Atlantic puffins taking a break after returning from fishing, beaks filled with sand eels, Before returning to their underground burrows to feed their pufflings ♥️ #Bird #Nature #Photography 📸 Be more #puffin #FarneIslands #UK @nationaltrust.org.uk

👏 We had a brilliant, engaging day at @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social Research Centre Conference “Meeting the challenges in #PalliativeCare #Research: Data, Delivery & Diversity at @hyms.ac.uk Grateful to have the opportunity to present my #PhD work on #Inequalities in #lung disease 🫁📊

🔴 #Red4Research -Wearing red today to show appreciation to everyone who makes #research possible- from patients, support staff to researchers 👏 👏 👏 👏🫁 Extremely grateful to have an @nihr.bsky.social Fellowship to follow my dreams of doing a #PhD -on #inequalities in #lung disease 👩🏼‍⚕️

🫁📚 Great talks and discussions, including tackling #inequalities in care for people with #ILD at todays Northern ILD Education day in Newcastle 🙌 Also further appreciation of the brilliant goal-orientated care provided by OTs, physios & pharmacists 👏 #PulmonaryFibrosis #PalliPulm

When I am up to my neck in a quagmire of stress and disappointment - #photography always helps, especially when its the chance spotting of this beautiful little #bird outside my office window 📸 #Nature #NeverGiveUp

Our third trip to beautiful Japan 🇯🇵♥️ and we don’t want to leave….

Genuinely so excited to see our paper exploring “ #PalliativeMedicine in 2050: How will people live the last part of life” 📖 Thank you @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this special themed edition of @rcphysicians.bsky.social @futurehealthj.bsky.social 📚

Thanks so much for inviting me to share our #SystematicReview on #Inequalities in #PalliativeCare in #Lung disease today - #LungCancer, #Mesothelioma #COPD #ILD 🫁 🫁 🫁 🫁 Great to hear about all the other inspiring #PalliativeCare #Research @peolcsw.bsky.social 🙌 @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

There’s always more work to do It feels impossible to take a break This weekend includes appraisal paperwork that there’s zero time to do in work time Really appreciate having someone *make* me take a break from it Today it was really mindful to take a calligraphy lesson ♥️ to keep #Burnout at bay

Line up of beautiful #birds in my garden today 📷 🌳 #Bluetit #Robin #Coaltit #GardenWatch #Bird #Photography

Absolutely love my birthday gift 🎁 A solar ☀️ powered camera bird feeder- live link to the bird visitors to my garden 📸 🪏🌳 First #robin visitor for breakfast ♥️ #BirdWatch #Bird #Photography #Birds #Nature #Birdfy @birdfybynetvue.bsky.social

Incredibly busy week 🎂🎂 Birthday cakes x2 🗞️ 📰 In the local news x2 📝 ✍️ Paper revisions x2 👩🏼‍💻😑 NHS ethics/IRAS 🤒👧🏼 Sick child off school 🏥🏃‍♀️Many stairs climbed Not enough time for my new “Publish or Perish” board game ♟️😭 Very tired 😴☕️🪫

My #SystematicReview was a real labour of love- fuelled by hundreds of mugs of coffee- and now it’s on its own MUG! ☕️🥰 Featuring the #MetaAnalysis forest plots 🌳 - produced in Stata 💻 one of my favourite new skills 🌟 Absolutely love the mug thank you @profbambra.bsky.social ☕️🎁 🙌 #MugMotivation 😆

Snow + frost for the 1st #Monday commute of the year ❄️🥶

We enjoyed the fireworks in Newcastle at 6pm 🕕😂

Reflecting on what a phenomenal year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ has been! 🎂40th birthday trip to Easter Island🗿🇨🇱 📖✍️Making meaningful connections & co-authoring 11 publications (5 first author)+ book chapters 🏆Winning the Lancet Wakley prize 👩🏻‍🎓Reaching the HALF WAY point of my PhD- 2 years to go 🏋🏻‍♀️ My fitness journey

Happy #NewYear! 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🍾🥂

There’s only three of us, so plenty of Colin left (including the head because we work from the bottom backwards, always feel guilty eating the face! 😂)

🎄Belatedly celebrating Christmas Day today and its finally time for festive Colin the caterpillar 🍰🥳 #MerryChristmas 🎅🏻 🎁

My girlfriend embroiders the 12 days of Christmas and gives me one each year. We are on our 6th Christmas 🧵 🪡 Six more to go until I get the complete set….

Not much to spot today. The birds must have taken Christmas off…..

🏆 Its been the biggest honour of my life to win The Lancet 2025 Wakley Prize and have my essay published in the final @thelancet.com of the year 📖 🤩 It was the perfect #Christmas present to receive the paper edition, as a surprise delivery yesterday 🚚 📦 @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

🎄Got to take a festive pause on that #PhD in Medical Science to dedicate my time to building Marie Curie’s lab 👩🏼‍🔬🧪 ….and some DNA 🧬🔬🤓 #WomenInSTEM #LEGO #MerryChristmas 🥰

📣Out now in Lancet’s @eclinicalmed.bsky.social 🫁The inverse #PalliativeCare law in advanced lung disease:mixed-methods #SystematicReview & #MetaAnalysis -1st paper from my #PhD provides evidence of #Inqualities in #lung disease @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✍️ I love learning the craft of writing 📕 Really recommend this #book to dip in and out of for hints and tips #PhD #Mumademia

What a week! Beautiful sun rising over #Newcastle this morning 🌅

🏆Honoured to win the Dorothy Robson prize for #PalliativeMedicine at @hyms.ac.uk for an abstract -from my #PhD research on #Inequalities in access to #PalliativeCare in lung disease - thank you ☺️ 🫁 @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social @jonathankoffman.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social

🏥👩🏼‍⚕️Monday: Busy day in the hospital being a #PalliativeMedicine consultant in the north-east 👩🏻‍🎓✍️ Tuesday: Beautiful winters day on @hyms.ac.uk campus being a #PhD researcher - today focusing on how to write a thesis 📝 Love having a varied week of clinical & #research @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

Mini-milestones unlocked today 🔓 🎉Successful 1st Thesis Progression Panel. Great to present the last 2 years of my #PhD #research & have meaningful discussion 🏋🏻‍♀️When I started my PhD, I decided it was time to improve fitness. Weight-lifting & boxing has helped & I finally reached 70kg 🎯 (from 95kg)

Such a buzz in the room as people arrived from all over the country for todays #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator 🎉 @pri-uk.bsky.social Wonderful to see people in real life Thank you for coming to my home city 🤗 #Newcastle (sorry about the weather ☔️) I’ve gone away feeling inspired 🥰