Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Well, 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? 2102
Reposted by Georgia WatsonSuz Everingham @suzeveringham.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Did 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 14410
Reposted by Georgia WatsonRobbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Hey #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 116726
Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024It'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! 🥶 0101
Reposted by Georgia WatsonHolly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Roll 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! 🌏🧪 4714761
Reposted by Georgia WatsonClimate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 11/12/2023People worry Christmas beetles are disappearing. We're gathering citizen data to see the full picturetheconversation.comPeople worry Christmas beetles are disappearing. We're gathering citizen data to see the full pictureEach year insect scientists like us field questions from the press and public about Christmas beetle populations: where have they gone? 062
Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Happy 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 🇦🇶 040
Reposted by Georgia WatsonJack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 27/11/2024You 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 32611
Reposted by Georgia WatsonMary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 27/11/2024People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change. 491236299
Reposted by Georgia WatsonSharon Robinson @antarcticmoss.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Vote today for the Shaping Australia Awards! #womeninstem @tamstutch.bsky.social www.shapingaustraliaawards.com.au/finalists/uo... #ShapingAustraliaAwardsshapingaustraliaawards.com.auiAccelerate's RISE program empowers rural NSW entrepreneurs | University of Wollongong 022
Reposted by Georgia WatsonJess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Please look out for wildlife today (and every day there’s a heatwave wherever you are!) 06517
Reposted by Georgia Watsonkim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 24/11/2024What 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 0209
Reposted by Georgia WatsonProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Not 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!media.tenor.coma dog is standing on a tiled floor and says so excitedALT: a dog is standing on a tiled floor and says so excited 4333
Reposted by Georgia WatsonDr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Thank 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 2189
Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024This 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! 020
Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 17/01/2024I’m just like Sisyphus except every time I action an email by sending an email I get another email in return 010
Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 08/12/2023With 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 ☀️ 010
Reposted by Georgia WatsonYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 21/11/2023So how's Australia doing on Ambition, Energy & Loss & Damage Fund, you say? Who wants what at #COP28 111
Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 25/10/2023“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"theconversation.comIncreasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – new researchHumanity has lost control of West Antarctic ice-sheet melting. 020
Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 24/10/2023#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...bas.ac.ukFirst confirmed cases of Avian Influenza in the Antarctic region - British Antarctic SurveyHighly 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 ��... 010
Georgia Watson @ecologee.bsky.social · 22/10/2023Testing the blue sky waters with a #Swiftie reference 🦜 170