Lucia Watts

PhD researcher at @BangorUni in collaboration with @nationaltrust with a climate change vulnerability focus. KESS2 funded through the ESF @KESS_Central

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

@HannahVallin Omg congratulations!!! 🥰😁

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

😊😊😊

[KESS 2 @KESS_Central]

Llongyfarchiadau Mawr / Huge Congratulations to @LuciaZWatts from @prifysgolbangor @BangorUni #KESS2 for passing her viva with minor corrections! Newyddion gwych 🎉
@ResearchNT @nationaltrust @BangorSNS @COESEpostgrads @BUEnvironment @DowdneyP #EUFundsCymru

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

And massive thank you/hugs/everything to all my friends and family who have kept me going and supported me throughout my PhD, couldn't have done it without ya! Dr Lucia incoming 😎 #phdone #research #bangoruniversity
@BangorUni @BangorSNS @COESEpostgrads @BUEnvironment

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

It's finally almost sunk in that I passed my viva on Monday with minor corrections woohoo!! Thank you so much to @SopanPatil84 and @ProfMikeWood for a challenging but very constructive viva and to @PrysorWilliams for chairing at pretty short notice! 1/4

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

Thank you to Isabel Rosa and @NealHockley for being part of my examination team during my PhD. Your comments and support have been invaluable! And to @DowdneyP, @KESS_Central and @ResearchNT for making this whole thing possible 😁 3/4

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

@KESS_Central @BangorUni @COESEpostgrads @ResearchNT

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

It's taken the weekend to *almost* sink in but, I handed in my PhD thesis on Friday!!! So proud of myself and can't believe this stage of my PhD is done! Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the past 4 years 💚

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

Everyone: omg you're doing a PhD, you must be so clever!
Me:

[Dr. Chance Pants @ChanceyH]

Finishing my PhD purely out of spite

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Sitting down to write my thesis like

[Giulio Mattioli @giulio_mattioli]

Can't be said enough

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

Eloquence in the face of ignorance.

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

Fantastic responses to some pretty shocking "interviewing" 👏

#DontLookUp #RichardMadeley @GaryLineker #JustStopOil

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

Genius

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

Just when you think it can't get any worse...

Come for the facts, stay for the descriptions of politicians (also facts).

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

Can we also use this in the past tense? Bc I really want to use the phrase "sorry I'm late, I hurkle-durkled this morning" when really I just didn't want to get up when it was still dark outside.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Another day for ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): lingering in bed long after it’s time to get up.

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

I am going to go through all of these every day to finish this PhD! Remember kids, never put a skunk on a bus.

What a great lil kid. Also, me too lil guy, I am nervous all the time too.

[StressieBessie @EPrecipice]

When talking about our agendas for the day, I told my 5yo I was a little nervous about a meeting I have today. He said, “Mama, I am nervous all the time. I know what to do.” So friends, here is all the advice he could fit into the drive to school:

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

Bring on #WEEN22! 👋👋

[WEEN @WEEN_Wales]

Save the date! #WEEN22 is booked for the 18th - 20th November at @centre_alt_tech ~ your 2022 committee will be working throughout the year to bring you another brilliant ecology and evolution conference for early-career researchers based at Welsh universities 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

@_RachelTurnbull Yay, congrats!! 🤞🤞 for you 😁

[Lucia Watts @LuciaZWatts]

Climate change is affecting everyone, everywhere. We've seen storms this week, others are experiencing deadly droughts. When are we going to do something about this?!

[Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR]

The cruellest aspect of the climate crisis is that those whose emissions are lowest often suffer the most. Pastoralists in Northern Kenya and the Horn of Africa are barely coping with the current drought.