We were delighted to contribute some charr samples from Lough Bunaveela, Co.Mayo to this study. Always good to plunder the depths of old freezers 😂😂

My first piece on my Ireland run, in today’s Guardian …

📢 Would you like to be a voice for nature? We are looking for a passionate nature advocate to join our team and help us advocate for the protection and restoration of nature in Ireland. Apply before 18:00 on 26th January 2026. 🔗 iwt.ie/nature-advoc...

Lots of food for thought in this 30 minute film that neatly summarises 20,000 years of Irish biogeography Well done Aidin Robbins 🙂🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🐑🐑🐑 youtu.be/8Qq9MhGJv2A?...

Delighted to have worked on this with all my wonderful @gleonetwork.bsky.social colleagues Diel variation in CO2 flux is substantial in many lakes - de Eyto et al Limnology and Oceanography Letters - Wiley Online Library aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Comparing the different seasonality and trends in the magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies since 1940 for the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic and Arctic. There are significant differences in the rate of long-term warming (blue to red lines). Data: doi.org/10.24381/cds...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

If you, like us, are passionate about pearl mussels... check out our July issue of FBA Voice! With super exciting news from our #FreshwaterPearlMussel Ark plus an article about our #LakeDistrict Charr Recovery & Management project, and much more! Dive into the FBA Voice: mailchi.mp/fba/welcome-...

This month, we have been lucky enough to observe the various stages of larval development of Freshwater Pearl Mussels, Margaritifera margaritifera We are running a captive breeding program in collaboration with NPWS and Moorkens and associates These are stage 4

The Farm UP project is looking for a project co-ordinator and project officer - deadline is monday southmayo.com/farm-up-proj...

We are in the 4th year of production of Freshwater Pearl Mussels at the Marine Institute’s hatchery in Furnace, Co.Mayo. Lots of babies for us to mind for the next decade 😂😂 www.mayonews.ie/news/local-n... Endangered freshwater pearl mussel successfully bred at Mayo Marine facility - Mayo Live

Thanks @rayofoghlu.bsky.social for the write up It was great to see everyone and discuss restoration of forested peatlands in Ireland. @colinguilfoyle.bsky.social www.farmersjournal.ie/more/climate... Wild Nephin: restoration, research and rewilding - Free

Check out the latest @gleonetwork.bsky.social Student Association (GSA) Limnoseries. Virtual workshops organized by students relating to Limnology. Find all workshop videos on #GLEON 's YouTube Channel. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=87M0...

Fun infographic shows when we tend to peak at certain things. I wrote a column about this a few years back: buff.ly/tZoWb9o

New paper in EJWR led by newly minted Dr Paule-Emelie Ruy (passed PhD viva this week!) shows that avian influenza is circulating amongst Irish mesocarnivores link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How many salmon to herons eat? Quite a lot. And they are willing to fly quite far to find them 😬🐟 👏🏼 analysis from Karl Philips et al @colinguilfoyle.bsky.social @joshkakaufmann.bsky.social bioone.org/journals/ard... Foraging Behaviour of Nesting Grey Herons Inferred from PIT-Tagged Salmonid Fish

Looks like we finally have an explanation for why the Atlantic (and, by extension, the Earth) was so warm of 2023. From Matt England et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yesterday, @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social showed me around the @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social's new 80-acre reserve, including about 30 of Atlantic rainforest, Coill Sheanadh Gharráin near Spiddal, Galway. No words could do justice to the magic of the place. I was awestruck.

Placing Ireland's lakes on the international stage as a critical resource responding to a changing world - #Lakes in #Ireland - Mirrors of Change" eds. @cathdalt.bsky.social @edeeyto.bsky.social & Eleanor Jennings Read my #bookreview The Niche @britishecologicalsociety.org #limnology #research 🇮🇪

After years of non-stop brainstorming and hard work with @alamarins.bsky.social & co, we're thrilled to present IBASAM (v3): a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations. @inrhttps://ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=153305

Joshka, Joe and I had the opportunity to talk to Lorna Siggins during the week, about the Burrishoole salmon population and the recent heatwave. @joshkakaufmann.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

#Madleen “Let the Madleen reach Gaza. Let this small ship carry the weight of global conscience. Let it land in peace.” Mary Robinson

Join us on the gruelling Bangor Trail on Sat, June 21, hiking 26km in 9-12 hours. See barrysguidedtours.com/the-bangor-t...

With the turn in the weather, the marine heatwave seems to have peaked. These data are from the M3 data buoy off southwest Ireland. Source: eurosea.marine.ie/his

Surface water temperatures on Lough Feeagh (west coast of Ireland) have been pretty high this year! Daily temperatures in May above the 99th% on most days. 🥵🌡️💦

So exciting to see the first of our 2024/2025 cohort of Freshwater Pearl Mussels starting to drop off their salmon host. We are working with NPWS to breed this endangered species at the Marine Institute’s hatchery in Newport, Co. Mayo @marineinst.bsky.social @philkeena.bsky.social

The Marine Institute in Newport will be having an open day on April 27th Lots of interesting activities for all ages bit.ly/MIopenday

Publication alert! 😁 Was great to be involved in this awesome paper on quantifying allochthony in 19 trophic groups across a land-use gradient spanning 35 boreal lakes with Ossi Keva et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heterocapsa season in Lough Furnace. A coastal lagoon on the west coast of Ireland

As we prepare for the 2015 drop-off of glochidia from our fish at the @marineinst.bsky.social hatchery in Furnace, @philkeena.bsky.social , Darija and I headed across the Irish Sea to visit the Freshwatwr Pearl Mussel hatcheries in Wales and England …..🧵

youtu.be/p44K1RjJUHA?... Example of one of the many things HyDrone Ireland can do with Underwater Drone Quick, Safe, and Effective 👍

We've had a huge amount of interest in this and as a result have added an online option for the morning talks - registration available through the following link: www.eventbrite.ie/e/biodiversi...

Wishing you all a peaceful St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ Lá Fhéile Pádraig Looking south across Lough Furnace to Croagh Patrick

Read about the real-world showdown between our Citroen eSpacetourer and a Ford Tourneo Custom while our van was in for repairs! A direct comparison in electric vs. diesel. Here's the scoop: **Fuel Costs:** Electric = €1,614/year vs. Diesel = €4,678/year! www.irishevassociation.ie/news/a-bev-v...

Join us for a one-day symposium on the 12th June at the Marine Institute, Furnace, Co. Mayo where we will present new research focused on the biodiversity within @WildNephin & discuss the possibilities for the Nephin Forest + ecological restoration potential in the wider landscape 🌲

Budburst survey 2025 forms.gle/WUiaXVTWZaDC... This little survey has run since 1994

A common garden experiment in the wild reveals heritable differences in migration tendencies among brown trout populations. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–15. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

We have been quantifying sediment accumulation in Lough Feeagh for 20 years- today we replaced our bashed up old traps with some shiny new ones, designed by Joe Cooney and built by a local metal worker Martin Forrestal. Hope they’ll last another 20 years!!! #BurrishooleLTER @cathdalt.bsky.social

There's something absolutely tragic about the #Brigid's light atop the historic Hill of Allen, seat of Fionn MacCumhaill, shining out over the Kildare countryside, while metres away Roadstone have quarried away our collective heritage. I will never understand how this was allowed

Interesting points to consider in this thread. We in Ireland don’t know how lucky we’ve been to have a temperate climate with little extreme weather. Until recently…1/-

Hi Sapna @sapnasharma.bsky.social, winter limnologists I'd like to share the current ice condition of Lake Suwa. Unfortunately, the lake has not frozen, with only partial freezing. The monitoring by priest keeps until Feb 3. This pic is Omiwatari observed in 2018. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

A Review from Haase et al summarizes freshwater conservation efficacy. Freshwater conservation appears to have lower frequency of positive outcomes compared to marine and terrestrial conservation. The authors offer insights for improvement in the future! go.nature.com/4h4oKm1

Hey, any Irish Freshwater scientists out there 👋. This is a great biodiversity data collection initiative, and they could do with a bit more representation from Ireland: www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-...

Incoming #StormEowyn Watch it approaching over the Atlantic at buoy M6 webapps.marine.ie/IWPGraphs/De... and then hit inland in Lough Feeagh erddap.marine.ie/erddap/table...

📣 Our paper on soil carbon response to tree planting is out in J. of Env. Management: 🌲 Temperate grassland conversion to conifer forest destabilises mineral soil carbon stocks Open access ➡️ tinyurl.com/3krerb92 A short thread ⤵️

Invading and range-expanding pink salmon inform management actions for marine species on the move: new paper in @icesmarine.bsky.social ICES J Marine Science academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva... @profcolinbean.bsky.social @jaakkoerkinaro.bsky.social @jalangan.bsky.social @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction. New publication in Nature presents the largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List to date. More than 23 000 species assessed! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.