Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13hData from national Danish registries examining risk of venous thromboembolism, ischaemic stroke and myocardial infarction with menopausal hormonal therapy. TLDR- absolute increase in risk with oral MHT is small, eg. 0.009% for VT. And no increase in risk with transdermal MHT. 🎉 1110
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13hMr Fothergill's 'bee mix' seeds do exactly what it says on the packet. Highly recommend.🤗❤️🐝 #Gardening 1101
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 22h*shaken by* bizarre grammar at @9news.bsky.social, even by their standards 😖- but I do hope everyone in Melbourne is OK. 🙏❤️ 1143
Reposted by Rhea LiangRhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What if the metrics we use to select doctors don't correlate with performance at the job? Coz that's what the data shows. And there are too many barriers for excellent candidates who aren't privileged. 🙏Sharee Johnson for the discussion. Listen here- open.spotify.com/episode/4g7l...open.spotify.comEPISODE 29: Dr. Rhea Liang — Merit, Medicine, Neurodiversity and the Courage to change your mind.Recalibrating with Sharee Johnson · Episode 3308
Reposted by Rhea LiangTrish 💟 ☮️ Australia @trishmelbourne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Once again, low income countries women bear the burden 💔 111
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The disparity between breast cancer survival in high and low income countries is HUGE 💔. The @who.int Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI) could avert 2.5 million deaths by 2040. Raise awareness! Talk to colleagues! Write to leaders! Post and repost! Let's do it. 🤗🙏 #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 1179
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Poppies are up! (I think- I'm not so good with flower identification 😅) #Gardening 190
Reposted by Rhea LiangMatthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nowhere on Earth will you see a greater biomass of Chihuahuas than in Mexico City. In recent years, though, two Mexican animals are giving the tiny trembler a run for its money in Mexican art and design: xoloitzcuintle and this adorable lil fecker on 50-peso notes: the axolotl (aka el ajolote). 2156
Reposted by Rhea LiangThanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Started ICU yesterday and all my interns, residents, and fellow are men. I guess you can say that I'm the lady boss. 8764
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026October is #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth. Faye Browne's cancer was not seen on screening mammogram. It became symptomatic when a breast became *perkier*. “know what’s normal for your body and pay attention to any changes, not just lumps. Look, feel and take notice when something seems different.”nine.com.auWhat life is really like after losing both breasts 0109
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Closing soon on 18 Oct- Highlights from the White Rabbit Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art at HOTA on the GC. My highlights- a melting Titanic, a Transformer x ancient Tang dynasty sancai glaze, and a floating fairytale castle made of... Oh. I see. 😳🤣 Don't miss it! 091
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pic 1: yesterday's bud, with bonus ant 🐜 Pic 2: today! Some sort of cornflower I think, but in purple. #Gardening 🤗 090
Reposted by Rhea LiangThat Old Broadbean @thatoldbear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026hooooo yeah. Not one of my five heart attacks ever felt the same in onset, and I kinda feel like media representation of chest and arm clutching are doing people a disservice:/ 122
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What if the metrics we use to select doctors don't correlate with performance at the job? Coz that's what the data shows. And there are too many barriers for excellent candidates who aren't privileged. 🙏Sharee Johnson for the discussion. Listen here- open.spotify.com/episode/4g7l...open.spotify.comEPISODE 29: Dr. Rhea Liang — Merit, Medicine, Neurodiversity and the Courage to change your mind.Recalibrating with Sharee Johnson · Episode 3308
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Super important- 'Central chest pressure or tightness is the most common heart attack symptom in both women and men. Women are more likely... to have other symptoms, such as breathlessness, nausea or vomiting, unusual fatigue, or pain in the jaw, neck, arms or upper back'. 13013
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is amazing. And self-taught with a fulltime school load! (Many young competitors at this level study chess nearly fulltime and have benefited from parental chess coaching from a young age). 0151
Reposted by Rhea LiangTrish 💟 ☮️ Australia @trishmelbourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is why I have no time for organised religion. Imagine all the people who have suffered needlessly because a guy in the church said no, now says yes 🤦♀️ We had to wear hats to church, now they would be happy if we just turned up. 012
Reposted by Rhea LiangMemento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026every night i ask my son what the favorite part of his day was and tonight he said "right now, snuggling with you" 🥺 132723
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026👇A welcome and compassionate change. Also FYI, I asked a JW elder once- what if a bleeding pt arrives unconscious and alone? He looked me in the eye and said 'what's done with good intent is neither a sin for the giver nor a sin for a pt who did not choose. God judges our hearts not our bodies'. 🙏❤️apnews.comJehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products but keep ban on whole-blood transfusionsThe Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their ban on the medical use of donated blood. Members can now receive products derived from blood, but transfusions of whole blood remain prohibited. 130
Reposted by Rhea LiangAustralian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Be very kind to them. Don't use insecticides. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights. Pop any moth that comes inside back outside so it can continue its migration. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-warn...au.news.yahoo.comAussies warned not to make common mistake as thousands of moths swarmA phenomenon not seen in around 20 years has returned to Sydney. 29274
Reposted by Rhea LiangABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 27/09/2026Alice Springs boxer Leela Lord, 12, impresses at AIS after special age exemptionabc.net.auYoung Arrernte boxer sets sights on Olympics after AIS opportunityTwelve-year-old Leela Lord has returned from a national Indigenous boxing camp at the Australian Institute of Sport with bigger ambitions for her future in the ring. 084
Reposted by Rhea LiangSandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An orange potter wasp (Delta bicinctum) floating on the surface tension of the water at Picnic Dam, Gluepot Reserve. 1216828
Reposted by Rhea LiangLiz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Vaccines don’t cause autism. But vaccines can help prevent it. This study found an increase in autism rates among babies born with rubella, who were infected by their moms during pregnancy. Vaccinating against rubella with the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) prevents infection. 28147
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's a short hop from 'kids shouldn't learn about sexuality and gender' to 'it's ok to persecute sexuality and gender' 😱 If you know a kid with an especially close friend, or who isn't solidly 'boyish' or 'girly' enough to gender-code to their teachers' satisfaction- please be their advocate now.😥🌈 1104
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's a reason those 'smart fridges' never took off. You trust AI to tell the supermarket what you 'need' so you can just open your door for a surprise delivery?! Also, what a wild thread for illustrating what intersectional academia looks like. Solidarity, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social 😱 ✊️ 071
Reposted by Rhea LiangFlosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Principals Yuriko Kajiya, Danbi Kim & Artists of Houston Balletin George Balanchine's Symphonie Concertante Photo by Teresa Wood 221
Reposted by Rhea LiangMike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026TFW you have 3 in the sin-bin but somehow you intercept the ball in a 1 vs 4 play and run 50m to score, only for it to be cancelled for another penalty and another sin-bin … 111
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#Straya eh? Sydney is invaded by large moths (2.5-3.5cm, or 1-1.4")- which are not to be disturbed because they're endangered. So, how to encourage them to move on? TURN OUT THE LIGHTS 😱. <Me, sitting in the dark listening to hundreds of tiny thumps on the walls> 😳 www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...nine.com.auResidents stunned as Sydney hit by swarm of thousands of bogong mothsHowever, experts are urging people not to harm the moths. 3131
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There may have been a bit of screaming in this household just now. 🎉 #NRLPanthersKnights 020
Reposted by Rhea LiangSolilequn @selwyndavis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026if anyone wanted a trad-wife, they better also be a surgeon. 131
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hooray for slightly shambolic discount stores when you need extra jars! Another batch of mulberry jam done. Very surgical tradwife, no? 🤣 2190
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just before dawn this morning I turned on the carport lights to discover six noisy miners use our self-seeded jacaranda as a night-time roost! Obvs I flicked the lights off again pretty smartly. 🤫💤 051
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'm always thankful for socialized healthcare when I read posts like this from the US. '2.5 days in the hospital with surgery for a rod & 4 screws' in Canada, Australia, the UK etc = zero bill to insurance and zero bill to the patient. We must always fight to keep socialized healthcare. ✊️ 1194
Reposted by Rhea LiangIain Moppett OBE @iainmoppett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thanks for sharing @liangrhea.bsky.social Good that this critique is coming from surgeons themselves. I suspect similar issues apply within my world (anaesthesia) and more broadly. Shout out to UK NICE who try to ensure that stuff we do has a clinical and cost-effectiveness base. #AnSky 051
Reposted by Rhea LiangCassiopeia7 @cassiopeia7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"What they share is an ideology that men ought to dominate women, that transgression of the natural gender order deserves punishment and that violence in service of restoring the natural gender order is legitimate." For sure, it's not just Australians who have this problem -- it's worldwide. 😔 183
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Full time! And one last question- why is the Brisbane Lions team song sung to the tune of the Marseillaise? 😳 #AFLnewbies 140
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How it's still going- three quarter time break: (Direct quotes) Hey that guy ran right off the field with the ball and just... played on? Most of the diversity is white players with tattoos. Lots of stadium ads from Spotlight. Must be lots of crafters in AFL. 🧶 🤣 #AFLnewbies 030
Reposted by Rhea LiangAlicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m distracted by the flock of seagulls still camped out at half time on the field completely unperturbed by the thousands of screaming humans and people running around them. 021
Reposted by Rhea LiangAlicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wow he jumped really high. That guy has pink shoes. Do you think his beard ever gets tugged? Why are the seagulls still there??? 111
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How it's still going (halfway, I think): (Direct quotes) SURELY that's a high tackle... with his groin 😳 Who are all these people suddenly running on and off the field? Wait- 'ball lost forward' doesn't seem to be a thing. Or offside, even. Aaargh so many ads 😖 🤣 #AFLnewbies 110
Reposted by Rhea LiangQuatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Misogyny is the gateway drug for men's extremism. From ISIS to groypers to venture capitalists. 041
Reposted by Rhea LiangSolilequn @selwyndavis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i'm not surprised at all. all these dark philosophies are connected. i see them all as having the root thought of owning another person. that owned person is now property, an object. that they have autonomy is offensive and threatening to the whole edifice 021
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How it's going: (Direct quotes) Why are they all running in circles? This is just a brawl turned into sport isn't it. Do you think the linespeople are taught to do it [goal or not] like that? What, they're on a break ALREADY? How long is a break? 🤣🤣🤣 #AFLnewbies 240
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I see it is nearly time for the annual 'what is even going ON' watching session with hubby 🤣 370
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is most likely a thyroglossal duct cyst, and I'm reposting not for #MedEd but to tell the general public that lumps in the neck are NOT suitable for the 'pop and squeeze' maneouvres that are popular on social media. Please see your GP for a referral to a surgeon. 2122
Reposted by Rhea LiangOfDragonflies @abitofearth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026YES!!! the yarn bombing of trees upsets me so much. They need air exchange to the bark and lichens, etc, need light. 121