Kim Foster

Your graduate year is underway and there’s a lot to learn. Expect moments of overwhelm, but also real rewards. These ideas from Nurse Midwife Health Program Australia can help you survive – and even thrive. bit.ly/4rxLtex

Close the Gap Campaign - Please join us for the online launch of the 2026 Close the Gap Report Community Voices: The Pathway to Justice, Equality and Healing. What will it take to turn Closing the Gap commitments into real change? @6f616a67-df65-45d0-be84-43ff34540948" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1790e0e9…

Join our team! #PhD scholarships applications due in April & October to lead translational research: from unpacking the origins & correlates of addiction, trialling new treatments or communicating cannabis potency tiny.cc/1ycz001 Email adddprogram@gmail.com if interested!

Incredible news in medicine! New treatment for one of the cruellest neurodegenerative conditions - Huntington’s Disease - has resulted in 75% slowing down of disease progression, allowing patients to go back to work and potentially gain decades of life 🙏 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I caught myself rewriting my student's entire introduction last year. Again. For the third time that month. That's when it hit me: The skills that made me productive are now making me a bottleneck. Here's the mid-career trap nobody warns you about:

The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet's future. @Brooks_Rob @Kylie_Walker1 @OurANU @UNSW theconversation.com/emma-johnston-…

Men have murdered 10 women this month, but the silence is so deafening it feels like I am screaming into a void. Early this morning, police found a woman stabbed to death at her home in Quakers Hill, NSW. A man was found outside the property with critical injuries. Another man went to a local police station and has since been arrested. She is the 10th woman killed in December, the 73rd Australian woman killed this year and the 178th woman killed since January 1 of 2024. ❤️ AustralianFemicideWatch.org

Childhood Trauma and Recent Stressors Rarely Addressed; ECT Given Instead madintheuk.com/2025/12/childh… via @MITUKTeam

If you support Ferguson and Tingle please like and share this post In my opinion these two are balanced when reporting or hosting shows .. Media like @SkyNewsAust wants to control all media, we must not let them . #auspol

ABC Managing Director Hugh Marks: Statement on Laura Tingle and Sarah Ferguson abc.net.au/about/media-ce… Thank god the ABC has abandoned knee jerk reaction to powerful distorted vested interests. The management has learned a lot from the Lattouf travesty.

Trauma and Violence Informed Care: A Concept Analysis and Implications for Mental Health Nursing Practice - Isobel - 2025 - International Journal of Mental Health Nursing - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in…

A few of my favourite words from the season. Some are beautiful, others might be necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. twowords2.page.link/play

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation: thetimes.com/article/7eed8b…

In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection letter from Nature. His findings were not "a sufficient advance in our understanding". 27 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery. Don't lose faith in the things you believe in.

We can only care for others when we first take care of our own wellbeing. The restorative resilience model of clinical supervision offers a valuable approach for nurses, midwives and care-workers. Read more in the ANMJ - bit.ly/4owJI0k

This fantastic project from Naomi Lynch @UniOfSurrey is looking to understand how front line workers help parents who self harm. Please share with your networks.

For those interested. This research was predominantly self funded. There has been no desire from government at any level to undertake any research on the prevalence of mental ill health and suicide behaviours amongst Indigenous people-so I did it myself. It doesn’t help that my assessment tools that are the only culturally and clinically valid screening tools at risk Aboriginal youth have been completely and deliberately excluded from every single best practice review into Indigenous suicide prevention. Politics and Indigenous suicide prevention should never mix. Given that this data is so fundamental to closing the gap on Indigenous suicides -which escalate every year- everyone in the community should be rightly asking what those with millions in funding in this area are doing with that funding. I can’t be the only one calling for accountability?

Diane Keaton has died at the age of 79. We were the richer for her creative life and are the poorer for her loss. @ACUmedia theconversation.com/diane-keaton-t…

Join us on 15 October from 1230pm-130pm for - Working Well: Strengthening Wellbeing in the Helping Professions - Insights from Nursing and Education, the second lecture in the Aquero Lecture Series 2025. Learn more and register now: bit.ly/3I6DbK8

@Pleasure_Lab Hard work. And collaboration. And the luxury of being in a research-only role 🤷‍♀️

I finally started writing up a new paper today How the hell do you people pump out 10 or 20 a year??? #AcademicTwitter