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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 2h

Totally! And the bottom of it is just begging for a naughty kid to grab hold and pull 😱

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Peta says bring back Łink @petabytes.bsky.social · 3h

Imagining someone in their finery catching a heel on that tulle and taking a sixer down the stairs.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 4h

I'm trying not think about a similar task I have to do, until after the Bledisloe Cup game today. We are hosting a Kiwiana expat party 🤗🏉🥝

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That Old Broadbean @thatoldbear.bsky.social · 23h

this is why I no longer call it Artificial Intelligence - it's Superficial Intelligence.

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HeatherLoggheMD.bsky.social @heatherlogghemd.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve never understood why surgery was considered men’s work when women have spent centuries stitching, mending, and piecing intricate things together for both beauty and function. As if somehow those skills became masculine when the material was human tissue. #ILookLikeASurgeon

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 4h

Totally agree. Brains won't break if you make them work hard... though they might ache for a while 🤣.

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Professor Asha Rao @asharao.bsky.social · 18h

I am encouraging students to invest in human intelligence- their own!!

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 4h

Why yes, I *am* putting an inlay mesh into my backpack repair, why do you ask? 🤣🪡🧵 Tell me again why women were ever considered 'unsuited' to being surgeons? 🤣 #GenderBias #ILookLikeASurgeon #DiversityAndInclusion

Pic of inside of repair. A short piece of black bias binding is being stitched over the join between a grey zip and a blue canvas backpack.

How it's looking on the outside. It's called blindstitch because it's nearly invisible ie. the seam between blue canvas + grey zip appears as a continuous line without a noticeable change where the old one ends and the new one begins. The only clue is the faint outline of the patch around it- because, dammit, there's no skin layer to close over and hide the internal repair, like we do on people.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 4h

After a drought lasting several months, it's beautiful to see the garden holding onto the last drops from overnight rain. A little more rain is forecast in the next day or two- but we really need a deluge. 😬🙏🌧 #gardening

A yellow flower about to unfurl, with surface raindrops

Tiny pink and white flowers covered in little half-domes of water

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

What I find hilarious about AI is that it is definitely "A", but lacks as much "I" as anyone who would like to avoid broken bones on a staircase. Caveat utilitor. In our academic and daily use the same. 🙏🤣

A Temu advertisement purportedly showing a staircase decorated for a formal occasion with flower bouquets and draped chiffon on the bannisters, except that this also includes giant matching drifts of chiffon down the treads of the stairs. In other words, a slippery slide, only chiffon.

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Is this bumblebee knitting?🧶 Female bumblebees collect pollen by brushing the fine grains out of their hair and into the pollen baskets on their hind legs. Still, how cute would it be to see bumblebee queens wrapped in tiny woolly jumpers as they settle down to hibernate over winter?

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I just don't understand what teachers think they achieve enforcing 'school rules' in the closing weeks of year 12. They really need to get out a bit more. 😖

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

CW assault and sexual violence themes Highly recommend this awesome song that outlines how the pattern builds up for women from childhood and is reinforced by people all around them. It is sad / funny / enraged / empowered in just the right amounts >> fringewivesclub.bandcamp.com/track/change...

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Change It Up, by Fringe Wives Club

from the album Glittery Clittery

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Convergent industrial evolution! So many similarities between the actuators of animatronic puppets and robotic surgery. Finger loops, damping for tremor/unintended movement, master-slave configuration, calibrated scaling of movements... ok I'm a nerd. Go see the exhibition! 🤗🙏

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

As for #AI, probably one of the strongest and most sensible statements I've seen so far, both philosophically and clinically 👏👏👏-

Artificial intelligence
The ABC8 panel recognizes the growing impact of artificial intelligence in oncology but considers that its current role should be to support, rather than replace, clinical decision-making. Artificial intelligence should serve as an information enabler, assisting clinicians in synthesizing increasingly complex clinical information and facilitating treatment discussions. Final therapeutic decisions should always remain the responsibility of the multidisciplinary team and be made in partnership with informed patients, considering individual clinical circumstances, patient preferences, values and goals of care.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Many thanks to Prof Fatima Cardoso and ABC Global Alliance then, for the immense work that goes into each iteration of the International Consensus Guidelines for the management of advanced breast cancer, now released in its 8th edition (ABC8 Guidelines)- www.thebreastonline.com/article/S096...

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, with all the emphasis on early detection, let's not forget about advanced breast cancer (ABC). Despite the name, 'advanced' breast cancer can last a decade or more for some patients... and for other patients it can be tragically short.💔

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

She is magnificent ❤️❤️❤️

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Right???

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This young man has his first film about to be launched at the world’s biggest documentary film festival. I saw a rough cut. It is beautiful. He should have been Australian. His humanitarian visa app came with scholarship offer from Monash university & #Auspol festival.idfa.nl/en/film/f0ac...

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Hazara Town (2026) | IDFA Festival

Hazara Town is a neighborhood in the Pakistani city of Quetta which got its name because it’s home to so many members of the Hazara ethnic group. Many of them fled Afghanistan, where Hazara have...

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A classical dancer and a martial artist discuss how their art relates to their work as surgeons! Come and join me and David O'Regan next Monday 19th Oct at 2100 Malaysia time (=2300 AEDT, midnight AEST, 1400 BST). Hosted on the Echo platform- register here- iecho.org/hub/ORG17422...?

What can surgery learn from the ballet studio-and the dojo?

Join BBASS on 19 October 2026 at 2100 hrs Malaysiatime (GMT+8) for a special session with Associate Professor Rhea Liang: surgeon, medical educator, systems-change leader- and
practising ballerina.

Using the mirror as both a practical tool and a metaphor, we will explore posture, ergonomics and the physical demands of operating while asking how reflection-in action and on action- can help us recognise, correct and continually improve our practice.

Rhea will also reflect on the
realities of a career as a woman in surgery, the prejudice and barriers she has faced, and what must change to build a more equitable, respectful and inclusive surgical culture.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The proof is in Cal! She has so much personhood it's contagious 🤗❤️

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I went back to the roasted sweet potato guy 3 times. It made me so nostalgic for childhood! And also the candied fruit skewers, ate lots of those.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Eeek 😬. I started pushing back when I was about 15 I think- the skirts got VERY short, and the hair was permed into a near-Afro for a bit. The development of a sense of personhood is so important.

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And she is so lucky to have you. I had no body autonomy as a child and teen- my mother actually said it was her body until I was 18? So messed up…

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ballbd.bsky.social @ballbd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That’s a cool piercing! I always cringe at adults trying to enforce silly rules about how people should look, and it is particularly weird when the enforcer is male.

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Dr Mel T @drmel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I will DIE on this hill. My 14 / 15 yo has tried to advocate against bathroom monitoring at her UK school with her WOMEN teachers shutting her down. Which really PISSES ME OFF, no end.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ah well, you know me 😉. Haven't managed to convince anyone to publish it yet, but we'll keep trying.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

('Go' = watch on the telly. We're not *that* fanatical 🤣)

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We get to go again this Saturday! I'm very excited. 🤗🎉

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Free would be good; but I wouldn't put them in bathroom dispensers.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Remember when #PeriodPoverty was framed as an inequity affecting young women, and how hard we had to fight patriarchal systems to get period products into schools and workplaces? This is the next challenge- recognition that it's not just periods, it's continence as well. ✊️ #HealthEquity

Poise-branded incontinence liners in a 'period products' basket in a workplace bathroom

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Such small kingdoms they have. Their loss. Our children are magnificent. ❤️

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We got the big stinkeye from the primary school principal when our son turned up to graduation with a (very neat, not-at-all controversial) 'Ronaldo' style. Our boy looked cool as hell. The principal was ropable. We just smiled.

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Professor Asha Rao @asharao.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My mum loved to put flowers in my hair on the festival days - about twice a year. The teachers insisted I take them off!

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I know the feeling. Every year we would dutifully attend their festivals- Easter, Xmas etc. But come Chinese New Year, we'd rush to put on our outfits and complete the traditions before changing back into school uniforms for the rest of the day. Our festivals didn't count. 😖

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Shout out to my two regs Dr Xinlin Chin and Dr Arun Mangalath Anil presenting their research at the Australasian International Breast Congress. Firstly being selected (very competitive!) and secondly standing up being scrutinised by seniors. So very proud of them. 🤗👏 #MedEd

Xinlin (Lynn) standing next to her poster examining progestins in breast cancer Sorvice

Arun standing next to his poster examining fibroadenoma in a transgender woman

Arun and Lynn attending one of the conference sessions.

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Solilequn @selwyndavis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

at my daighters ex school the vice principle had a draw of consficated jewellery he would show to a girl as he confiscated her jewellery. he's a fucking sicko.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And there are always far more rules for girls than for boys. Jewellery, makeup, hair, nails, skirt length, sock height, shoe heel height (!) etc.

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Professor Asha Rao @asharao.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yes, they always seem to sweat the small things. Aiming to belittle, and thus is starts 😟

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As a school prefect, we each had to take our turn on the uniform roster, policing sock heights, skirt heights, hair ribbon colours etc. It's only in retrospect I realise how damaging that was for role modeling, school culture, internalised misogyny etc.

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If there's one thing petty teachers/principal's LOVE more than anything else, it's enforcing pointless 'rules'. Petty dictator Principal at local HS was absolutely rabid for sock enforcement.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Highly recommend Pride and Prejudice (Sort Of) currently playing at @QPAC if you enjoy classics as modern commentary. But not if you're like the sourpuss pair next to me who kept whispering 'they missed a bit' and 'that line's not in the book'. 🙄 www.qpac.com.au/whats-on/202...

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Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) | Playhouse, QPAC

The five-star comedy sensation Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is coming to QPAC’s Playhouse as five women bring Austen’s world of love and chaos to life.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

why do people freak out about Aussie spiders dropping onto them when they could go to Aotearoa NZ and have this gorgeous she-beastie dropping onto them? 😍

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Answer- the Swedish Chef was originally called Omar and debuted as 'the Swedish Chef' in a television pilot of The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, 1975. 😳🤣 Also look! Big Bird! Mr Snuffleupagus! The Doozers of Fraggle Rock! 🤗❤️

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The 'Swedish Chef' was originally called what and debuted where?! 🤯🤣 (answers in next post). Don't miss the massive Jim Henson exhibition at QAGOMA www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibition/m.... It's brilliant. 🤩

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