to make our own bubble teas, and more convenient- and we can use fruit from our garden, and have the ice and sugar levels just how we like.
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I love that bubble tea toppings are now available online, because they're still scarce in Asian groceries. Cheaper to make our own bubble teas, and more convenient- and we can use fruit from our garden, and have the ice and sugar levels just how we like.
An older male surgeon, spotting my bag at a student career event, said 'Oh! do you want to be a surgeon?' and tried to tell me why it's a great choice. 🤣
That's not a response I ever got back in the 90s. We *are* making progress on gender equity. #ILookLikeASurgeon 🤗
That's not a response I ever got back in the 90s. We *are* making progress on gender equity. #ILookLikeASurgeon 🤗
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
An older male surgeon, spotting my bag at a student career event, said 'Oh! do you want to be a surgeon?' and tried to tell me why it's a great choice. 🤣
That's not a response I ever got back in the 90s. We *are* making progress on gender equity. #ILookLikeASurgeon 🤗
That's not a response I ever got back in the 90s. We *are* making progress on gender equity. #ILookLikeASurgeon 🤗