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Sophia Volzke
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Marine & Antarctic Ecologist studying marine mammal populations around Australia and the Southern Ocean 🐋🦭
Passion for photography, digital art, SciComm & wild nature 🐙

🇩🇪🇦🇺 📍Lutruwita/Tasmania

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His job is just beach. #neiltheseal 🦭
July 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Proud to be an Aussie (by choice) today! As a migrant 🇩🇪🇦🇺 dual citizen, it feels extra special to be contributing to Australian culture, science and the democratic progress in 2025. I knew these kind and inclusive people wouldn’t let me down. I choose this place as my home for a reason! 🇦🇺🐨🦘✊ #auspol
Selfie of a girl with Australian leather hat on the right, smiling, while holding the camera facing her with an emu leaning into the frame to the left.
May 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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PENGUINs react to Trump Tariffs! #heardisland #Antarctica #2025 🐧🇦🇶
April 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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WHAT. HE. SAID! 👏 US Senator Cory Booker 9.5hrs into his 25hr filibuster! Speak up now or forever hold your peace. "The power of the people is greater than the people in power" #corybooker #scientists #STEM #antiFA #science #futureisnow 🧪
April 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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#2025😩 #phd
March 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Zukunft Pink 💕 I am a female scientist from Germany. Living in Australia but also working internationally with collaborations in the US and Europe. Not a DEI hire. ✌️ #Voices4Victory #germany #ZukunftPink #FutureIsNow #antifa #womeninSTEM #DEI #Deutschland #Wissenschaft
Song: Peter Fox ft. Inéz
February 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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How to avoid raising a Nazi: encourage critical thinking skills and valuing their own beliefs and morals before blindly obeying authority. This photo is a family heirloom. Do not copy. My grandfather Walter Volzke (right) protests by not following the correct salute in Nazi Germany’s H-Jugend.
Black and white image. Two children on a playground. A girl on the left raising her right arm straight in the air making a district N@zi salute. On the right, a boy with his right arm in a bent and casual military salute instead. The watermark VOLZKE is pasted over the image to avoid unauthorised reproduction of this historic photograph.
February 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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From @aibtt.bsky.social Facebook page. Buts it’s Aussie humour because we use the c word casually.
Rainbow meme with bold letters: “🌈Be Kind” And small writing underneath: “of a c U̶ nt to racists and homophobes”
February 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Correct (Feb 2020) but also I can watch them from my living room window. So lockdown did not deprive me off echidna time
an echidna walking past a window with a couch couch selfie with echidna in the grass outside
February 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I did capture a SMILING echidna in 2020. Perfect snap of the moment! Might be useful at this trying time :)
An echidna on brown mulch ground looking up at the camera and smiling.
February 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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#Tasmania 🤣
February 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The juxtaposition that the world is literally and metaphorically on fire right now.. but then I wake up to this moment at sunrise! #f2025 #peaceful #calm #tasmania
February 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I will never stop sharing my science, nature and love for wildlife all over the internet! #neiltheseal #sciencecommunication #passion #marinemammalscience 🧪🦭🦑 #wildOz #auswildlife
January 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Blessed by the 🦋
Love this app and the platform it provides for open communication and sharing knowledge! 🫶🌿
#SciComm #WomenInSTEM
January 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Continuing the quest to convince people to join us on Bluesky to communicate science. It is importantly to stay connected!
📷 main stage at #PerthSMM2024 with
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Large illuminated conference stage with speaker podium. Two scientists presenting on science communication and networking. Images of social media platforms and photo grid on screen in the background
January 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Hi from us 👋
January 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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What a start to 2025! Amazing #aurora over Tassie last night, views from my back porch. ✨ #auroraaustralis #southernlights
Aurora Australia (southern lights) beaming over a south facing sky with small town lights on the horizon. The lights are reflected off calm a calm ocean below. Photo in portrait mode.
January 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Neil the Seal showing off his big boy nose! We managed to document three consecutive years of development. 🦭🧪🦑
Neil is now four years young and still visits his home turf in Tassie to molt. #WildOz #Neiltheseal
*Photos taken opportunistically at a safe distance to not disturb the celebrity
Scientific illustration, including drawings of male Southern elephant seals. Side profiles of a seals head and face are documented across six developmental stages: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 8+ years old. Drawings referenced to be by Richard M Laws in 1953. Each drawing shows a progressively larger nose (proboscis) of the individual. Ages 2, 3 and 4 are accompanied by a corresponding photograph of Neil the Seal, with side profiles of his face and growth from 2022, 2023 and 2024. Close up side profile of a male elephant seal with a wide gaping open mouth. The subject is jawing, showing a big nose and small teeth.
December 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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I prefer this @wwfeu.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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🧪Early Career Researchers and PhD students! Get yourself hot🔥desk access in a cool❄️ office!
The inspiration and productivity is unmatched.
📍Australian Antarctic Division
Researcher working at laptop with a photo of an iceberg in the background
November 29, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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It’s a happy quokka kinda Thursday! Enjoy!
#auswildlife #wildoz
A small round marsupial looking happy with its mouth open.
November 27, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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Absolute joy presenting my PhD research at #AARC2024
I use climate covariates to quantify external factors on the Australian population of southern elephant seals 🦭 It was super cool (❄️) to link up with researchers about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean 🇦🇶 @utas.bsky.social @antarctic.bsky.social
A very happy smiling conference delegate standing next to and pointing at a poster titled “Demography in a changing climate: External influences on population dynamics in a declining population of southern elephant seals”
November 24, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Continuing outreach on threatened whales in Australia and quantifying risks to population recovery through developing offshore wind farms. There is a lack of regional scale baseline data to assess and monitor potential impacts going forward. Our report will be available in 2025! 🦑🐋🧪
#PerthSMM2024
Speaker at conference podium in front of screen with clipped images of three documents: offshore wind regulations in Australia and two threatened species management plans (Aus Government docs): for southern right whales and Pygmy blue whales.
November 18, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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I had the best time at #PerthSMM2024 serving as the Student-Member-at-Large for the Society for Marine Mammalogy! 🦭🐋🐬
Three people on a large stage presenting a report on student affairs Three people with laptops sitting at a reception desk and smiling at the camera Three people in front of a large entrance sign that includes plants and a large logo with the text 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals Three people standing in front of white wall. All wearing conference badges!
November 16, 2024 at 10:49 PM