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              she/her ๐ #QueerInSTEM. Interested in drones, AI, scicomm and all things marine ๐ MSc with @MMEG_UoA ๐ Senior lab tech @ScienceUoA
              
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           โSailGP wanted to run a yacht race in a marine mammal sanctuary. They made a plan in the event of dolphins swimming into the course. Dolphins happened. They stuck to the plan.โ More good @NZGeographic analysis here  https://t.co/lBDnJnsINE 
          
          
                
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             Winners twice over! Our Te Kลซwaha research team has been awarded the @waikato Vision Maatauranga Award as well as the @ourwaikato Environmental Science Award at tonightโs @Kudos_science Awards. Congratulations to all of the other finalists and winners as well ๐๐ฅ๐ 
          
                
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             It's #PolarPride day and I'm very proud to be part of a diverse @LindbladExp ship family, full of allies. Thanks @JCTravelography for the first photo 
          
                
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             ๐ Today the 18th of November is Polar Pride Day! ๐ง๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Onboard the Ushuaia and the Island Sky Homeward Bound Women in STEMM are celebrating diversity and the wonderful contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar research! ๐ฅณ #PolarPride2023 @PridePolar
          
          
                
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             Today marks the fourth Polar Pride Day in Antarctica! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ The Pride flag was proudly raised on the Scott Base flag pole today by Luke Tarplett in honour of the LGBTQ+ community. #polarpride #polarprideday #pride๐ #antarctica #scottbase #LGBTQ
          
          
                
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             Beautiful day for some #drone flying practice in the Manukau harbour before summer fieldwork season begins๐@DamesOfDrones @ScienceUoA
          
          
                
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             For many Mฤori, kina have long been a seasonal tohu, a sign: when pลhutukawa flower, the kina are fat. Now, theyโre becoming a tohu of another kind: a barometer of the state of our troubled oceans, a prick to our collective conscience. But could we eat our way out of this? 1/2 
          
                
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             Super fun day of learning how to fly @MMEG_UoA's drone! Can't wait to take this bad boy out to sea and capture a birds-eye view of our #MarineMegafauna! For now, I will be practicing on land where it's a bit less wavy and wet ๐ฆ๐๐ @ScienceUoA #GirlsWhoDrone #WomenInSTEM
          
          
                
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             Looking for last minute Halloween costume inspo? ๐ ๐ Weโve got you. ๐ป 
          
                
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             UPDATE: Lab results confirm massive recent mortality event in elephant seal colonies in Argentina is from avian influenza. @wcsargentina is working to prevent the spread of the disease, minimize the impact on animals, and avoid potential spillover infection of people. #OneHealth
          
          
                
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             Spent my long weekend in my favourite place the big ol blue. Completed my SSI advanced wreck diver and deep diver certs in 20m vis on the #HMNZSCanterbury ๐ Best dives Iโve ever done, super fun learning new skills and going in a wreck for the first time! #GirlsWhoScuba
          
          
                
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             somewhere in the middle of the Tasman Sea is an invisible line separating the fish from the fush. 
          
                
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             Mussel mania, a short film on mussel restoration by University of Auckland PhD student Trevyn Toone and postdoctoral research fellow Emilee Benjamin won an award at an international festival for ecology films. ๐๐ฝ๏ธ ๐ Read more ๐  https://t.co/cT8OlAGFtG 
          
          
                
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             Fur seal numbers have been declining at Bird Island since 2009. ๐ฆ 80% of their diet is Antarctic krill ๐ก๏ธ Krill are sensitive to temperature change ๐ Climate trends correlate with the changing population Here's the full story ๐ฆญ  https://t.co/KGwNqmikfL 
          
          
            
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              Antarctic fur seals that were hunted to near extinction have recovered but now face dangerous decline because of a lack of food, new research suggests.ย ย  The study of fur seals, โฆ
            
                
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             Alarming new story in @APNews on the impacts of #krillfishing on our rapidly changing #Antarctic marine ecosystem. Change is needed now! Honored to be part of the solution! #ClimateAction #humpbackwhale
             https://t.co/Np4KxH8GXK  via @YouTube
          
          
                
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             ๐ฝ Watch Professor Kura Paul Burkeโs ( @Waikato ) interview and good news story on Te Ao Mฤori News about the discovery of sixteen million young kuku / mussels growing in ลhiwa Harbour as part of a mฤtauranga-led restoration project.  https://t.co/XK2Wh4EHIV 
          
          
            
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              Mฤtauranga Mฤori and Western science have joined forces to rescue mussel beds in the Ohiwa Harbour in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
            
                
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