The adventure begins! 🚢 We’ve officially boarded the #RVInvestigator for the Shipwrecks and Submerged Landscapes Voyage (SSuLV1) and are setting off for Nambucca Head at 8:00 am tomorrow. Excited for the science, the stories, and the sea ahead. 🌊

🌏 Climate, Nature, Culture & Mental Health 🧠🪨 Read our Op-Ed in @croakeynews.bsky.social in which we call for an inclusion of natural and cultural heritage protection and place-based wellbeing as key pillars in climate adaptation and mental health strategies at #COP31 www.croakey.org/cop31-an-opp...

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I'm going to celebrate my own achievement as a woman in STEM! I was the first woman ever elected to the Council of the Space Industry Association of Australia. I have some stories for sure ..... but I also had great colleagues 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

If you want to know how concerned to be about climate change, talk to a climate scientist. Very. If you want to know how concerned to be about the rise of fascism, talk to a historian. The ones I’ve spoken to are as concerned about our time as any other time in the last 100 years.

If you want to learn more about the timeless allure of Ancient Egypt and the recent discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II you can listen to my ABC Saturday Breakfast show interview with Amber Cunningham. Starts at 2h 34 mins and warms up after he first question www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Check out our new @theconversation.com article about recent discovery of the #burial of #Pharaoh #ThutmoseII in Egypt theconversation.com/its-the-bigg...

Great privilege to participate in the Science Meets Parliament in Canberra this week #SMP25 and get direct insides into how policies gets shaped, understand successful advocacy and be able to speak up for science with parliamentarians! Thanks @science for organising this great event!

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! One obvious thing institutions can do to help reduce the attrition of women in science is to stop hiring men who were fired from their previous institutions for sexual harassment.

Great to see our chapter (no. 14) - based on archaeological and geophysical research in Martindale Hall, Clare Valley, South Australia, conducted as as part of a recently finished ARC project - published in Tully Barnett’s great new book. www.routledge.com/Beyond-Virtu...

Very proud of my wife @aniakotarba.bsky.social as she finally gets to announce her bagging of a Future Making Fellow position at the University of Adelaide. Ania’s transdisciplinary project is set to lead the way in how to work with communities in mitigating climate change-driven heritage loss

So happy to announce that I will be a Future Making Fellow at The University of Adelaide from next year working on 'Preserving Heritage, Promoting Wellbeing: Building Healthy Societies by Addressing Eco-Anxiety and Trauma from Climate Change-Induced Loss of Indigenous Cultural Heritage Sites'

Happy to announce we were funded an ARC Discovery grant today. DP250104625: Champion, E., Kotarba, A., Greenop, K., & Gibbs, M. (2025). A Gamified 3D Cultural Heritage Platform for Archaeology and Architecture. Australia. $520,686. dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Gra... @aniakotarba.bsky.social

Pretty stocked to see 'FUNDED' on RMS today. So happy we were successful with our #ARC #Discovery today to work on 'A Gamified 3D Cultural Heritage Platform for Archaeology and Architecture' the #i-PAAST @erikmc.bsky.social