🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
This is a super recap of this week's Scottish National Breastfeeding Conference! ⬇️
There is lots to celebrate and lots to keep working on 👏
Wow, it sounds like we are shockingly unprepared to care for baies in emergencies in this country!
Good afternoon from the #APPGIFI meeting in @ukparliament.parliament.uk chaired by @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social. The APPG was reconstituted in the AGM before the public segment of the meeting, with the full name of APPG on Infant Feeding and Inequalities restored
This is brilliant
"After thousands of interactions where you’ve monitored and managed your authentic responses to maintain social harmony, something in your system starts breaking down. Not because you’re broken, but because the system was never meant to run this way indefinitely."
Meredith’s drawing of Sam Heughan as Macbeth with an upside down crown in the opposite corner with bloody letters dripping from the points to spell Macbeth
Sam Heughan holding Meredith’s drawing and a pen, with Meredith’s shoulder in the foreground, in the crowd at the stage door of The Other Place after the performance of Macbeth on Monday, November 24th
Dear @the-rsc.bsky.social. My teenage Macbeth superfan daughter & I are still buzzing after seeing the brilliant Macbeth performance Monday night at The Other Place. We’d go again in a heartbeat. My daughter did this artwork, which Sam Heughan was gracious enough to sign afterwards 🤩 👑 🗡️
Today’s xkcd made me cry.
In a good way.
xkcd.com/3172/
A Lady Professor with brown hair and glasses, wearing a scarf in red, green, yellow, & black, a gift from an incredible lactation consultant, sitting in in front of cactus.
I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
We're back after lunch for the last session, welcomed back by @ndzitina.bsky.social, chair for this afternoon #BFConf
She's had us all on our feet applauding the Baby Friendly team, & ourselves for the work that we do 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
You can see some of Ernestine's work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs8C...
Illiyin's talk was so moving and powerful. We all have lots of work to do here!
The title slide of Naomi Dow's presentation "It's not thrush!" Challengin the Candida narrative
Welcome back after the break. Next up is @drnaomidowibclc.bsky.social speaking about “It’s Not Thrush!”: Challenging the Candida Narrative
Naomi is a GP, IBCLC and founding member of MiLC - Medics' Lactation Community #BFConf
The title slide of Philip Baker's presentation featuring groups of mothers breastfeeding side by side, with Philip video image next to it as he is presenting remotely
Next up we are hearing from @philbakernz.bsky.social on The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress #BFConf
Vicky Thomas standing on the stage with a large screen behind her showing images of parents and babies and the Baby Friendly logo
Good morning from Day 2 of the @unicef-uk.bsky.social Baby Friendly Initiative Annual Conference in Telford. @vicky-thomas.bsky.social welcomed us back to this very special conference, describing it as a combination of an academic symposium, a hen party and a therapy session 😄 #BFConf
The cover slide from Brittal Stordal's presentation. Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer: a call for action in high-income countries with low rates of breastfeeding
Back from the break for the last session of the day with Britta Stordal speaking about how Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer, a call for action in high income countries with low rates of breastfeeding #BFConf
Title slide from Reem Al Soufi and Yafa Ajweh's presentation on Supporting, Protecting and Sustaining Breastfeeding in Conflict Zones featuring a painting of a mother breastfeeding a baby surrounded by outstretched hands
Next Yafa Ajweh and Reem Al Soufi of the Gaza Infant Nutrition Alliance (GINA) will be speaking about S-upporting, protecting & sustaining breastfeeding in conflict zones
Al Soufi begins by speaking about how bf her daughter in October 2023 moved her to work to support other parents #BFConf
The title slide of Karen Read's presentation on 10 Years of BFI Neonatal Standards showing a mother holding premature twins skin to skin in a neonatal unit
Welcome back after lunch. Vicky Sibson of @1stepsnutrition.bsky.social is chairing this afternoon's session. Karen Read is speaking now about 10 years of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Neonatal Standards #BFConf
The title slide from Annie Aloysius's presentation What supports mothers of very preterm babies to start and continue breastmilk feeding in neonatal units? Mothers and staff experiences from units with high and low breastfeeding rates
Welcome back to the 2025 Baby Friendly Conference #BFConf. We're hearing now from @aaloysius.bsky.social who is speaking now about what supports mothers of very preterm babies to start & continue breastmilk feeding in neonatal units
The title slide from Anna Byrom's presentation Ravines to Relationships, Building Bridges with Baby Friendly with a cartoon sun shining out from under a bridge
Now morning chair @profamcf.bsky.social is introducing Anna Byrom from @all4maternity.bsky.social whose talk is called From Ravines to Relationships: Building bridges with Baby Friendly
The stage at the conference centre ready to start the day with a welcome slide saying Welcome to the 2025 UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Annual Conference
Good morning from the 2025 Baby Friendly Conference in Telford. Philip Goodwin, head of @unicef-uk.bsky.social is welcoming everyone to the largest ever #BFConf
Goodwin: Globally UNICEF is looking to strengthen systems that protect children globally. We must ensure children's rights are upheld
I'm looking forward to being back in-person at Baby Friendly and helping people follow along! #BFConf
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
CHT co-founder Tristan Harris returns to "The Daily Show" for an incisive conversation about the reckless AI path we're on, driven by the race to achieve market dominance: "This is an insane way to roll out a technology."
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo
A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.
You gotta give ‘em hop.
This poster, which was created and disseminated by abolitionist Theodore Parker, warns black people in Boston to beware of watchmen and police officers, who were legally allowed to act as kidnappers due to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Text reads: Caution!! Colored people of Boston, one & all, you are hereby respectfully cautioned and advised, to avoid conversing with the watchmen and police officers of Boston, for since the recent order of the mayor & aldermen, they are empowered to act as kidnappers and slave catchers ... Keep a sharp look out for kidnappers, and have top eye open. April 24, 1851
History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
🏳️⚧️ Trans people, and the queer community, deserve a regulator that stands up for their rights - free from interference or political bias.
www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-r...
The title slide from the WBTi presentation to the APPG on Infant Feeding. Text: Action on feeding babies in the UK
Good afternoon from the APPG on Infant Feeding and Inequalities chaired by @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social. Today we're hearing from @helengray.bsky.social about the 2024 WBTi report Action on feeding babies in the UK, a follow up from the first, baseline report from 2016 #APPGIFI
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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