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"I thought that was a fundamental problem.”"

"Changing with the initiatives we have launched at iSTEM Co., as well as other initiatives like STEM sisters, DCA CARM program."

"The awareness we are generating in the STEM community, but we still have a long way to go."

"In 2023, my main concerns revolve around the lack of retention of women with STEM skills in the industry and insufficient funding for startups."

"When it comes to leadership, the best advice I’ve embraced is to be visible and use your privilege to advocate for positive change."

"There are no real failures only opportunities to learn, grow and improve."

"I’ve seen first hand the adverse effects of oil spillage."

"That’s really what worried me, and that led me to start looking into alternative forms of energy."

"I’m one of those people that if there’s a problem, I try to fix it."

"If I can’t fix it, I don’t talk about it."

"We are a very strong economy in the Asia region, so we can quickly become the alternative energy giant if we embrace this."

"When I saw those statistics, I thought that it would have been a state of emergency."

"Considering the current STEM skills shortage."

"What was more interesting was that 56 per cent of university qualified females in STEM in Australia are Australian women born overseas."

"They experienced over four times higher unemployment."

"As a woman from a minority background working in STEM, I have faced personal and professional challenges, whilst in pursuit of my career aspirations."

"As a scientist, engineer and passionate advocate for women in the field, I have advocated and worked across various STEM/NFP organisations to create change."

"My leadership journey in advocating for the diversity of women in the industry began during my PhD, when I realised the difficulties of being a woman in a male dominated field."

"The underrepresentation of female engineering students led me to co-found the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Club at Victoria University."

"To empower and support female STEM students and encourage girls to pursue STEM careers."

"I began engagements with Women in STEMM Australia (WISA), in 2018."

"I was appointed to the board as a director in 2019 which I still serve to date."

"WISA has created a diverse, inclusive network of STEMM professionals at all levels of academia, industry, education, business and government and includes all women in STEMM regardless of their discipline and profession."

"Through my work with WISE and WISA, I gained a deeper understanding of the barriers women in STEM face."

"I also realised that the conversations about gender equity often exclude the intersections of gender like race, ethnicity, and disability."

"That showed only 29 percent of the STEM workforce identifies as women and 56 percent of university educated women in STEM were born overseas."

"I partnered with Dr Ruwangi Fernando to co-found iSTEM Co, which aims to promote employment and retention for women in STEM, including women of colour and women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds."

"Conversations about gender equity often exclude the intersections of gender like race, ethnicity, and disability."

"The discussion around diversity and inclusion has increased in recent times yet the dial has barely shifted for women in STEM."

"In Australia, it’s been identified that there are more than 200,000 vacant STEM jobs, which has continued to grow by more than 2.5 percent annually since 2019 and the demand for STEM workers will increase to 1.9 million by 2024."

"This shows how critical the sector is for our economic growth and global competition."

"I am absolutely thrilled to share some exciting updates on my journey since receiving the award."

"We’ve launched the DEIR platform, a game-changer in eliminating recruitment bias using specific elements."

"It’s incredible to see companies like Arup, Westpac, Telstra, and Worley already embracing this platform to recruit diverse talents."

"It’s currently free for both women and employers, using our trial packages."

"s are nothing new. In fact, fossil evidence shows us that jellyfish have been blooming for hundreds of millions of years. Around the turn of the nineteenth century, it became fashionable for naturalists to report all sorts of odd and unusual events from the natural world. The early issues of the and others like it are full of such interesting tidbits. One such report described ' as so abundant in , Germany, that an oar pushed down between the jellyfish remained standing upright ( 1880). Today, just about any bay or harbor has Aurelia shoals so dense that one may wonder whether there is actually enough water between each jellyfish for it to obtain enough oxygen to survive."

"Jellyfish as a group holds some astonishing records. The world's most venomous animal is a jellyfish, the Australian Deadly Box jelly-fish (', page 50). The largest invertebrate discovered in the twentieth century is a jellyfish, the so-called Black Sea Nettle (', page 114)—thought it is practically a toy compared to the lion's mane jellies of the North Atlanta (' spp., page 52), which can reach three meters (ten feet) across the body and drag tentacles nearly 30 meters (100 feet) long. One jellyfish helped scientists win the Nobel Prize (page 198). Another grows ten percent of its body length per hour (page 208). And the world's first known case of true biological immortality was discovered in the diminutive and aptly named Immortal Jellyfish (', page 74)."

"Imagine one of Australia’s foremost jellyfish specialists, a robust scientist with an encyclopaedic knowledge of jellyfish taxonomy and a deep understanding of their place in the . Now make them enthusiastic, unashamedly and female. This is Lisa-Ann Gershwin. Dr Gershwin this year was named one of The Science Show's Top 100 Australian Scientists, along with greats such as Sir FRS, Sir FRS, and Professor FRS. Her road to science has not been a smooth one though. ... Lisa-Ann describes her neurodivergence as central to her science and who she is. While it has been a source of joy as she has been able to immerse herself in the details of jellyfish taxonomy and ecology, it has also come with difficulties."

"Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground."

"We learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Not being accommodated can be pedagogy. We generate ideas through the struggles we have to be in the world; we come to question worlds when we are in question. When a question becomes a place you reside in, everything can be thrown into question: explanations you might have handy that allow you to make sense or navigate your way through unfamiliar as well as familiar landscapes no longer work."

"The exposure of violence is perceived by the privileged as the origin of violence."

"To point out harassment is to be viewed as the harasser; to point out oppression is to be viewed as oppressive."

"Jokiness allows a constant trivializing: as if by joking someone is suspending judgment on what is being said. She didn’t mean anything by it; lighten up. A killjoy knows from experience: when people keep making light of something, something heavy is going on"

"There are some who hold onto rigid ideas of w:Femalebiological sex, but I do not expect feminists to be among them. When I hear people refer in code to "biology 101," meaning the scientific basis of female and male sex difference, to claim that trans women are not “biologically women,” I want to offer in rebuke, “Biology 101? Patriarchy wrote that textbook!” and pass them a copy of Andrea Dworkin’s Woman Hating, a radical feminist text that supports transsexuals having access to surgery and hormones and challenges what she calls “the traditional biology of sexual difference” based on “two discrete biological sexes.” To be so-called gender critical while leaving traditional biology intact tightens rather than loosens the hold of a gender system on our bodies."

"Transphobia and antitrans statements should not be treated as just another viewpoint that we should be free to express at the happy table of diversity. There cannot be a dialogue when some at the table are in effect (or intent on) arguing for the elimination of others at the table. When you have “dialogue or debate” with those who wish to eliminate you from the conversation (because they do not recognize what is necessary for your survival, or because they don’t even think your existence is possible), then “dialogue and debate” becomes a technique of elimination. A refusal to have some dialogues and some debates is thus a key tactic for survival."

"I've always been intriqued by form."

"Interview with David Prater-Cordite Poetry Review 2004"

"Example of McBryde'short monstich poetry"

"I love the notion of brevity."