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Marianne Piano

@mporthoptics.bsky.social

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Clinical eye care researcher & Orthoptist ('straight eyes'), at National Centre for Healthy Ageing 🇦🇺🇬🇧 She/her. My views are my own, not my institution's. Posting about dementia-friendly eyecare and why allied health is awesome!

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hello new folks! I'm an allied health professional - an orthoptist, the profession you've never heard of until you need our help 😂 Think of me as like an eye physiotherapist - 'Orthoptist' = 'straight eyes'! We diagnose/treat eye movement and depth perception problems in neuro conditions & childhood

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 1d

I have a huge backlog of field notes to type up 😴 Just feel like I have so much academic admin rn #academicsky

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 2d

Mooncake is yum! When I worked in Glasgow we had a colleague who used to bring back pfefferneusen from Germany after Christmas - huge incentive to be back in the office after hogmanay 😂

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 7d

I preferred UK system where you cost + overheads and the funder pays 80%. It was clear and you knew exactly how much money you were working with! I mean we all still moaned about the 30% overhead but at least the math was simple.

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 7d

Oh yeah, indirects are a source of disgruntlement in every institution I've been in. The issue in Australia is that the funding for salaries is more like 60% FEC and the disparity increases further when you're trying to hire clinicians. I hate costings gymnastics.

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 9d

I generally keep my thoughts to myself on social media a lot more than I used to... but I just wanted to put that somewhere as a reminder to myself about that experience.

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 9d

Multiple times recently I've felt a bit uncomfortable in the presence of brash people who clearly move in very different worlds to me, where movement of large amounts of money happens over dinner with important people. The disconnect is very apparent when you're not in the room where it happens.

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 9d

Except most funders don't cover overheads so your uni make you do bizarre costings gymnastics 🙃

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 9d

I do this a lot!

Michelle Bastian @mhbastian.bsky.social · 11d

Written something already and need to structure? Try reverse outlining. Again with scapple, its brilliant to see underlying logic and gaps in argument.
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Anything else LLMs promise to help with let me know and ill try to suggest an alternative.

Reverse Outlines

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 10d

One of my old bosses said to me years ago "Make sure you always cost in some admin help for your project" - I didn't for this project cos it felt shitty costing one day a fortnight for somebody, but man, I sure feel the regret some days.

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 12d

The mute/unmute button was also a rocker button for volume, it turned out! No input button to get back to HDMI, needed pointing at a menu for that! Need an instruction manual for smart TV remotes these days 😅 My TV at home is like 10 years old, I am not up on these newfangled ones lol

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 12d

I am a supposedly tech-savvy academic but I needed a room full of retirement village residents to tell me how to operate their TV I was presenting on 😂 I accidentally changed channels instead of turning up the volume on the remote so they could listen to pterry! We got there... 🫣

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 14d

Ergh, I feel very seen 🫣 (good luck!)

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

Today is definitely one of those 'halp?' moments...

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

I really enjoyed the peer review I did last night actually. Sometimes it takes me ages and is not that enjoyable cos the paper probably shouldn't have gone out to review. But this was a really thoughtful study and it was nice to see new work happening in the space! #AcademicSky

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

That's the way the world goes round 😂 Do we ever learn? We're academics, of course we don't!

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

Ah but if you forget that there is always conference freebies! 😜

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

Fortunately the boring module they wanted to revamp is not till next semester but I pretty much guarantee this will be left till the end of the Xmas hols lmao

Just gotta survive! 😁

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

Ach it's the same over here, we spent 3 weeks in Japan and my partner was doing mad lesson prep yesterday 😂 You'll get it done! 💪

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

He might be a shitter but I hope you had a good summer!

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

Also bring throat sweets, especially if you're doing a poster. I guarantee you won't regret it!

AJ Lauer @ayjaylauer.bsky.social · 15d

What’s your #1 survival tip for scientific conference season? 👀

Mine: update LinkedIn, sponsor others, and do something fun off-site

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3 Conference Preparation Tips for Science and Tech Events

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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 15d

Gah, very frustrating!

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 17d

Legy

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 17d

So my dad had a urology procedure recently and I was worried he was gonna be stuck with a catheter permanently, but he's been so on top of everything (pee admin we call it 😂) and he totally nailed the trial without it! So proud of him and he's even got pelvic physio organised 🤗 go dad!!

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 27d

Word. You got this! 🏊‍♀️

Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 28d

Buuuuut I also handled the Pentax k-f and it reminded me how much I love the Pentax colour profile. The Pentax KP is still a beast of a camera for its size and maybe I could get a second hand one for a decent price these days. But then it's already 5 years old model and no USB C. Ahhhh decisions 🥲