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Dr Mary Dahm 🩷💜💙 (she/her)
@drmarydahm.bsky.social
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DECRA FELLOW. Snr Lecturer #DeakinUniversity. SIDM Fellow Diagnostic Excellence. Health communication, #MedEd, #professionalism & health services, #quality. Investigating all things communication & uncertainty to improve diagnosis & patient #safety.
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Meanwhile in Germany: #newWords "Bedarfswehrpflicht" meaning needs-based recruitment, to describe the mandatory element of conscription that the government can fall back on if necessary
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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My first wearable garment, that's not a scarf 😁. Neapolitan 🍨 inspired tshirt. I learned the hard way that wool from a frogged project works up and looks different than 'fresh' wool (in the white stripe). But after 20 years of not knitting, I didn't think I could even pull this off!!! #knit
July 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Hello from Brisbane, getting my #pragmatics fix #ipra2025 #IPC #commsky. Already ran into unexpected participants @superlinguo.bsky.social @elenasemino.bsky.social & and my friend from PhD days George Major!
June 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Art impressions from Meanjin Brisbane (here for a conference tomorrow).
June 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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With some manually added as I can't believe none of silverchairs neon ballroom was on the list! Also all of 2020-2025 seems to have passed me by 🫣
June 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Consideration of change may not lead to formal change proposals in every case. Updates will be provided as planning progresses, VSS outcomes are confirmed and as areas determine if they have a need for formal change. ANU College of Asia and the Pacific ANU College of Business and Economics ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy ANU College of Systems and Society Campus Environment Residential Experience Marketing and Communications People and Culture Finance and Business Services Q4 2025 - Conclusion of 2025 proposals In line with the University's commitment to deliver this phase of change, it is anticipated that no organisational change proposals will be released beyond 31 October 2025 for the 2025 year. It is not known at this stage if formal organisational change will be required in 2026. Learn more about the Renew ANU 2025 Change Principles Consultation.
May 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Q2 2025 - Expected change proposals Subject to approval, the following areas are anticipating releasing formal organisational change proposals in June 2025: Information Technology Services and Information Security Office Planning and Service Performance Academic Portfolio Research and Innovation Portfolio ANU College of Science and Medicine ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Q3 2025 - Areas contemplating change The following areas will be considering their need for organisational change activity in Q3. This includes examining how any proposed changes may interface with, or have consequences for, formal change processes scheduled for release from June 2025, as outlined above. Consideration of change may not lead to formal change proposals in every case. Updates will be provided as planning progresses, VSS outcomes are confirmed and as areas determine if they have a need for formal change.
May 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Renew ANU: 2025 Implementation Timeline ANU is committed to keeping staff informed and engaged by providing timely, clear and accessible information to help our staff prepare for and participate in change. This page provides a summary of anticipated organisational change activity under the Renew ANU Change Principles Implementation Plan. It will be updated regularly to reflect key milestones, decisions and the release of formal change proposals as planning continues. We recognise that change can be challenging and support is available. Staff can access free support and counselling through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which can be reached on 1800 808 374. This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Additional information is available on the ANU Health and Wellbeing website. The University released the ANU Renew Change Principles Implementation Plan on 16 April 2025 for an extended consultation period that closed on 9 May 2025. The University received 24 individual feedback submissions, including feedback from the NTEU on behalf of their members. The University has carefully considered all feedback received and will proceed with implementation as proposed. A summary of the feedback received, and the University’s response is available below: Feedback summary and response
May 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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scrap square inside out #crochet blanket coming along
April 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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he's got new pretty #origami paper!
April 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Checking my student's extraction for a systematic review on experience of sexual and gender minority patients in the diagnostic process. Homophobic response in an in otherwise empty survey. 🏳️‍🌈 Love that they called that guy out!
highlighted text from a academic journal article reads " one masculine GP returned the questionnaire empty, but in the free text, left a clear homophobic message to the researcher. "
April 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Mr 12 loves making #origami. In this latest making craze lidded boxes are amassing in my house. They are so beautiful but I don't know what to do with them?
3 colourful and 1 white intricate Origami boxes.
April 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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My coworkers are not very motivating today #catsatwork
April 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Ms 9y is home sick from school and the office sign has been updated. (And the referenced Duggy boy.
#Cat #SignOfTheDahms
An lightbox in a book shelf, saying "Duggy boy the pipes E calling" A ginger cat looking cute
March 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Never truer than #dylan
A black picture frame with a lyric from Bob Dylan's subterranean homesick blues "don't follow the leaders"
March 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Random #Geelong sights #Saturday
Hoy air balloon close over a Paddock A blue water tank with writing. "Good Better Best Never let it rest Till your good is better And your better best A circle fern with yellow rings
March 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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I know, I know #metrics and probably small fish for many. But for me as a #linguistics X #health scholar this feels good and if I can claim this as my achievement, I achieved this through heaps of adversity. #millenium #citations #academicsky #medsky
Google scholar profile for Maria Dahm showing 1000 citations
February 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Glad Orla is not attacking my crochet anymore. #cats #crochet #TimelineCleanse
A ginger cat relaxing on its back on a yellow chair next to a crochet project.
February 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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When people ask if there is still a division between former East and West #Germany. Appalled to see the results from my home state Thuringia - the land of poets, composers, philosophers and scientists (Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Luther, Zeiss) where the AfD is now the strongest party #bundestagswahl
February 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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This is my soothing escapism watch. Re-watch from season 1. Lots of examplee of #uncertainty communication. At one point I really want to run a study on #diagnosis in this and other ER shows. It would be so telling as to what people expect when coming to the ER. #MedEd #MedSky #CommSky
Still from the opening credits if the show ER, showing a person in silhouette. He is standing in front of an Emergency sign. The image is upside down and mirrored in a puddle on the ground.
February 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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How approachable is your doctor? All speakers talk along the approachability continuum which has five main discourse domains: social attuning, engagement strategies, interpersonal strategies, framing & lexical choice
More here:
tidsskrift.dk/qhc/article/...

#commsky #medsky #linguistics
A diagram outlining the main component of the approachability framework.
February 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Wonder how my bookshelves would fare in a Fahrenheit 451 world. Just a tiny section of it here. How would policing of electronically purchased even books work? #booksky
February 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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"Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?"

Graham Swift, Waterland

#history #booksky
February 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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As this is all happening I have been reading Erik Larson's book *In the Garden of Beasts* about the William Dodd America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. Chilling to say the least
A picture of a page in Erik Larson's book *In the Garden of Beasts* "Nice days were still nice. "The sun shines," wrote Christopher Isherwood in his Berlin Stories, "and Hitler is the master of this city. The sun shines, and dozens of my friends... are in prison, possibly dead." The prevailing normalcy was seductive. "I catch sight of my face in the mirror of a shop, and am shocked to see that I am smiling," Isherwood wrote. "You can't help smiling, in such beautiful weather." The trams moved as usual, as did the pedestrians passing on the street; everything around him had "an air of curious familiarity, of striking resemblance to something one remembers as normal and pleasant in the past-like a very good photograph." Beneath the surface, however, Germany had undergone a rapid and sweeping revolution that reached deep into the fabric of daily life. It had occurred quietly and largely out of easy view. At its core was a government campaign called Gleichschaltung-meaning "Coordination"-to bring citizens, government min-istries, universities, and cultural and social institutions in line with National Socialist beliefs and attitudes."
February 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Just started reading this. Kathe Sackler is described as exuding 'the impatience of someone who never waits in line to board an airplane'

And can't you just picture her?

#booksky
Book cover of 'the empire of pain - the secret history of the Sackler dynasty' by Patrick Radden Keefe
February 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM