Rhea Liang
@liangrhea.bsky.social
General + breast surgeon, MedEd, DiversityAndInclusion, #KnittingLady (IT'S CROCHET). Bond University Clinical Curriculum Lead. Posts own opinion.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Trolls yes, but Twitter also has the BEST anti-trolls 🤣
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Trolls yes, but Twitter also has the BEST anti-trolls 🤣
Pretty sure she'd be back at the first poop. Those things are like infection control containment nightmares 💩🤣
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Pretty sure she'd be back at the first poop. Those things are like infection control containment nightmares 💩🤣
I mean, on a plane it's not like they can disappear with the baby. Unlike a hospital, where I once tracked down my hungry newborn several wards away after the nurses took baby on an 'awwwww' tour 🥰😅
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I mean, on a plane it's not like they can disappear with the baby. Unlike a hospital, where I once tracked down my hungry newborn several wards away after the nurses took baby on an 'awwwww' tour 🥰😅
We did the same thing when ours were little. I dubbed them 'instant grandparents' 🤣👍♥️
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We did the same thing when ours were little. I dubbed them 'instant grandparents' 🤣👍♥️
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To go through minor revisions and then have the editor send out to a whole new round of reviewers is the absolute worst
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
To go through minor revisions and then have the editor send out to a whole new round of reviewers is the absolute worst
I reckon that should be banned. It's quite striking how much regulation surrounds authorship conduct (ICJME authorship criteria, can't submit to more than one place at a time, must declare AI etc) but almost none for what the reciprocal conduct of editors should be.
a cartoon character says " whatever i 'll do what i want "
Alt: a cartoon character says " whatever. i 'll do what i want "
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November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I reckon that should be banned. It's quite striking how much regulation surrounds authorship conduct (ICJME authorship criteria, can't submit to more than one place at a time, must declare AI etc) but almost none for what the reciprocal conduct of editors should be.
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Obviously URGH but Mrs Vinnicombe sounds like a top notch human.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Obviously URGH but Mrs Vinnicombe sounds like a top notch human.
Journal editors, if you put anyone through 2-3 revisions, that should be enough for you to show some gosh darned leadership and either decide (a) it is publishable without further review, or (b) it will not be published in your journal, and it's only fair to tell the authors so.
a woman says it 's time to make some decisions up here
Alt: Lizzo, looking glorious in gold velvet, says it's time to make some decisions up in here
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November 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Journal editors, if you put anyone through 2-3 revisions, that should be enough for you to show some gosh darned leadership and either decide (a) it is publishable without further review, or (b) it will not be published in your journal, and it's only fair to tell the authors so.
I caught up with a surgical colleague just now who has been through 7 (SEVEN!) rounds of revision with a mid range journal, each one more nitpicky than the last, now involving no fewer than 6 reviewers.
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I caught up with a surgical colleague just now who has been through 7 (SEVEN!) rounds of revision with a mid range journal, each one more nitpicky than the last, now involving no fewer than 6 reviewers.
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
#qualitative research thoughts.
The wording of themes can encode bias. For example, 'the demands of parenthood conflict with work' positions the conflict within an individual.
Why not, for example, 'workplaces are insufficiently adaptable for parents'?
#stance #reflexivity
The wording of themes can encode bias. For example, 'the demands of parenthood conflict with work' positions the conflict within an individual.
Why not, for example, 'workplaces are insufficiently adaptable for parents'?
#stance #reflexivity
a man sitting at a table with the words words do matter on the table
Alt: a man sitting at a table with the caption words do matter
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November 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#qualitative research thoughts.
The wording of themes can encode bias. For example, 'the demands of parenthood conflict with work' positions the conflict within an individual.
Why not, for example, 'workplaces are insufficiently adaptable for parents'?
#stance #reflexivity
The wording of themes can encode bias. For example, 'the demands of parenthood conflict with work' positions the conflict within an individual.
Why not, for example, 'workplaces are insufficiently adaptable for parents'?
#stance #reflexivity
Astonishing light just now on the Gold Coast. A combination of sunset and a storm rolling in from right of picture. 😍
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Astonishing light just now on the Gold Coast. A combination of sunset and a storm rolling in from right of picture. 😍
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People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
'...spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts' is... quite the opening sentence 😱.
May we all be like Mrs Vinnicombe, who 'shouted 'what the f**k are you doing' at Dr Johnson.'
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
May we all be like Mrs Vinnicombe, who 'shouted 'what the f**k are you doing' at Dr Johnson.'
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Doctor who committed lewd act at work party is suspended for a year
A consultant pathologist has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months after spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts.
Mark...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
'...spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts' is... quite the opening sentence 😱.
May we all be like Mrs Vinnicombe, who 'shouted 'what the f**k are you doing' at Dr Johnson.'
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
May we all be like Mrs Vinnicombe, who 'shouted 'what the f**k are you doing' at Dr Johnson.'
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Totally agree. Healthcare for the well resourced and 'deserving' sector of the population isn't healthcare as most other high income countries define it, and certainly not as the WHO and UN define it. From that standpoint I'm not sure the US healthcare system has *ever* functioned.
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Totally agree. Healthcare for the well resourced and 'deserving' sector of the population isn't healthcare as most other high income countries define it, and certainly not as the WHO and UN define it. From that standpoint I'm not sure the US healthcare system has *ever* functioned.
Same same, but more luxe (and ideally not in a hospital bed obvs) 🤗
a woman laying in a hospital bed with a bowl of soup and a glass of water
Alt: a woman napping in a bed with a meal on the tray table in front of her.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Same same, but more luxe (and ideally not in a hospital bed obvs) 🤗
Insert 'why not both' gif here 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Insert 'why not both' gif here 🤣
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PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
From an Aussie point of view, I'm not sure when the US healthcare system was last... whatever the opposite of 'collapse' is. Like, when would you consider that it was last functioning well?
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
From an Aussie point of view, I'm not sure when the US healthcare system was last... whatever the opposite of 'collapse' is. Like, when would you consider that it was last functioning well?
Some docs have selective memory about medical school. They forget the feelings of uncertainty and how helpful small kindness can be, and yet they apply their personal med school memories from 20, 30, 40 years ago, even if those memories have shrivelled and calcified to fit a personal narrative. 😑
a cartoon character says stupid younger generation while holding a fake teeth
Alt: a ancient cartoon character says stupid younger generation while holding a fake teeth
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November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Some docs have selective memory about medical school. They forget the feelings of uncertainty and how helpful small kindness can be, and yet they apply their personal med school memories from 20, 30, 40 years ago, even if those memories have shrivelled and calcified to fit a personal narrative. 😑
'He'?
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
'He'?
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
We need a Posts Without Context aggregator on this site 🤣🌭
I have cooked hotdogs in an autoclave. It's very hard to get anything sterilized after that to not smell like hotdogs.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We need a Posts Without Context aggregator on this site 🤣🌭
I know. Even worse when you meet the abomination known as 'squeezy cheese' that comes out bright orange from a sauce bottle. Yikes. 😱
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I know. Even worse when you meet the abomination known as 'squeezy cheese' that comes out bright orange from a sauce bottle. Yikes. 😱
It's so weird. And I swear the butter wasn't like that in the 90s, or at least not in Boston where I was living, and I did plenty of baking back then too.
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It's so weird. And I swear the butter wasn't like that in the 90s, or at least not in Boston where I was living, and I did plenty of baking back then too.
Yep, everything 🤣.
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Yep, everything 🤣.