PhD candidate @UTAS_ looking at subalpine plant coexistence under climate change scenarios in lutruwita/Tasmania. Lover of flowers, mountains, and the ocean.
Lutruwita/Tasmania
Joined January 2021
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Feeling so fortunate for the opportunity to work with @christian_rixen at @WSL_research in Davos as part of the Mertz Fellowship! Enormous thanks to the funding bodies (below) for supporting me and my research in #AlpineEcology
See you in Switzerland! 🇨🇭🏔️🌿
📢We are delighted to announce the inaugural recipients of the Mertz Fellowship programme:
Congratulations to Melissa Gerwin (@MelGerwin) and Amy Macfarlane (@sn0mac)!
Many thanks to @SwissPolar and @AntarcticSF for jointly funding a fellow.
More: bit.ly/3JhCYS6
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🇨🇭🇦🇺 Inaugural Mertz Fellows announced 🇦🇺🇨🇭
Following the first call for applications last September, two Mertz Fellowships have been awarded, with @SwissPolar and the Antarctic Science Foundation jointly funding a Fellow.
So excited for you @KatePlantPhys!! Incredibly well-deserved. Can't wait to frolic in the Swiss meadows together 🌷🌿🌻
In exciting news, I'll be joining @GrossiordCha & PERL @WSL_research @EPFL in July🇨🇭, then starting a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship @MSCActions with Jordi Martínez-Vilalta @CREAF_ecologia @UABBarcelona in Sept 2024 🇪🇸!
For now, I’m home, enjoying beautiful #Tasmania💚
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ALT Girl stands with back to the camera and a bush-walking pack on overlooking the ocean framed by stunning rocky cliffs (Cape Hauy, Tasmania)
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BIG NEWS, people... big news. We have a permanent position for a lecturer/senior lecturer in Plant Ecology here at the University of Tasmania, especially encouraging female and trans/non-binary field-based ecologists. Come collaborate! Please RT widely careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/jo…
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Had an excellent time at #ESASCBO22, my first ever conference!
A really interesting and thought provoking range of content, and many lovely humans.
And what an unexpected and delightful surprise to receive 2nd Place for the student poster prize. Until next time! 🌿
I had the pleasure of listening to this talented woman in STEM last week! It was an excellent speech about the importance of inclusivity in scientific research... followed by fun power poses with more amazing researchers! #WomenInSTEM
Last week I spoke about my research journey as a #WomenInSTEM at the @UTAS_ school of #Naturalsciences recognition evening. I am very fortunate to have been so supported and encouraged, and am lucky to be surrounded by excellent women embarking on our PhD journey 🌿💚
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To add to @LisaCraw4 amazing stats - @ourANU have raised PhD stipends by $5k/yr despite expecting a deficit while @UTAS_ reports a ‘small’ $4.6m surplus. Very grateful to @UTAS_ for easing the pressure slightly with a $1k one off payment but more needs to be done @nteu_tas
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Well done @ourANU 👏
Despite difficult financial situations they are prioritising raising the PhD stipend by ~18% to $34k/yr. @UTAS_ and other uni’s please match this much needed initiative. The planned 3.5% increase for 2023 RTP is a pay cut and puts unnecessary stress on PhDs
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Doing my thing out at the lovely @Tas_Land Tinderbox Hills Reserve
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Thank you @UTAS_ for listening to your HDR candidates and providing some financial relief while the base stipend rate is reviewed
The stipend needs to be > the poverty line & at least = to minimum wage to attract talented researchers from diverse backgrounds
@JasonClareMP
In response to our @abchobart interview @LisaCraw4 and I met with @UTAS_ today. I made this graph which validated why it feels so much tighter now than when I started in 2018. The base stipend is now $3260/yr below the poverty line and $743/yr less than CPI increase. 1/n
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I will discuss the incredibly sobering, deeply upsetting, and infuriating (because we could have avoided so much of this, if scientists were listened to) 2021 State of the Environment Report, and what must urgently change, on @SBSNews tonight.
Given the grim State of the Environment report released today by @tanya_plibersek, perhaps it's finally time to increase financial support for the people you need to fix these problems? PhD students in Aus earn below minimum wage to complete ~4 years of skilled work. Sound fair?
Yes Botanists are disappearing, perhaps if there was greater financial support in research, job security and early career opportunities people wouldn't have to choose between financial security or persuing a career in such a field.
theconversation.com/botanist… via
@ConversationUK
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Thanks to @pintofscienceAU for inviting me to talk about plants and water at the pub #scicomm #outreach @UTAS_ @CoEPlantSuccess
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It’s not often that you have two PhD candidates submitting their theses for examination at exactly the same time! Huge congratulations to @ecology_rose and @travisgbritton. And I’m very proud!#synchronisedPhDSubmission
Trying to contain my excitement over this absolutely TINY frog!! Might just be the cutest thing I've ever seen...
See (2/2) for scale
#FrogFriday #WildOz
𝘐𝘴𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴 here to brighten up your Monday morning 💜
#wildflowerhour #WildOz
Thermocouples are in! Ready to measure the effects of summer #heatwave in a Tassie subalpine grassland (1/2)
@hovendenlab @austmountresfac @Tas_Land
Melissa Gerwin retweeted
The first chapter of my PhD is now out in @NewPhyt ! @hovendenlab @Brodribb_Lab
We assessed how patterns of canopy damage during a natural drought were related to both physiological and ecological processes. doi.org/10.1111/nph.17888 1/5