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Georgia Watson

@ecologee

Working w iAccelerate removing barriers for #WomenInSTEM & #Entrepreneurship ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ Heading to Antarctica in Jan-Feb 2025 with #TeamHB8 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ถ Connection with community for #ClimateCourage โ˜€๏ธ

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Well, Iโ€™m out of office & on my way to Argentina today to take part in the Homeward Bound leadership voyage via Antarctica! ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ถ

Iโ€™ve been selected as one of just over 100 women & NB people in STEMM to take part, all of us leaders for climate action โ˜€๏ธ

Iโ€™m still new here, can you help me find my ppl?

14.01.2025 19:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Last pre-work swim of 2024!

23.12.2024 23:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Did you know the 2019/2020 megafires in Aus emitted more carbon than the rest of the yearly total carbon emissions across the continent ๐Ÿ˜ฎ amazing talk by Rachael Nolan #ESAus2024

10.12.2024 22:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 44 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey #ESAus2024, if you're looking for more Aussie ecologists to follow here, there's some great people on the #WildOz starter pack below! ๐Ÿฆ˜๐Ÿจ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿชฒ

Please suggest anyone else who's missing! ๐Ÿ™

go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW

11.12.2024 05:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 67 ๐Ÿ” 26 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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It's starting to feel so real, especially as time feels like it's speeding up rn ๐ŸŽ„

Weโ€™ll spend 15 days crossing the Drake Passage, visiting sites on the Antarctic Peninsula and diving deep into our Leadership, Science and Communication training ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ถ

Less than 50 days to go! ๐Ÿฅถ

11.12.2024 06:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Roll up roll up!! Ahead of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
#ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX

Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿงช

02.12.2024 22:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 148 ๐Ÿ” 61 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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People worry Christmas beetles are disappearing. We're gathering citizen data to see the full picture Each year insect scientists like us field questions from the press and public about Christmas beetle populations: where have they gone?

People worry Christmas beetles are disappearing. We're gathering citizen data to see the full picture

11.12.2023 23:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Antarctica Day!

Today I celebrated by hosting a โ€œdraw your own Antarctic flagโ€ workshop at a local creative space with kiddos from 3-9yrs old ๐Ÿฅฐ

We covered the Antarctic Treaty, the cool plants and animals in Antarctica and working together to protect nature ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ถ

01.12.2024 04:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can find many great science writers / producers / content makers / comms people here (and ping me if you're on bluesky and fit the bill)

go.bsky.app/NWgkRXb

27.11.2024 23:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 27 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People who think โ€œthe marketsโ€ will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.

27.11.2024 21:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1248 ๐Ÿ” 302 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49 ๐Ÿ“Œ 31
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iAccelerate's RISE program empowers rural NSW entrepreneurs | University of Wollongong

Vote today for the Shaping Australia Awards! #womeninstem
@tamstutch.bsky.social
www.shapingaustraliaawards.com.au/finalists/uo... #ShapingAustraliaAwards

27.11.2024 08:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please look out for wildlife today (and every day thereโ€™s a heatwave wherever you are!)

27.11.2024 00:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 64 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Canโ€™t wait to meet you, Jane!

26.11.2024 09:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mine hasnโ€™t arrived yet, Iโ€™m glued to my parcel tracker! I canโ€™t wait โ™ฅ๏ธ

26.11.2024 08:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What a great few days of climate action in Newcastle Australia, the largest coal port in the world. Hats off to the fabulous organisers @risingtide.bsky.social and everyone who was there standing up for our climate. #climateaction #climateemergency #stopcoal

24.11.2024 21:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a dog is standing on a tiled floor and says so excited ALT: a dog is standing on a tiled floor and says so excited

Not long now until @ecolsocaus.bsky.social's annual conference! This year it's in Narrm (Melbourne), 9-13 December.
esa2024.org.au

ESA Aus community, if you're on @bsky.app sing out so we can follow each other and boost all the cool ecological stories!

And, encourage others to join too!

25.11.2024 00:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thank you to @kylielewis.bsky.social, we now have a Homeward Bound starter pack - looking forward to connecting with the nine cohorts of #WomenInSTEMM leaders go.bsky.app/EXogj2a

21.11.2024 06:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week I hosted a screening of Antarctica The Giant Awakens, with a ice-side chat with Director Liz Courtney โ„๏ธ

We covered the need for youth leadership, diversity in STEM and how we all have the tools to turn our jobs into climate careers โ˜€๏ธ

Huge thanks to everyone who came along!

22.11.2024 01:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m just like Sisyphus except every time I action an email by sending an email I get another email in return

17.01.2024 08:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

With forecasts of ~40ยฐC in Wollongong tomorrow, a small friends 2nd bday & my gym xmas party have been cancelled

Even though itโ€™s a shame we wonโ€™t be able to celebrate together, I think this shows a level of maturity & preparedness to put safety first in a climate of extremes โ˜€๏ธ

08.12.2023 01:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oo thank you for sharing this!

21.11.2023 01:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So how's Australia doing on Ambition, Energy & Loss & Damage Fund, you say?

Who wants what at #COP28

21.11.2023 01:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable โ€“ new research Humanity has lost control of West Antarctic ice-sheet melting.

โ€œWe need courage, not hopeโ€ฆ Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy endingโ€. - Dr Kate Marvel, climate scientist

"The future will not end in 2100, even if most people reading this will no longer be around... further changes in the 22nd C & beyond may still be preventable"

25.10.2023 08:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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First confirmed cases of Avian Influenza in the Antarctic region - British Antarctic Survey Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in brown skua populations on Bird Island, South Georgia โ€“ the first known cases in the Antarctic region.ย  Following reports of several ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ...

#AvianInfluenza detected in Skua populations in the South Georgia region of the #Antarctic peninsula

#Biosecurity will be ramped up for tourists & researchers this season

www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/f...

24.10.2023 00:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Testing the blue sky waters with a #Swiftie reference ๐Ÿฆœ

22.10.2023 09:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0