Health activist🌏 Sociology of joyist. Bird pal🦜, Armchair Astronomer, zesty nerd. I respect courage, integrity, honour. Member: Women's Honour Roll
Canberra, Australia
Joined April 2009
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Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
"GenAI Tool Reflection in Qualitative Data Analysis" - New in RDR - The researcher should assume a reflexive approach directed at the GenAI tool. Was nonverbal behavior & communication considered? What assumptions & biases are inherent in the tool? bit.ly/GenAItoolreflection
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Tasmania’s expert Scientific Advisory Committee recommends formally declaring Macquarie Harbour a ‘critical habitat’ for the endangered Maugean Skate. Tas Gov must act now to remove salmon from the harbour and protect the skate in its only refuge #savetheskate
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Kirsty Elson who creates small scilptures by upcycling driftwood and other found materials #WomensArt
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“My parents died years ago. I was very close to them. I still miss them terribly. I know I always will. I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about them, are - really and truly - still in existence somewhere. I wouldn't ask very much, just five or ten minutes a year, say, to tell them about their grandchildren, to catch them up on the latest news, to remind them that I love them.
There's a part of me - no matter how childish it sounds - that wonders how they are. "Is everything all right?" I want to ask. The last words I found myself saying to my father, at the moment of his death, were "Take care."
Sometimes I dream that I'm talking to my parents, and suddenly - still immersed in the dreamwork - I'm seized by the overpowering realization that they didn't really die, that it's all been some kind of horrible mistake.
Why, here they are, alive and well, my father making wry jokes, my mother earnestly advising me to wear a muffler because the weather is chilly. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.
So I don't guffaw at the woman who visits her husband's grave and chats him up every now and then, maybe on the anniversary of his death. It's not hard to understand. And if I have difficulties with the ontological status of who she's talking to, that's all right. That's not what this is about. This is about humans being human.”
― Carl Sagan
Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell and three other men have pleaded guilty to violent disorder over the August 2025 attack on Camp Sovereignty, with Sewell disputing claims the incident was an attack on Aboriginal people.
nit.com.au/28-10-2026/27223/…
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Cows found on Snapper Island in Far North Queensland national park abc.net.au/news/2026-10-28/t…
Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
"How bad would you feel if you were leading a government that was doing so poorly that your young citizens had to go overseas to get a hearing on what they wanted done?" - co-CEO Leanne Minshull speaking at a press conference with Generation Justice at Parliament House today.
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When you know there is work to be done, but you Just. Can’t. Be. Bothered.
Ruby August 2018 🐈🧡
#whiskersWednesday
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🌍 The 2026 Lancet Countdown report highlights the health opportunities of climate action. In its 10th year, it shows action is delivering benefits but it remains too slow to match growing health risks.
Read more: buff.ly/lBOdMuX
#LancetClimate26
ALT Cover of The Lancet 2026 Countdown report on health and climate change, featuring a hospital emergency sign and the headline “A decade of escalating health harms and a decisive moment for all.”
Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
Finally!
After a long time i‘ve edited the last shots. Here is the complete story of a butterfly (moth) in pictures.
Diacrisia sannio, the clouded buff.
🟠Orange (female)
🟡Yellow (male)
Way to go! 🌏❤️
An Aboriginal-led digital platform designed to improve maternity care for First Nations women and families has been released following a decade of research and collaboration with Elders, communities and healthcare professionals.
nit.com.au/27-10-2026/27190/…
#IndigenousHealth
Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
An Aboriginal-led digital platform designed to improve maternity care for First Nations women and families has been released following a decade of research and collaboration with Elders, communities and healthcare professionals.
nit.com.au/27-10-2026/27190/…
#IndigenousHealth
Dr. Ann Lawless retweeted
The biggest mistake tourists make in Japan is dragging a fifty-pound suitcase up and down subway stairs.
Watch how Japanese travelers board the bullet train. They walk on with a cup of green tea, a small shoulder bag, and both hands free.
Where is their luggage? It is already in the next city, waiting for them.
In Japan, the system is called Takkyubin, recognizable everywhere by a logo of a mother black cat carrying her kitten gently in her mouth.
When you check out of your hotel in Tokyo at eight in the morning, you hand your heavy suitcase to the front desk, fill out a tiny slip, and pay about twenty dollars. You can even send it straight from the corner convenience store.
Then you spend the entire day wandering through mountain temples or eating street food with nothing on your back.
When you walk into your traditional inn in Kyoto that evening, your suitcase is already standing neatly in your room, wiped clean, with the handle turned toward you.
In fifty years of handling millions of bags a year, lost luggage is virtually unheard of.
A society runs smoothly when you can hand your belongings to a stranger at a convenience store and know they will beat you to your hotel.
