Alice Twomey
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Research Fellow @ The University of Queensland 💫STA Superstar of STEM 2025-26✨ 👷🏻‍♀️Ecological Engineer 🌊Modeller of Wetlands & Waves 🏝️Nature-based Solutions 🌳Blue Carbon
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🌊🌳Nature-based solutions (NbS) for coastal protection are being implemented successfully! Our paper synthesises examples of 240 successes identified through interviews with NbS practitioners!🎉

How did they do it? Best read the paper:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
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🚨The system needs to change!
#Academia fails to recognise success metrics for #transdisciplinary #ECRs in #conservation 🐯🌳We've published solutions to the 8 most prominent challenges facing those of us in industry & academia!

@ecolology.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social

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💫Last week I was able to celebrate national Women and Girls in Science Day by attending Science Meets Parliament in Canberra with the amazing Superstars of STEM! This is an incredible cohort of talented STEM professionals who are all fiercely passionate about their work 🧫🧪
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🌊Happy belated World Wetlands Day! 🐊

It seems that tides are often perfect for fieldwork on weekends 😅 It was great to have the help of 6 other wetland warriors conducting fieldwork as part of a PhD project with Kayla Ostrow.
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Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack!
go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2
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Hi Kevin, I'm keen to be added :)
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🌱New Paper Alert!🌊
We compiled a dataset of >17,000 published mangrove observations outlining their root, trunk and canopy geometries so they can be modelled more accurately published in
@estuariescoasts.bsky.social

Open-acccess here: rdcu.be/d7wRk
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First Bluesky post 🙌🏼
Yeah the engineering girls! Had a blast setting up wave monitoring equipment in the mangroves this week for Kayla Ostow’s PhD work 🌊 My muscles sure are sore today!