💙💛 Warmest congratulations to UCD Professor Mary Horgan on being named Public Sector Leader of the Year at the Business Post Leadership Awards 2025. @businesspost.bsky.social @ucdmedicine.bsky.social

Autumn days at UCD, the perfect weather for the swans to have a picnic every day. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🦢🌱🌱🌱🌱 #UniversityCollegeDublin #Autumn #2025

💙💛 We are hosting our Undergraduate Open Day tomorrow, Saturday, 8th November 2025, from 10 am-4 pm. Discover everything you need to know about your chosen courses, explore our vibrant campus, and meet the UCD community.

💙💛 University College Dublin has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with University of Liverpool to foster future collaboration with the establishment of a joint research seed fund.

🛜🔋 University College Dublin researchers are playing a key role in a major new European Research Council (ERC) funded project that aims to dramatically reduce the energy consumption of future wireless communication networks. @ucdengarch.bsky.social

🏛️🏚️ Speaking on vacant and derelict buildings, Orla Murphy and Dr Philip Crowe, from the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, and Co-Directors of the UCD Centre for Irish Towns, said that the reuse of such properties could address Ireland’s dual housing and climate crises.

Advanced UCD Research in Artificial Intelligence (AURA), our single biggest investment in #AI #supercomputing! @ucddublin.bsky.social also invested €1.45m to upgrade existing campus-wide HPC stack, supporting Ireland's largest concentration of AI researchers www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/u...

🤖👩‍⚕️ Most people are cautiously open to using robots in home care, according to a new international study. Caregiving robots are expected to play an important role in the future of care services as many countries experience declining birth rates and ageing populations. 🧵 @naokody.bsky.social

Squirrel on the move: gathering nuts, leaves falling, getting cosy 🍂🐿️ #ucd #UCDLife #UniversityCollegeDublin #autumn #ireland

UCD at the Oireachtas: Representatives of the Oireachtas have heard that Ireland risks overshooting its carbon budgets unless immediate measures are taken to reduce emissions in the construction sector.

👩‍🎓✨ Congratulations to UCD Professor Susi Geiger, who has been named the 2025 Distinguished International Scholar by the Irish Academy of Management, the first time this prestigious honour has been awarded to an Irish-based academic. 👏 @susigeiger.bsky.social

Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed Saint John Henry Newman, the first Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland, the antecedent institution of University College Dublin, a Doctor of the Church.

Representatives of the Oireachtas have heard that Ireland risks overshooting its carbon budgets unless immediate measures are taken to reduce emissions in the construction sector. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

💙💛 The University is deeply saddened by the passing of Focus Ireland founder and UCD social science graduate, Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam dílis.

Professor AidanO’Sullivan, Head of School of Archaeology at UCD, brings history to life, carving this year’s Irish Halloween Jack O’Lantern from a turnip. @aidanosullivan.bsky.social

UCD spin-out LirOptic comes top for Audience Choice at the Luminate NY Accelerator 🎉 NovaUCD spin-out company LirOptic has won the Audience Choice Award at the final of the 2025 Luminate NY accelerator programme in New York, taking home a $10,000 (€8.6k) prize.

UCD is leading a €1.5m all-island project to restore native oyster reefs and strengthen coastal resilience. The BRICONS project will test how Nature-Based Solutions can protect marine biodiversity and support climate adaptation. 🌊🦪 #UCDResearch 🔗 Read the full story: www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Quantum computing project by UCD spin-out secures €13.7m funding A quantum computing project led by Equal1, a spin-out company of NovaUCD, has secured €13.7 million in funding from the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF).

Autumn Light🍂 #UCD #UCDDublin #UCDLife #AutumnInIreland #IrishAutumn #DublinDays #Belfield #UCDCampus #OctoberLight #OrangeDay

A gene therapy research project led by Professor Niall Barron from the UCD School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering has received €2 million in funding. The investment came from Research Ireland and APC Ltd, an Irish biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing company.

🎥👩‍🎓✨ Ireland has a new world champion after UCD alumna Lara Gillespie secured gold in the elimination race at the Track World Championship. The former UCD Ad Astra Academy Elite Sports Scholar and reigning European champion is Ireland's first Track World Champion in more than a decade.

💙💛 Recipients of prestigious international scholarships at UCD have been honoured at the UCD Global Excellence Scholarships Event 2025-26. This year, UCD welcomed 183 international scholarship recipients from 45 nationalities.

We were delighted to launch Creative Pedagogies in Practice: Case Studies from CFA at @ucddublin.bsky.social! 🎨 The volume explores how creativity transforms teaching, learning & collaboration. 🔗 creativefuturesacademy.ie/news/creative-pedagogies-case-studies-launched @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social

Carving a ghost turnip, a Halloween jack-o-lantern for UCD. And talked about the Halloween traditions in west Wicklow as a child, snap-apple, bobbing for apples, disguised, singing songs on neighbours thresholds for monkey nuts, apples and oranges and a few coins … cough, 50 years ago…!! 😳🎃

👨‍🎓✨ Warmest congratulations to UCD School of Medicine graduate Matthew Hartnett, who has been awarded the prestigious Reuben Harvey Prize by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. 📜 @royalcollege.bsky.social

Rich, bold, golden - A snapshot of Autumn #SeasonalVibes #NatureLovers #SlowMoments #Dublin #Ireland

this sounds great, militant despair is very much my vibe

🧑‍🎓✨ A great achievement. Congratulations to UCD researcher Dr Anh-Quân Nguyen of the UCD School of Philosophy, who has been named one of the winners of the Oxford University Press First Book Prize 2025. @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

🧑‍🎓✨ Huge congratulations to UCD Mathematics student Mhyls Salapuddin, a recipient of this year’s prestigious Hamilton Prize, the top honour for undergraduate mathematical students in Ireland. @ria.ie @ucdscience.bsky.social

👩‍🎓✨ Warmest congratulations to Aimee Connolly, founder and CEO of Sculpted by Aimee, who has been recognised for her outstanding business achievements at this year’s UCD Alumni Awards. 👏👏👏 @sculptedbyaimee.bsky.social 👏👏👏

💙💛 University College Dublin has received €1m in funding for taking ‘Ireland into the space age’ after the successful launch of the country’s first-ever space mission, EIRSAT-1.

Can’t remember if I posted it here or Instagram but was on cloud nine when I received the @ucddublin.bsky.social alumni magazine and opened it to see this!!! I was not told!!! Very cool. 😎 Also grateful and amazed to be included with writers of that calibre.

💙💛 University College Dublin has celebrated the induction of the 2025/26 Graduate Sports Scholars, the latest group of exceptional student athletes to join the University in support of their sporting and academic pursuits. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

👨‍🔬✨ Cover star! Huge congratulations to Assistant Professor Fun Man Fun, whose work is featured on the latest cover of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. @ucdscience.bsky.social @ucdchemistry.bsky.social

Eoin MacNeill, professor of early Irish history @ucddublin.bsky.social, revolutionary, politician, Irish language enthusiast, and Gaelic revivalist, d #OTD 1945. UCDA holds an large collection of his papers, which are available to consult by appt in our reading room. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

Check out this interview with Steve Roud!!

Season 5 begins tomorrow!! Get ready for 10 more weeks of folk song history goodness.

🗣️🎤 Who, What, Where, When: Legendary song collector Stever Roud explains the four things he considers when cataloguing material for his song index.
 @intheroud.bsky.social @ucdlibrary.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @duchas-ie.bsky.social

🇮🇪Ireland will gain an AI Factory Antenna to boost national capabilities, co-funded by @deptoffhed.bsky.social & @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social This #AI infrastructure will be implemented by a consortium led by ICHEC & CeADAR-Ireland's Centre for AI based at @ucddublin.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/research/new...

🧑‍🔬🔬 Ireland’s most ambitious cancer research collaboration, Precision Oncology Ireland, has entered its second phase, marking a major step forward in the development of next-generation personalised cancer care.

👩‍🎓🏅 Dr Tess McCann has won this year’s UCD Conway Festival Gold Medal for the discovery of a gene mutation responsible for inherited retinal diseases leading to vision loss. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

👩‍💻✨ Warmest congratulations to UCD Professor Aphra Kerr, co-lead of AlgoWatch, which has won Best Media Initiative for Young People at the Media Literacy Ireland Awards! 👏 @aphrak.bsky.social @ucdischool.bsky.social @cnam-ie.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

👨‍🦰✨ "Why go Bald?" | "Most people worry about hair loss regardless of their actual hair count, because the advertising is so strong around it." - Assistant Professor Glen Jankowski, UCD School of Psychology and author of the forthcoming book Branding Baldness. www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

💙💛 Our warmest congratulations to UCD Professor Helen Roche on her appointment to the Board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) by The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD.

Delighted to be welcoming singer, Michelle O Rourke to @ucddublin.bsky.social tomorrow for a lunchtime recital. Michelle will sing music from the 12th century to the present day inc. lots of Irish composers. Free entry & details below… @cmcireland.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

Sunny days and good vibes on campus ☀️🎓 Tuesday’s pop-up SU Block Market at UCD Student Centre featured hot food, baked treats, vintage finds, makers, collectors, and live DJ vibes! 🎶🍰👗 Such a great atmosphere—can’t wait to see what’s next! #CampusLife #UCD

🧑‍🎓✨ Many congratulations to UCD graduate Conor Hillery, who has been appointed by JP Morgan as co-chief executive of the group’s operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), a division with 32,000 employees.

👨‍⚕️🩻 "The whole landscape has changed" - The aggressive breast cancer, HER2+, is now probably the most treatable form, in terms of survival rate, thanks to new targeted therapies that can “turn off” the HER2 protein. #cancerresearch www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

🐝✨ The Belfield Bee Hive: At Rosemount Apiary, our hives produce honey, pollinate the heritage apple orchard🍏, and give students and visitors a close look at beekeeping.

🧠📄 Research led by Associate Professor Cliodhna O’Connor of UCD School of Psychology has examined how adults experience receiving a diagnosis of autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/h... @cliodhna