📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

📣 We're hiring: Conservator (AKII) 2-year fixed-term contract Join the National Library of Ireland to help conserve nationally significant collections, including parchment, manuscripts and early printed works relating to the Normans in Ireland. ⭐ Info + #apply by 31 July: https://ow.ly/X9Op50ZkZKj

Hardy men from the Blasket Islands off the Irish coast. One of many great prints from a wonderful and witty artist. Check out her website for more (or she’ll send the lads round)

Volume 42: John Emmet O'Sullivan reports a first record of the psyllid Cacopsylla fulguralis from the Island of Ireland. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Entomology

An ambitious new five-year strategy to reverse the decline of Ireland's pollinating insects and create a landscape where bees and other pollinators can find food and shelter every 200 metres has been launched at the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin

Ireland has several significant observatories worthy of World Heritage status. You could help #jobs #astronomy #heritage #UNESCO

The discovery at Birr Castle was in identifying the “whirlpool” shape of faraway galaxies and the logical implications this presented for understanding of gravity and masses of gas in space, which led to our understanding of birth, life, death of stars and galaxies. jrnl.ie/7089644

Sadly, the inventor of the Morse code passed away... Dashes to dashes, dots to dots.

We're hiring a #ProjectManager to lead a multi-year, cross-institutional programme spanning cultural programming, professional development, research, and policy. ⭐ More info + #apply: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland#ProjectManager#apply📅 Closing date: 3pm, 24 July 2026. #Jobfairy

Volume 42: Power and Bell report Rhyzobius forestieri, an Australian ladybird new to Ireland, from Co. Dublin. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Entomology

Volume 42: Brian Power reports Ptinus dubius, a spider beetle new to Ireland, from Co. Dublin. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Entomology

After 16 years of effort, Geological Survey Ireland has completed the ‘Tellus’ national mapping programme to collect geochemical and geophysical data on rocks, soil and water across Ireland. Immense achievement www.gsi.ie/en-ie/progra... #SpeirGorm #geology jrnl.ie/7080991

I made a feature length documentary film, and it’s in the official selection for The Galway Film Fleadh. It’d be great if I don’t end up in the cinema on my own. #Climate #SpeirGorm www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/glob...

PhD Studentship in Recycled Materials at @tcddublin.bsky.social Work on turning textile waste into new construction materials and product through the @researchireland.ie funded PUreTex project. 4-year fully funded role. Closing 9 July (12 noon GMT). Apply: www.tcd.ie/engineering/...

As we prepare to get hit by the edge of the heat dome -- this is how temps have changed in Ireland since 1850 #SpeirGorm showyourstripes.info/l/europe/ire...

Three basking sharks swimming together in Donegal Bay, Ireland. [📹 Stephen Dunbar Photography] Original post

For #FathersDay, we’re sharing this affectionate letter from #JamesJoyce in Paris to his father, John Stanislaus Joyce. The letter begins “Dear Pappie” and is signed simply, “Jim”. View the full letter here: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000017000

Even journalists are missing their favourites among the 10,000 exhibits during closure for major refurbishment “Dublin’s Dead Zoo is home to the funniest exhibit of all time. Please let it return soon” Here’s the microwave-safe tarantula /1 #SpeirGorm www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

New council plan has a ‘cultural quarter’ centred on Dunsink Observatory. Since 1785 this is where William Rowan Hamilton came up with equations that underly space travel and computer games, and today 35 scientists work in projects such as the James Webb Space Telescope #SpeirGorm jrnl.ie/7075836

Volume 42: Kieran and Domhnall Finch report Atypophthalmus inustus, a cranefly species new to Ireland. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Entomology

Vacancy - Head of National Centre for Research and Remembrance at National Museum of Ireland. 3-year contract to develop the former #Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin. Closing 3 July, €83k. #SpeirGorm #museum #jobs www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...

New report on the impact of Irish museums, galleries and libraries shows total economic output of €209m, Contributed €135m to national Gross Value, Supported 2,300 full-time equivalent jobs (both within and outside of the sector). Over 3.5 million in-person visitors www.museum.ie/en-IE/Press-...

National Museums Northern Ireland is looking for an Assistant Curator of Archaeology £33,542 - £34,231 closing 2 July. #aarchaeology #jobs #SpeirGorm ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

Noon is when the sun is overhead, Dublin once stuck to this local time zone ignoring London (Greenwich) time

Report now approved by the Irish government on dealing with Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage held in museums. Process established to manage applications on case by case basis. Link in comments #decolonisation #museums www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The winner of the ENVIRON Conference best Natural History Presentation, sponsored by the INJ, was Alejandra Vieyra-Ramirez of SETU, for their presentation, Ecological linkages between nematode and plant diversity in an Irish built environment: lessons on soil health. irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Finally! Proof that sharks are the real threat

I don't know why people are opposed to data centaurs. I like the idea of them galloping around collecting statistics.

Museums hold collections for a reason: “Perhaps, he says, the next big breakthrough in charting our solar system’s deepest history won’t come from exploring some distant world but rather from studying samples of space rocks …from a drawer in a museum.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare...

✨#37 of #85ThingsAboutDIAS In 1941, Dr Sheila Tinney (neé Power) became the first women Fellow of DIAS - and was one of the first three Fellows to be selected by the inaugural Director of the School of Theoretical Physics Dr Tinney was also amongst the first women elected to the Royal Irish Academy

Job for a freshwater ecologist in Ireland with the state body for environmental monitoring www.epa.ie/publications... #ecology #jobs

One of Ireland’s most impressive marine biologists for #WorldOceansDay #SpeirGorm

Tracing your Irish heritage? This is a great starting point

An amazing bump in the road, or more accurately the bump that got a major road rerouted when it turned out to be a large Viking settlement. Looking forward to the big excavation now planned in Co. Waterford, Ireland #vikings #Ireland #SpeirGorm

˖°🌊⋆🐚🫧 Happy #WorldOceansDay! Here's some of Ireland's aquatic life with their names in our native tongue, available as a print here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/... ˖°🌊⋆🐚🫧

Queen Anne's Lace, such an apt name for this flower's beautiful resemblance to intricate lace. Its beauty caught my eye in the late evening enjoying the sun's last rays @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

We're at the Cork Carnival of Science this weekend in Fitzgerald Park. Our stand is jam-packed with science (and scientists!)

Volume 42: Wohlfarter et al. highlights reveal the results of An expanded survey of aphid parasitoids, in Northern Ireland with first Irish records of one Aphelinus and four Aphidius species. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Entomology

The Basking Shark at the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History has for well over a century been hanging from the ceiling of the Dead Zoo (as Dubliners fondly call the museum) but has been moved, which is a challenge to say the least #sharks #museums #SpeirGorm www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

First public consultation on Ireland’s draft National Nature Restoration Plan is now open Deadline for submissions is 1 July. Have your say #RestoreNature www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

One of three rare opportunities to work on natural history collections with a great team at National Museums Northern Ireland. Curator for vertebrates, closing 21 June, £37,694 to £38,990 per annum #museumjobs #curator #vertebrates #zoology ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

Happy ’Old Croone Day’ - scientists celebrate 4 June 1662 when Dr William Croone presented the Royal Society (London) with “…two embryos of puppy-dogs, which … were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed hermetically...” marking the beginning of fluid preservation of animals still in museums today

Yesterday, the Royal Irish Academy officially launched the Waterford’s Transported Convict Women online exhibition, a powerful new resource exploring the lives of women transported from Waterford to Tasmania between 1788 and 1853. Read more about the launch: www.ria.ie/2026/06/03/t...

No idea there was so much heritage in #Naas I didn’t know which way to turn #Kildare #SpeirGorm

We have been looking into the genetics of the giant deer #Megaloceros in collections of @nmireland.bsky.social and although climate change ended their reign in Ireland there are other factors at play - preprint online now #pleistocene www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sad news from #Carlow of the sudden passing far too young of the curator of the Carlow County Museum Dermot Mulligan who did so much for his county and its heritage #SpeirGorm rip.ie/death-notice...

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

Dealing with complex projects in old buildings takes time as the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History proceeds through the stages required, good to see progress to the next steps is ongoing www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

#palaeontology #paleontology

Invertebrate zoology job opportunity at National Museums Northern Ireland in Belfast for a curator. Permanent post, closing 14 June. £37,694 - £38,990 per annum #museumjobs #curator #zoology ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...