Jennie Smith

I went bird ringing and made a new best friend!! #kingfisher #birding #birdringing

Good to change it up a bit and talk about humans eating urchins rather than lobsters! Sea urchin popcorn went down well in the classroom 🍿

Super excited to have presented my PhD research at Species on the Move last week in Florida!! Feeling very inspired after a week of talks, workshops and manatees #sotm2023

IMAS researchers joined international scientists on the world stage in Florida last week at @SpeciesOnTheMov. Our team presented on citizen science and community engagement, and research into Tasmanian range-shifters like the Longspined Sea Urchin and Snapper. @UTAS_

@aliciarbarnes @cemathieson @BethLPalmer Omg congrats pal!!! Well done you’ve smashed this! 🚂🚂

@gmkov @mel_rosina @simonhmartin @joana_meier @NicolaNadeau @CarolineBacque2 @frankyc1101 Amazingggggg! Congrats this is super cool 🥳🥳

The final chapter of my PhD is out - rdcu.be/cTxB6 with @mel_rosina @simonhmartin @joana_meier @NicolaNadeau @CarolineBacque2 @frankyc1101 et al. The hardest, most exciting project I've been part of. Thanks to everyone that made it possible. Here is a summary 1/7

@JPK_III @millycaley 🙄😅 we try to make it a nice place to live and this is how they thank us!

@millycaley @_jenniesmith not just our urchins chewing power chords!

Fair warning to any urchin scientists - they are pretty, but they will try to eat anything, including chewing through your bar heater powercords 🤦‍♀️

Excited to present the first paper of my PhD tomorrow in Bicheno!! We found that lobsters prefer native prey over the range-extending Longspined Sea Urchin: doi.org/10.1093/icesjm… 🦞 @JPK_III @M_Oellermann @IMASUTAS @OxfordJournals @ICES_ASC @SpeciesOnTheMov @VisualKnow

IMAS PhD student @_jenniesmith will be presenting her #LongspinedSeaUrchin research at the Tasmanian Combined Dive Clubs Weekend in Bicheno tomorrow! View the graphic below, and her paper 👉tinyurl.com/3h5tky56 Event details 👉 facebook.com/ccwtasmania #imasresearch @UTAS_

The urchins have gone public! Our new IMAS exhibition #UrchinsBeware tells the story of the invasive sea urchin – the problem, science and solutions. What's their history in #Tasmania and what’s being done to control them? Discover more & book your visit: bit.ly/309ZQ20

"The idea for this project really stemmed from… working with… the processors and seeing tonnes… of [urchin] waste being dumped at their expense - and I thought, there has to be a better solution here," IMAS researcher Dr John Keane said. abc.net.au/news/rural/202…

Such a powerful image - the Minister from Tuvalu in the South Pacific delivered his speech to #COP26  from the sea to illustrate the crisis they face with rising sea levels

@F_J_Heather Amazing, I'm so close!! Any idea how you would use a non-numeric (factor) for the placement on the x-axis in draw_image()? (e.g. I have a bar/box plot and I want it above one bar)

In case there's any more questions, I really love to talk about this and will happily chat about urchins and lobsters for hours🦞 here's sneak peak title-slide of my talk in case you missed it #WFC2021

Wahoo, presented at my first international conference today @world_fisheries! Even though I had to pre-record and send in my talk beforehand, and then was in the field and out of service for my live Q&A... but if it's any excuse - this is where I was tuning in from #WFC2021

The Young Tassie Scientists are done for 2021! Massive thanks to all involved, especially @AdeleInTas, who managed to organise a bunch of unruly scientists to visit almost 100 schools all over Tas!

And that's a wrap! 5 days on the road, 10-12 schools and over 30 presentations each, lots of amazing food and great company! End of @YTS_UTAS roadtrips for 2021 @Aus_ScienceWeek @sciencetasmania @HannahCoombe6 @_jenniesmith @chloemarine44

Excited to road trip around NW Tassie next week and visit loads of schools to talk about science!!! 🦞🦞

YTS @_jenniesmith from @IMASUTAS is has a pointy subject to bring up with Tas Youth Science Forum students this morning - we're playing with spiny sea urchins this morning!

The climate and ecological crisis is rapidly escalating. G7 spends fantasy amounts on fossil fuels as CO2 emissions are forecast for 2nd biggest annual rise ever. This calls for steak-and-lobster-BBQ-celebration while jet planes perform aerobatics in the sky above the G7 resort!