Dr Emmalee Ford
@emmaoolemma.bsky.social
Researching reproductive and sexual health. Everything from abortion to vasectomy. Big data, biology and public health specialist
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Opening the email containing the AIHW's Sexual and Reproductive Health Monitoring Framework and Data Strategy like it is a gift for me 🎁 So excited to progress national level surveillance of important indicators of quality and access to SRH!!! 🎉
September 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Opening the email containing the AIHW's Sexual and Reproductive Health Monitoring Framework and Data Strategy like it is a gift for me 🎁 So excited to progress national level surveillance of important indicators of quality and access to SRH!!! 🎉
Sometimes I think about the time my project proposal led to a children's health research grant updating their guidelines. My proposal was improving awareness and access to sexual and reproductive health services through peer support. Not what they wanted!!
August 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Sometimes I think about the time my project proposal led to a children's health research grant updating their guidelines. My proposal was improving awareness and access to sexual and reproductive health services through peer support. Not what they wanted!!
Am I TOO passionate about data visualisation, I wonder after creating 10 options for presenting the same data with detailed critiques about how it could be interpreted compared to what we might want to emphasise
March 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Am I TOO passionate about data visualisation, I wonder after creating 10 options for presenting the same data with detailed critiques about how it could be interpreted compared to what we might want to emphasise
ABC Top 5 applications are now open!!! Last year I was part of the top 5 science, doing a residency at the ABC Sydney headquarters. If you have a PhD and are interested, go for it (or hit me up to chat)
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March 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
ABC Top 5 applications are now open!!! Last year I was part of the top 5 science, doing a residency at the ABC Sydney headquarters. If you have a PhD and are interested, go for it (or hit me up to chat)
www.abc.net.au/about/media-...
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Another thought I have about post-academic life is that by their metrics, I'm an 'early career researcher'. But the dynamics are so different on the other side, I'm no longer infantilised. I'm not a junior/novice researcher - I have an expertise that is highly valued and am only 1 of 2 PhDs at work
February 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Another thought I have about post-academic life is that by their metrics, I'm an 'early career researcher'. But the dynamics are so different on the other side, I'm no longer infantilised. I'm not a junior/novice researcher - I have an expertise that is highly valued and am only 1 of 2 PhDs at work
Working outside of academia in a translational research space embedded with non-researchers has been amazing. I haven't had the scale of "traditional outputs" while I've been adapting, but I have contributed to some really influential decisions that make me so proud.
February 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Working outside of academia in a translational research space embedded with non-researchers has been amazing. I haven't had the scale of "traditional outputs" while I've been adapting, but I have contributed to some really influential decisions that make me so proud.
Cliché opening to a speech/presentation 30 years ago: "Oxford dictionary defines..."
Cliché opening to a speech/presentation today: "I asked ChatGPT to tell me..."
Cliché opening to a speech/presentation today: "I asked ChatGPT to tell me..."
February 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Cliché opening to a speech/presentation 30 years ago: "Oxford dictionary defines..."
Cliché opening to a speech/presentation today: "I asked ChatGPT to tell me..."
Cliché opening to a speech/presentation today: "I asked ChatGPT to tell me..."
I'm giving side eye!!! 👀 The system is broken, yet it is still so vital that we publish. I accept it's hard to negotiate this tension but far out...
There are more scientific papers that need peer review than ever before, and many scientists aren't willing or able to peer review.
I don't know what the answer to this is.
But if you refuse to peer review, but are still expecting other people to peer review *YOUR* papers, you're getting side-eye.
I don't know what the answer to this is.
But if you refuse to peer review, but are still expecting other people to peer review *YOUR* papers, you're getting side-eye.
a man in a pink shirt is sitting in a car
ALT: a man in a pink shirt is sitting in a car
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January 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I'm giving side eye!!! 👀 The system is broken, yet it is still so vital that we publish. I accept it's hard to negotiate this tension but far out...
Dr Emma on ABC Radio National!? I'm locked IN 🎧
Big news! Tomorrow the first ep of ‘Cooked’ a special season of Science Friction launches on ABC RN with me as host!
Each of the 6 episode is a different food and nutrition story that lets us take a deep dive into the nuance of nutrition. We want you to be entertained, empowered and enlightened.
Each of the 6 episode is a different food and nutrition story that lets us take a deep dive into the nuance of nutrition. We want you to be entertained, empowered and enlightened.
January 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dr Emma on ABC Radio National!? I'm locked IN 🎧
🧵 Fertility smartphone apps - we love to hate them! But shaming women just digs the hole even deeper 🕳
A new report in the Guardian covers a study examining the tidal wave of false claims that these apps are effective at preventing pregnancy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A new report in the Guardian covers a study examining the tidal wave of false claims that these apps are effective at preventing pregnancy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Young women can fall pregnant very easily’: inside the wild west of smartphone fertility apps
Observer analysis finds unregulated products being promoted as contraception despite concerns about their accuracy
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January 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🧵 Fertility smartphone apps - we love to hate them! But shaming women just digs the hole even deeper 🕳
A new report in the Guardian covers a study examining the tidal wave of false claims that these apps are effective at preventing pregnancy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A new report in the Guardian covers a study examining the tidal wave of false claims that these apps are effective at preventing pregnancy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Got my IUD a year ago today and I love it. I made these pics nervously before the Big Moment.
December 4, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Got my IUD a year ago today and I love it. I made these pics nervously before the Big Moment.
Messaging on Teams is so 2022. We are over here sending text and pics in a shared PowerPoint file
December 4, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Messaging on Teams is so 2022. We are over here sending text and pics in a shared PowerPoint file
New Father John Misty album came out riiight when I have a big deadline which calls for heaps of time sitting at my desk lost in the numbers. So blessed so grateful
November 25, 2024 at 7:44 AM
New Father John Misty album came out riiight when I have a big deadline which calls for heaps of time sitting at my desk lost in the numbers. So blessed so grateful
I LOVE a little walk-and-talk-to-myself-break because I am not great 'on the spot' so I like to work out what I think or respond with
November 22, 2024 at 6:48 AM
I LOVE a little walk-and-talk-to-myself-break because I am not great 'on the spot' so I like to work out what I think or respond with
Just joined 🫡 science girlie searching for people to follow who post about: reproductive health & rights, menstrual health, sex education, fertility, femtech, big data in health, abortion, contraception, sexology, menopause, cervical/vaginal health and anything adjacent!!
November 21, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Just joined 🫡 science girlie searching for people to follow who post about: reproductive health & rights, menstrual health, sex education, fertility, femtech, big data in health, abortion, contraception, sexology, menopause, cervical/vaginal health and anything adjacent!!