Kim Foster

Professor & Eileen O'Connor Chair of Mental Health Research ACU. Research interests: Wellbeing & Resilience; Families with Mental Illness. Views are my own.

[Mindframe @MindframeMedia]

#Ausmedia professionals now have access to a new guide featuring advice to support sensitive, respectful and safe communication about #suicide and mental health concerns in #LGBTIQA+ communities.
Access this free resource: https://t.co/XWHMLC4hcI

[Valentina Lorenzetti (she/her) @vale_addiction]

Extremely grateful to @rlcmrf for supporting our translational neuroscientific work to isolate & target the core mechanisms of #addiction, which is highly stigmatised & needs urgent attention to help vulnerable affected individuals in our communities, & make a positive difference

[Hugh Kearns @ithinkwellHugh]

#PromotingYourResearch: Got interesting findings?
Consider pitching to The Conversation
https://t.co/Z2WscPSo8e
@ConversationEDU #ECRchat

[Dr Dan Warrender @dan_warrender]

Important statement from the RCN today: "We do not support a move toward generic nurse education models... The College remains protective of all nursing fields..."
https://t.co/twrbwhFuwt

[Hugh Kearns @ithinkwellHugh]

How many times do you hear a presenter say:
I know you can’t read this but …
If they can’t read it then what’s the point? Your font size needs to be 18 point or higher. From: https://t.co/bh5JLB0Tzi

#PhDForum #MRes #PhDchat #ECRchat

[Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal @anmjaustralia]

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. https://t.co/N538Gsfey4

[Lynore K. Geia @LynoreGeia]

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? https://t.co/NHCj0g8mIR

[Valentina Lorenzetti (she/her) @vale_addiction]

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 https://t.co/n1h1cT4PKD Email [email protected] if interested!

[la scapigliata @lascapigliata8]

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 🙏
https://t.co/3AnPFsOK5g

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

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 Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

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 https://t.co/07hARW2pYC

[Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 @ShereleMoody]

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.

❤️ https://t.co/nHzkWPNcYV

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Childhood Trauma and Recent Stressors Rarely Addressed; ECT Given Instead https://t.co/SjeVN7HdH4 via @MITUKTeam

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

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

[Paul Bongiorno @PaulBongiorno]

ABC Managing Director Hugh Marks: Statement on Laura Tingle and Sarah Ferguson https://t.co/tt3f0qSDK8
Thank god the ABC has abandoned knee jerk reaction to powerful distorted vested interests.
The management has learned a lot from the Lattouf travesty.

[timothy wand @timwand]

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 https://t.co/D4CO71Yazz

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

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.

https://t.co/VA1lhtdDY2

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 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:
https://t.co/ywzF0DtIyU

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

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.

[Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal @anmjaustralia]

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 - https://t.co/rMwxX0HO8R