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Kellie O’Callaghan

@kellieocallaghan.bsky.social
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Lived Experience, Patient & Community Engagement 🧩 Governance & Regional Development 🔗 Wayfinding 💭 Chair, Regional Development Australia - Gippsland 🦘 Chair, Mental Health & Wellbeing IRB 💬 Mayor, Emeritus 👩‍⚖️ Gunaikurnai Land, Gippsland Australia 🏡

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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Today, our thoughts remain with the victims of the horrific terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, their families and loved ones, who are grieving such a profound and senseless loss Sunday, 21 December 2025 has been recognised as a National Day of Reflection www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... #BondiBeach
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
💬 Bacteria can be used to turn plastic waste into #paracetamol. Have researchers found the possibility of a more sustainable process for producing the drugs? 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #Health #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
💬 is climate change linked to dangerous #sleep #apnea? www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
💭 Gut Microbiome Study Links #ParkinsonsDisease to Environmental Chemicals www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thank you to Senator Dr. Jess Walsh & Tony Cantwell & the Committee for Gippsland team for the invitation to be part of the Net Zero Economy Authority roundtable with a great group of Gippsland stakeholders. #RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland #RDA #EnergyTransition #EconomicDevelopment
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Great to spend time with the Net Zero Economy Authority in Gippsland last week. Always appreciate the opportunity to discuss our region’s energy transformation. #RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland #RDA #Regions #EnergyTransition #RegionalTourism #RegionalHealth #EconomicDevelopment
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
💭 Neuroimaging study reveals viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain, by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
💭 Income, education, and the clustering of risk in #cardiovascular disease in the US 🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
💭 Consumption of Red Versus White Wine and Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
💭 Experiencing 5 or more blistering sunburns between ages 15 & 20 increases one’s melanoma risk by 80% & nonmelanoma skin cancer risk by 68% 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It was an absolute pleasure to host the RWAV - Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Conference sub-theme "Working Together, Designing, and Innovating for Workforce Sustainability." #RWAVConference2025 #DreamingBig #DrivingChange #RuralHealth #WorkforceSustainability
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Great to see Gippsland so strongly represented in the enthusiastic audience for the first Q&A of 2025. A one-on-one with the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. It was fantastic to be in the audience for this discussion #RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland #EconomicDevelopment
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
An absolutely brilliant few days partnering with Rural Workforce Agency Victoria team. Thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to host the #Workforce panel discussions at #RWAVConference2025 #RuralHealth #MentalHealth #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
💭 Latest in a series of studies showing that milk is a highly effective drug-delivery vehicle. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Our Regional Development Australia Gippsland work is informed by opportunities for economic growth and development in our region Always an absolute pleasure to spend time with the Australian Hydrogen Council team #RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland #RDA #EnergyTransition #EconomicDevelopment
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Looking forward to hosting this richly informed conversation "Working together, designing & innovating for workforce sustainability" at the RWAV Conference 2025 #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
💭 “They Only Silence the Truth”: COVID-19 retractions and the politicization of science journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
💭 While music’s effects on emotion are widely appreciated, its effects on cognition are less understood Your lo-fi study playlist might actually help you focus tinyurl.com/2usj23f5 #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
💭Maternal climate-related exposures and prolonged pregnancy: Findings from a statewide population-based cohort study in Western Australia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RegionalHealth #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
💭 Digoxin for reduction of circulating tumor cell cluster size in metastatic breast cancer: a proof-of-concept trial www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
💭 Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance & disease resistance Genes in bats that protect them from viruses could lead to new approaches to combat viral diseases. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #Health #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
💭 Engineered commensals for targeted nose-to-brain drug delivery. Bacteria that colonize the nose have been engineered to ferry drugs to the brains of mice. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #Health #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How to sell your science without selling out A five-step guide to communicating your science ethically and accurately. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
💭 How to trick the immune system into attacking tumours Lab-grown viruses make cancer cells resemble pig tissue, provoking an organ-rejection response. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #Research #MedSky
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How to trick the immune system into attacking tumours
Lab-grown viruses make cancer cells resemble pig tissue, provoking an organ-rejection response.
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
💭 Study finds gender gap with children when it comes to negotiating psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
💭 The associations of positive and negative mental well-being with physical activity during the COVID-19 across late adulthood tinyurl.com/2az57kcv #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #MedSky
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The associations of positive and negative mental well-being with physical activity during the COVID-19 across late adulthood - BMC Public Health
Background Mental well-being (MWB) may play an important role in physical activity (PA) behavior, but the independent associations of affective MWB indicators and depressive symptoms with PA are spars...
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Congratulations, Neale Daniher AO on being named the 2025 Australian of the Year! Your tireless efforts in raising money and awareness to find a cure for MND have given hope to the thousands of other Australians.
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
💭 Medical conditions that deprive testes of oxygen may be contributing to decline in male fertility www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
$6.35 million from the Australian Government’s Growing Regions Program for the brilliant Gippsland Lakes Shared Community Hub development in Paynesville. Growing Regions Program tinyurl.com/mryzzkyy #RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #RDAGippsland #Gippsland #Tourism #EconomicDevelopment
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
💭Mosquito-borne virus cases triple #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
💭 Does the risk of long COVID, or post-COVID condition, differ by sex? Women more likely to have the condition jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
💭 Energetic costs of social dominance in wild male baboons royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Energetic costs of social dominance in wild male baboons | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
In vertebrates, glucocorticoids can be upregulated in response to both psychosocial and energetic stressors, making it difficult to identify the cause of elevated glucocorticoid concentrations when bo...
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
💭 Obesity drugs: study highlights new health risks - Ozempic/GLP-1 drugs. 11% increase in arthritis risk & a 146% higher risk of pancreatitis www.nature.com/articles/d41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RegionalHealth #Research #MedSky
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Obesity drugs: huge study identifies new health risks
Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
💭 #Paralysed man flies virtual #drone using brain implant www.nature.com/articles/d41... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky #brain
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Paralysed man flies virtual drone using brain implant
Device that links neural signals to fine movements provides unprecedented control over speed and direction in a video-game obstacle course.
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
💭 Research shows oysters could help in the fight against antibiotic-resistant superbugs. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Gippsland has experienced the devastating impact of disasters on our communities. The Disaster Ready Fund is the Australian Government’s flagship initiative for disaster resilience & risk reduction. Round Three Guidelines lnkd.in/gBMYRif3 #DisasterFund #RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
💭 Data-driven discovery of associations between prescribed drugs and dementia risk: A systematic review alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
💭 Mental Health Victoria welcomes the announcement of Local Health Service Network groupings tinyurl.com/2s4b2enx #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #MedSky #MentalHealth
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
💭 Why more #men than #women are diagnosed with deadly #heartdisease www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
💭 Testing the mediating mechanism of alcohol use on the association between retirement and depressive symptoms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
💭 #largelanguagemodels, such as #ChatGPT-4, demonstrate an unexpected capacity to solve tasks typically used to evaluate the human ability known as “#theoryofmind.” tinyurl.com/3c3869hy #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #Research
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
💭 Willingness to care for others stems from the earliest relationships at home. Understanding origins of your own compassionate love, insight into your relationships psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... #PatientExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RegionalHealth #Research
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
💭 Researchers have successfully repaired damaged mouse #hearts using a #protein from #zebrafish www.nature.com/articles/s44... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #MedSky
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Cross-species comparison reveals that Hmga1 reduces H3K27me3 levels to promote cardiomyocyte proliferation and cardiac regeneration - Nature Cardiovascular Research
Bouwman et al. identify Hmga1-mediated chromatin remodeling as the fundamental regulator of zebrafish cardiac regeneration and reveal the potential of Hmga1 to restore heart repair in mice by reactiva...
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
💭 Does the implementation status of gender provisions affect the implementation of a peace agreement? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
💭 Diet quality from early pregnancy through 1-y postpartum: a prospective cohort study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
💭 Counting What Matters: How to classify, account and track spending for prevention demos.co.uk/research/cou... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
💭 Automatic Generation of Dynamic Arousal Expression Based on Decaying Wave Synthesis for Robot Faces Breakthrough in technology for lifelike facial #expressions in #androids. www.fujipress.jp/jrm/rb/robot... #PatientExperience #PatientEngagement #Health #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
💭 The price of a cigarette: 20 minutes of life? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth #Research #ClinicalTrials #Codesign #Collaboration #MedSky #Smoking #Addiction
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The price of a cigarette: 20 minutes of life?
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
💭 A person-centered approach to explore how personality traits from the HEXACO & Dark Triad cluster into profiles. Behavioral deviance & prosociality. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PatientExperience #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #Health #Research #MedSky
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Kellie O’Callaghan @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
✍️ The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2024
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