The dangers of thesis-gazing: part 1 of a series of articles on how to write a PhD thesis.

Unherd of: Information commissioner orders landmark release of cattle herd location data thecurrency.news/articles/200...

New report says, if rich countries want, they have more than enough money to fund climate action: $6.6 trillion annually oilchange.org/publications...

Solidarity gathering today in belfast in support of the Palestine Global Sumud Flotilla

Dublin today held 25 play streets, opening up those streets to local children and their parents for 3 hours (to mark 25 years of #CarFreeDay). Managing to visit 11 of the 25 within the 3 hours, it was useful to see how each space was used and gather various learnings for upcoming #PlayStreetsBETA.

Just out of the most gorgeous gig by Séamus and Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta and for all this country's faults (and there's more than a few), glad to be living in a place where an artist dedicating a lament to those suffering genocide in Palestine is met with nothing but unanimous applause

As a working-class person, I can't take this at face value. The system is rigged, and politicians won't listen to people like me. I also know that it's not the fault of migrants, trans people, etc. You can voice your frustration and abandonment without fascism, as it happens. #spéirghorm #ireland

This is a really excellent thread by @mikemcgb.bsky.social

More great news for the sea this week! The passing of this treaty will allow for the creation of Marine Protected Areas on the 'High Seas'😃 This took a long time but was still faster than Ireland, which has done nothing on its promise to pass MPA legislation 🫩 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Se...

Come Join us! Bígí linn! Bring your mates, neighbours, kids, your granny…all are welcome. A singing solidarity for Palestine 🇵🇸 Walk. Sunday 1pm Custom House Please share widely and repost. GRMMA #speirgoem

Walsh PhD Scholarship: Modelling the impact of climate change on #forest productivity Details at: drjonyearsley.github.io/agriadaptPhD... Apply by 30th Sept 2025 @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @bes-forests.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social @ucdearth.bsky.social @teagasc.bsky.social

This is appalling from the Irish Times. Anyone who walks or cycles around Dublin city regularly will be only too acutely aware of the risk from drivers accelerating through amber and red lights. This is not an issue to be joked about.

I'm probably alone in this, but I don't get mad when I see reports, articles, analyses etc that still use 1.5C as a framework, particularly not around rich countries or rich companies. I just see it as a stand-in for "the most urgent action possible", which is what those entities should be enacting

River Blackwater: "This kill will reverberate out through the system, to the birds, bats, otters & other animals which fed on fish and insects from the river, having a much greater impact than thousands of dead fish" Dr Elaine McGoff, Head of Advocacy An Taisce www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Pet peeve: "releases about half as many CO₂ emissions" Just say "releases about half as much CO₂". "emission" and "release" are the same thing here. We do not count CO₂ as 1 CO₂ emission, 2 CO₂ emission, .... We are not counting how many emissions there are; we're counting how much CO₂ there is.

Big Together For Palestine concert on in London put together by Brian Eno. Live stream on now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWBV...

what's been great about this session is the level of informed engaged by the Joint Oireachtas Committee - if only media was paying more attention to what's going on here and the detail involved - #Spéirghorm #climate #carbonBudgets

First the Dublin Airport cap, now this... The Irish government seems hell-bent on worsening the climate and biodiversity crisis.

⚡ When bright ethical PR & ad minds join forces with health professionals, you know something powerful is brewing & that greenwashers are in trouble. 👉 Join us for what promises to be an inspiring webinar: 📅 wed 17th of september 🕒 3 to 4pm (gmt+1 / 4pm cest) 📍Registrations here: lu.ma/7s8st7rk

John Sweeney, @swimsure.bsky.social and I will be focussing on the requirement for the budget to respect global climate justice ("fair shares"): www.postcarbonireland.org/etc/2025/JOC...

Later today (12:30) I will be tuning into Oireachtas TV (www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...) to watch Prof Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social Mr Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social Prof John Sweeny & Prof @hannahdaly.ie give expert evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee...

Robert Redford didn’t mince words about the fossil fuel industry. 😢

Farmer fined £500 after inspectors found “pipe discharging effluent” into feeder stream of Crumlin River #pollution #environmentalcrime [Crumlin River feeds into Lough Neagh]

The CCAC CB Proposal makes a mess by misleadingly equating their 2050 climate neutrality with temperature stabilisation, & implying CN=TS. In fact, ALL 15 shortlist "CN" scenarios deeply reduce ºC after 2050 (via forest CDR), so they aren't TS at all! + only deepest agri-CH4 cut limits peak warming.

Wednesday 17 Sep 2025, 12:30, CR3, LH 2000 "Engagement with Climate Experts on the Carbon Budgets" in Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy Online live CR3: www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...

Tomorrow at 12.30pm, I'll join Paul, Prof. Barry McMullin & Prof. John Sweeney to give evidence to the Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy as they hold hearings on Ireland's second carbon budget programme. The session is live-streamed at the link below👇 @autofac.bsky.social

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

This is what I can here to say. They just aren’t interested in solving this problem. How we treat the most vulnerable is a pretty good reflection of who we really are.

It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother. This is from 2019: www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...

How do we fix this mess?

“An independent UN commission has concluded that #Israel has committed and continues to commit #genocide against #Palestinians in #Gaza” #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #IsraelTerroristState #IsraeliWarCrimes www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Rascism diminishes and divides society while immigration enriches it. ‘To feel Irish from today, I’m so proud’: thousands receive citizenship share.google/8Uc7ZvbGIfsA...

Genocide that is made possible by 'unwavering' US financial, military and political support. The US is also committing genocide. www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

🚨 New publication: A policy briefing report on the adoption of temperature neutrality as the basis for Ireland's carbon budgets. This Wednesday, I will discuss this, and more, with the Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy.

No nature, no farmers, no food is a lot more accurate.

Today @hannahdaly.ie and I have published a policy brief on Ireland's carbon budgets and the implications of basing them on an approach called temperature neutrality. @ucc.ie You can find key messages and recommendations in here ⬇️

You say easy, but when you look at Ireland and New Zealand, which are doing precisely that separation of targets, they are arguing for setting a target of not reducing CH4 emissions. Easy, but not what we want, and not what the IPCC argues for.

“The Irish Government must hold its resolve against economic interests that seek to weaken its response. The Irish people refuse to be complicit in illegal occupation. “ - Jim Clarke CEO @oxfamireland.bsky.social #Spéirghorm www.oxfamireland.org/sites/defaul...

Minister: “growth, growth, growth, blah blah blah” “We are an island nation” We can’t “simply stunt the future growth of Dublin Airport” What #ClimateCrisis? #SpeirGorm

Minister for Climate Darragh O’Brien: we can grow Dublin Airport ‘sustainably’ from 36m to 60m passengers. Mary Wilson: What about climate, have you run the numbers on emissions? Minister: No question there will be an increase, SAF exists, planes more technologically advanced now… #SpeirGorm +

If the government lifts the passenger cap, it will lose what little legitimacy it has left on climate action. Such a move would be a betrayal of current and future generations in Ireland and around the world. There is no boost to the economy on a dead planet.

Campaign to demand Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)end corporate sponsorship from businesses linked to fossil fuels and occupation of Palestinian land - please consider signing my.uplift.ie/petitions/pu... @uplift.ie

Public records about North Cork Creameries - a company that is a "leading supplier of butter to the internationally renowned Kerrygold brand" - paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Psychologically, we're living in very hard times for all who care deeply about science, empathy, equity, nature, and rights for all citizens of the planet, human or otherwise. Find strength, solace, and community in like-minded others, positive action, and in Mother Earth 🌎

“It is catastrophic throughout the city. Nonstop airstrikes everywhere, some happen without prior warning. Almost every moment there a house bombed. Things are escalating in a terrifying way,” an UNRWA doctor working in #Gaza City told us. This war must stop. #CeasefireNow

North Cork Creameries is a member of Bord Bia's 'Origin Green' greenwashing programme despite 125 non-compliance notices since 2020 and listing on the EPA's top polluter watchlist 🙈 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Strong argument that government housing policy will lead to less room for kids in new homes, and fewer childcare spaces.

Go hiontach! 🇮🇪 Gu h-iongantach! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #gaeilge #gaidhlig

When Just Stop Oil carefully used monuments and art to raise awareness of inaction on the Climate Emergency, Starmer & co called them "pathetic" and "vandals" and encouraged prison sentences Now they've done all they can to quickly destroy a work of art #ClimateEmergency #Genocide ##ClimateCrisis