My latest column: Ireland’s data centre policy will drive significantly greater fossil fuel use, contradicting multiple statutory and policy targets which require rapid reductions instead. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Want to start doing soil animal macrophotography? Or fancy a rare glimpse into mine and @mesofauna.bsky.social's minds? An article has just dropped in @soilorganismsj.bsky.social, showcasing mine and Andy's love for documenting soil biodiversity! 🧪🪱 Open Access: soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...

#soil #jobfairy #jobs #biodiversity

📢 We're recruiting a contract technologist for the soil and environmental microbiology programme @teagasc.bsky.social Johnstown Castle, Wexford, Ireland. Join our team 🤗 #SoilMicrobiome topjobs-teagasc.thehirelab.com/LiveJobs/Job...

High‑resolution global maps revealing the expansion risk of thousands of non-native plant species under today’s conditions and future climate and land‑use scenarios have been produced for the first time. 🗺️ @natecoevo.nature.com @univie.ac.at @smartenwinter.bsky.social www.idiv.de/global-model...

This looks interesting: Grassland plant diversity and ecosystem condition assessment in the hen harrier programme, Ireland, a results-based agri-environment scheme | McMorrow et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

"Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky. Changes to Twitter have made the social media platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, and that many scientists have abandoned it in favor of Bluesky." academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

📖 Published! Warming, elevated CO2 and drought in combination accelerates plant phenological shifts in managed montane grassland🌱 🌿 🔎 Find out more buff.ly/VgghbUv

📢 Join our team: Are you interested in the synthesis of ecological data? We are offering a postdoctoral researcher position on the effects of collaborative agri-environment measures on multiple taxa and ecosystem services. See #job advert www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

Interested in a cross-analysis of how Romanian and French farmers are adapting to climate change? Watch Agroecology-TRANSECT webinar to find out more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu4m... 🌱 Necula et al 2024 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🐮 Allart et al 2024 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S174... #agroecology

🚨 Plant diversity in 6-species #multispecies mixtures generally increased multifunctionality (MF) (measured as 6 ecosystem functions related to agronomy). We also looked at effect of drought on MF. short🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ICYMI 2024 publication How can we ‘best’ design multi-species grassland mixtures? How can we better predict the effect of diversity on mixture performance? Demonstration of principles and practical examples from Mini Review in J of Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rare butterflies bounce back after landowners in Wales cut back on flailing hedges

📌 Carbon has a common unit, biodiversity doesn’t; and that makes progress harder to compare. The upcoming IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment arrives at exactly the right moment for clearer methods and signals.

Months of work finally unveiled as a major investigation I worked on with the @independent.ie launches. Every council in Ireland was asked to write a Climate Action Plan identifying local risks and what they plan to do to reduce emissions causing those risks. We read them all... bit.ly/3Mf9h8x

As a climate scientist I am quite sure I could use this reply at least two dozen times per week.

Last week a UK national security assessment warned that collapsing ecosystems around the world will trigger conflict and food shortages

After being online for about 5 weeks, over 8,500 downloads already! Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #legacynet

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

👋 Agroecology-TRANSECT YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@agroecology... provides material to learn on the agronomic, social and political dimensions of #agroecology Next webinar (Jan.22) is on #intercropping and sustainable #pest management To register 👉 www.agroecology-transect.net/events/boost...

Gosh, it looks like Ireland is in for some “stark” weather, just perfect, apparently, for lounging around in the park, catching some rays. Come on, media, you could at least make an effort at trying to communicate the disaster that is #climate change.

“Ireland had its warmest spring and summer since 1900 last year, according to Met Éireann, and its overall second warmest year on record. The last four years - 2022 to 2025 - are now the top four warmest years on record in Ireland.” jrnl.ie/6919300

New research: An online survey of farmers' perspectives on the adoption of multispecies swards: Barriers, benefits and knowledge gaps - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... TL;DR: more widespread adoption of grassland mixtures needs improved knowledge transfer

What you asked for in the grant proposal. What you actually received.

🌱 How could the post-2027 CAP be updated to promote #intercropping in Europe? 🫛 In this video, Boglárka Bozsogi from @organicseurope.bsky.social presents some of the recommendations from our Project. Also gathered in a policy brief: intercropvalues.eu/wp-content/u... youtu.be/bi1drtErmaE?...

'Minister O’Sullivan publishes new report on the status of Ireland’s EU-Protected Habitats and Species' - @npwsireland.bsky.social #NatureConservation #HabitatsDirective #Article17 #Ireland www.npws.ie/news/ministe...

#LegacyNet results in The Conversation. More diverse #mixtures of forage grassland species deliver higher yields than grass-only with higher nitrogen fertiliser. And the yield benefits were larger in higher temperatures. #multispecies #multi4more theconversation.com/growing-a-mi...

🚨New paper!🚨 Models predict trees like beech will migrate north as climate warms, but rarely consider tree reproduction. Jessie shows these “refuges” are exactly where climate warming will disrupt seed production the most. They may not be such great climate refuges after all. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

New paper by Solbach et al. @newphyt.bsky.social They find that repeated summer droughts weaken plant defense against protistan plant parasites 🌱🦠 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @ag-bonkowski.bsky.social @dumack.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

“No, we’ve all accepted that the goal is to publish anything and everything and see what sticks. More students. More “collaborations”. So many papers that no human can possibly be paying very much attention to any of it. And we all know where the incentives lie.”

Delighted to have been a co-leader of this research in Science Plant diversity in multispecies grassland mixtures outyields conventional management. Press release: www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

🌱Newsletter from @Multi4More project 🚜 Highlights: • Agronomic & sheep feeding trial updates • Update from Multispecies Workshop • Farmer survey results: reduced fertiliser use and barriers to adoption multi4more.ie/wp-content/upl…#multispecieses

What you think about: Your thesis - most of the time Other things - a small amount of time What your advisor thinks about: Your thesis - a small amount of time Other things - most of the time

The basics of soil chemistry explained - our animated video youtu.be/H3mUEXEoKiA?... #SoilHealthWeek #Groundtruth

Irish research finds larger areas of habitat are needed to increase pollinator populations & to achieve the same species numbers in smaller areas, “marked increases in quality are required”. www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/p...

📢 Date for the diary #SoilHealthWeek is coming soon to Ireland with events all over the country! Bígí linn 🤗 #GroundTruth #SoilHealth

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

This deep analysis of what the Commission's CAP proposals mean for environmental and climate action by farmers suggests there will be far less emphasis on these objectives in the next CAP ieep.eu/publications...

Do you know that the webinars of Agroecology-TRANSECT can be found online 👉 www.youtube.com/@agroecology... with so far: ✅ 9 webinars on transition, adaptation to climate change, biodiversity, policy... ⭐ 1 full session on barriers & levers to agroecology ⏹️ 3 short-formats #agroecology #teaching

“This is very serious for the populations..we also expect summer temperatures in Spain & France to reach unprecedented levels in the next few years.. Many of the events predicted for 2050 or 2070 are already happening. We underestimated the speed of change. What we’re seeing now is an acceleration”

Our study on the biodiversity impacts of agriculture in @natureecoevo.bsky.social rdcu.be/ekept Minimizing biodiversity loss requires a balance of expansion and intensification,while preserving unmodified land #Biodiversity #LandUse #ConservationScience @dleclere.bsky.social @tnewbold31.bsky.social

Knocknahila Peatland Rewetting Project in West Clare. Great collaboration with farmer Sean Tubridy, Knocknahila Biodiversity Community Group and my own role as Clare Biodiversity Officer. This project is supported by Clare CoCo Biodiversity Office and NPWS

I have a very immediate appointment need for a junior PD position as a chapter scientist on the @ipcc.bsky.social Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. Initial appointment will be 6 months so I can appoint immediately but extendable to the two years of the report cycle. (1/2)

A #watercolour of the front entrance to Johnstown Castle - good fun!

I've turned my back on and lost those that I love so many times. I wish I could figure out why. It hurts so much when they're not in my life any more and I have to start again. And by "those" I mean nice pens.

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”