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This week is the General Practice issue of the MJA. One of the authors featured is Dr Michael Wright, the President of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He is a co-author on the paper "The impact of patient enrolment in primary care on continuity and quality of care around the world, 2014–2024, and lessons for Australia: a scoping review."

In this episode we examine the changes to Article 131 and what “endeavoring to seize” means in the statutory scheme. In the process we examine the history of this new article, its implementation under MJA 2016, and charging strategies. Learn more about The Quill & Sword series of podcasts by visiting our podcast page at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/thequillandsword. The Quill & Sword show includes featured episodes from across the JAGC, plus all episodes from our four separate shows: “Criminal Law Department Presents” (Criminal Law Department), “NSL Unscripted” (National Security Law Department), “The FAR and Beyond” (Contract & Fiscal Law Department) and “Hold My Reg” (Administrative & Civil Law Department). Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School by visiting our website at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/ or on Facebook (tjaglcs), Instagram (tjaglcs), or LinkedIn (school/tjaglcs).

In this episode we examine the changes to Article 131 and what “endeavoring to seize” means in the statutory scheme. In the process we examine the history of this new article, its implementation under MJA 2016, and charging strategies. Learn more about The Quill & Sword series of podcasts by visiting our podcast page at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/thequillandsword. The Quill & Sword show includes featured episodes from across the JAGC, plus all episodes from our four separate shows: “Criminal Law Department Presents” (Criminal Law Department), “NSL Unscripted” (National Security Law Department), “The FAR and Beyond” (Contract & Fiscal Law Department) and “Hold My Reg” (Administrative & Civil Law Department). Connect with The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School by visiting our website at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/ or on Facebook (tjaglcs), Instagram (tjaglcs), or LinkedIn (school/tjaglcs).

The Menzies School of Health Research is celebrating its 40th anniversary.It's Australia's leading medical research institute for improving health outcomes for First Nations people and its reach now extends beyond our shores to the Asia Pacific region.To commemorate this milestone, Menzies has chosen a collection of papers published in the MJA to highlight their research.Professor Alan Cass AO is the Director of Menzies and joins me now to discuss its work, its history and its future.

Generationsboende – är det kanske ett av de smartaste sätten att leva? Vi har nosat på ämnet förr, men den här gången har vi faktiskt lärt oss mer och fått anledning att tänka om. Det visar sig att det finns både praktiska och djupa mänskliga vinster med att bo nära andra generationer – om man får det att funka, förstås. Den ena Annan drömmer om kollektivt liv med gemensam surdeg och delad diskmaskin. Den andra? Mja. Hon tänker att det räcker gott med att säga hej till grannarna ibland. Men vi är nyfikna – och den här veckan får vi ett klokt, roligt och varmt samtal med Åsa, som både vuxit upp i generationsboende och själv valt det som vuxen. Och just det – vi har inget i glasen att rekommendera den här gången. Kanske för att samtalet är tillräckligt bubblande ändå. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's coming up to this year's International Women's Day, and today's guests will talk about continuing gender in equality in health. In an article published today in The MJA's InSight+,  PhD candidate Rachel Mather who is a committee member of Women in Global Health Australia and Associate Professor Meru Sheel who is chair of the organisation state that women occupy 70% of frontline health positions and only 25% of leadership positions in global health. 

Today we are exploring an MJA supplement on ethics in health and medical research in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It's called Murru Minya and I'm joined by two of the co-ordinating authors Felicity Collis, a Gomeroi woman and Associate Professor Michelle Kennedy a Wiradjuri woman. 

Samara, incarcerated and suffering from advanced lymphoma, received a compassionate release from prison, a move that arguably saved her life due to the intervention of Medical Justice Alliance — a Good People Fund grantee. MJA mobilizes volunteer clinicians as expert medical witnesses for advocates seeking care or outright release for clients facing often life-threatening illnesses, … Continue reading Stories of Hope: Medical Justice Alliance →

Weet jij eigenlijk wat een zwart gat precies is? Iets in de ruimte wat een enorme aantrekkingskracht heeft. Mja... maar professor Nick Van Remortel, fysicus aan de Universiteit van Antwerpen, kan er toch wat méér en interessanter over vertellen. Onder meer dat het níet de grote stofzuigers van het heelal zijn, zoals we vaak denken. Gastspreker: Nick Van Remortel Presentatie: Koen Fillet Redactie: Helene Vanlathem Eindredactie: Katleen Bracke Montage: Wederik De Backer Deze podcast is mogelijk dankzij de medewerking van KU Leuven, Antwerpen, UGent, UHasselt, VUB en de Jonge Academie en komt tot stand met de steun van VRT en de Vlaamse overheid.

Welcome to this very special podcast episode where we discuss in-depth the recent Medical Journal of Australia supplement collection of five research articles highlighting the successes of the RVTS programme. I am joined by RVTS CEO Dr Pat Giddings and Assoc. Professor Belinda O'Sullivan from the University of Queensland who conducted the research that led to the publications.   This episode will be of interest to anyone concerned about General Practice rural workforce shortage, those wanting to know how to support GP registrars in rural and remote areas, the special ingredients required in a successful remote supervision model, the training and support of Overseas Trained doctors to gain GP fellowship and providing meaningful First Nations Cultural training and support for GP registrars.     This is a long episode, so grab your coffee or plug-in as you drive to and from work to hear the research findings detailing what has made RVTS so successful in achieving impressive workplace retention as well as fellowship success for the past, nearly 25 years.   Timestamps are noted below in case you want to fast forward to an area of special interest but I thoroughly recommend you taking the time to listen to the whole episode as there are many hidden gems.   Have a great day.  Dr Meryl Nicol    The link to the MJA supplement is here and a published editorial in Insight+ is here    Time  Notes  00.16  Introductions  1:41  How did the publication come about?  3:10  How is RVTS different as a GP training provider?  5:23  Location-based training - benefits to communities and participants  5:39  500 doctors to 350+ communities  6:02  Research results - reported benefits of communities and participants  7:38  Policy maker gains - Closing the Gap, Rural work force and Cruck review  8:52  Overseas trained doctors or IMG's and keys to success  11:03  Comfort  11:42  Confidence  12:15  Competence  13:21  Belonging and face to face workshops  14:01  Bonding  15:25  RVTS support, Overseas trained doctor satisfaction  20:57  RVTS supervision model  25.32  RVTS - how cost effective is it?  29.12  Retention years of return  30.14  Years of service in the community of RVTS registrars  34.08  Hidden costs of locums  36.15  70% of registrars are inland not coastal  37.53  Targeted recruitment model - rural workforce solutions for remote and very remote locations  46.56  Contribution to First Nations Health and Reconciliation Action Plan  49.48  RVTS Reconciliation Action Plan  52.21  Cultural mentor research findings  53.05  Surprises for the evaluator -multilayered support  55.22  Cumulatively, NOT a small programme  56.29  Scalability  57.41  Best practice model for supporting doctors especially IMG's in resource-poor environments,  58.26  Transferable model to other disciplines  58.47  Making a difference  59.25  Wonderful to work with the team at UQ  1.00.36  Final comments from Assoc Prof Belinda O'Sullivan  1.02.38  Final thanks       

Lung cancer is Australia's deadliest cancer. When patients develop symptoms like coughing it is generally no longer curable by surgery or other treatments.The National Lung Cancer Screening Program will begin next year and will involve routine scanning in the hope of catching the disease in its earliest stages. More information, including who's eligible for the Program, is available hereThis podcast is brought to you by Macquarie University Hospital, a part of MQ Health.Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Macquarie University Hospital, Alvin Ing told the MJA the screening program could push the cure rate for lung cancer to as high as 90%,

Lung cancer remains Australia's deadliest cancer. A new screening program, to be introduced in 2025, is expected to save hundreds of lives each year.But for those who have the disease now, how does a multi-disciplinary team work to improve lung cancer care? How are best outcomes created? And how far has Artificial Intelligence and robotic technology evolved in treating this disease?To answer these questions and more, leading Cardiothoracic Surgeon Professor Michael Wilson speaks with The MJA's news and online editor, Sally Block.This podcast is sponsored by Macquarie University Hospital.

In this episode we speak with Ken Knight, Chair of the Melbourne Children's LGBTIQA+ Collective, about what it takes to be LGBTIQA+ inclusive in care, and in health and medical research. Anyone interested in joining the Campus LGBTQIA+ Collective can email ken.knight@mcri.edu.au  MJA article - The kids are OK: it is discrimination not same-sex parents that harms children: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2017/207/9/kids-are-ok-it-discrimination-not-same-sex-parents-harms-children  Queers in Science: https://queersinscience.org.au/ 

Du har fött barn och du tänker att nu är det över - ditt jobb är gjort. Mja, det är en sanning med modifikation för nu kan det vara läge att göra sig beredd på eftervärkar - och det kan vara en högst otrevlig överraskning om man inte hade koll på det innan. Programledare är Nina Campioni. Repris från 2021.Support till showen http://supporter.acast.com/vattnetgar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The new Electric Sense episode 097 is a spontaneous, live-recorded DJ set that originated in Arbon, Switzerland, by the beautiful Lake Constance in the Eastern part of the country, at the studio of Mja (Markus), a talented DJ and a good friend of our Labelboss Bynomic. Over 1 hour and 40 minutes of the finest deep progressive house, mixed back-to-back by Bynomic and Mja. Enjoy this journey and leave a comment letting us know how you liked it. 00:00 - Pedro Luu - Going My Way (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 06:43 - Tommy Orellano - Blossom (Agustin Pietrocola Remix) [Another Life Music] 13:21 - Lena Storm - Askeza (Original Mix) [SLC-6 Music] 19:05 - Dowden & Ric Niels - Coil (John Cosani Remix) [Mango Alley] 24:59 - Denis Njord - Another Planet (Vitaly Shturm Remix) [Massive Harmony Records] 31:40 - Forty Cats - A Barrel Of Tar (Rodrigo Lapena & Mayro Remix) [Mango Alley] 36:55 - Guy J - Cosmos (Original Mix) [Dantze] 43:21 - Mindlancholic - Lost In A Dream (Poli Siufi Remix) [AH Digital] 49:07 - Mind Echoes - Imagination (Original Mix) [Transensations Records] 54:54 - STEREO MUNK & Zawar K - Dancing Lanterns (Facundo Sosa Remix) [Another Life Music] 1:01:57 - Redspace - Unknown Planet (Paul Hamilton Remix) [Digital Emotions] 1:07:14 - L Georges - Euphoria (EMPHI Remix) [Balkan Connection] 1:12:53 - Andrewboy - Leave It All (Dub Mix) [LW Recordings] 1:18:01 - Arnold T. & Alain Pauwels - Cosmic Spices (Hobin Rude Remix) [3rd Avenue] 1:23:49 - Paul Thomas & Chris Bekker - Apex (Santiago Luna Extended Remix) [UV Noir] 1:29:13 - Rauschhaus - Mindworm (Digital Mess Remix) [Mango Alley] 1:34:21 - Second Sine - Emerald Green (Original Mix) [Univack]

Today we are discussing the National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce, featured in the latest MJA supplement published on Monday 16 October 2023.   My special guests are the National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce (NIKTT) deputy chair, Professor Jaquelyne Hughes, and NIKTT National Community Engagement Coordinator, Ms Kelli Owen. Read the supplement: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/8/supplementWith MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 26 mins

Laureate Professor Nicholas Talley is a world renowned Neurogastroenterologist and author. He's known by medical students across Australia and around the world for co-creating the bible of clinical examination in ‘Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination'. This is just one of his many publications, with additional textbooks and over 1000 papers to his name. His current research focuses on neurogastroenterology and functional gut diseases including the role of inflammation and the microbiome. On top of his work as an author and in clinical practice, Prof Talley has worked as Editor-in-Chief of the MJA, in Pro-Vice Chancellor roles and as President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. To get more CCIM, subscribe so you never miss an episode, join our Facebook community and subscribe to our newsletter!https://creativecareersinmedicine.com/ https://www.facebook.com/CreativeCareersInMed/

Today we are discussing clinical practice guidelines for deprescribing opioids. My specialist guests are Aili Langford, a research fellow and pharmacist, and Associate Professor Carl Schneider, a pharmacist and registered nurse. Read more in the MJA: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/2/clinical-practice-guideline-deprescribing-opioid-analgesics-summary With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 13 minutes.

Today we are discussing new research into the barriers and facilitators to voluntary assisted dying in the state of Victoria. My special guests are Professor Ben White, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, and Ruthie Jeanneret, a PhD Student, both in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, at the Queensland University of Technology.  Read their research in the MJA: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.52004 With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 21 mins.

The allure of having devices and tasks assisted by artificial intelligence is that they will help overcome some of the natural limits of human cognition with regards to working memory and attention. And in helping with the mundane tasks, AI can buy clinicians back time to spend with the complex patients who really need it. But the way all this pans out will really depend on how seamlessly the machine learning devices fit in with the clinical workflow. Which aspect of clinical decision-making do they support and how are the consequences of error mitigated? Only a small fraction of research projects make it all the way to implementation, and in this podcast we discuss the ergonomic factors that need to be solved to effectively use AI in clinical decision support. GuestsAssociate Professor Clair Sullivan MBBS FRACP FACHI FAIDH CHIA (Director, Queensland Digital Health Centre; University of Queensland)Professor Enrico Coiera MBBS PhD FACMI, FACHI (Director, Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation; Macquarie University).ProductionProduced by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘Alienated' by ELFL and ‘Little Liberty' by Paisely Pink. Image by Da Kuk licenced from Getty Images.Editorial feedback kindly provided by physicians; Rhiannon Mellor, David Arroyo, Aidan Tan, Joseph Lee, Rachel Murdoch, Michelle Chong, Phillipa Wormald and digital health academics; Paul Cooper and Natasa Lazarevic.Key References The Last Mile: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Reality [Coiera, J Med Internet Res. 2019] We need to chat about artificial intelligence [Coiera, MJA. 2023]How machine learning is embedded to support clinician decision making: an analysis of FDA-approved medical devices [Coiera, BMJ Health Care Inform. 2021] Please visit the Pomegranate Health web page for a transcript and supporting references. Login to MyCPD to record listening and reading as a prefilled learning activity. Subscribe to new episode email alerts or search for ‘Pomegranate Health' in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox, or any podcasting app.

Latent Space is popping off! Welcome to the over 8500 latent space explorers who have joined us. Join us this month at various events in SF and NYC, or start your own!This post spent 22 hours at the top of Hacker News.As announced during their Developer Day celebrating their $100m fundraise following their Google partnership, Replit is now open sourcing its own state of the art code LLM: replit-code-v1-3b (model card, HF Space), which beats OpenAI's Codex model on the industry standard HumanEval benchmark when finetuned on Replit data (despite being 77% smaller) and more importantly passes AmjadEval (we'll explain!)We got an exclusive interview with Reza Shabani, Replit's Head of AI, to tell the story of Replit's journey into building a data platform, building GhostWriter, and now training their own LLM, for 22 million developers!8 minutes of this discussion go into a live demo discussing generated code samples - which is always awkward on audio. So we've again gone multimodal and put up a screen recording here where you can follow along on the code samples!Recorded in-person at the beautiful StudioPod studios in San Francisco.Full transcript is below the fold. We would really appreciate if you shared our pod with friends on Twitter, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky, or your social media poison of choice!Timestamps* [00:00:21] Introducing Reza* [00:01:49] Quantitative Finance and Data Engineering* [00:11:23] From Data to AI at Replit* [00:17:26] Replit GhostWriter* [00:20:31] Benchmarking Code LLMs* [00:23:06] AmjadEval live demo* [00:31:21] Aligning Models on Vibes* [00:33:04] Beyond Chat & Code Completion* [00:35:50] Ghostwriter Autonomous Agent* [00:38:47] Releasing Replit-code-v1-3b* [00:43:38] The YOLO training run* [00:49:49] Scaling Laws: from Kaplan to Chinchilla to LLaMA* [00:52:43] MosaicML* [00:55:36] Replit's Plans for the Future (and Hiring!)* [00:59:05] Lightning RoundShow Notes* Reza Shabani on Twitter and LinkedIn* also Michele Catasta and Madhav Singhal* Michele Catasta's thread on the release of replit-code-v1-3b* Intro to Replit Ghostwriter* Replit Ghostwriter Chat and Building Ghostwriter Chat* Reza on how to train your own LLMs (their top blog of all time)* Our Benchmarks 101 episode where we discussed HumanEval* AmjadEval live demo* Nat.dev* MosaicML CEO Naveen Rao on Replit's LLM* MosaicML Composer + FSDP code* Replit's AI team is hiring in North America timezone - Fullstack engineer, Applied AI/ML, and other roles!Transcript[00:00:00] Alessio Fanelli: Hey everyone. Welcome to the Latent Space podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners. I'm joined by my co-host, swyx, writer and editor of Latent Space.[00:00:21] Introducing Reza[00:00:21] swyx: Hey and today we have Reza Shabani, Head of AI at Replit. Welcome to the studio. Thank you. Thank you for having me. So we try to introduce people's bios so you don't have to repeat yourself, but then also get a personal side of you.[00:00:34] You got your PhD in econ from Berkeley, and then you were a startup founder for a bit, and, and then you went into systematic equity trading at BlackRock in Wellington. And then something happened and you were now head of AI at Relet. What should people know about you that might not be apparent on LinkedIn?[00:00:50] One thing[00:00:51] Reza Shabani: that comes up pretty often is whether I know how to code. Yeah, you'd be shocked. A lot of people are kind of like, do you know how to code? When I was talking to Amjad about this role, I'd originally talked to him, I think about a product role and, and didn't get it. Then he was like, well, I know you've done a bunch of data and analytics stuff.[00:01:07] We need someone to work on that. And I was like, sure, I'll, I'll do it. And he was like, okay, but you might have to know how to code. And I was like, yeah, yeah, I, I know how to code. So I think that just kind of surprises people coming from like Ancon background. Yeah. Of people are always kind of like, wait, even when people join Relet, they're like, wait, does this guy actually know how to code?[00:01:28] Is he actually technical? Yeah.[00:01:30] swyx: You did a bunch of number crunching at top financial companies and it still wasn't[00:01:34] Reza Shabani: obvious. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I think someone like in a software engineering background, cuz you think of finance and you think of like calling people to get the deal done and that type of thing.[00:01:43] No, it's, it's not that as, as you know, it's very very quantitative. Especially what I did in, in finance, very quantitative.[00:01:49] Quantitative Finance and Data Engineering[00:01:49] swyx: Yeah, so we can cover a little bit of that and then go into the rapid journey. So as, as you, as you know, I was also a quantitative trader on the sell side and the buy side. And yeah, I actually learned Python there.[00:02:01] I learned my, I wrote my own data pipelines there before airflow was a thing, and it was just me writing running notebooks and not version controlling them. And it was a complete mess, but we were managing a billion dollars on, on my crappy code. Yeah, yeah. What was it like for you?[00:02:17] Reza Shabani: I guess somewhat similar.[00:02:18] I, I started the journey during grad school, so during my PhD and my PhD was in economics and it was always on the more data intensive kind of applied economic side. And, and specifically financial economics. And so what I did for my dissertation I recorded cnbc, the Financial News Network for 10 hours a day, every day.[00:02:39] Extracted the close captions from the video files and then used that to create a second by second transcript of, of cmbc, merged that on with high frequency trading, quote data and then looked at, you know, went in and did some, some nlp, tagging the company names, and and then looked at the price response or the change in price and trading volume in the seconds after a company was mentioned.[00:03:01] And, and this was back in. 2009 that I was doing this. So before cloud, before, before a lot of Python actually. And, and definitely before any of these packages were available to make this stuff easy. And that's where, where I had to really learn to code, like outside of you know, any kind of like data programming languages.[00:03:21] That's when I had to learn Python and had to learn all, all of these other skills to work it with data at that, at that scale. So then, you know, I thought I wanted to do academia. I did terrible on the academic market because everyone looked at my dissertation. They're like, this is cool, but this isn't economics.[00:03:37] And everyone in the computer science department was actually way more interested in it. Like I, I hung out there more than in the econ department and You know, didn't get a single academic offer. Had two offer. I think I only applied to like two industry jobs and got offers from both of them.[00:03:53] They, they saw value in it. One of them was BlackRock and turned it down to, to do my own startup, and then went crawling back two and a half years later after the startup failed.[00:04:02] swyx: Something on your LinkedIn was like you're trading Chinese news tickers or something. Oh, yeah. I forget,[00:04:07] Reza Shabani: forget what that was.[00:04:08] Yeah, I mean oh. There, there was so much stuff. Honestly, like, so systematic active equity at, at BlackRock is, was such an amazing. Group and you just end up learning so much and the, and the possibilities there. Like when you, when you go in and you learn the types of things that they've been trading on for years you know, like a paper will come out in academia and they're like, did you know you can use like this data on searches to predict the price of cars?[00:04:33] And it's like, you go in and they've been trading on that for like eight years. Yeah. So they're, they're really ahead of the curve on, on all of that stuff. And the really interesting stuff that I, that I found when I went in was all like, related to NLP and ml a lot of like transcript data, a lot of like parsing through the types of things that companies talk about, whether an analyst reports, conference calls, earnings reports and the devil's really in the details about like how you make sense of, of that information in a way that, you know, gives you insight into what the company's doing and, and where the market is, is going.[00:05:08] I don't know if we can like nerd out on specific strategies. Yes. Let's go, let's go. What, so one of my favorite strategies that, because it never, I don't think we ended up trading on it, so I can probably talk about it. And it, it just kind of shows like the kind of work that you do around this data.[00:05:23] It was called emerging technologies. And so the whole idea is that there's always a new set of emerging technologies coming onto the market and the companies that are ahead of that curve and stay up to date on on the latest trends are gonna outperform their, their competitors.[00:05:38] And that's gonna reflect in the, in the stock price. So when you have a theory like that, how do you actually turn that into a trading strategy? So what we ended up doing is, well first you have to, to determine what are the emergent technologies, like what are the new up and coming technologies.[00:05:56] And so we actually went and pulled data on startups. And so there's like startups in Silicon Valley. You have all these descriptions of what they do, and you get that, that corpus of like when startups were getting funding. And then you can run non-negative matrix factorization on it and create these clusters of like what the various Emerging technologies are, and you have this all the way going back and you have like social media back in like 2008 when Facebook was, was blowing up.[00:06:21] And and you have things like mobile and digital advertising and and a lot of things actually outside of Silicon Valley. They, you know, like shale and oil cracking. Yeah. Like new technologies in, in all these different types of industries. And then and then you go and you look like, which publicly traded companies are actually talking about these things and and have exposure to these things.[00:06:42] And those are the companies that end up staying ahead of, of their competitors. And a lot of the the cases that came out of that made a ton of sense. Like when mobile was emerging, you had Walmart Labs. Walmart was really far ahead in terms of thinking about mobile and the impact of mobile.[00:06:59] And, and their, you know, Sears wasn't, and Walmart did well, and, and Sears didn't. So lots of different examples of of that, of like a company that talks about a new emerging trend. I can only imagine, like right now, all of the stuff with, with ai, there must be tons of companies talking about, yeah, how does this affect their[00:07:17] swyx: business?[00:07:18] And at some point you do, you do lose the signal. Because you get overwhelmed with noise by people slapping a on everything. Right? Which is, yeah. Yeah. That's what the Long Island Iced Tea Company slaps like blockchain on their name and, you know, their stock price like doubled or something.[00:07:32] Reza Shabani: Yeah, no, that, that's absolutely right.[00:07:35] And, and right now that's definitely the kind of strategy that would not be performing well right now because everyone would be talking about ai. And, and that's, as you know, like that's a lot of what you do in Quant is you, you try to weed out other possible explanations for for why this trend might be happening.[00:07:52] And in that particular case, I think we found that, like the companies, it wasn't, it wasn't like Sears and Walmart were both talking about mobile. It's that Walmart went out of their way to talk about mobile as like a future, mm-hmm. Trend. Whereas Sears just wouldn't bring it up. And then by the time an invest investors are asking you about it, you're probably late to the game.[00:08:12] So it was really identifying those companies that were. At the cutting edge of, of new technologies and, and staying ahead. I remember like Domino's was another big one. Like, I don't know, you[00:08:21] swyx: remember that? So for those who don't know, Domino's Pizza, I think for the run of most of the 2010s was a better performing stock than Amazon.[00:08:29] Yeah.[00:08:31] Reza Shabani: It's insane.[00:08:32] swyx: Yeah. Because of their investment in mobile. Mm-hmm. And, and just online commerce and, and all that. I it must have been fun picking that up. Yeah, that's[00:08:40] Reza Shabani: that's interesting. And I, and I think they had, I don't know if you, if you remember, they had like the pizza tracker, which was on, on mobile.[00:08:46] I use it[00:08:46] swyx: myself. It's a great, it's great app. Great app. I it's mostly faked. I think that[00:08:50] Reza Shabani: that's what I heard. I think it's gonna be like a, a huge I don't know. I'm waiting for like the New York Times article to drop that shows that the whole thing was fake. We all thought our pizzas were at those stages, but they weren't.[00:09:01] swyx: The, the challenge for me, so that so there's a, there's a great piece by Eric Falkenstein called Batesian Mimicry, where every signal essentially gets overwhelmed by noise because the people who wants, who create noise want to follow the, the signal makers. So that actually is why I left quant trading because there's just too much regime changing and like things that would access very well would test poorly out a sample.[00:09:25] And I'm sure you've like, had a little bit of that. And then there's what was the core uncertainty of like, okay, I have identified a factor that performs really well, but that's one factor out of. 500 other factors that could be going on. You have no idea. So anyway, that, that was my existential uncertainty plus the fact that it was a very highly stressful job.[00:09:43] Reza Shabani: Yeah. This is a bit of a tangent, but I, I think about this all the time and I used to have a, a great answer before chat came out, but do you think that AI will win at Quant ever?[00:09:54] swyx: I mean, what is Rentech doing? Whatever they're doing is working apparently. Yeah. But for, for most mortals, I. Like just waving your wand and saying AI doesn't make sense when your sample size is actually fairly low.[00:10:08] Yeah. Like we have maybe 40 years of financial history, if you're lucky. Mm-hmm. Times what, 4,000 listed equities. It's actually not a lot. Yeah, no, it's,[00:10:17] Reza Shabani: it's not a lot at all. And, and constantly changing market conditions and made laden variables and, and all of, all of that as well. Yeah. And then[00:10:24] swyx: retroactively you're like, oh, okay.[00:10:26] Someone will discover a giant factor that, that like explains retroactively everything that you've been doing that you thought was alpha, that you're like, Nope, actually you're just exposed to another factor that you're just, you just didn't think about everything was momentum in.[00:10:37] Yeah. And one piece that I really liked was Andrew Lo. I think he had from mit, I think he had a paper on bid as Spreads. And I think if you, if you just. Taken, took into account liquidity of markets that would account for a lot of active trading strategies, alpha. And that was systematically declined as interest rates declined.[00:10:56] And I mean, it was, it was just like after I looked at that, I was like, okay, I'm never gonna get this right.[00:11:01] Reza Shabani: Yeah. It's a, it's a crazy field and I you know, I, I always thought of like the, the adversarial aspect of it as being the, the part that AI would always have a pretty difficult time tackling.[00:11:13] Yeah. Just because, you know, there's, there's someone on the other end trying to out, out game you and, and AI can, can fail in a lot of those situations. Yeah.[00:11:23] swyx: Cool.[00:11:23] From Data to AI at Replit[00:11:23] Alessio Fanelli: Awesome. And now you've been a rep almost two years. What do you do there? Like what does the, the team do? Like, how has that evolved since you joined?[00:11:32] Especially since large language models are now top of mind, but, you know, two years ago it wasn't quite as mainstream. So how, how has that evolved?[00:11:40] Reza Shabani: Yeah, I, so when I joined, I joined a year and a half ago. We actually had to build out a lot of, of data pipelines.[00:11:45] And so I started doing a lot of data work. And we didn't have you know, there, there were like databases for production systems and, and whatnot, but we just didn't have the the infrastructure to query data at scale and to process that, that data at scale and replica has tons of users tons of data, just tons of ripples.[00:12:04] And I can get into, into some of those numbers, but like, if you wanted to answer the question, for example of what is the most. Forked rep, rep on rep, you couldn't answer that back then because it, the query would just completely time out. And so a lot of the work originally just went into building data infrastructure, like modernizing the data infrastructure in a way where you can answer questions like that, where you can you know, pull in data from any particular rep to process to make available for search.[00:12:34] And, and moving all of that data into a format where you can do all of this in minutes as opposed to, you know, days or weeks or months. That laid a lot of the groundwork for building anything in, in ai, at least in terms of training our own own models and then fine tuning them with, with replica data.[00:12:50] So then you know, we, we started a team last year recruited people from, you know from a team of, of zero or a team of one to, to the AI and data team today. We, we build. Everything related to, to ghostrider. So that means the various features like explain code, generate code, transform Code, and Ghostrider chat which is like a in context ide or a chat product within the, in the ide.[00:13:18] And then the code completion models, which are ghostwriter code complete, which was the, the very first version of, of ghostrider. Yeah. And we also support, you know, things like search and, and anything in terms of what creates, or anything that requires like large data scale or large scale processing of, of data for the site.[00:13:38] And, and various types of like ML algorithms for the site, for internal use of the site to do things like detect and stop abuse. Mm-hmm.[00:13:47] Alessio Fanelli: Yep. Sounds like a lot of the early stuff you worked on was more analytical, kind of like analyzing data, getting answers on these things. Obviously this has evolved now into some.[00:13:57] Production use case code lms, how is the team? And maybe like some of the skills changed. I know there's a lot of people wondering, oh, I was like a modern data stack expert, or whatever. It's like I was doing feature development, like, how's my job gonna change? Like,[00:14:12] Reza Shabani: yeah. It's a good question. I mean, I think that with with language models, the shift has kind of been from, or from traditional ml, a lot of the shift has gone towards more like nlp backed ml, I guess.[00:14:26] And so, you know, there, there's an entire skill set of applicants that I no longer see, at least for, for this role which are like people who know how to do time series and, and ML across time. Right. And, and you, yeah. Like you, you know, that exact feeling of how difficult it is to. You know, you have like some, some text or some variable and then all of a sudden you wanna track that over time.[00:14:50] The number of dimensions that it, that it introduces is just wild and it's a totally different skill set than what we do in a, for example, in in language models. And it's very it's a, it's a skill that is kind of you know, at, at least at rep not used much. And I'm sure in other places used a lot, but a lot of the, the kind of excitement about language models has pulled away attention from some of these other ML areas, which are extremely important and, and I think still going to be valuable.[00:15:21] So I would just recommend like anyone who is a, a data stack expert, like of course it's cool to work with NLP and text data and whatnot, but I do think at some point it's going to you know, having, having skills outside of that area and in more traditional aspects of ML will, will certainly be valuable as well.[00:15:39] swyx: Yeah. I, I'd like to spend a little bit of time on this data stack notion pitch. You were even, you were effectively the first data hire at rep. And I just spent the past year myself diving into data ecosystem. I think a lot of software engineers are actually. Completely unaware that basically every company now eventually evolves.[00:15:57] The data team and the data team does everything that you just mentioned. Yeah. All of us do exactly the same things, set up the same pipelines you know, shop at the same warehouses essentially. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that they enable everyone else to query whatever they, whatever they want. And to, to find those insights that that can drive their business.[00:16:15] Because everyone wants to be data driven. They don't want to do the janitorial work that it comes, that comes to, yeah. Yeah. Hooking everything up. What like, so rep is that you think like 90 ish people now, and then you, you joined two years ago. Was it like 30 ish people? Yeah, exactly. We're 30 people where I joined.[00:16:30] So and I just wanna establish your founders. That is exactly when we hired our first data hire at Vilify as well. I think this is just a very common pattern that most founders should be aware of, that like, You start to build a data discipline at this point. And it's, and by the way, a lot of ex finance people very good at this because that's what we do at our finance job.[00:16:48] Reza Shabani: Yeah. Yeah. I was, I was actually gonna Good say that is that in, in some ways, you're kind of like the perfect first data hire because it, you know, you know how to build things in a reliable but fast way and, and how to build them in a way that, you know, it's, it scales over time and evolves over time because financial markets move so quickly that if you were to take all of your time building up these massive systems, like the trading opportunities gone.[00:17:14] So, yeah. Yeah, they're very good at it. Cool. Okay. Well,[00:17:18] swyx: I wanted to cover Ghost Writer as a standalone thing first. Okay. Yeah. And then go into code, you know, V1 or whatever you're calling it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That sounds good. So order it[00:17:26] Replit GhostWriter[00:17:26] Reza Shabani: however you like. Sure. So the original version of, of Ghost Writer we shipped in August of, of last year.[00:17:33] Yeah. And so this was a. This was a code completion model similar to GitHub's co-pilot. And so, you know, you would have some text and then it would predict like, what, what comes next. And this was, the original version was actually based off of the cogen model. And so this was an open source model developed by Salesforce that was trained on, on tons of publicly available code data.[00:17:58] And so then we took their their model, one of the smaller ones, did some distillation some other kind of fancy tricks to, to make it much faster and and deployed that. And so the innovation there was really around how to reduce the model footprint in a, to, to a size where we could actually serve it to, to our users.[00:18:20] And so the original Ghost Rider You know, we leaned heavily on, on open source. And our, our friends at Salesforce obviously were huge in that, in, in developing these models. And, but, but it was game changing just because we were the first startup to actually put something like that into production.[00:18:38] And, and at the time, you know, if you wanted something like that, there was only one, one name and, and one place in town to, to get it. And and at the same time, I think I, I'm not sure if that's like when the image models were also becoming open sourced for the first time. And so the world went from this place where, you know, there was like literally one company that had all of these, these really advanced models to, oh wait, maybe these things will be everywhere.[00:19:04] And that's exactly what's happened in, in the last Year or so, as, as the models get more powerful and then you always kind of see like an open source version come out that someone else can, can build and put into production very quickly at, at, you know, a fraction of, of the cost. So yeah, that was the, the kind of code completion Go Strider was, was really just, just that we wanted to fine tune it a lot to kind of change the way that our users could interact with it.[00:19:31] So just to make it you know, more customizable for our use cases on, on Rep. And so people on Relet write a lot of, like jsx for example, which I don't think was in the original training set for, for cogen. And and they do specific things that are more Tuned to like html, like they might wanna run, right?[00:19:50] Like inline style or like inline CSS basically. Those types of things. And so we experimented with fine tuning cogen a bit here and there, and, and the results just kind of weren't, weren't there, they weren't where you know, we, we wanted the model to be. And, and then we just figured we should just build our own infrastructure to, you know, train these things from scratch.[00:20:11] Like, LMS aren't going anywhere. This world's not, you know, it's, it's not like we're not going back to that world of there's just one, one game in town. And and we had the skills infrastructure and the, and the team to do it. So we just started doing that. And you know, we'll be this week releasing our very first open source code model.[00:20:31] And,[00:20:31] Benchmarking Code LLMs[00:20:31] Alessio Fanelli: and when you say it was not where you wanted it to be, how were you benchmarking[00:20:36] Reza Shabani: it? In that particular case, we were actually, so, so we have really two sets of benchmarks that, that we use. One is human eval, so just the standard kind of benchmark for, for Python, where you can generate some code or you give you give the model a function definition with, with some string describing what it's supposed to do, and then you allow it to complete that function, and then you run a unit test against it and and see if what it generated passes the test.[00:21:02] So we, we always kind of, we would run this on the, on the model. The, the funny thing is the fine tuned versions of. Of Cogen actually did pretty well on, on that benchmark. But then when we, we then have something called instead of human eval. We call it Amjad eval, which is basically like, what does Amjad think?[00:21:22] Yeah, it's, it's exactly that. It's like testing the vibes of, of a model. And it's, it's cra like I've never seen him, I, I've never seen anyone test the model so thoroughly in such a short amount of time. He's, he's like, he knows exactly what to write and, and how to prompt the model to, to get you know, a very quick read on, on its quote unquote vibes.[00:21:43] And and we take that like really seriously. And I, I remember there was like one, one time where we trained a model that had really good you know, human eval scores. And the vibes were just terrible. Like, it just wouldn't, you know, it, it seemed overtrained. So so that's a lot of what we found is like we, we just couldn't get it to Pass the vibes test no matter how the, how[00:22:04] swyx: eval.[00:22:04] Well, can you formalize I'm jal because I, I actually have a problem. Slight discomfort with human eval. Effectively being the only code benchmark Yeah. That we have. Yeah. Isn't that[00:22:14] Reza Shabani: weird? It's bizarre. It's, it's, it's weird that we can't do better than that in some, some way. So, okay. If[00:22:21] swyx: I, if I asked you to formalize Mja, what does he look for that human eval doesn't do well on?[00:22:25] Reza Shabani: Ah, that is a, that's a great question. A lot of it is kind of a lot of it is contextual like deep within, within specific functions. Let me think about this.[00:22:38] swyx: Yeah, we, we can pause for. And if you need to pull up something.[00:22:41] Reza Shabani: Yeah, I, let me, let me pull up a few. This, this[00:22:43] swyx: is gold, this catnip for people.[00:22:45] Okay. Because we might actually influence a benchmark being evolved, right. So, yeah. Yeah. That would be,[00:22:50] Reza Shabani: that would be huge. This was, this was his original message when he said the vibes test with, with flying colors. And so you have some, some ghostrider comparisons ghost Rider on the left, and cogen is on the right.[00:23:06] AmjadEval live demo[00:23:06] Reza Shabani: So here's Ghostrider. Okay.[00:23:09] swyx: So basically, so if I, if I summarize it from a, for ghosting the, there's a, there's a, there's a bunch of comments talking about how you basically implement a clone. Process or to to c Clooney process. And it's describing a bunch of possible states that he might want to, to match.[00:23:25] And then it asks for a single line of code for defining what possible values of a name space it might be to initialize it in amjadi val With what model is this? Is this your, this is model. This is the one we're releasing. Yeah. Yeah. It actually defines constants which are human readable and nice.[00:23:42] And then in the other cogen Salesforce model, it just initializes it to zero because it reads that it starts of an int Yeah, exactly. So[00:23:51] Reza Shabani: interesting. Yeah. So you had a much better explanation of, of that than than I did. It's okay. So this is, yeah. Handle operation. This is on the left.[00:24:00] Okay.[00:24:00] swyx: So this is rep's version. Yeah. Where it's implementing a function and an in filling, is that what it's doing inside of a sum operation?[00:24:07] Reza Shabani: This, so this one doesn't actually do the infill, so that's the completion inside of the, of the sum operation. But it, it's not, it's, it, it's not taking into account context after this value, but[00:24:18] swyx: Right, right.[00:24:19] So it's writing an inline lambda function in Python. Okay.[00:24:21] Reza Shabani: Mm-hmm. Versus[00:24:24] swyx: this one is just passing in the nearest available variable. It's, it can find, yeah.[00:24:30] Reza Shabani: Okay. So so, okay. I'll, I'll get some really good ones in a, in a second. So, okay. Here's tokenize. So[00:24:37] swyx: this is an assertion on a value, and it's helping to basically complete the entire, I think it looks like an E s T that you're writing here.[00:24:46] Mm-hmm. That's good. That that's, that's good. And then what does Salesforce cogen do? This is Salesforce cogen here. So is that invalidism way or what, what are we supposed to do? It's just making up tokens. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's just, it's just much better at context. Yeah. Okay.[00:25:04] Reza Shabani: And, and I guess to be fair, we have to show a case where co cogen does better.[00:25:09] Okay. All right. So here's, here's one on the left right, which[00:25:12] swyx: is another assertion where it's just saying that if you pass in a list, it's going to throw an exception saying in an expectedly list and Salesforce code, Jen says,[00:25:24] Reza Shabani: This is so, so ghost writer was sure that the first argument needs to be a list[00:25:30] swyx: here.[00:25:30] So it hallucinated that it wanted a list. Yeah. Even though you never said it was gonna be a list.[00:25:35] Reza Shabani: Yeah. And it's, it's a argument of that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So, okay, here's a, here's a cooler quiz for you all, cuz I struggled with this one for a second. Okay. What is.[00:25:47] swyx: Okay, so this is a four loop example from Amjad.[00:25:50] And it's, it's sort of like a q and a context in a chat bot. And it's, and it asks, and Amjad is asking, what does this code log? And it just paste in some JavaScript code. The JavaScript code is a four loop with a set time out inside of it with a cons. The console logs out the iteration variable of the for loop and increasing numbers of of, of times.[00:26:10] So it's, it goes from zero to five and then it just increases the, the delay between the timeouts each, each time. Yeah.[00:26:15] Reza Shabani: So, okay. So this answer was provided by by Bard. Mm-hmm. And does it look correct to you? Well,[00:26:22] the[00:26:22] Alessio Fanelli: numbers too, but it's not one second. It's the time between them increases.[00:26:27] It's like the first one, then the one is one second apart, then it's two seconds, three seconds. So[00:26:32] Reza Shabani: it's not, well, well, so I, you know, when I saw this and, and the, the message and the thread was like, Our model's better than Bard at, at coding Uhhuh. This is the Bard answer Uhhuh that looks totally right to me.[00:26:46] Yeah. And this is our[00:26:47] swyx: answer. It logs 5 5 55, what is it? Log five 50. 55 oh oh. Because because it logs the state of I, which is five by the time that the log happens. Mm-hmm. Yeah.[00:27:01] Reza Shabani: Oh God. So like we, you know we were shocked. Like, and, and the Bard dancer looked totally right to, to me. Yeah. And then, and somehow our code completion model mind Jude, like this is not a conversational chat model.[00:27:14] Mm-hmm. Somehow gets this right. And and, you know, Bard obviously a much larger much more capable model with all this fancy transfer learning and, and and whatnot. Some somehow, you know, doesn't get it right. So, This is the kind of stuff that goes into, into mja eval that you, you won't find in any benchmark.[00:27:35] Good. And and, and it's, it's the kind of thing that, you know, makes something pass a, a vibe test at Rep.[00:27:42] swyx: Okay. Well, okay, so me, this is not a vibe, this is not so much a vibe test as the, these are just interview questions. Yeah, that's, we're straight up just asking interview questions[00:27:50] Reza Shabani: right now. Yeah, no, the, the vibe test, the reason why it's really difficult to kind of show screenshots that have a vibe test is because it really kind of depends on like how snappy the completion is, how what the latency feels like and if it gets, if it, if it feels like it's making you more productive.[00:28:08] And and a lot of the time, you know, like the, the mix of, of really low latency and actually helpful content and, and helpful completions is what makes up the, the vibe test. And I think part of it is also, is it. Is it returning to you or the, the lack of it returning to you things that may look right, but be completely wrong.[00:28:30] I think that also kind of affects Yeah. Yeah. The, the vibe test as well. Yeah. And so, yeah, th this is very much like a, like a interview question. Yeah.[00:28:39] swyx: The, the one with the number of processes that, that was definitely a vibe test. Like what kind of code style do you expect in this situation? Yeah.[00:28:47] Is this another example? Okay.[00:28:49] Reza Shabani: Yeah. This is another example with some more Okay. Explanations.[00:28:53] swyx: Should we look at the Bard one[00:28:54] Reza Shabani: first? Sure. These are, I think these are, yeah. This is original GT three with full size 175. Billion[00:29:03] swyx: parameters. Okay, so you asked GPC three, I'm a highly intelligent question answering bot.[00:29:07] If you ask me a question that is rooted in truth, I'll give you the answer. If you ask me a question that is nonsense I will respond with unknown. And then you ask it a question. What is the square root of a bananas banana? It answers nine. So complete hallucination and failed to follow the instruction that you gave it.[00:29:22] I wonder if it follows if one, if you use an instruction to inversion it might, yeah. Do what better?[00:29:28] Reza Shabani: On, on the original[00:29:29] swyx: GP T Yeah, because I like it. Just, you're, you're giving an instructions and it's not[00:29:33] Reza Shabani: instruction tuned. Now. Now the interesting thing though is our model here, which does follow the instructions this is not instruction tuned yet, and we still are planning to instruction tune.[00:29:43] Right? So it's like for like, yeah, yeah, exactly. So,[00:29:45] swyx: So this is a replica model. Same question. What is the square of bananas? Banana. And it answers unknown. And this being one of the, the thing that Amjad was talking about, which you guys are. Finding as a discovery, which is, it's better on pure natural language questions, even though you trained it on code.[00:30:02] Exactly. Yeah. Hmm. Is that because there's a lot of comments in,[00:30:07] Reza Shabani: No. I mean, I think part of it is that there's a lot of comments and there's also a lot of natural language in, in a lot of code right. In terms of documentation, you know, you have a lot of like markdowns and restructured text and there's also just a lot of web-based code on, on replica, and HTML tends to have a lot of natural language in it.[00:30:27] But I don't think the comments from code would help it reason in this way. And, you know, where you can answer questions like based on instructions, for example. Okay. But yeah, it's, I know that that's like one of the things. That really shocked us is the kind of the, the fact that like, it's really good at, at natural language reasoning, even though it was trained on, on code.[00:30:49] swyx: Was this the reason that you started running your model on hella swag and[00:30:53] Reza Shabani: all the other Yeah, exactly. Interesting. And the, yeah, it's, it's kind of funny. Like it's in some ways it kind of makes sense. I mean, a lot of like code involves a lot of reasoning and logic which language models need and need to develop and, and whatnot.[00:31:09] And so you know, we, we have this hunch that maybe that using that as part of the training beforehand and then training it on natural language above and beyond that really tends to help. Yeah,[00:31:21] Aligning Models on Vibes[00:31:21] Alessio Fanelli: this is so interesting. I, I'm trying to think, how do you align a model on vibes? You know, like Bard, Bard is not purposefully being bad, right?[00:31:30] Like, there's obviously something either in like the training data, like how you're running the process that like, makes it so that the vibes are better. It's like when it, when it fails this test, like how do you go back to the team and say, Hey, we need to get better[00:31:44] Reza Shabani: vibes. Yeah, let's do, yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a great question.[00:31:49] It's a di it's very difficult to do. It's not you know, so much of what goes into these models in, in the same way that we have no idea how we can get that question right. The programming you know, quiz question. Right. Whereas Bard got it wrong. We, we also have no idea how to take certain things out and or, and to, you know, remove certain aspects of, of vibes.[00:32:13] Of course there's, there's things you can do to like scrub the model, but it's, it's very difficult to, to get it to be better at something. It's, it's almost like all you can do is, is give it the right type of, of data that you think will do well. And then and, and of course later do some fancy type of like, instruction tuning or, or whatever else.[00:32:33] But a lot of what we do is finding the right mix of optimal data that we want to, to feed into the model and then hoping that the, that the data that's fed in is sufficiently representative of, of the type of generations that we want to do coming out. That's really the best that, that you can do.[00:32:51] Either the model has. Vibes or, or it doesn't, you can't teach vibes. Like you can't sprinkle additional vibes in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Same in real life. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, exactly. You[00:33:04] Beyond Code Completion[00:33:04] Alessio Fanelli: mentioned, you know, co being the only show in town when you started, now you have this, there's obviously a, a bunch of them, right.[00:33:10] Cody, which we had on the podcast used to be Tap nine, kite, all these different, all these different things. Like, do you think the vibes are gonna be the main you know, way to differentiate them? Like, how are you thinking about. What's gonna make Ghost Rider, like stand apart or like, do you just expect this to be like table stakes for any tool?[00:33:28] So like, it just gonna be there?[00:33:30] Reza Shabani: Yeah. I, I do think it's, it's going to be table stakes for sure. I, I think that if you don't if you don't have AI assisted technology, especially in, in coding it's, it's just going to feel pretty antiquated. But but I do think that Ghost Rider stands apart from some of, of these other tools for for specific reasons too.[00:33:51] So this is kind of the, one of, one of the things that these models haven't really done yet is Come outside of code completion and outside of, of just a, a single editor file, right? So what they're doing is they're, they're predicting like the text that can come next, but they're not helping with the development process quite, quite yet outside of just completing code in a, in a text file.[00:34:16] And so the types of things that we wanna do with Ghost Rider are enable it to, to help in the software development process not just editing particular files. And so so that means using a right mix of like the right model for for the task at hand. But but we want Ghost Rider to be able to, to create scaffolding for you for, for these projects.[00:34:38] And so imagine if you would like Terraform. But, but powered by Ghostrider, right? I want to, I put up this website, I'm starting to get a ton of traffic to it and and maybe like I need to, to create a backend database. And so we want that to come from ghostrider as well, so it can actually look at your traffic, look at your code, and create.[00:34:59] You know a, a schema for you that you can then deploy in, in Postgres or, or whatever else? You know, I, I know like doing anything in in cloud can be a nightmare as well. Like if you wanna create a new service account and you wanna deploy you know, nodes on and, and have that service account, kind of talk to those nodes and return some, some other information, like those are the types of things that currently we have to kind of go, go back, go look at some documentation for Google Cloud, go look at how our code base does it you know, ask around in Slack, kind of figure that out and, and create a pull request.[00:35:31] Those are the types of things that we think we can automate away with with more advanced uses of, of ghostwriter once we go past, like, here's what would come next in, in this file. So, so that's the real promise of it, is, is the ability to help you kind of generate software instead of just code in a, in a particular file.[00:35:50] Ghostwriter Autonomous Agent[00:35:50] Reza Shabani: Are[00:35:50] Alessio Fanelli: you giving REPL access to the model? Like not rep, like the actual rep. Like once the model generates some of this code, especially when it's in the background, it's not, the completion use case can actually run the code to see if it works. There's like a cool open source project called Walgreen that does something like that.[00:36:07] It's like self-healing software. Like it gives a REPL access and like keeps running until it fixes[00:36:11] Reza Shabani: itself. Yeah. So, so, so right now there, so there's Ghostrider chat and Ghostrider code completion. So Ghostrider Chat does have, have that advantage in, in that it can it, it knows all the different parts of, of the ide and so for example, like if an error is thrown, it can look at the, the trace back and suggest like a fix for you.[00:36:33] So it has that type of integration. But the what, what we really want to do is is. Is merge the two in a way where we want Ghost Rider to be like, like an autonomous agent that can actually drive the ide. So in these action models, you know, where you have like a sequence of of events and then you can use you know, transformers to kind of keep track of that sequence and predict the next next event.[00:36:56] It's how, you know, companies like, like adapt work these like browser models that can, you know, go and scroll through different websites or, or take some, some series of actions in a, in a sequence. Well, it turns out the IDE is actually a perfect place to do that, right? So like when we talk about creating software, not just completing code in a file what do you do when you, when you build software?[00:37:17] You, you might clone a repo and then you, you know, will go and change some things. You might add a new file go down, highlight some text, delete that value, and point it to some new database, depending on the value in a different config file or in your environment. And then you would go in and add additional block code to, to extend its functionality and then you might deploy that.[00:37:40] Well, we, we have all of that data right there in the replica ide. And and we have like terabytes and terabytes of, of OT data you know, operational transform data. And so, you know, we can we can see that like this person has created a, a file what they call it, and, you know, they start typing in the file.[00:37:58] They go back and edit a different file to match the you know, the class name that they just put in, in the original file. All of that, that kind of sequence data is what we're looking to to train our next model on. And so that, that entire kind of process of actually building software within the I D E, not just like, here's some text what comes next, but rather the, the actions that go into, you know, creating a fully developed program.[00:38:25] And a lot of that includes, for example, like running the code and seeing does this work, does this do what I expected? Does it error out? And then what does it do in response to that error? So all, all of that is like, Insanely valuable information that we want to put into our, our next model. And and that's like, we think that one can be way more advanced than the, than this, you know, go straighter code completion model.[00:38:47] Releasing Replit-code-v1-3b[00:38:47] swyx: Cool. Well we wanted to dive in a little bit more on, on the model that you're releasing. Maybe we can just give people a high level what is being released what have you decided to open source and maybe why open source the story of the YOLO project and Yeah. I mean, it's a cool story and just tell it from the start.[00:39:06] Yeah.[00:39:06] Reza Shabani: So, so what's being released is the, the first version that we're going to release. It's a, it's a code model called replica Code V1 three B. So this is a relatively small model. It's 2.7 billion parameters. And it's a, it's the first llama style model for code. So, meaning it's just seen tons and tons of tokens.[00:39:26] It's been trained on 525 billion tokens of, of code all permissively licensed code. And it's it's three epox over the training set. And And, you know, all of that in a, in a 2.7 billion parameter model. And in addition to that, we, for, for this project or, and for this model, we trained our very own vocabulary as well.[00:39:48] So this, this doesn't use the cogen vocab. For, for the tokenize we, we trained a totally new tokenize on the underlying data from, from scratch, and we'll be open sourcing that as well. It has something like 32,000. The vocabulary size is, is in the 32 thousands as opposed to the 50 thousands.[00:40:08] Much more specific for, for code. And, and so it's smaller faster, that helps with inference, it helps with training and it can produce more relevant content just because of the you know, the, the vocab is very much trained on, on code as opposed to, to natural language. So, yeah, we'll be releasing that.[00:40:29] This week it'll be up on, on hugging pace so people can take it play with it, you know, fine tune it, do all type of things with it. We want to, we're eager and excited to see what people do with the, the code completion model. It's, it's small, it's very fast. We think it has great vibes, but we, we hope like other people feel the same way.[00:40:49] And yeah. And then after, after that, we might consider releasing the replica tuned model at, at some point as well, but still doing some, some more work around that.[00:40:58] swyx: Right? So there are actually two models, A replica code V1 three B and replica fine tune V1 three B. And the fine tune one is the one that has the 50% improvement in in common sense benchmarks, which is going from 20% to 30%.[00:41:13] For,[00:41:13] Reza Shabani: for yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And so, so that one, the, the additional tuning that was done on that was on the publicly available data on, on rep. And so, so that's, that's you know, data that's in public res is Permissively licensed. So fine tuning on on that. Then, Leads to a surprisingly better, like significantly better model, which is this retuned V1 three B, same size, you know, same, very fast inference, same vocabulary and everything.[00:41:46] The only difference is that it's been trained on additional replica data. Yeah.[00:41:50] swyx: And I think I'll call out that I think in one of the follow up q and as that Amjad mentioned, people had some concerns with using replica data. Not, I mean, the licensing is fine, it's more about the data quality because there's a lot of beginner code Yeah.[00:42:03] And a lot of maybe wrong code. Mm-hmm. But it apparently just wasn't an issue at all. You did[00:42:08] Reza Shabani: some filtering. Yeah. I mean, well, so, so we did some filtering, but, but as you know, it's when you're, when you're talking about data at that scale, it's impossible to keep out, you know, all of the, it's, it's impossible to find only select pieces of data that you want the, the model to see.[00:42:24] And, and so a lot of the, a lot of that kind of, you know, people who are learning to code material was in there anyway. And, and you know, we obviously did some quality filtering, but a lot of it went into the fine tuning process and it really helped for some reason. You know, there's a lot of high quality code on, on replica, but there's like you, like you said, a lot of beginner code as well.[00:42:46] And that was, that was the really surprising thing is that That somehow really improved the model and its reasoning capabilities. It felt much more kind of instruction tuned afterward. And, and you know, we have our kind of suspicions as as to why there's, there's a lot of like assignments on rep that kind of explain this is how you do something and then you might have like answers and, and whatnot.[00:43:06] There's a lot of people who learn to code on, on rep, right? And, and like, think of a beginner coder, like think of a code model that's learning to, to code learning this reasoning and logic. It's probably a lot more valuable to see that type of, you know, the, the type of stuff that you find on rep as opposed to like a large legacy code base that that is, you know, difficult to, to parse and, and figure out.[00:43:29] So, so that was very surprising to see, you know, just such a huge jump in in reasoning ability once trained on, on replica data.[00:43:38] The YOLO training run[00:43:38] swyx: Yeah. Perfect. So we're gonna do a little bit of storytelling just leading up to the, the an the developer day that you had last week. Yeah. My understanding is you decide, you raised some money, you decided to have a developer day, you had a bunch of announcements queued up.[00:43:52] And then you were like, let's train the language model. Yeah. You published a blog post and then you announced it on Devrel Day. What, what, and, and you called it the yolo, right? So like, let's just take us through like the[00:44:01] Reza Shabani: sequence of events. So so we had been building the infrastructure to kind of to, to be able to train our own models for, for months now.[00:44:08] And so that involves like laying out the infrastructure, being able to pull in the, the data processes at scale. Being able to do things like train your own tokenizes. And and even before this you know, we had to build out a lot of this data infrastructure for, for powering things like search.[00:44:24] There's over, I think the public number is like 200 and and 30 million res on, on re. And each of these res have like many different files and, and lots of code, lots of content. And so you can imagine like what it must be like to, to be able to query that, that amount of, of data in a, in a reasonable amount of time.[00:44:45] So we've You know, we spent a lot of time just building the infrastructure that allows for for us to do something like that and, and really optimize that. And, and this was by the end of last year. That was the case. Like I think I did a demo where I showed you can, you can go through all of replica data and parse the function signature of every Python function in like under two minutes.[00:45:07] And, and there's, you know, many, many of them. And so a and, and then leading up to developer day, you know, we had, we'd kind of set up these pipelines. We'd started training these, these models, deploying them into production, kind of iterating and, and getting that model training to production loop.[00:45:24] But we'd only really done like 1.3 billion parameter models. It was like all JavaScript or all Python. So there were still some things like we couldn't figure out like the most optimal way to to, to do it. So things like how do you pad or yeah, how do you how do you prefix chunks when you have like multi-language models, what's like the optimal way to do it and, and so on.[00:45:46] So you know, there's two PhDs on, on the team. Myself and Mike and PhDs tend to be like careful about, you know, a systematic approach and, and whatnot. And so we had this whole like list of things we were gonna do, like, oh, we'll test it on this thing and, and so on. And even these, like 1.3 billion parameter models, they were only trained on maybe like 20 billion tokens or 30 billion tokens.[00:46:10] And and then Amjad joins the call and he's like, no, let's just, let's just yolo this. Like, let's just, you know, we're raising money. Like we should have a better code model. Like, let's yolo it. Let's like run it on all the data. How many tokens do we have? And, and, and we're like, you know, both Michael and I are like, I, I looked at 'em during the call and we were both like, oh God is like, are we really just gonna do this?[00:46:33] And[00:46:34] swyx: well, what is the what's the hangup? I mean, you know that large models work,[00:46:37] Reza Shabani: you know that they work, but you, you also don't know whether or not you can improve the process in, in In important ways by doing more data work, scrubbing additional content, and, and also it's expensive. It's like, it, it can, you know it can cost quite a bit and if you, and if you do it incorrectly, you can actually get it.[00:47:00] Or you, you know, it's[00:47:02] swyx: like you hit button, the button, the go button once and you sit, sit back for three days.[00:47:05] Reza Shabani: Exactly. Yeah. Right. Well, like more like two days. Yeah. Well, in, in our case, yeah, two days if you're running 256 GP 100. Yeah. Yeah. And and, and then when that comes back, you know, you have to take some time to kind of to test it.[00:47:19] And then if it fails and you can't really figure out why, and like, yeah, it's, it's just a, it's kind of like a, a. A time consuming process and you just don't know what's going to, to come out of it. But no, I mean, I'm Judd was like, no, let's just train it on all the data. How many tokens do we have? We tell him and he is like, that's not enough.[00:47:38] Where can we get more tokens? Okay. And so Michele had this you know, great idea to to train it on multiple epox and so[00:47:45] swyx: resampling the same data again.[00:47:47] Reza Shabani: Yeah. Which, which can be, which is known risky or like, or tends to overfit. Yeah, you can, you can over overfit. But you know, he, he pointed us to some evidence that actually maybe this isn't really a going to be a problem.[00:48:00] And, and he was very persuasive in, in doing that. And so it, it was risky and, and you know, we did that training. It turned out. Like to actually be great for that, for that base model. And so then we decided like, let's keep pushing. We have 256 TVs running. Let's see what else we can do with it.[00:48:20] So we ran a couple other implementations. We ran you know, a the fine tune version as I, as I said, and that's where it becomes really valuable to have had that entire pipeline built out because then we can pull all the right data, de-dupe it, like go through the, the entire like processing stack that we had done for like months.[00:48:41] We did that in, in a matter of like two days for, for the replica data as well removed, you know, any of, any personal any pii like personal information removed, harmful content, removed, any of, of that stuff. And we just put it back through the that same pipeline and then trained on top of that.[00:48:59] And so I believe that replica tune data has seen something like 680. Billion tokens. And, and that's in terms of code, I mean, that's like a, a universe of code. There really isn't that much more out there. And, and it, you know, gave us really, really promising results. And then we also did like a UL two run, which allows like fill the middle capabilities and and, and will be, you know working to deploy that on, on rep and test that out as well soon.[00:49:29] But it was really just one of those Those cases where, like, leading up to developer day, had we, had we done this in this more like careful, systematic way what, what would've occurred in probably like two, three months. I got us to do it in, in a week. That's fun. It was a lot of fun. Yeah.[00:49:49] Scaling Laws: from Kaplan to Chinchilla to LLaMA[00:49:49] Alessio Fanelli: And so every time I, I've seen the stable releases to every time none of these models fit, like the chinchilla loss in, in quotes, which is supposed to be, you know, 20 tokens per, per, what's this part of the yo run?[00:50:04] Or like, you're just like, let's just throw out the tokens at it doesn't matter. What's most efficient or like, do you think there's something about some of these scaling laws where like, yeah, maybe it's good in theory, but I'd rather not risk it and just throw out the tokens that I have at it? Yeah,[00:50:18] Reza Shabani: I think it's, it's hard to, it's hard to tell just because there's.[00:50:23] You know, like, like I said, like these runs are expensive and they haven't, if, if you think about how many, how often these runs have been done, like the number of models out there and then, and then thoroughly tested in some forum. And, and so I don't mean just like human eval, but actually in front of actual users for actual inference as part of a, a real product that, that people are using.[00:50:45] I mean, it's not that many. And, and so it's not like there's there's like really well established kind of rules as to whether or not something like that could lead to, to crazy amounts of overfitting or not. You just kind of have to use some, some intuition around it. And, and what we kind of found is that our, our results seem to imply that we've really been under training these, these models.[00:51:06] Oh my god. And so like that, you know, all, all of the compute that we kind of. Through, with this and, and the number of tokens, it, it really seems to help and really seems to to improve. And I, and I think, you know, these things kind of happen where in, in the literature where everyone kind of converges to something seems to take it for for a fact.[00:51:27] And like, like Chinchilla is a great example of like, okay, you know, 20 tokens. Yeah. And but, but then, you know, until someone else comes along and kind of tries tries it out and sees actually this seems to work better. And then from our results, it seems imply actually maybe even even lla. Maybe Undertrained.[00:51:45] And, and it may be better to go even You know, like train on on even more tokens then and for, for the[00:51:52] swyx: listener, like the original scaling law was Kaplan, which is 1.7. Mm-hmm. And then Chin established 20. Yeah. And now Lama style seems to mean 200 x tokens to parameters, ratio. Yeah. So obviously you should go to 2000 X, right?[00:52:06] Like, I mean, it's,[00:52:08] Reza Shabani: I mean, we're, we're kind of out of code at that point, you know, it's like there, there is a real shortage of it, but I know that I, I know there are people working on I don't know if it's quite 2000, but it's, it's getting close on you know language models. And so our friends at at Mosaic are are working on some of these really, really big models that are, you know, language because you with just code, you, you end up running out of out of context.[00:52:31] So Jonathan at, at Mosaic has Jonathan and Naveen both have really interesting content on, on Twitter about that. Yeah. And I just highly recommend following Jonathan. Yeah,[00:52:43] MosaicML[00:52:43] swyx: I'm sure you do. Well, CAGR, can we talk about, so I, I was sitting next to Naveen. I'm sure he's very, very happy that you, you guys had such, such success with Mosaic.[00:52:50] Maybe could, could you shout out like what Mosaic did to help you out? What, what they do well, what maybe people don't appreciate about having a trusted infrastructure provider versus a commodity GPU provider?[00:53:01] Reza Shabani: Yeah, so I mean, I, I talked about this a little bit in the in, in the blog post in terms of like what, what advantages like Mosaic offers and, and you know, keep in mind, like we had, we had deployed our own training infrastructure before this, and so we had some experience with it.[00:53:15] It wasn't like we had just, just tried Mosaic And, and some of those things. One is like you can actually get GPUs from different providers and you don't need to be you know, signed up for that cloud provider. So it's, it kind of detaches like your GPU offering from the rest of your cloud because most of our cloud runs in, in gcp.[00:53:34] But you know, this allowed us to leverage GPUs and other providers as well. And then another thing is like train or infrastructure as a service. So you know, these GPUs burn out. You have note failures, you have like all, all kinds of hardware issues that come up. And so the ability to kind of not have to deal with that and, and allow mosaic and team to kind of provide that type of, of fault tolerance was huge for us.[00:53:59] As well as a lot of their preconfigured l m configurations for, for these runs. And so they have a lot of experience in, in training these models. And so they have. You know, the, the right kind of pre-configured setups for, for various models that make sure that, you know, you have the right learning rates, the right training parameters, and that you're making the, the best use of the GPU and, and the underlying hardware.[00:54:26] And so you know, your GPU utilization is always at, at optimal levels. You have like fewer law spikes than if you do, you can recover from them. And you're really getting the most value out of, out of the compute that you're kind of throwing at, at your data. We found that to be incredibly, incredibly helpful.[00:54:44] And so it, of the time that we spent running things on Mosaic, like very little of that time is trying to figure out why the G P U isn't being utilized or why you know, it keeps crashing or, or why we, you have like a cuda out of memory errors or something like that. So like all, all of those things that make training a nightmare Are are, you know, really well handled by, by Mosaic and the composer cloud and and ecosystem.[00:55:12] Yeah. I was gonna[00:55:13] swyx: ask cuz you're on gcp if you're attempted to rewrite things for the TPUs. Cause Google's always saying that it's more efficient and faster, whatever, but no one has experience with them. Yeah.[00:55:23] Reza Shabani: That's kind of the problem is that no one's building on them, right? Yeah. Like, like we want to build on, on systems that everyone else is, is building for.[00:55:31] Yeah. And and so with, with the, with the TPUs that it's not easy to do that.[00:55:36] Replit's Plans for the Future (and Hiring!)[00:55:36] swyx: So plans for the future, like hard problems that you wanna solve? Maybe like what, what do you like what kind of people that you're hiring on your team?[00:55:44] Reza Shabani: Yeah. So We are, we're currently hiring for for two different roles on, on my team.[00:55:49] Although we, you know, welcome applications from anyone that, that thinks they can contribute in, in this area. Replica tends to be like a, a band of misfits. And, and the type of people we work with and, and have on our team are you know, like just the, the perfect mix to, to do amazing projects like this with very, very few people.[00:56:09] Right now we're hiring for the applied a applied to AI ml engineer. And so, you know, this is someone who's. Creating data pipelines, processing the data at scale creating runs and and training models and you

In this episode, GP Bianca Forrester speaks with child and adolescent psychiatrist Prof Sandra Radovini about increasing requests for neurodevelopmental disorder assessments in primary care. We talk about the issues that many young people are facing in getting back on track with school routines and why transitions have been particularly challenging for some young people.Shownotes:Best Practice Guidelines for the assessment and support of autismAustralia's First National Guideline for the Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders https://www.autismcrc.com.au/access/national-guidelineBest Practice Guidelines for the assessment and support for ADHDAustralian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)  https://adhdguideline.aadpa.com.au   Assessment ToolsAutism: Social Responsiveness Scale, 2nd Edition SRS-2Identifies the presence and severity of social impairment within the autism spectrum and differentiates it from that which occurs in other disorders https://paa.com.au/product/srs-2/ For ADHD:https://adhdguideline.aadpa.com.au/diagnosis/adhd-diagnosis/The Conners ADHD rating scale was mentionedhttps://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/conners-rating-scale Recommended article:MJA article- Andrew Whitehouse- Autism: Widely known, rarely understood  For GPs recording Continuing Professional development:This podcast (and accompanying guidelines and article review) may contribute to 1 hours of Educational Activities. GPs may self-record their completion of the activity in their MyCPD account at https://mycpd.racgp.org.au and click on “Log” from the banner at top of screen. Note that it remains the GP's responsibility to maintain evidence of the activity for their CPD log. Please contact your local faculty if assistance is needed in logging the activity. Training Calendar Mindful Centre The skill development workshops are designed for professionals working with clients with autism. They focus on practical skill development for delivering a wide range of autism interventions https://mindful.org.au/asd-training/skill-developmentSelf-paced Training modules in assessmenthttps://ecommerce.unimelb.edu.au/faculty-stores/mindful-centre-for-training-research-in-developmental-healthThis Podcast was recorded over "zoom" in February 2023Presented by:  Dr Bianca Forrester, Senior Lecturer Primary care, Department of General practice and Primary care, University of Melbourne.Guest:  Prof Sandra Radovini, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Director of Centre for Training and Research in Developmental HealthProduced by: Bianca ForresterMusic: Space Cadet LullabiesGraphics: Gaal CreativeThe Maze Phase is a production of the University of Melbourne, Australia. The Maze Phase is licenced under Creative Commons, Copyright 2017, the University of Melbourne.

Du har fött barn och du tänker att nu är det över - ditt jobb är gjort. Mja, det är en sanning med modifikation för nu kan det vara läge att göra sig beredd på eftervärkar - och det kan vara en högst otrevlig överraskning om man inte hade koll på det innan. Programledare är Nina Campioni. Repris från 2021.Support till showen http://supporter.acast.com/vattnetgar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ADAPT is a prospective cohort study that has been following up COVID-19 patients since the earliest days of the pandemic. It has allowed researchers to track the emergence of long COVID, a syndrome that includes symptoms such as ongoing breathlessness, fatigue, chest tightness and "brain fog". Over the course of the study, participants have contributed blood cells, cardiac and brain MRIs, tests of respiratory function and more. The research has uncovered molecular and functional correlates that are helping to explain long COVID. Meanwhile, clinicians at the St Vincents' Hospital, Sydney long COVID clinic are successfully applying rehabilitation strategies drawn from the treatments of chronic pain and other functional disorders. GuestsProfessor Gail Matthews MRCP FRACP (Head of Infectious Diseases, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney; Kirby Institute)Dr David Darley FRACP (St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney)Professor Steven Faux FRACGP FAFRM FFPMANZCA (Director Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine, Vincent's Hospital, Sydney)Professor Bruce Brew AM FRACP FAAN (Director of the Peter Duncan Neurosciences Research Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney) ProductionRecorded at St Vincent's Hospital for the Curran Foundation.  Post-production by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘Tree Tops' and ‘Yellow Lead' by Autohacker and ‘Thyone' and ‘Orthosie' by Ben Elson. Image by PASIEKA licenced from Getty Images.Please visit the Pomegranate Health web page for a transcript and supporting references. To claim learning credits login to MyCPD at this link, review the prefilled activity details then click save. Subscribe to new episode email alerts or search for ‘Pomegranate Health' in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox, or any podcasting app.ReferencesThe Curran Foundation at St Vincent's Hospital, SydneyImmunological dysfunction persists for 8 months following initial mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection [Nat Immunol]Myocardial fibrosis occurs in non-hospitalised patients with chronic symptoms after COVID-19 [Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc]. Limited recovery from post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 at 8 months in a prospective cohort [ERJ Open Res]Persistent symptoms up to four months after community and hospital-managed SARS-CoV-2 infection [MJA]

Vol 217, Issue 11: 12 December 2022. Associate Professor Andrew Morokoff is a neurosurgeon with The Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne. He talks about the role of spinal surgery, particularly spine fusion, in the treatment of low back pain, to accompany his coauthored narrative review published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Du har fött barn och du tänker att nu är det över - ditt jobb är gjort. Mja, det är en sanning med modifikation för nu kan det vara läge att göra sig beredd på eftervärkar - och det kan vara en högst otrevlig överraskning om man inte hade koll på det innan. Programledare är Nina Campioni. Repris från 2020.Support till showen http://supporter.acast.com/vattnetgar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 5 December 2022. Professor Anne Kelso AO will be stepping down as CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council in 5 months' time after 8 years in the role. She talks about gender equity in medical research funding and a new program introduced by the NHMRC, to accompany her MJA article on the subject. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Du har fött barn och du tänker att nu är det över - ditt jobb är gjort. Mja, det är en sanning med modifikation för nu kan det vara läge att göra sig beredd på eftervärkar - och det kan vara en högst otrevlig överraskning om man inte hade koll på det innan. Programledare är Nina Campioni. Repris från 2020.Support till showen http://supporter.acast.com/vattnetgar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 30 November 2022. Dr Violet Kieu, Dr Antoinette Anazodo and Professor Kate Stern are coauthors of new COSA guidelines for fertility preservation for people with cancer, and of a guideline summary published in the MJA. They talk about options for preservation, recent advances, and the importance of early referral to fertility specialists after cancer diagnosis. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 7: 3 October 2022. Professor Mark Frydenberg is a Melbourne-based urologist, specialising in urologic oncology and cancer surgery. He talks about modern paradigms for the detection and management of prostate cancer, to accompany his Narrative Review published in the MJA. There is also an InSight+ article on this topic. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 6: 19 September 2022. Professor Ginny Barbour will take over as Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia and InSight+ on 23 January 2023. She was one of the founding editors of PLOS Medicine, and is currently Director of Open Access Australasia. She talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about her vision for the MJA going forward. 

In this episode, we talk to Ali Estefan a multilingual urbanist, who brings a people-centered approach to planning and community development. She is currently the VP of Planning and Design at MJA, a public relations and communications firm headquartered in New York City. She is also the head of the NYC Chapter at the Center for Conscious Design and Board Member at Garra, a CBO that advocates for Brazilian immigrants. In this episode, we cover: How to adapt to a new city and thrive Why speaking more than one language is a strength Resume tips for immigrant students and developed professionals Connect with Lola: LinkedIn Immigrants in Corporate Instagram Apply to be on the podcast More about The Immigrants In Corporate Podcast: Welcome to the “Immigrants in Corporate” podcast. A podcast about Immigrants and the journey to belonging and thriving in the corporate workplace. Drawing on her experience as an immigrant with years of experience in corporate America, and her current role as a certified diversity professional who is working with global corporations to build a more inclusive workplace for underrepresented employees, Lola Adeyemo is amplifying the voices of immigrants across different geographical locations and within the corporate workplace. This podcast is focused on highlighting the different barriers immigrants face in the corporate workplace and sharing insights for overcoming and thriving at work by leveraging individual uniqueness and cultural background. The discussion will be based on the different categories from the book “Thriving in Intersectionality”. As an Immigrant in the corporate workplace or an International student looking forward to getting into the corporate workplace in a new country listen in for insights and visit www.immigrantsincorporate.com for more information on social media communities and upcoming live events and resources. Join Lola Adeyemo, each week as she connects you with immigrants who work across different industries and in different parts of the world. Hear their stories and learn how they are working towards belonging and thriving every single day.

This week, Trent sits down with one of WA's brightest stars in the Architecture & Design world, MJA's Jimmy Thompson. In this episode, you'll hear Jimmy's rise to the top of one of WA's most influential architecture houses, his current projects, and his views on the future of design.

Vol 217, Issue 4: 15 August 2022. Professor Steve Robson is an ob/gyn, former President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and has just been elected as the President of the Federal Australian Medical Association. He spoke with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about his priorities for his upcoming term in office. 

Vol 217, Issue 1: 4 July 2022. Dr Simon Quilty is a public health physician from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at ANU. Mr Norman Jupurrurla is a Warumungu Elder and Director of the Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation in Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory. They talk about climate, housing, energy and their impacts on Indigenous health, to accompany their coauthored Perspective published by the MJA here. The MJA's Indigenous health issue is available here. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

On this episode Chrissie talks about two wonderful articles that she has found that leads to discussions on FND. They are amazing reads and are linked and will be included in the resources for future episodes of the podcast. Please check them out! Also a recent article on the MJA published this month on FND.  Follow Chrissie @chrissiejbutler.NotesHere re two essential reads on FND that are highly recommended by Chrissie and now myself Click on the titles to gain access on the articles.The Cadenza for fractured consciousness   From Medium.com on the fnd portal The Road to Functional Neurological Disorder by Gabriel Brownstein Also anything covid related and fnd here on neuro symptoms :https://www.neurosymptoms.org/en/faq/covid-19-the-covid-19-vaccine-and-fnd-what-do-we-know/A recent article written June this year what do you think ? From MJA https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2022/216/10/functional-neurological-disorders-australian-interdisciplinary-perspectiveI particularly agree with the conclusion.The FND Podcast with Detty acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in which we stand, the Bundjalung, Awakabal, Djinduburi , Arawak, Boon wurrang & Wurundjeri People. The FND Podcast pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.The FND Podcast with detty : song resonating at the moment maybe our song :The new normal by Kahlid to hear it it is on our playlist or click below to view lyrics and listen on YouTube.https://youtu.be/o3sXlxg4d5cWhat has the team been listening to? What are are their song preferences ? In a flare and would like to listen to some songs? Head over to our playlist! Thank you Maggie for making it :) we have recently updated the list which features an eclectic list; itunes playlist : the fnd podcast with detty playlist or click on the link below for the playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5lvGhN4Ab3AtwBj42L5DDA?si=i1RzVbhmQ3GeJ6a3Iu7sHw&dl_branch=1FND TSHIRTS BAGS MASKS AND MORE ; FND PODCAST MERCHANDISE-CLICK BELOWhttps://imprintmerch.com.au/collections/lets-have-the-chatfrom masks to bags hoodies and tshirts featuring Friends of FND and FND will not hold me back : all proceeds going to FND Australia Support Services also FND Podcast merchanise check them out!HELPFUL RESOURCES:A website all things Functional neurological Disorder written by Professor Jon Stone who is the leading FND researcher and Consultant Neurologist in Edinburgh, Scotland.https://www.neurosymptoms.org/Neurosymptoms has an app that you can download now too. Look up neurosymptoms or Jon stone and you will find it there.https://www.health.qld.gov.au/news-events/podcast/my-amazing-body-the-brain-2.0An excellent podcast episode which explains what Functional Neurological Disorder is. Have a good listeners brilliant!Dr Mohsin Butt is an excellent doctor who explained what FND is perfectly click here to watch his explanationhttps://vm.tiktok.com/ZSeYtCw7W/https://www.neurokid.co.uk/A website for young people and families living with NEAD and neurological symptomhttps://fndportal.org/Amazing website with information and links to fndInformation on Non Epileptic Seizures or NEADhttps://www.sth.nhs.uk/clientfiles/File/Epilepsy/pil2072.pdfFND ORGANISATIONS:https://www.fndaus.org.au/FND AUSTRALIA SUPPORT  SERVICES INC: A wonderful resource for people in Australia with FND: from reasearch into FND, finding medical specialists and services and just information about FND. Solely dedicated to all things FND and helping those with FND in Australia.FND Australia Support services App:Androidhttps://apksos.com/app/fndaustralia.comApplehttps://apps.apple.com/au/app/fnd-australia-support-services/id1613121706Click below to hear more about FND Australia Support services and who Dr. Katherine Gill ishttps://thefndpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/the-fnd-podcast-with-detty-dr-katherine-gill-and-fnd-australian-support-servicesFND Action is a patient-led charity who offer a caring and supporting hand to people living with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) in the UK.https://www.fndaction.org.uk/FND Dimensions aims to develop a network of ‘peer support groups' across the UK either in face to face meetings or online via methods such as Skype. By bringing people together on a regular basis, this helps alleviate the isolation that many FND patients feel. It also gives  opportunity  for others to open up dialog and to talk to others in a similar position about the day to day challenges, issues or concerns with one another.http://fnddimensions.org/A really helpful article and explanation of what FND is: 'https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1367576277956370432.html?fbclid=IwAR1GZpXe7IgC9qVlIr7ygA9RslPy6nxhQIumdUw9XMu2fs8MsMf8SwYZeVQ Other podcasts/ blogs / vlogs to follow:itsmeitsmeitsfndby none other than our Jake! https://www.tomplender.com/Tom Plender : follow this amazing creative human his art, music and writing on fnd https://open.spotify.com/show/6RSjTADQCw9tA4Udnutf0L?si=JZy4CAfuSB6FWaBCi8Avgg&dl_branch=1Bed Life and Beyond by Rach also a lovely FNDerhttps://pandoralocksmith.wordpress.com/about/John McLeans Fnd Journeyhttps://m.facebook.com/JohnsFND/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0Lmtd Life with FNDhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UC3xLKpn7gkgvVoH29ulu4IA/videosFNDer amplified: Meg Jacks follow on Instagram @ Meg.jacks_ TicTok: @megjacksInstagram follow Emma's journey :@emmas_fnd_funPeople Amplified on the FND Podcast by Maggies Corner ,brilliant incredible humans who you should look up / check outDylan AlcottAthelete , paraolympics , podcaster , raising awareness and voices of the disabledInstagram :@ listenable_podcast @dylanalcottWebsite: www.abilityfest.com.au Elle StellaBusiness Success Coach , Paraolympian & intuitive healerInstagram: @iamellesteeleWebsite: www.iamellesteele.comCarly FindlayActivist, writer, Blogger with a condition called ichtchyosis.Instagram: @carlyfindlayWebsite: www.carlyfindlay.com.auSophie ButlerShes empowering women, disabled after a spinal cord injury , she inspirational and has an amazing attitudeInstagram: @sophjbutlerYouTube: https://youtu.be/wgfAYDlXXvMMeg JacksShe is a fellow FNDer who is very open about her journey with FND and has helped raised awareness with FNDInstagram: @Meg.Jacks_TicTok: Megjacks Julian Gavino(he/him) is a trans-masculine model, writer, coach, and sex-positive disability influencer living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and comorbidities. ... In his work, Julian aims to normalize and destigmatize trans and disabled bodies in media — by facing discrimination down and creating space for representationInstagram:  @thedisabledhippieNina Tame aka the Lunch LadyShe's a single mum who's disabled and a disability advocate. Parenting with disabilityWebsite: https://hellolunchlady.com.au/parenting/parenting-around-the-world-nina/Chloè Hadenshe is an Australian actor YouTuber singer dancer and she's autistic. She beings awareness about Autism and talks openly about life with Autism.Instagram: @princesssapienWebsite: https://www.chloehayden.com.au/Youtube: Chloè Haden Style like UFounded by mother-daughter duo, Elisa Goodkind & Lily Mandelbaum, StyleLikeU is a multimedia platform for radically honest docu-style content that gives voice to diverse role models who stand proudly outside of norms and are comfortable in their skin.Website: https://stylelikeu.com/about-us/Lucy Dawsonwho unfortunately became Disabled during a medical situation. Click this link to find out more https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/25/lucy-dawson-the-model-who-got-a-mystery-headache-a-misdiagnosis-and-a-new-mission-in-life However despite this all she continues now to advocate and model and be bloody amazing.Instagram : @luuudawWebsite: https://lucyintheskywithencephalitis.wordpress.com/2021/03/16/all-my-links/Cripple MediaCripple media is a disability led media which represents the voice of the youth. As they have mentioned that the youth especially disabled have been represented by those who aren't the youth primarily the teachers or parents , those in the medical fields so they are raising their voices and speaking up and being heard. It's really important for their voices their oppinions to be heard and what a great idea and platform. A way to educate aswell as raise awarenessInstagram: @cripple mediaWebsite: https://cripplemedia.com/about/Aaron Rose Philip For more information check out this wonderful article herehttps://www.uncrazed.com/aaron-rose-philip-makes-runway-debut-says-disabled-talents-matter/32893Instagram:aaron_phillip transgendered disabled fabulous Model check him outNicole Parishshe is raising awareness on Autism, how she lives with autism, what tools she uses and her love for insects. Follow her on Tik Tok at Sound of the ForestA great news platform for young Australians to get the news firsthand ; available internet podcast and app easily digestible and accessible check it outhttps://www.thedailyaus.com.au/

Vol 217, Issue 1: 27 June 2022. Dr Tina Janamian is the CEO of Client Focused Evaluation Program Surveys Australia. She discusses achieving person-centred primary health care using a value co-creation approach, to accompany her co-edited Supplement, and co-authored Editorial, published in the MJA. 

Vol 216, Issue 11: 13 June 2022. Associate Professor Fiona Shand and Dr Michelle Torok are with the Black Dog Institute. They discuss school-based youth suicide prevention programs, to accompany their editorial, and research by Grummitt and colleagues, published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 

Ben jij ook wel bang om fouten te maken?In het Nederlands, in het leven?Ik dacht: "ik kan alles".Mja.Een persoonlijk verhaal over fouten maken, het universum verstoren en natuurlijk... waarom ik geen taalfouten corrigeer.Aflevering perfectionisme: Spotify, Apple, GoogleWorkshop fouten maken: https://sunny-knitter-1494.ck.page/workshopfouten -----Wil je deze podcast aflevering interactief maken - met transcripties, taalhulp en vragen?Om nog meer jouw eigen Nederlands verbeteren?Dat kan! Ga hier eens kijken. Of volg me op instagram, stuur me een mailtje...-----Support the show

Vol 216, Issue 10: 6 June 2022. Dr Adriana Nevarez Flores and Associate Professor Amanda Neil are with the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania. They talk about seasonal affective disorder and whether it should be taken more seriously in Australia, to accompany their coauthored Perspective published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

 Vol 216, Issue 10: 30 May 2022. Dr David Williams is Group Leader of the Emergency Diseases Laboratory Diagnosis Group at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness at the CSIRO. He talks about Japanese encephalitis virus, to accompany a case study published by other authors at the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 9: 16 May 2022. Professor Mark Harris is Scientia Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at UNSW Sydney. He talks about continuity of care in general practice to accompany his coauthored editorial, and Reed et al research, published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 8: 25 April 2022. Professor Martin Hensher is the Henry Baldwin Professorial Research Fellow in Health System Sustainability at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. He talks about the economics and COVID-19 vaccines and the opportunities Australia has to lead the region in vaccine development and manufacture, to accompany his coauthored Perspective published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 7: 18 April 2022. Professor Fraser Brims is a consultant respiratory physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Director of Early Years Clinical Skills at Curtin University Medical School. He discusses progress with lung cancer prognosis and management, to accompany his coauthored Perspective published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 7: 11 April 2022. Dr Alexa Seal is a Research Fellow at University of Notre Dame Australia's Rural Clinical School at Wagga Wagga. Associate Professor Matthew McGrail is Head of Rural Training Hubs Research in the Rural Clinical Schools Program at the University of Queensland. Their coauthored research is published by the MJA, where it is open access. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 7: 11 April 2022. Associate Professor Luke Grzeskowiak is a clinical pharmacist and Practitioner Fellow at Flinders University and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. He talks about hormonal contraceptive use following early medical abortion, to accompany his coauthored research letter published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 5: 21 March 2022. Professor Fiona Kelly is Dean and Head of the La Trobe University Law School. Dr Ken Pang is a paediatrician with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. They discuss Re: Imogen's impact on access to treatment for transgender youth in Australia, and the concept of Gillick competency in mature minors. This accompanies their coauthored Perspective at the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 4: 28 February 2022. Associate Professor Michael Buckland is a neuropathologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, and one of the founders of the Australian Sports Brain Bank. He talks about findings from the first 3 years of the ASBB, to accompany his coauthored open access research letter, published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 

Vol 216, Issue 2: 24 January 2022. Professor John Massie is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, and a leading child bioethicist. He discusses the ethics and legal protections involved in vaccinating children aged 12 years and over who wish to be protected against COVID-19, even against their parents' wishes. This accompanies Professor Massie's coauthored MJA article which can be found at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2022/216/9/vaccination-young-people-12-years-age-covid-19-against-parents-wishes ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

När alla andra har valt både hörna och partner letar Annie Lööf frenetiskt efter sin plats på dansgolvet. Ska hon stå i mitten och bugga? Mja, där ser så tomt ut. Och när man varken får röra sig till vänster eller till höger blir rörelserna lite stela? Lena och My analyserar Centerns nya, och något vilsna, position. Med bara månader kvar till valet är ju frågan: blir detta sista valsen för den som vacklar? Programledare: Soraya Hashim. Experter: Lena Mellin och My Rohwedder. Producent: Olivia Svenson.

Vol 216, Issue 1: 17 January 2022. Dr Manjula O'Connor is a consultant psychiatrist and academic at the University of Melbourne. She is also Executive and Founding Director of the AustralAsian Centre for Human Rights and Health (https://www.achrh.org/). She talks about dowry abuse in Australia and the fight for legal protections for survivors, to accompany her MJA Perspective, which is open access at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2022/216/1/health-impacts-dowry-abuse-south-asian-communities-australia ... with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.  

 Vol 215, Issue 11: 22 November 2021. Associate Professor Sheena Sullivan is Head of Epidemiology at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, at the Peter Doherty Institute. She talks about the impact of opening the international borders on influenza cases and severity this coming summer. To accompany her editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/1/preparing-out-season-influenza-epidemics-when-international-travel-resumes, and research by Marsh et al, at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/1/drivers-summer-influenza-epidemic-new-south-wales-2018-19 ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Í ár ætla strákarnir nú ekki alveg að missa sig í jólabjórunum eins og síðast en ætla að smakka allskonar sem þeim finnst skemmtilegt. Hér er farið aðeins yfir jólabjóramarkaðinn, Ora Jólabjórinn smakkaður ásamt HóHóHó tunnuþroskuðum stout frá Ægisgarði. Þá er Hampbjór frá Svaneke brugghúsinu í Borgundarhólmi. En strákarnir kíktu líka í heimsókn í Öldur Mjaðargerð og rifja upp viðtalið sem þeir tóku þar. Þar opnaði Sigurjón Friðrik Garðarsson augu BruggVarpsins fyrir leyndardómum mjaðarins.

Vol 215, Issue 10: 8 November 2021. Professor Patrick McGorry AO is the Executive Director of Orygen and a founding director of headspace. He talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about the realities of youth mental health in Australia and what urgent action needs to be taken. To accompany his editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/2/reality-mental-health-care-young-people-and-urgent-need-solutions and research by Iorfino et al at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/2/social-and-occupational-outcomes-young-people-who-attend-early-intervention 

Vol 215, Issue 9: 25 October 2021. Associate Professor Asha Bowen is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at Perth Children's Hospital; Dr Brendan McMullan is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at Sydney Children's Hospital; and Dr David Fraile-Navarro is Research Fellow at Cochrane Australia. They discuss new living guidelines for the clinical care of children and teenagers with COVID-19. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. The MJA summary is at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/5/clinical-care-children-and-adolescents-covid-19-recommendations-national-covid ... the full guidelines are at https://covid19evidence.net.au/ ...

Vol 215, Issue 7: 4 October 2021. Professor Claire Jackson is Director of the MRI-UQ Centre for Health Reform and Integration. Professor Di O'Halloran is from the Department of General Practice at the Western Sydney University. They talk about how to reform the 40-year-old Australian health care system to produce better outcomes for both patients and health care providers. To accompany their MJA Perspective at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/7/reforming-our-health-care-system-time-rip-band-aid ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 6: 20 September 2021. Professor Roxana Mehran is Director of the Center for Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She discusses why women with acute coronary syndromes are underdiagnosed, suffer delays in treatment and are often sent home undertreated compared with their male counterparts. To accompany her coauthored editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/3/sex-disparities-continue-characterise-management-non-st-elevation-acute-coronary ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 5: 6 September 2021. Dr Kunwardeep Bhatia is a cardiology advanced trainee at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He and colleagues from 21 hospitals across four states investigated cardiac complications in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 through January 2021. Their research is available, open access, at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/6/incidence-cardiac-complications-patients-hospitalised-covid-19-australia-aus ... Dr Bhatia chats with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

 Vol 215, Issue 5: 6 September 2021. Dr Omar Khorshid is the Federal President of the Australian Medical Association. He talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell, about COVID-19, the vaccine rollout, how the hospital system may cope with "living with" the virus, and the other important issues the AMA is advocating even while COVID dominates the media. 

 Vol 215, Issue 5: 30 August 2021. The winners of the MJA/MDA National Prize for Excellence in Medical Research has been awarded to the team at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity for their world-class study -- Isolation and rapid sharing of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2) from the first patient diagnosed with COVID‐19 in Australia, which can be found at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/212/10/isolation-and-rapid-sharing-2019-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-first-patient ... Dr Mike Catton, Dr Julian Druce and Dr Leon Caly talk with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about the research and impact it's had around the world. 

Vol 215, Issue 4: 16 August 2021. Dr Laila Ibrahim is a paediatrician and researcher at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI). Dr Nigel Crawford is Group Leader of Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination in the Community at MCRI. They discuss COVID-19 in children, to accompany their coauthored research at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/5/characteristics-sars-cov-2-positive-children-who-presented-australian-hospitals ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Jimmy has wide ranging experience from social housing to high end residential and hotel accommodation, as well as in hospitality, student housing and aged care projects. He is responsible for all concept, built form, live-ability and sustainability outcomes at MJA. Jimmy works tightly with his team to ensure that commercial nous can be balanced with design solutions which respond to local context, heritage and environment in a way that incorporates a sense of whimsy and delight.   In this episode, your host, Elizabeth McIntyre and special guest, Jimmy Thompson, have an interesting conversation which covers topics such as;    Growing up in perth, WA Drawing the future of Perth city as a kid Studying in Western Australia and having encouraging peers What is means to "Design like you give a damn" Challenges when it comes to his approach in architecture The importance of community consultation for projects The different threads of climate and context in terms of architecture "Talk to the past, understand the present and anticipate the future" as a practice Why he loves brick and much more...    This episode and many others can be found on all major platforms, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to Rate & Subscribe to our podcast to never miss out a new episode. You can also let us know who you want to hear next and what topics we should talk about by leaving us a Review on Apple Podcasts.   Mentioned in this episode: Perth MJA Studio Think Brick Top 40 George Street Project Think Brick Awards   Social & Links Follow @ThinkBrickAustralia on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook Follow @mjastudio on Instagram

Vol 215, Issue 4: 9 August 2021. Dr Dorothy Robinson is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales. She talks about pollution caused by wood heaters and the associated excess deaths and costs, to accompany her coauthored research at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/6/effects-mortality-and-associated-financial-costs-wood-heater-pollution-regional ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 3: 2 August 2021. Dr Adrian Sartoretto is a gastroenterologist and bariatric endoscopist with the BMI Clinic in Sydney. He talks about bariatric endoscopies and where they fit in the range of therapies for obesity. This podcast accompanies his coathored narrative review published by the MJA at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/4/endoscopic-bariatric-therapies-obesity-review ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Du har fött barn och du tänker att nu är det över - ditt jobb är gjort. Mja, det är en sanning med modifikation för nu kan det vara läge att göra sig beredd på eftervärkar - och det kan vara en högst otrevlig överraskning om man inte hade koll på det innan. Programledare är Nina Campioni Support till showen http://supporter.acast.com/vattnetgar. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Vol 214, Issue 8: 3 May 2021. Dr Sandro Demaio is CEO of VicHealth. He discusses pathways to a stronger, more equitable health care system for all Australians by 2030, to accompany VicHealth's MJA Supplement and his own MJA editorial. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Medical journals willingness to abandon traditional peer-review models to embrace fast online sharing of information has been critical.

Laatst las ik hoe een millennial de striptekenaar Peter de Wit (bouwjaar 1958) voor ‘dinosaurus’ uitmaakte vanwege een hem onwelgevallig grapje. Het grapje gaat zo: een vrouw komt blij binnen bij de psychiater Sigmund en vertelt dat zij het gedicht The hill we climb mag vertalen omdat ze vrouw, zwart, jong én spoken word artist is. Sigmund feliciteert haar en vraagt hoe ze het aan gaat pakken. Antwoord, tevens clou van het stripje: ‘Ik gooi het door Google translate.’ ‘Mja.’ doceerde de millennial, ‘Ik weet niet of ik dit nou wel zo'n geslaagd grapje vind. Die hele discussie vaart niet wel bij allerlei kort-door-de-bocht opmerkingen. En al helemaal niet van dinosaurussen als Peter de Wit.’ Het was min of meer mijn eigen schuld dat deze reactie bestond, want ik had het stripje zelf uit de krant geknipt en op Facebook gezet. ‘Het is een cartoon,’ schreef ik terug. ‘Een getekend grapje. Je weet wel, van die dingen die leuk bedoeld zijn, waarvoor sommige tekenaars zijn kapotgeschoten door gehersenspoelde extremisten bij wie elk gevoel voor humor en verbeeldingskracht tot moes is geslagen met de kolf van een Kalasjnikov.’ Die zinnen haalde ik maar weg. Ik zit ergens tussen dinosaurussen en millennials in, ik begin langzaam maar zeker te leren wanneer ik beter mijn innerlijke Freek de Jonge de mond kan snoeren en iets in de tuin gaan doen. Bovendien bedoelde deze millennial het helemaal niet zo kwaad. Hij wilde alleen maar, even humorloos als genuanceerd, een discussie voortzetten waarachter het stripje van Peter de Wit wat mij betreft een relativerende punt was. Tijdens een middagdutje – wij jong-bejaarden moeten veel slapen – droomde ik dat ik Peter de Wit tegenkwam in de Albert Heijn – wij droegen allebei witte pakken en zwarte mondkapjes. Ik vroeg de striptekenaar wat hij ervan vond. ‘Mja,’ zei de striptekenaar, die trouwens een lange reptielenstaart bleek te hebben: ‘Als ik een millenial zie denk ik altijd aan verrassingseieren van chocola. Best lekker, maar op elkaar gesmolten als twee Maagdenburger halve bollen. Ze vinden allemaal dat ze iets unieks en enigs in zich dragen. Dat is ook zo. Maar als het tevoorschijn komt is het altijd weer van plastic.’ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cultuurpers/message

Vol 214, Issue 3: 15 February 2021. Professor Christopher Maher is the Director of the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health at the University of Sydney. He discusses the Medical Research Future Fund and how it distributes grants. With the MJA's news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 213, Issue 11: 14 December 2020. Laureate Professor Nick Talley AC is editor-in-chief of the MJA. He reviews 2020 from COVID-19 through to medical publishing. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Årets nyord er kåret, men er egentlig «koronaen» riktig valg? Mja! Vi får besøk av Ingrid Vik Lysne, som gir oss sine beste bruktgave-tips. Dessuten arrangerer vi mini-Maskorama med selveste Ravnen, også kjent som Anne Rimmen!

We catch up with Director of Clinical Training, Dr David Sorrell, to chat about his experiences with COVID-19, a great paper from the MJA, SSD use in burns and the Seymour fracture.   MJA Paper https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/clinical-presentation-and-management-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR1Yn0Ha8KI6mW8xjAwonyMtuFvsZqYWIpV2oyXMJK1IBOu8r4CZvfhS7gw#panel-article IDSA COVID guideline https://www.idsociety.org/practice-guideline/covid-19-guideline-treatment-and-management/ EM Docs page on SSD http://www.emdocs.net/minor-burn-management-and-controversies-of-silver-sulfadiazine/   www.rnzcuc.org.nz podcast@rnzcuc.org.nz https://www.facebook.com/rnzcuc https://twitter.com/rnzcuc   Music licensed from www.premiumbeat.com Full Grip by ScoreSquad   This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals.  Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times.  For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor

Views From The Bench Air date 4/13/2020: MJA ‘09 Coach, Wisconsin Bandits Co-owner & coach, Vernon Hills Ice Dogs Special Assistant, & Kenosha High School Assistant Coach

Laureate Professor Nick Talley, Editor-in-Chief of The Medical Journal of Australia, speaks with Amy about SARS-CoV-2 and the coronavirus pandemic. They discuss Australia's ICU bed and ventilator capacity, the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), Australia’s testing criteria and community transmission levels, and what the MJA's new COVID-19 surge and mortality modelling tells us. Nick Talley is a neurogastroenterologist, a world-leading researcher, and has expertise in epidemiology. Broadcast on 31 March 2020.

David George Haskell, Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of the South (USA) discusses his fascinating book, The Songs of Trees: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors (Black Inc). Laureate Professor Nicholas Talley AC, Editor-in-Chief of The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA), speaks with Amy about the coronavirus pandemic. They discuss the state of ICU bed and ventilator capacity in Australia, widespread concerns over the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), whether Australia’s testing criteria needs to be expanded, and what the MJA's new COVID-19 surge modelling says about our health system’s ability to cope with increased demand. Dr Emma Shortis, from RMIT's EU Centre of Excellence, on the latest in US politics, including Trump's handling of COVID-19. Plus Ben Eltham on federal politics, including the most recent economic and health announcements and what they mean in practice.

This special episode is all about safety, planning and airway strategy in the current epidemic. Dr Tim Leeuwenburg is an author of the Safe Airways Society paper that hit the MJA this week

Félagsráðgjafaþing Félagsráðgjafafélags íslands verður heldið á föstudaginn þar sem rædd verða fjölmörg áhugaverð málefni undir kjörorðinu Skiljum engan eftir: Virðing - Virkni - Velferð. Við fengum þau Steinunni Bergmann, formann félagsráðgjafafélagsins og Halldór S. Guðmundsson félagsráðgjafa, sem verður með erindið Lyklar vellíðunar - matsaðferðir og sveigjanleg þjónusta á þinginu. Þau sögðu okkur frekar frá því sem þarna fer fram. Þórdís Nadia Semichat er dansari, uppistandari og handritshöfundur dvaldist við nám og störf í New York í tvö ár, þar sem hún sótti ótal mismunandi danstíma í frítma sínum, þar sem hún lærði m.a. að kynnast mjöðmunum á sér á alveg nýjan hátt. Hún er nýlega flutt aftur til Íslands með nýtt og ferskt dansnámskeið í farteskinu, sem hún kallar Hips Don?t Lie, eða Mjaðmirnar ljúga ekki. Við fengum Þórdísi Nadiu til okkar í dag. Við fengum póstkort frá Magnúsi R. Einarssyni á Spáni í dag og í því segir af óvenjulegri hitabylgju í febrúar og óttanum við að hitamet verði slegin á komandi sumri. Það segir líka frá eitruðum lirfum sem er verið að vara við þessa dagana. Ennfremur segir af viðvörun Bandaríska sendiráðsins í Madrid til ferðamanna vegna vaxandi tíðni kynferðisglæpa á Spáni. Og í var sagt frá auknu gæludýrahaldi Spánverja, en þeir virðast í auknum mæli kjósa að halda hund en að eignast börn. UMSJÓN GUNNAR HANSSON OG GÍGJA HÓLMGEIRSDÓTTIR

Félagsráðgjafaþing Félagsráðgjafafélags íslands verður heldið á föstudaginn þar sem rædd verða fjölmörg áhugaverð málefni undir kjörorðinu Skiljum engan eftir: Virðing - Virkni - Velferð. Við fengum þau Steinunni Bergmann, formann félagsráðgjafafélagsins og Halldór S. Guðmundsson félagsráðgjafa, sem verður með erindið Lyklar vellíðunar - matsaðferðir og sveigjanleg þjónusta á þinginu. Þau sögðu okkur frekar frá því sem þarna fer fram. Þórdís Nadia Semichat er dansari, uppistandari og handritshöfundur dvaldist við nám og störf í New York í tvö ár, þar sem hún sótti ótal mismunandi danstíma í frítma sínum, þar sem hún lærði m.a. að kynnast mjöðmunum á sér á alveg nýjan hátt. Hún er nýlega flutt aftur til Íslands með nýtt og ferskt dansnámskeið í farteskinu, sem hún kallar Hips Don?t Lie, eða Mjaðmirnar ljúga ekki. Við fengum Þórdísi Nadiu til okkar í dag. Við fengum póstkort frá Magnúsi R. Einarssyni á Spáni í dag og í því segir af óvenjulegri hitabylgju í febrúar og óttanum við að hitamet verði slegin á komandi sumri. Það segir líka frá eitruðum lirfum sem er verið að vara við þessa dagana. Ennfremur segir af viðvörun Bandaríska sendiráðsins í Madrid til ferðamanna vegna vaxandi tíðni kynferðisglæpa á Spáni. Og í var sagt frá auknu gæludýrahaldi Spánverja, en þeir virðast í auknum mæli kjósa að halda hund en að eignast börn. UMSJÓN GUNNAR HANSSON OG GÍGJA HÓLMGEIRSDÓTTIR

Félagsráðgjafaþing Félagsráðgjafafélags íslands verður heldið á föstudaginn þar sem rædd verða fjölmörg áhugaverð málefni undir kjörorðinu Skiljum engan eftir: Virðing - Virkni - Velferð. Við fengum þau Steinunni Bergmann, formann félagsráðgjafafélagsins og Halldór S. Guðmundsson félagsráðgjafa, sem verður með erindið Lyklar vellíðunar - matsaðferðir og sveigjanleg þjónusta á þinginu. Þau sögðu okkur frekar frá því sem þarna fer fram. Þórdís Nadia Semichat er dansari, uppistandari og handritshöfundur dvaldist við nám og störf í New York í tvö ár, þar sem hún sótti ótal mismunandi danstíma í frítma sínum, þar sem hún lærði m.a. að kynnast mjöðmunum á sér á alveg nýjan hátt. Hún er nýlega flutt aftur til Íslands með nýtt og ferskt dansnámskeið í farteskinu, sem hún kallar Hips Don?t Lie, eða Mjaðmirnar ljúga ekki. Við fengum Þórdísi Nadiu til okkar í dag. Við fengum póstkort frá Magnúsi R. Einarssyni á Spáni í dag og í því segir af óvenjulegri hitabylgju í febrúar og óttanum við að hitamet verði slegin á komandi sumri. Það segir líka frá eitruðum lirfum sem er verið að vara við þessa dagana. Ennfremur segir af viðvörun Bandaríska sendiráðsins í Madrid til ferðamanna vegna vaxandi tíðni kynferðisglæpa á Spáni. Og í var sagt frá auknu gæludýrahaldi Spánverja, en þeir virðast í auknum mæli kjósa að halda hund en að eignast börn. UMSJÓN GUNNAR HANSSON OG GÍGJA HÓLMGEIRSDÓTTIR

According to Mark from MJA, Inc. the prosecutor was handed the case 16 years ago.  So why wasn't it tried?  The Crew digs a little deeper and hangs hope on familial DNA.

In the cold case of missing Shannon Sherrill, the local authorities may have had a narrow view.  MJA, Inc has been investigating this case for 15 years.  An interview with Mark of MJA may shed some light on this otherwise cold case.  Could it be a notorious child killer?

In the first episode of the Wellistic Doses Podcast, I speak with Oz Merchant the CEO of Wellistic. Wellistic is an up and coming Health and Wellness online platform. We discuss several problems that Wellistic is solving for including bringing together Eastern and Western medicine and finding a trusted health provider and partner. Oz speaks on his experience as Director, Global Customer Success for Samanage and how living overseas inspired him to build out Wellistic. In the conclusion of the episode, Oz shares his takeaways from recently watching a TED Talk with neurosurgeon, Christer Mjåset. Oz ends with sharing Mjåset's four questions to ask your healthcare provider to help take back your health. 1. Is this really necessary? 2. What are the risks? 3. Are there other options? 4. What happens if I don't do anything? You can watch the TED Talk here. https://www.ted.com/talks/christer_mjaset_4_questions_you_should_always_ask_your_doctor?language=en You can learn more about our sponsor Tapout Fitness here. https://raleigh.tapoutfitness.com/

Hè, wisten we nog niet hoe de dinosaurussen waren uitgestorven? Met die meteoor en zo? Mja... we wisten dat min of meer, maar VUB-geoloog professor Philippe Claeys heeft de smoking gun gevonden... in Mexico!

Vol 211, Issue 3: 5 August 2019. Dr Ada Cheung is an NHMRC Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an endocrinologist at Austin Health. She discusses hormone therapy for transgender and gender diverse adults in Australia, to accompany her coauthored position statement in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Today on Indigenous Health MedTalk, Dr Danielle Arabena speaks with Dr Mark Wenitong. This insightful conversation speaks to Mark's passion for men's health, mental health, reducing domestic violence and issues arising in early childhood within Indigenous communities. They explore all the joys of the microbiome and jam on his music.Involved in both clinical and policy work throughout his career, Mark brings extensive expertise and experience to his current role as the Aboriginal Public Health Medical Officer at Apunipima Cape York Health Council, where he is working on health reform across the Cape York Aboriginal communities. Mark has also previously been a Senior Medical Officer at Wuchopperen Health Services in Cairns, a Medical Advisor for the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) in Canberra, the acting CEO of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), and has worked in community development with World Vision in Papunya, Northern Territory.Mark is a past president and founder of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association and sits on numerous councils and committees. Previously a member on the National Health Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council, he is Chair of Andrology Australia – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Male Health Advisory Committee, board member of Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and the AITHM.Mark is heavily involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce and has helped develop several national workforce documents and sat on the COAG Australian Health Workforce Advisory Council. He is also involved in several research projects, and has worked in prison health, refugee health in East Timor, as well as studying and working in Indigenous health internationally.In recognition of his achievements, Mark received the 2011 AMA Presidents Award for Excellence in Healthcare, the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council Hall of Fame award in 2010 and was one of the chief investigators awarded the MJA best research journal article for 2012.

Als jij het veel beter hebt dan je buren bouw je geen muur, maar een langere tafel. Ik weet niet meer waar ik deze zin las maar hij raakte zelfs mij, als milde Trump supporter, recht tussen de ogen. Tot ik hem ging gebruiken in discussies met mensen die cynischer in het leven staan dan ik. Ja lekker, dan vreten ze je tafel leeg en laten jou met de afwas zitten. Of erger, was hun reactie. Mja, misschien, maar dat moet je dan van tevoren beter afspreken. Ik zorg voor het eten, dan doe jij de afwas. Hoe moeilijk kan het zijn?

Det var ett tag sedan sist men nu är det dags för en härlig collab igen. Denna gången med grymma, grymma Manne och Nisse ifrån Pappapodden. Första delen av samtalet spelade vi in oss oss och pratade om ångest kring papparollen, hur Manne och Nisse gör för att hantera sin ångest. (Ja, det kommer konkreta tips här) och andra delen av samtalet finns alltså hos Pappapodden. Där pratade vi bla. om ”drömmen om stockholm” som vi LEVDE för under gymnasiet och käftsmällen efter studenten. Mja, ni hör ju. Och för er pappapodden-lyssnare: Välkomna till Ångestpodden!

In this episode we will review acute and chronic low back pain.    •Overview of assessment of back pain •Quick review of some red flags and yellow flags •Review differential diagnosis in LBP •Review of the evidence for some back imaging •Review of radiation risk of some common imaging •Screening tools for assessing risk of chronicity •Review of management principles •What is self management •Acute vs chronic LBP management •Review of latest guidelines and previous evidence for the 4 Ps (Physical, psychological, pharmacological, procedural)   References:   Annals of Internal Medicine, Noninvasive treatments for Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Back Pain, 2017, http://annals.org/aim/article/2603228/noninvasive-treatments-acute-subacute-chronic-low-back-pain-clinical-practice  National Institute for health and care Excellence (2016). Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management. NICE guideline [NG59]. Retrieved from https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng59 http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/x/systematic-review/1116/overview.html  http://www.racgp.org.au/your-practice/guidelines/handi/interventions/musculoskeletal/mindfulness-and-cbt-for-chronic-low-back-pain/  http://www.racgp.org.au/your-practice/guidelines/handi/interventions/musculoskeletal/exercise-for-chronic-low-back-pain/  Deyo RA. Real help and red herrings in spinal imaging. N Engl J Med, 2013 https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2011/195/8/back-pain-and-leg-weakness  http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7095 http://www.imagingpathways.health.wa.gov.au/radiation/pages/jop_principles.html  https://www.keele.ac.uk/sbst/  http://www.cochrane.org/CD001351/BACK_acupuncture-and-dry-needling-for-low-back-pain  http://www.cochrane.org/CD004059/BACK_prolotherapy-injections-for-chronic-low-back-pain Bardin, L D, King P, Maher C G. (2017). Diagnostic triage for low back pain: a practical approach for primary care MJA 206 (6) 3 April.   O'Sullivan P., Lin I.B. (2014). Acute low back pain. Beyond drug therapies. Pain Management Today; 1(1): 8-13. 15.   NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (2016). Management of people with acute low back pain: model of care. Chatswood; NSW Health. Retrieved from https://www.aci.health.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/336688/acute-low-back-pain-moc.pdf  

We all want a healthy baby, there's no question of that, but Sally believes there are underlying beliefs to the common phrase "As long as the baby is healthy" that deserve closer examination. Are we giving up elements of birth that are more important than we realise when we say this?Sally has identified 6 underlying beliefs to the statement "As long as the baby is healthy". The first three underlying beliefs were covered in Part 1:http://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/as-long-as-the-baby-is-healthy-part-1In this episode, part 2, Sally covers the following underlying beliefs:* “Birth is dangerous and needs to be managed medically. Positive births are due to luck.”* “Labour and birth are simply painful, pointless torture."* “My experience is irrelevant and people who seek a positive experience are selfish and exposing the baby to risk.”SPEAKERSDr Kirsten Small, obstetrician and PhD candidateProfessor Alec Welsh, University of NSW and obstetrician at Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney Dr Sarah Buckley, GP, author and researcher on physiological birthFURTHER READING* Dignity in Birth Survey: Safe Motherhood for Allhttp://www.safemotherhoodforall.org.au/news/only-58-of-australian-women-have-the-birth-they-want/* Film: "Microbirth": importance of labour and birth http://microbirth.com/INFORMATION AND SUPPORT:* PANDA National Helpline (Perinatal Anxiety Depression Awareness)Mon to Fri, 10am - 5pm AEST1300 726 306* Birth Talk: Resources for healing from birthwww.birthtalk.org/* Conscious Birth: Birth Story Healing, no matter how long agowww.consciousbirth.com/birth-story-healing/* Birth choices advice and advocacy: Maternity Choices Australiawww.maternitychoices.org.au and FacebookREFERENCES* https://theconversation.com/factcheck-is-suicide-one-of-the-leading-causes-of-maternal-death-in-australia-65336* http://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/why-is-the-fear-of-birth-rising/* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate* http://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/mortality-risk* https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Standard2_Oct_2012_WEB.pdf* “The Global Numbers and Costs of Additionally Needed and Unnecessary Caesarean Sections Performed per Year: Overuse as a Barrier to Universal Coverage” World Health Organisation 2010* https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-017-1343-3 (meaning of labour pain)cochrane.org/CD004667/PREG_midwife-led-continuity-models-care-compared-other-models-care-women-during-pregnancy-birth-and-early * Homer, CSE, MJA 205 (8) j 17 October 2016 "Models of maternity care: evidence formidwifery continuity of care"* http://www.peptonicmedical.se/about-peptonic/kerstin-uvnas-moberg/ (oxytocin research and impacts of pain medication on oxytocin production)* http://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/why-is-the-fear-of-birth-rising/* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22734617 (fear of childbirth and duration of labour)* http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/3/11/e004047.full.pdf (links between fear of birth and depression)* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18771508 (maternal response to own baby cry affected by c/s delivery* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819576/ (postpartum depression impacts on infants)* https://theconversation.com/birth-intervention-and-harm-more-likely-in-private-hospitals-26801* http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000012.pub4/abstract (Impacts of environment on birth)* http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030399210000654 (impact of colour and design of environment)* Prof. Maralyn Foureur research into environment: https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/maralyn.foureurhttp://www.midwiferyjournal.com/article/S0266-6138(14)00198-3/pdf++++++++++Produced and presented by Sally CusackCopyright 2017 PBB Media and Sally Cusack

We all want a healthy baby, there's no question of that, but Sally believes there are underlying beliefs to the common phrase "As long as the baby is healthy" that deserve closer examination. Are we giving up elements of birth that are more important than we realise when we say this?Sally has identified 6 underlying beliefs to the statement "As long as the baby is healthy". The first three underlying beliefs were covered in Part 1:http://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/as-long-as-the-baby-is-healthy-part-1In this episode, part 2, Sally covers the following underlying beliefs:* “Birth is dangerous and needs to be managed medically. Positive births are due to luck.”* “Labour and birth are simply painful, pointless torture."* “My experience is irrelevant and people who seek a positive experience are selfish and exposing the baby to risk.”SPEAKERSDr Kirsten Small, obstetrician and PhD candidateProfessor Alec Welsh, University of NSW and obstetrician at Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney Dr Sarah Buckley, GP, author and researcher on physiological birthFURTHER READING* Dignity in Birth Survey: Safe Motherhood for Allhttp://www.safemotherhoodforall.org.au/news/only-58-of-australian-women-have-the-birth-they-want/* Film: "Microbirth": importance of labour and birth http://microbirth.com/INFORMATION AND SUPPORT:* PANDA National Helpline (Perinatal Anxiety Depression Awareness)Mon to Fri, 10am - 5pm AEST1300 726 306* Birth Talk: Resources for healing from birthwww.birthtalk.org/* Conscious Birth: Birth Story Healing, no matter how long agowww.consciousbirth.com/birth-story-healing/* Birth choices advice and advocacy: Maternity Choices Australiawww.maternitychoices.org.au and FacebookREFERENCES* https://theconversation.com/factcheck-is-suicide-one-of-the-leading-causes-of-maternal-death-in-australia-65336* http://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/why-is-the-fear-of-birth-rising/* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate* http://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/mortality-risk* https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Standard2_Oct_2012_WEB.pdf* “The Global Numbers and Costs of Additionally Needed and Unnecessary Caesarean Sections Performed per Year: Overuse as a Barrier to Universal Coverage” World Health Organisation 2010* https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-017-1343-3 (meaning of labour pain)cochrane.org/CD004667/PREG_midwife-led-continuity-models-care-compared-other-models-care-women-during-pregnancy-birth-and-early * Homer, CSE, MJA 205 (8) j 17 October 2016 "Models of maternity care: evidence formidwifery continuity of care"* http://www.peptonicmedical.se/about-peptonic/kerstin-uvnas-moberg/ (oxytocin research and impacts of pain medication on oxytocin production)* http://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/why-is-the-fear-of-birth-rising/* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22734617 (fear of childbirth and duration of labour)* http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/3/11/e004047.full.pdf (links between fear of birth and depression)* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18771508 (maternal response to own baby cry affected by c/s delivery* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819576/ (postpartum depression impacts on infants)* https://theconversation.com/birth-intervention-and-harm-more-likely-in-private-hospitals-26801* http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000012.pub4/abstract (Impacts of environment on birth)* http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030399210000654 (impact of colour and design of environment)* Prof. Maralyn Foureur research into environment: https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/maralyn.foureurhttp://www.midwiferyjournal.com/article/S0266-6138(14)00198-3/pdf++++++++++Produced and presented by Sally CusackCopyright 2017 PBB Media and Sally Cusack

Sarah Yong is an impressive person. Advocacy, Training, Representation and being a new fellow of the College of Intensive Care to boot. Theres a lot to talk about when you sit down with Dr Sarah Yong. Let’s make it easy by focussing on three big issues; Gender issues; Women in Intensive Care Network. www.womenintensive.org Training issues; The Critical Care Collaborative and the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM. www.vpecc.com Representation issues; New Fellows Rep on the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine. www.cicm.org Where to start? Women in Intensive Care Network www.womenintensive.org @WomenIntensive If my sources are correct there pretty much the same number of women and men out there in the world. Further it seems that there are roughly the same number of women and men presenting to intensive care units. This pattern does not repeat itself in terms of the Intensive Care doctors. Let’s talk about this. Let’s listen to the people that are raising awareness about this. The Women in Intensive Care are talking about it and publishing about it too. You may have heard about the Medical Journal of Australia article; “Female representation at Australasian specialty conferences”. But they have not stopped proving their point. Next there was “Women in Leadership in Intensive Care Medicine” published in Jean-Louis Vincents open access e-journal “ICU Management and Practice” There have been only four presidents of the College of Intensive Care, all male. However the pre-cursor to the College was the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (JFICM), which was the body that actually created the college. The first leader of JFICM was the one and only Dr Felicity Hawker. Hopefully soon to be published will be a presentation from the Noosa ANZICS CTG (Australia & New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group) by Dr Naomi Yarwood about the lack of women in the ANZICS CTG studies over the last 20 years. Next Issue; Training. After competing her Fellowship exams Sarah got involved in the Critical Care Collaborative and went on to found the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM (VPECC). Running that is a big job in itself. It’s popular too and the July 2017 edition is already full. Sort of. Importantly the candidate stream is full for 2017 but there is a teaching stream too. Have a look at this if you are an aspiring educationalist; http://www.vpecc.com/teaching-stream.html At the time of our conversation the teaching stream not yet full for 2017. It is on in July. Get in touch with Sarah or the other guys at VPECC.com, if not this year maybe next year? Then she is on the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine trying to contribute and trying to gently help the college progress. I’m exhausted already. Have a listen. Be inspired. Get involved. List of speakers at Trainee Symposium Dr Yasmine Ali Abdehamid Dr Michael Ashbolt Dr Bronwyn Avard Dr Celia Bradford Dr Michaela Carter Dr Naomi Diel Dr Kelly Jones Dr Fiona Miles Dr Nhi Nguyen Dr Nudrat Rashid A/Prof Ian Seppelt Dr Li Huey Tan Dr Sarah Yong Dr Paul Young One might notice the slightly different gender imbalance there. A bunch of interesting people who have experience of medical training stretched from Zaria, Nigeria through Leicester, England to Auckland, New Zealand. Which reminds me; may I offer an apology to all New Zealanders for all the times I manage to say Australian rather than Australasian or Australia-New Zealand. References; Women in Leadership in Intensive Care Medicine Modra LJ, Yong SA, Austin DE ICU Management and Practice; 16 (3): 174-6 Female Representation of Australasian specialty conferences. Modra LJ, Austin DE, Yong SA, Chambers EJ and Jones D. MJA 2016; 204(10) 385

This is part two of our two part peek into the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland from Montgomery, Vermont in March of 2004. For this episode we talk to Mark Harper about what he and MJA did in processing Brianna's car. We also talk to private investigator Greg Overacker about his experiences in investigating this case alongside the Maitland family. We'll be back with more on Maura Murray's disappearance next week. Check out Crawlspace at https://twitter.com/Crawlspacepod and subscribe here for iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace/id1187326340, and here for YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmFbXjLx2kx39fYqwxQsnSA, Facebook: www.facebook.com/crawlspacepodcast, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast. Email us there at crawlspacepodcast@gmail.com Follow this show and documentary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MauraMurrayDoc, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/missingmauramurray/, and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MauraMurrayDoc/ Check out our docu-series on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Maura-Murray/dp/B07JHNTGLK And don't miss the Disappearance of Maura Murray on Oxygen: https://www.oxygen.com/the-disappearance-of-maura-murray Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Check out Crawlspace's Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/crawlspacepodcast Follow Crawlspace Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/crawlspace Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt

This is part two of our two part peek into the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland from Montgomery, Vermont in March of 2004. For this episode we talk to Mark Harper about what he and MJA did in processing Brianna's car. We also talk to private investigator Greg Overacker about his experiences in investigating this case alongside the Maitland family. We'll be back with more on Maura Murray's disappearance next week. Check out Crawlspace at https://twitter.com/Crawlspacepod and subscribe here for iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace/id1187326340, and here for YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmFbXjLx2kx39fYqwxQsnSA, Facebook: www.facebook.com/crawlspacepodcast, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast. Email us there at crawlspacepodcast@gmail.comFollow this show and documentary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MauraMurrayDoc, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/missingmauramurray/, and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MauraMurrayDoc/Check out our docu-series on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Maura-Murray/dp/B07JHNTGLKAnd don't miss the Disappearance of Maura Murray on Oxygen: https://www.oxygen.com/the-disappearance-of-maura-murrayCheck out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/Follow Private Investigations For the Missinghttps://investigationsforthemissing.org/https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissinghttps://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/Check out Crawlspace's Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/crawlspacepodcastFollow CrawlspaceTwitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePodIG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/crawlspaceSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt

The Missing Maura Murray podcast resumes with an interview with one of MJA, inc Investigations's founders Mark Harper. Mark talks about his thoughts on the Maura Murray and Brianna Maitland cases. Follow this show and documentary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MauraMurrayDoc, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/missingmauramurray/, and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MauraMurrayDoc/ Check out our docu-series on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Maura-Murray/dp/B07JHNTGLK And don't miss the Disappearance of Maura Murray on Oxygen: https://www.oxygen.com/the-disappearance-of-maura-murray Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Check out Crawlspace's Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/crawlspacepodcast Follow Crawlspace Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/crawlspace Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt

The Missing Maura Murray podcast resumes with an interview with one of MJA, inc Investigations's founders Mark Harper. Mark talks about his thoughts on the Maura Murray and Brianna Maitland cases.Follow this show and documentary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MauraMurrayDoc, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/missingmauramurray/, and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MauraMurrayDoc/Check out our docu-series on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Maura-Murray/dp/B07JHNTGLKAnd don't miss the Disappearance of Maura Murray on Oxygen: https://www.oxygen.com/the-disappearance-of-maura-murrayCheck out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/Follow Private Investigations For the Missinghttps://investigationsforthemissing.org/https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissinghttps://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/Check out Crawlspace's Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/crawlspacepodcastFollow CrawlspaceTwitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePodIG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/crawlspaceSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt

We are honored to be joined with MJA and Together We Stand in the search of justice for Elizabeth Ann Gill. The show is Wednesday, September 21, 2016, at 3:00 CST - 5:00 CST. At 2 years and 10 months old, Elizabeth went missing from her front yard in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on June 13, 1965.  While the family has an idea of who took Elizabeth, they have not been able to proove anything at this point.  MJA began their investigation in 2012.   There is a strong reason to believe Elizabeth is still alive while many say she stumbled into the Mississippi River. This is a fascinating case that our only wish is to unite these families.  You know with all the cases we have done with MJA and Together We Stand, it has led to some serious issues that are being resolved.  While, yes, we tend to be a political show, this is not one of the times.  We work and stand together regardless of race, gender, political affiliations, etc.  This is about justice for families and hopefully uniting this family in this particular case.  If you know anything, we ask that you call into the show that day or e-mail us at thetracyfortshow@gmail.com.  We will make sure we get you in touch with the appropriate people.  Thanks in advance for your support!

As you know, the one thing that brings the show together with everyone regardless of political beliefs, reigous beliefs, etc. is that of finding justice for families who have lost their loved ones and nothing is being done to help.  Well, we are here to help along with Together We Stand and MJA. Shannon Sherrill was a six year old playing hide and seek in her typical smalltown Indiana neighborhood.  Then the one thing every parent fears came true for the parents of Shannon as they learned their daughter was abducted.  While initial searches and investigations were done, it sadly became one of many way too many cold cases in America. MJA has done extensive work on that case and has called up Together We Stand and our show to assist.  We are more than happy to do this.  You will hear more about the whole story on the show Wednesday, July 6, 2016, at 5:00 PM/CST.  I hope you will join us. We will be taking your questions at 215-383-3795 during the live broadcast.  This will also be available for replay if you missed the show.  Remember to follow us at @tracyfortshow, like us on Facebook at The Tracy Fort Show, and you can always e-mail the show at thetracyfortshow@gmail.com.  Thank you for listening and supporting us!