758 fossil photos. 176 new sites. 330+ places to explore. The updated Fossil Map of Ireland is live for #ScienceWeek! Huge congratulations to Ireland's Fossil Heritage and thanks to all who joined the Great Irish Fossil Hunt. 🌍🔍 Explore the map: www.ucc.ie/en/fossil-he...

Professor Jennifer Mc Elwain in conversation with the ever-curious Blindboy on #paleobotany #botany #fossils

A secret history of volcanoes in Ireland. Aoife Ryan-Christensen on how Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know today - with insights from John Reavy @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra! It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏 (Shop link in pinned post).

Presidential Salute! Meanwhile, behind the scenes at the museum vibration detectors monitor safety of collections as they do for on-site music concerts. I think they have a ‘no stampede’ rule also. Emotional support wildebeest excepted.

Irish President left office at midnight and well wishers included Sanctuary Runners, a great group that brings asylum seekers and locals together in fitness. He is their patron and reflects the best of us. jrnl.ie/6870482

It’s great to live in a country where your president gets an informal public guard of honor of Bernese Mountain dogs and their owners as he travels out of the official residence for his last day in office. #SpeirGorm he is so popular he appears in children’s books and even as a tea cosy

🧪 Curious minds welcome! Families, drop into the Dead Zoo Lab at Collins Barracks for a hands-on science experience this Saturday #ScienceWeek2025. 📅 Sat 15 Nov | 🕒 11–1pm 🎟️ Free & family-friendly – no booking needed! Details: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

We're hiring! Two posts related to sustainability, working with me at @ucc.ie. 1. A postdoc researcher, developing climate-aware energy systems scenarios: www.linkedin.com/posts/hannah... 2. An administrator, managing the new BSc Sustainability: www.linkedin.com/posts/hannah...

🪲 Freshwater Insects of Ireland - Join Dr Helen James, Senior Curator at National Museums NI and Belfast Naturalists Field Club for a special INJ Centenary talk! 📅 Tues 11 Nov 2025, 7:30 pm 📍 Ulster Museum (Lecture Theatre) or online 💻 Bookings: [email protected] #INJCentenary

Coming 26 November. Includes my favorite #fossil #Megaloceros in another groundbreaking series, this time on the ice age

Honeybees go fast and break things. Perhaps we should be more like a bumblebee, taking time to be considerate and accurate. Daily wisdom from the insect world via Ireland’s Bee Sanctuary, well worth a follow. #Mindfulness #Bees

Volume 41 – Ciarán Byrne reports on Microterys seyon, a parasitoid wasp new to Ireland from Co. Carlow, and comments on the genus . For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Wasps

A reintroduction of shellfish, just to improve water quality and not as a commercial fishery. Welcome news for #Dublin Let’s see how they get on. #rewilding www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring! Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy. Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm. www.ria.ie/about/career...

How #SpeirGorm is it to wait for a bus on College Green, Dublin and overhear two men bid goodnight: I wrote a poem at the weekend. Now ye tell me!

we live in a world where this splendid animal exists, wow

Got an object with a story? We believe every object holds a piece of history - and yours could be part of it. From heirlooms to gig tickets- bring yours to the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks & chat with curators 📍 Thursday, 6th Nov 6-7 PM 🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/late-night...

While Irishman Sir Roger Casement was exploring colonial atrocities in the Peruvian Amazon he was also collecting butterflies that are now in the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History. He was later executed in London for treason. Paper just published revue-colligo.fr/index.php/vo...

Really looking forward to giving a talk about past and present efforts to establish the @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social museum on Nov. 5th, organised by @dublincityheritage.bsky.social ! Get your tix here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/silent-tea...?

Meet The Author: Peter Donnelly at the Dead Zoo Lab www.eventbrite.ie/e/meet-the-a...

ASIAN HORNET ALERT 📅 Date: Sat, Nov 01 🕒 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT 📍 Online – Free to attend! Important information session for beekeepers, educators, biodiversity recorders in Ireland on this recently arrived alien invasive species events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d33bf9...

Happy #Halloween from Ireland where a carved turnip started a craze. We celebrate ‘Samhain’ from sunset as an ancient Celtic tradition to mark the end of harvest and beginning of winter. Plaster replica of carved turnip in National Museum of Ireland - Country Life #samhain @nmireland.bsky.social

Our magnificent basking shark sculpture was created by Tommy Casby. Commissioned by IBSG and Fair seas, part funded by The heritage council and with support from Galway City Council. On behalf of us all at IBSG we want to extend our thanks to Tommy for creating such an incredible sculpture.

The last time this happened was about 12,000 years ago and Ireland became uninhabitable. This is the reality of the climate crisis

🦴 @paoloviscardi.bsky.social, Keeper of the Natural History collection shares how the Dead Zoo natural history helps us understand biodiversity via @siliconrepublic.bsky.social 📖 ​https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ireland-dead-zoo-living-natural-history-museum-keeper-biodiversity-research

Paolo Viscardi from @NMIreland spoke to @siliconrepublic.bsky.social Republic in advance of his talk as part of DIAS #SamhainAgusScience tomorrow night. Limited tickets are still available so be sure to book your space! www.eventbrite.ie/e/1739159816... #DIASdiscovers #DIAS85

Spooky season at Collins Barracks! 👻 Mask-making (Oct 31, 11–1) 🦴 Dead Zoo Lab drop-ins (Oct 30 & Nov 1, 11–1) 🕵️‍♀️ Fright at the Museum Trail (Oct 24–Nov 9) 🎟️ Free & drop-in 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/H...

Volume 41 – Power et al. report on Nephus quadrimaculatus a ladybird new to Ireland from Counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Ladybirds

Wednesday 27 October you can hear @paoloviscardi.bsky.social in Dublin on the value of the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History in addressing #biodiversity issues

The National Museum of Ireland is part of a community network that links locals to their heritage. Here’s a natural history project showing what goes on behind the scenes and how it emerges into an exhibition @nmireland.bsky.social

A choir of 500 voices singing Irish classic ‘Dreams’ by the beloved #Cranberries at Giant’s Causeway, a geological marvel and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Co. Antrim (sound up to the max!) jrnl.ie/6853029 #SpeirGorm #GiantsCauseway

#SpeirGorm followers may recognise the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin. What a beautiful location as a workplace in its autumn finery

Opening 22 November, the Natural History #Museum Abu Dhabi will include the skeleton of a blue whale and a mass of the Murchison #Meteorite. Featuring the #Tyrannosaurus rex ‘Stan’ and #fossil elephant Stegotetrabelodon emiratus. www.timeoutabudhabi.com/culture/art/...

At last, Ireland standing up to its responsibilities in international research

This picture of Kharkiv firefighters evacuating children after russian strike on kindergarten must be on every front page!

For #PostboxSaturday here’s a wrapped postbox that’s part of an Irish ‘Love Your Postbox’ series www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels...

Night, Knight jrnl.ie/6847628

Volume 41 – Spaans et al. report on the Bark Beetles Pityogenes trepanatus new to Ireland and records of Polygraphus poligraphus. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology

We're #hiring! Passionate about natural history and historical collections? Here at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history, we're looking for an Assistant Archivist to support our Collections team. Closing date: 9 Nov 2025 Find out more:

William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist and mathematician who laid the groundwork for calculations used space travel and computer games.

#SpeirGorm refugees from the old bad place will be delighted to know that the legendary slippers of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins are now on display.

This #exhibition of changing Ireland over the last 100 years includes lost wildlife such as this White-tailed Sea Eagle, driven to extinction but now reintroduced. Free admission museum.ie

I'm delighted that we have a whole range of talks from our Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project taking place this winter on Tuesday evenings. Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS?? See them all here: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

Last week we launched the 2026 Mary Mulvihill Student Media Award. The prestigious science communication award, gives students from all across the island of Ireland the chance to win €2000. 💶🏆👏 This year's award theme is 'Time'. ⏳ Full details below: marymulvihillaward.ie/award/ #science #media

Rory Gallagher’s legendary guitar is getting ready to rock the Changing Ireland Galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks! The Changing Ireland Galleries open on Oct. 16, exploring Ireland’s evolving identity through powerful stories, objects & music www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

There’s a great #museum with fossils including #dinosaurs and all they need is a curator. Isle of Wight, UK. www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/...

Great to see this new citizen science data rescue project by Met Eireann up and running: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met... especially proud of our ICARUS graduates Rhonda and Ciara for taking this on. Local followers do go along and digitise a few values please.