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Christopher Chong
@arthwritethis.bsky.social
PhD @ work (Synthetic nanomaterials for cartilage tissue engineering). @LIMSLTU La Trobe University, AUS.

Pedestrian🚶🏻ø 🎋
@ACMD
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Launceston, Tasmania.
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Cataract Gorge, Launceston, Tasmania

inc. 'Sounding Silence' - Richard Tipping.
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Guan Di Temple (关帝庙/關帝廟 Guan Di Miao) - temple room compiled from temples established by Chinese settler migrants across north-eastern Tasmanian mining towns.

@ QV MAG, Launceston, Tasmania.
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Sam Jinks - Divine Messenger of Light 'Iris'

From Mortal Reflections
@ QV MAG, Launceston, Tasmania
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 AM
A.N. Whitehead - 'Universities and their Function' (1929)
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Pillinger et al. 2025 - The effects of antidepressants on cardiometabolic and other physiological parameters

"Our main findings are that antidepressants can induce cardiometabolic and other physiological alterations and that these vary between antidepressants."

bitly.cx/FaAfE
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
MIJF2025 Opening Night / Night Crawl
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
UniMelb MDHS Dean's Global Indigenous Health Lecture - Dr Martina Kamaka @ U.Hawai'i
October 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
World Arthritis Day - 12th October

Keep it movin'
October 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Bordertown, South Australia
October 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Prof. Richie Hill plenary @icors2025

Highlighting the growing incidence of obesity worldwide between 1990 and 2022, with troubling rise in population dense South and East Asia.

Anticipated increases in knee OA 🦵🏽 coincide with these regions.
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Day 3 @icors2025

@borsoc.bsky.social workshop: 'Detect, Treat, Prevent' - The concept of Pre-OA 🦵🏽

Proposing a pre-OA state characterised by joint risk factors + structural/biochemical changes without established radiographic changes, + implications for early intervention to elude younger OA onset
October 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Day 2 Women's Breakfast:
Invest in your professional relationships

@icors2025
October 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Day 1 Workshop:
"No one has died of OA but"

Multiple connections drawn from epidemiology and lab research findings link Osteoarthritis and co-morbid disease risk (particularly CVD 🫀), suggesting OA may drive systemic inflammation.

@icors @anzors @orssociety.bsky.social
@eors
October 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Murray Bridge, South Australia
October 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Garlic, ginger, methotrexate
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I'll be presenting a poster from my PhD research at @limsltu.bsky.social and NUS Singapore highlighting the benefits of mesenchymal stem cell cultures on topographical substrates for cartilage regeneration (chondrogenesis).
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Windswept
September 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Huy Huynh - 'My Views on the Prospect of the Chinese in Australia' (1997)

- a response to Pauline Hanson.

Xin Jin Shan Chinese Library, Ballarat.
September 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
79634 words, 4 years, 1 thesis.

The book's full. 🦵🏽

Coincidentally, a boobook🦉appeared on the washing line soon after.
August 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
ARA VIC-TAS Post-EULAR Meeting

Dr. Juan Aw keynote on:
- Management of erosive hand OA
- Difficult to treat RA

@austrheumatology.bsky.social
@eular.org
June 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Autumn leaves
May 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
1 year ago

FC Peace @ Daegu 🇰🇷⚽

A first visit to Daegu for 2024 World Biomaterials Congress
May 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM