Georgia Watson

Well, I’m out of office & on my way to Argentina today to take part in the Homeward Bound leadership voyage via Antarctica! 🇦🇶

I’ve been selected as one of just over 100 women & NB people in STEMM to take part, all of us leaders for climate action ☀️

I’m still new here, can you help me find my ppl?

Last pre-work swim of 2024!

Did you know the 2019/2020 megafires in Aus emitted more carbon than the rest of the yearly total carbon emissions across the continent 😮 amazing talk by Rachael Nolan #ESAus2024

Hey #ESAus2024, if you're looking for more Aussie ecologists to follow here, there's some great people on the #WildOz starter pack below! 🦘🐨🌿🪲

Please suggest anyone else who's missing! 🙏

go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW

It's starting to feel so real, especially as time feels like it's speeding up rn 🎄

We’ll spend 15 days crossing the Drake Passage, visiting sites on the Antarctic Peninsula and diving deep into our Leadership, Science and Communication training 🇦🇶

Less than 50 days to go! 🥶

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! 🌏🧪

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

Happy Antarctica Day!

Today I celebrated by hosting a “draw your own Antarctic flag” workshop at a local creative space with kiddos from 3-9yrs old 🥰

We covered the Antarctic Treaty, the cool plants and animals in Antarctica and working together to protect nature 🇦🇶

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

People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.

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

Please look out for wildlife today (and every day there’s a heatwave wherever you are!)

Can’t wait to meet you, Jane!

Mine hasn’t arrived yet, I’m glued to my parcel tracker! I can’t wait ♥️

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

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!

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

This week I hosted a screening of Antarctica The Giant Awakens, with a ice-side chat with Director Liz Courtney ❄️

We covered the need for youth leadership, diversity in STEM and how we all have the tools to turn our jobs into climate careers ☀️

Huge thanks to everyone who came along!

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

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

Even though it’s a shame we won’t be able to celebrate together, I think this shows a level of maturity & preparedness to put safety first in a climate of extremes ☀️

Oo thank you for sharing this!

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

Who wants what at #COP28

Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – new research Humanity has lost control of West Antarctic ice-sheet melting.

“We need courage, not hope… Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending”. - 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"

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 – the first known cases in the Antarctic region.  Following reports of several ��...

#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...

Testing the blue sky waters with a #Swiftie reference 🦜