Robert Culshaw

A bubbly focaccia I've made.

Pre-ferment post-oven.

Unexpectedly being called a 'fucking wanker' by a patient isn't great, but when they're intubated, ventilated, slightly sedated, and communicating through mouthing words and mime you've got to admire their tenacity.

Preach! (Dad is chuffed with the shout out)
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'He's got the ice pack on his groin there, so it's possibly not the old shoulder injury.'

Rest in peace, Ray.

Back pain flare up has me lying on the living room floor.
Maybe the patient moving and handling structure of 'needs four people to roll, or two people and Rob' needs review.

YouTube video by Balliol College, Oxford Mind The Gap - Making the Transition from A Level to Degree Level English

In case it is of any use, I recently did a recorded talk for @ballioloxford.bsky.social Access & Outreach about transitioning from A-Level to undergraduate English Literature study, aimed at Year 11s and 12s. Do share if it is of any use to students/ teachers/ academics or anyone else!

I had a great time at @imc-leeds.bsky.social presenting my ideas about folk horror and John Mirk's Festial exempla (more to come, hopefully...)

Ignore that I spelled example wrong in my slide. That was to keep the audience on their toes, obviously.

"The first person to respond was fellow passenger Adrian Heili, who had served as a combat medic during the Kosovo war." This is an incredible story.

Get mirk'd by @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social at the Leeds Medieval Congress!

Sutton Trust research has consistently shown that the most significant impact on graduate income remains… their parental income and upbringing. We still have a class system in this country and even the most universal and comprehensive university system would not entirely undo that!

Me, in navy blue scrubs, at chaise in the corner of the staff room ~03.00 on night duty. I have a cup of tea, I look displeased. The walls of the staff room and the box seating are various colours, similar to vomitus aspirate.

A colleague took this surprisingly atmospheric photograph of me in the early hours on shift this morning. This is nursing.

A vintage book page with the letter "N" in red and text that reads, "are the nurses, the right sort of wenches, to look after lads who are back from the trenches"

Illustration from a book showing a Red Cross VAD serving a drink to a reclining soldier

"'N' are the Nurses, the right sort of wenches..." wrote Joyce Dennys, H. Cordon and M. C. Tindall in 1916.

This picture book satirises life in WW1 Army Hospital. Joyce Dennys, its illustrator, had volunteered as a VAD, and had even illustrated VAD recruitment posters. (🧵1/3) #HistNursing

I thought it was Phil from Time Team

Back from a mini break in Exmoor. What an amazing place.

personally I think it's far more objectionable to refer to a pregnant 13-year-old as a 'woman' than to refer to a cis woman as a 'person', but what do I know

Image of a Kellogg's kids cereal variety pack.

I (F, 29) and my partner (M, 31) are going on holiday tomorrow. And you know what that means.

A small green badge affixed to my Oxford ID that states I am a critical care nurse with advanced life support, cos I am like.

The new addition to my University badge has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the new addition to my University badge

Congratulations Doctor!!!

A large tray of focaccia bread straight from the oven.

I still do focaccia.

New report out today!
A review of the quality of rehabilitation care after an ICU admission: ncepod.org.uk/2025icur.html @Davido744 @BACCNUK @ICS_updates
@theRCOT @thecsp @BDA_Dietitians @rcgp
@RCSLT @FICMNews
@ICUsteps @UKCCNA
@RCoANews @GeriSoc @hqip.bsky.social

Intubate, ventilate, paralyse, prone, dex. Repeated ad nauseum. Incredible effort and now the standard.

Book Curses by Eleanor Baker Excommunication, hanging, and being cooked in a frying pan are just some of the punishments to dissuade potential book thieves c...

★ Excommunication, hanging, and being cooked in a frying pan are just some of the punishments to dissuade potential book thieves collected in Oxford medievalist Baker’s phenomenal debut anthology.

Ineffably distressing clinical situations - fine.
Singlehandedly organising groups of hundreds of students - no problem.
Queuing at a middle-class farm shop café on a Sunday - panic attack.

Early morning from Wigan Wallgate after a night away (hungover), Ian McKellen was being given a tour of old King Street. He popped out of an alley and enthusiastically said good morning, I nodded and replied 'oh, morning Sir Ian' and carried on walking home. Only realised about 10 minutes later.

I'm a 'words in the TLS' person now.

Not only the fact it's Billy, who couldn't be more deserving for who he is and what he's done, it means so much for Rugby League Football to be recognised like this, and well overdue! (See my undergraduate dissertation for more).

Went to see some very big, very old trees in Savernake Forest today. We saw Bumble Oak, Young Paunchy (my favourite, for his trunk-positivity), Cathedral Oak (@robertculshaw.bsky.social's favourite), and Saddle Oak 1. Saddle Oak 1 with 6"4 Rob for scale, here.

Exploring Disgust in Nursing: A Conceptual Analysis Aims: The aim of this concept analysis was to investigate and establish a comprehensive understanding of the concept of disgust in nursing and its potential influence on providing nursing care. Desig...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/.... A recent article discussing the feeling in nursing, if this helps!

Slackers! The University of London admitted women to sit a 'General Examination' in 1868 and ten years later they could read for degrees on the same terms as men.

Working every day to understand this impact? Or staying silent for over a month in the face of the hateful legal oppression of our Trans colleagues and patients to appease a handful of bigots in our profession?