Returning from mat leave and attempting to catch up on 12 months of reading after being up 2-5am with a sick babe is NOT easy! How do people keep their eyes open? Send the good coffee. Via an IV.

I’ve seen efforts to support staff who are parents, but have yet to see support for students.Waiting until people are staff to provide support does little to address the selective attrition of women in academic career progression because many leave well before receiving a salary.

At 34 weeks pregnant in lockdown with a three y.o. I wasn’t sure I’d make it, but here we are - thesis submitted! @MichelleMoulds this thesis spanned four pregnancies between us! Thank you for being the best mentor I could have asked for.

Taking some time to read the words of First Nations people today. Also trying to learn how to talk to my 3y.o. about our colonial past/present and what 26th Jan means.

We need to protect ALL of our kids. Utter disbelief. I cannot fathom how this is possibly occurring in 2022. Discrimination already impacts the mental health and well-being of LGBTQIA+ kids. Do we need to add legally sanctioned discrimination to that?

We're still looking for practitioners to share their experiences of delivering suicide safety planning!! Thank you to all the lived experience respondents - v grateful and humbled ❤️ Really looking forward to combing the wisdom from both perspectives to see how we can do more!

Enjoyed chatting about imagery and mental health at the Black Dog Institute 2023 Research Showcase this morning alongside other fabulous researchers. Watch the recordings on our website!

Have you experienced mental images about suicide? Share your insights to help us develop an intervention to help people manage these images. Learn more and get involved:  bit.ly/3SawKbC Project (HC230455) approved by UNSW HREC.

We Fiona Shand Prof Pete McEvoy @JulieLinJi Black Dog Institute are launching a study investigating mental images about suicide - please share with your networks!

Enjoyed talking about aftercare services at the SMHR conference in Perth today and hearing from many wonderful researchers all week #SMHR2023

Bearing witness poetically mh.bmj.com/content/early/… Thanks Professor Deborah Lupton @dalupton.bsky.social for your thoughtful contribution to this article!

For three days while my child has been in hospital we wore respirators (and my very unwell 5yo wore a #flomask without complaint), because the hospital couldn’t provide #cleanair to keep them safe. It’s not that hard.

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