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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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!!! 🎉

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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!!

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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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Applications are now open for early career PhD researchers - About the ABC

Applications are now open for early career PhD researchers in Science, Arts & Humanities. ABC Radio National is once again searching for Australia’s next generation of inspiring research communicato...

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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.

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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..."

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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...

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dr Emma on ABC Radio National!? I'm locked IN 🎧

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

🧵 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...

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‘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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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Got my IUD a year ago today and I love it. I made these pics nervously before the Big Moment.

Scientific diagram of a uterus with a copper IUD inside. Text at the bottom reads "abandon all hope ye who enter here"

Cartoon diagram of someone inserting their finger into the vagina to check a uterus string. Text at the bottom reads "there's no such thing as too much bling!"

An x-ray image of the pelvis with an IUD visible. The text reads "I am on my way to bionic womanhood"

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Messaging on Teams is so 2022. We are over here sending text and pics in a shared PowerPoint file

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Got to do my fave thing today: making data visualisations that people NEED AND USE, and getting good feedback on it #ChartArt 📈💅

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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

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Dr Emmalee Ford @emmaoolemma.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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!!

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