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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 · 04/10/2026
I'm glad I plucked up the courage to go for it. Because it was quite wet it meant the people at the Dept of Health stand had nothing better to do than talk to me 😂 I've been trying to tell the Dept about my work for years but maybe this might finally be the time the dementia branch hear about it? 🥹
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was a bit nervous about doing this at seniors festival yesterday but actually I had some great feedback & engagement from peeps. They voted for their top 3 dementia-friendly eyecare pathway characteristics as identified via the CFIR implementation framework. #ppi #consumerengagement #academicsky
Me with brown hair and dark glasses wearing a blue windproof jacket holding up a sign that says "A dementia-friendly eyecare pathway should..." With seniors festival stage in the background.Picture of the board labelled "a dementia-friendly eyecare pathway should..." With stars beside each statement stuck on there by members of the public and seniors festival stallholders.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oof.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/09/2026
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. Specialists in education and cognition have useful tips on how to stay cognitively sharp in the age of AI, according to a feature in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪
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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Time to quit as many as possible 8D
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is good. I wrote a lot during the time I was waiting to find out if I had another two years at Unimelb or not.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
*screams quietly*
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Mooooood
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I hate editorial manager sooooo much
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I'm sure I will eventually get to the next paragraph after I spent another 4 hours fucking around with the 8 paragraphs that come before #academicsky
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I'm excited about the funding app I just put in! I met lovely Lesley on the Australian Association of Gerontology Forums 2 years ago and we've been slowly scoping out this project around Lesley's PhD work, my unemployment + new job etc. I really hope we get it and can do some stuff! 😁 #AcademicSky
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 22/05/2026
Cleve Moler has passed away #neuroskyence #academicsky #sensorimotor www.mathworks.com/company/abou...
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Yeeeeah. I'm not a prof, so not the same volume of concern, but I'm also a solo PI bringing in money to work with fellow postdocs on insecure contracts, who are all awesome humans with young families. We're all using these opportunities to build up our karma points for the future 😅
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Yeah it's pretty awful. She was a solo PI with many bright dependents just like you, but if you don't feel like you have any safety net, it's hard to focus on just getting good science done. When you get to the point that you're losing sleep over it, something's gotta give. Grant fomo is too real 🫠
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Feeling this right now. Take care of yourself! Someone I know had to take stress leave and ended up just closing their whole lab and going back to industry. Their host institution withdrew funding for their lab on the basis they were getting enough grants to become self-sufficient... big mistake.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I am developing a deep-seated hatred of AI generated infographics. The coloured pencil/watercolour look is such a giveaway and the information is all laid out in the same kind of way, which isn't even that useful from a sci comm perspective. I am just a grumpy old woman researcher having a vent lol
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Freddy Tran Nager @professorfreddy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Attn: higher-ed colleagues. This frighteningly accurate "Grade Bump Request Form" is circulating online. In case you haven't seen it yet, be sure to download it here. You're welcome. #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #teaching
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Today one of the PhD students in our unit was practicing their 3min thesis presentation. They had ChatGPT'd their summary slide and one of their supervisor's first feedback points was "prompt to add legs pls" - poor bloke's torso had merged with the hospital bed 🤣 #AcademicSky
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Le sigh. Some days I'm reminded that universities can be a terrible place to try and do dementia research.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Ahh it's that time of the year when I get lots of enquiries from prospective students about whether I can supervise PhDs, and I tell them their doctorate will outlast whatever contract I'm on 🙃 #AcademicSky
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Your review is both painful and accurate. Damn you! (but also thanks for your time and effort...I know that constructive [scathing] criticism takes time 😂) #PsychSciSki #AcademicSky
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Rachel AU @rachsinanan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Read my new post yet on my PhD journey? #academicsky #ageing #aging #digitalhealthliteracy
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Interesting experience using VIC Virtual ED at 3am... Nice service to have. My nurse listened to me but she clearly wasn't up to date on asthma management which is a bit bad when it's one of the conditions they recommend you use it for.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
WTB functional pair of lungs
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I can't believe I'm sick again for the THIRD time in like a month dsfadgjlk I am so over it
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I know a lot of researchers who should know AAT exists. “A disabled-led, unapologetically intersectional transcription and closed captioning social enterprise offering transcription support for researchers, by researchers.”
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Someone used it for a project I was involved in. I'll be honest, yes, it can sometimes find papers humans might miss, but it's incredibly bland in terms of output.
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Frédéric Blanc @fredericblanc.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Professor John-Paul Taylor, professor of Translational Dementia Research, Newcastle “This award reflects the power of sustained team science - built on the vision of early pioneers and driven forward by the creativity and commitment of today’s clinicians and researchers at Newcastle University.👍
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Replace 'job' with grant and it's not all that different either 😣
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Kristen Wixx @kristenwixx.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Ummm... Excuse me, can I help you find something?
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Well when I spotted this clip in the #ADRF2025 highlights video by ADNeT, I couldn't resist turning it into a gif 😂 If you're presenting a poster at #ADRF2026 you've gotta manifest this energy!! Many fab dementia researchers in this highlights video, check it out! #AcademicSky youtu.be/RxAAkM1AOnc
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Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I HAVE SUBMITTED A GRANT APPLICATION & IT IS GLORIOUS #academicsky
Dear grant applicant,

Thank you for submitting your grant application ES 760293 with project title KebabChronicles - The cultural history of the Norwegian kebab.
The application has been received 2/27/26 4:11 PM.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It was a crapshoot to begin with 🤷‍♀️
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@arvoinfo.bsky.social‬ @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
You don’t see #VisionResearch. But it sees you. Most of us don’t think about vision research. But millions live every day with the impact of it—when it’s there, and when it’s not. bit.ly/4qAuCst #SeeWhatMatters #FundFederalVisionResearch @arvoinfo.bsky.social
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See What Matters - C Ross Ethier
YouTube video by arvoinfo
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Alicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This reminds me of a recent lecture by @carlrmay.bsky.social in which he highlighted the transfer of #labour from #healthcare services to care recipients and families. If we designed and resourced services better would care navigation be necessary? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UP4A6M...
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The Work Undertaken by Patients and Their Families Whilst in the Emergency Department
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Looking after these two mischief-makers at the moment!
Calico cat and medium hair ginger and white cat sat in front of a scratching post looking off-camera
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Dr Lynette Pretorius @drlpretorius.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Results of the Australian university census on staff wellbeing. All universities recorded high or very high risk psychosocial climates. 76% of university staff reported high- to very high-risk levels of psychosocial safety: more than double the general workforce. #AcademicSky #AcademicMentalHealth
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Ngl I do kinda love it when you come across really elegant papers like these - I was reading one from the DeAngelis lab just the other day pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41469395/ just a nicely done experiment
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Pahahahaha Admittedly I'm still citing Robert Hess' 1978 amblyopia gratings drawing paper 😅 Took me months to get it back when I was doing my PhD, gotta milk it for every ounce of value!!
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
My very earnest student told me last week that she couldn't believe I was turning 40 this year and thought I was younger. I guess sometimes you just gotta take that W on the chin 😂
media.tenor.com
a man in a red hoodie stands next to a horse
Alt: Hooray ... Question mark?
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
What's the word? Rekt ☠️ Kids are brutal. I remember my mum going to have her hair done and she got it dyed a bit and both me and my bro were like omg why we liked it how it was with the lighter bits in it, couldn't understand why she got mad. The lighter bits were grey 😂 We were like 12? Savage.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Ahhh yes the roulette of "is the smart gate going to randomly hate on my particular passport/face for no real reason?"
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Glad you made it in one piece!
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Ahh yes, the eternal wait for baggage at Melbourne Airport is certainly the reality check nobody wanted 😣 Welcome back!
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My friend saw him live in Melbourne recently. He complained. A lot.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Ugh, bossman said to me a few days ago that I should apply for some grants this year like NHMRC - he is right but also ugh 😣 Every NHMRC EL Investigator grant workshop I've been to has left me pretty depresso espresso about even trying. They're sooo hard to get and I am not a good fit. #AcademicSky
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shibs @drshibley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
From Prof Muireann Irish.
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Keep taking good care of yourself! 😁
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NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) @nihrspcr.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
SPCR Masterclass: Let’s talk dementia 🗓️ Tues, 17 Feb 2026 🕚 12noon to 1pm 💡 Supporting communication in research partnerships involving people with dementia 🔗 bit.ly/44pnKF0 @nihrsphr.bsky.social @nihrsscr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk
SPCR Masterclass: Let’s talk dementia
🗓️ Tues, 17 Feb 2026
🕚 12noon to 1pm
💡 Supporting communication in research partnerships involving people with dementia

🔗 bit.ly/44pnKF0

@nihrsphr.bsky.social 
@nihrsscr.bsky.social 
@sapc.ac.uk
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Marianne Piano @mporthoptics.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by my own data right now 😅
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