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#morning #melbourne
Some hot air balloons 🎈 drifting past
Morning 😌 calm

😐 this is just sad when it’s completely preventable.

Pediatricians confront HHS in vaccine showdown And other biotech news brought to you by The Readout

The American Academy of Pediatrics has emerged as the chief institutional opponent to RFK Jr.'s vaccine policy overhaul.

The group is suing to restore the earlier childhood immunization schedule, and challenging changes to federal advisory panels. www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/b...

😐 well done to misinformation and anti vax 😕

JAMA Network Open article: "Chlorhexidine vs Povidone-Iodine and Incidence of Catheter-Related Infections A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" by Bertrand Drugeon, Gabor Mihala, and Jessica Schults, published February 12, 2026.

High-concentration chlorhexidine in isopropyl alcohol reduced catheter-related infection rates more than povidone-iodine or aqueous formulations, with alcoholic PVI and aqueous agents reserved for CHG or alcohol intolerance.

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The abstract deadline for the 2026 WFPICCS World Congress has been extended to 1 May.

More time to share your research, QI projects, and innovations in pediatric critical care.

🔬 Submit here: www.wfpiccs2026intensivecareasm.com/call-for-abs...

#WFPICCS #PedsICU #CriticalCare

And I was worried about going out in the rain this evening as my hair tries to take this style! And yet the cat wins for real style!

I knew nothing about snakes 🐍 in the UK, seemingly as all nature in Aus wants to kill me (ok some) it seems wise to know! lol 😂

Timeline cleanse.

Selfie of me on a country walk smiling. I'm wearing a black coat and a blue woolly hat and have long brown hair

I thought I’d say Hi 👋
I'm Jess, mum to 2 kids, lover of the outdoors.
Passionate about mental health & wellbeing.
I've had a somewhat 'squiggly' career- Paediatrician turned primary teacher.
Now educator, advocate, keynote speaker.

I've not been here for a while so please stop and say hi!

Greetings, how are you Colin? Nice to hear from you, what are you doing now, are you back up in Yorkshire focus or still doing GMC activities? I’m out in Melbourne in picu 🙂

I think I’ve just missed everyone. I kind of used everything less -now I’m not sure what everyone back home is doing. Which is a little sad as it was fun when there was a great paediatric UK and international feel on X. Shall just have to see? Or join linked in. So many platforms!

Photo of me in a blue jumpsuit standing posing on the stage in front of the iconic red and white TEDx Warrington letters

I shared my TEDx talk to my 22k followers on X and got 2 likes.
Yes 2 😢

Social media algorithms can make you feel strangely lonely.

I thought I'd see what it's like here instead.

The link's in my bio or below.
Join me for 6 mins as I talk about reconnecting with my inner child.

I feel like everyone left X and then I semi lost track as this doesn’t seem quite the same.
I was wondered what people use for conferences now, X used to be great for info and liaising and broadening life out/contacts, now I’m not sure what replaced it?

Toddler who was on ECMO as a newborn one year ago

Axial(left+coronal(right) T2 MRI shows diffuse thinning of grey matter+white matter with subsequent prominence of cerebral suci, subarachnoid space+lateral+third ventricles

#radiology #pediatrics #NICU #Neonatology #NeuroRadiology #Neurology

So true! lol

😟 oh this seems a little sad….i hope the music helped the mind and where your thoughts are. Hope you’re ok.

Thank you,
Addict of right sort!

Now is @drnickschindler.bsky.social here somewhere, I feel like it’s been so long he might be running a department by now.

Everyone is grown up and I’m still on my post cct holiday trying to do exams in aus. Becoming a geek. Study is fun 🤓

I saw Malvern and then realised you weren’t near me, everything in aus is in England too. Or shall we say many places are. Just not geographically with same relations of north or south.
Looks great….how is this only your first massage? I’m an addict. 💆‍♀️

I think I need to visit here more often, I never really worked out the X > 🦋 so very well and now I feel like I don’t know what anyone is doing. Instagram has not kept me up to date -though the northerners had snow and you seem to be having a great time.
Aus is sunny….all is good!

Thankfully not like this during regatta season……yikes 🚣‍♂️

Research Opportunities at the @rcpch.bsky.social!

Academic Trainees Day 2025 (6th November)
www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...

Music making in Strasbourg #musicandmedicine

Evening stroll to the tube after the ballet 🩰 #london #freezing views of the southbank and London eye ✨

US measles outlook is so bad health experts call for updating vaccine guidance Babies 6-11 months should get extra MMR dose for some domestic travel, experts say.

If your children are not vaccinated for measles, do it now.

Really.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Today's Paper of the Day is:

Serotonin syndrome—A focused review

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Today's Paper of the Day is:

Management of diabetic ketoacidosis in children

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The sun is out! I’m just heading to work, I seem to correlate with working when the suns out. I think it’s to protect my Celtic skin!
You should head down to the moomba festival, or head to river for 9pm fireworks 🎆
Lovely evening for arriving!

Looks great, still in Melbourne, also a great city and place to live. 👍