Dubliners, a few spots for today’s research communication event are still available, sign up with the link below🙋🏼‍♀️ @ucddublin.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow (21st Sept) for a @coastwatch-ire.bsky.social survey on Bull Island, Dublin. Waterproof clothing and boots/wellies essential!

As the first official survey week has just begun, it’s time to get out to the shore! Hope you can get out this weekend, especially Sunday when we are expecting some sun!🤞🌞 Check out: www.tidetime.org/europe/irela... for tide times in your region, and book here: experience.arcgis.com/experience/3...

Registration for UCD Postdocs Spotlight seminar on research communication is now live! 🚨 Join us in Dublin’s Museum of Literature, 22nd Sept, 5:30 pm for an afternoon of short research pitches, discussion and networking. Open to everyone! 🛜 Register: shorturl.at/SNU8i #scicomm

🚨 There is now an OPEN LETTER demanding accountability from McMaster University for partnering with SEGM - an anti-trans hate group. It’s open for ANYONE to sign - not just faculty, alumni, or students. 👉🏻 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dublin postdocs and other #PhDones, tell us about your research in one slide! Your submission will be displayed during next edition of @ucddublin.bsky.social Postdocs Spotlight seminar on science communication #scicomm 🙋🏽‍♂️ lnkd.in/erT3yk8y 🗓️ Postdocs Spotlight | 22 Sept, 5:30 pm | MoLI, Dublin

And what a day it was! From Seapoint to Forty Foot, from rocky shores to mudflats, from isopods to grey seals - I think we covered quite a lot.

🍁UCD #PostdocsSpotlight is back! This time we look into research dissemination and public engagement (22nd Sept, MOLI, Dublin). 🙋🏼‍♀️@ucddublin.bsky.social postdocs, want to give a 5 minute talk on your research? ➡️Sign up here before Sep 4th: shorturl.at/1dfDE

Help scientists at @ucc.ie uncover Ireland’s hidden fossil treasures! The Great Irish Fossil Hunt is asking members of the public who find any fossils to take a picture and send it to the research team. Submissions close on 31st August 2025. Get involved: www.ucc.ie/en/fossil-he...

🌊Marine Bioblitz: Explore and Record Life on the Seashore! 📍Coming up August 23rd in Dún Laoghaire🇮🇪 Learn about marine species living in the intertidal zone, and become a part of a unique #CitizenScience initiative. Free of charge. ➡️ shorturl.at/AkaTD #heritageweek @marbefes.bsky.social

Why did they not fish? - is a question often raised about the Irish famine of the 1840s. The short answer is they did. The long answer in the paper is about resilience and colonialism, see first comment (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

Cultural benefits of Morecambe Bay - research results 📝 Last week Ashley Cahillane (UCD) and myself returned to Morecambe Bay. Ashley shared research results with the community, and got very useful feedback. More updates soon!

Great to see the publication of our commentary in One Earth ‪@cp-oneearth.bsky.social‬ Let's ensure that all nations and stakeholders attending #UNOC3 unite and commit to leave noone behind in the #OceanDecade www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... #UNOC3DEI #OceanDecade #SDG14 #DEI #WeAreTheOcean

Leave no one behind in the UN Ocean Decade #UNOC3 #UNOC3DEI #OOSC2025 #OceanDecade #SDG14 #DEI #WeAreTheOcean

🦴Any paleontologists/paleobiologists out there? 🇮🇪Assistant Professor in #Palaeontology vacancy currently open at UCD School of Earth Sciences (closes July 3rd) 🛜For more information, go to UCD vacancies page: lnkd.in/esQ3wNxk #jobfairy #academicjobs #geology #stratigraphy

📈UCD #PostdocsSpotlight spring series concluded last week with a session about data-driven research (with fascinating examples from cybersecurity, linguistics, and photonics!) 🗣️We were joined by three great speakers from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social: Sabah Suhail, Emma Humphries and Mike Hardy.

🌐 #MPA new paper alert! #BLUE4ALL #MSP4BIO #marineecology 🦑

#CIIMARtraining Introduction to Ecological Modelling with a Focus on Food Web Models (IEM2025) 📅 16–20 June | 📍Hybrid 👉 Learn more: www.ciimar.up.pt/events/intro...

It's the second time within one week I hear about the community-led dune restoration initiative in the Maharees in Co. Kerry, this time as part of #EMD2025 #coastalresilience workshop. A credit to the wonderful volunteers and officers behind the project. #naturerestoration

Just under two weeks left to apply for this 3 year postdoc looking at how signalling shapes skeletal development in sea urchins! Please reach out if you’re interested! For lovers of imaging, skeletal development, biomineralization, in situ hybridization, and marine invertebrates!

📈What do cybersecurity, lingustics, and photonics have in commmon? Hint: it’s all in the data! 🇬🇧Our guest speakers from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social will talk about their data-driven research. 🇮🇪UCD staff - register here for the last #PostdocsSpotlight seminar this spring: lnkd.in/eKaB-FHw

I'm giving a talk next Thurs 15 May, 6pm, Customs House Dublin 🏛️ 80 years of Irish temperature extremes 🌡️ Informative ✅ Participatory ✅ Funny 🤨 Details + reg: irishmetsociety.org Come along if you're curious about heat, cold & climate 🇮🇪

🌐 #IMECaN is on BlueSky. Definitely worth a follow if you work in #marinescience, #marineecology, #oceanography etc. and want to follow what interdisciplinary marine ECRs are up to🦈

Great talks on power imbalances yesterday at UCD #PostdocsSpotlight by @saoirseenright.bsky.social, @cballantine.bsky.social and Mohammad Altaf Hossain @ucdgearyinst.bsky.social Here all gathered for the discussion panel, moderated by @josietaylor.bsky.social #UCDResearchCulture

@ucddublin.bsky.social researchers, a seminar on inequalities coming up this Thursday 24th Apr🚨 Please spread the word and join us in person at the UCD Club: lnkd.in/ePu7Yppk

⚖️ Announcing the programme for the UCD #PostdocsSpotlight seminar on power imbalances and inequality. @josietaylor.bsky.social will moderate this session! 📅 Join us on 24th April, 4.30 pm, UCD Club. 🛜 UCD postdocs and academics: 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 to attend here lnkd.in/ePu7Yppk

@gigitang.bsky.social has organised a wonderful line-up of speakers for our final roundtable. It has been such a joy to host these online events and learn so much from our speakers. Please join us on Monday 28 April at 9am (Dublin time). Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-o...

📢UCD Early Career Researchers!📢 Interested in how academic evidence informs policymaking at European level? Register for our workshop with Toby Wardman, Head of Communications for the Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission, on 14 April. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/yw5vw88j

Wales has 28 ‘libraries of things’ dotted across the country, with more in the pipeline. Here’s the story of how the movement came about and what other countries can learn from it. theprogressplaybook.com/2025/04/05/h...

Not to play favourites, but well, I like this area a lot! 😉 If you’re curious about sociocultural research in #DublinBay, check this post by my colleague Ashley Cahillane: 🛜 www.marbefes.eu/article/soci... #MarSocSci #culturalES

Registrations are now open for #PostdocsSpotlight #2, with a very relevant topic. 🌐 How do #powerimbalances shape society, knowledge, and equity? From funding to policy, gender to geopolitics—how do we identify and address them? ➡️ Register: tinyurl.com/4et3ahfz @ucddublin.bsky.social

I’m so excited to share that Mystic Seaport Museum has published our new issue of Mainsheet, our journal of maritime studies. Peer-reviewed scholarship, feature stories, poetry, art. And it’s all open access at www.mainsheet.mysticseaport.org/issue/11297 There’s also this gorgeous print edition.

🌱 #PostdocsSpotlight seminar series at @ucddublin.bsky.social kicked off today with three great talks from Tristan Russell, Rachel Brady and Paul Brett. Overarching theme was „Future-Proofing Ireland" 🎓Big thanks to the speakers, our audience, and Pranay Kumar, who moderated the session!

Trying to have some inventory of UCD institutional accounts in one place, if you know of any labs, colleges, associations, etc., please expand 👩‍🔬 go.bsky.app/6wpsxwv

☘️ Happy to announce the lineup for the first UCD Postdocs Spotlight seminar "Future-Proofing Ireland"! 🌱 Topics: sustainable food systems, viral surveillance & pest risk management. 🛜 Postdocs and academics can register: shorturl.at/3Hgd7 @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsustainability.bsky.social

the wellness session we all need

Dear all, we have also transitioned from twitter to bluesky :-) it would be great to find our followers back here. So please follow us and spread the news! We will be communicating about the MARE conference👇 and other MARE news via Linkedin and Bluesky!

Are you a marine ecologist specializing in MPAs or marine policy + looking for a #postdoc? Well, look no further: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323875 #jobfairy #mpalife #marineecology #marinebiodiversity

Hey #postdocs and academics of @ucddublin.bsky.social ! 🗣️A new series of seminars will start at the end of March, first topic: Future-proofing Ireland🇮🇪 (all disciplines welcome!) ➡️Please follow this link to register: lnkd.in/ekhhuk77

🚨 We're Hiring! 🚨 We are seeking a Research Assistant to support our Education & Public Engagement (EPE) programme across Ireland, NI & GB. 📍 Based at at University College Dublin, but co-locating @tcddublin.bsky.social 🔗 Apply by 25/02/2025: Search 'Co-Centre' at https://buff.ly/3MgoykJ

🖌️Art meets marine biology in the Irish Sea yet again! Looking forward to seeing this exhibition in Dún Laoghaire.

Round 2 of @marbefes.bsky.social stakeholder consultations led by #HuFoSs has arrived to Dublin! Among other things, we're presenting marine management tools developed in the project and asking for feedback✅

Echinoid tests composition is a complex outcome of environmental and physiological factors: see our latest paper on these cool #seaurchins from around Florida. PS. Featuring the one and only Gulf of Mexico! ➡️ Gorzelak et al. 2025, PeerJ. doi.org/10.7717/peer... #marinelife 🦑

For folks interested in marine ecosystem functioning, #ecosystemservices & interdisciplinary #marinescience, I’d highly recommend checking out our project! More updates to come, as our Bsky is just getting started🤞

This the story of how herring went from being one of the most abundant fish in our seas to a state of collapse, with profound effects on the ecosystem and people. Who knows if recovery is possible but stopping bottom trawling of their spawning grounds would help. www.irishtimes.com/science/2024...

Environmental impact of whaling. 🐳🙂 doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Meet some of the people advocating for 30x30 and marine protected areas Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/FpG4eqU

⚒️🦑 PhD position to work with a very cool molluscan system (slight personal bias here)

Interested in Blue Economy, Aquaculture, and algae? Looking for a postdoc? Come to Sweden and work with the wonderful Sophie Steinhagen (www.gu.se/en/about/fin...). 🧪🦑 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

This pack tries to bring together Horizon Europe projects around marine #biodiversity #marineecology #monitoring #research #assessment #impacts #pressures #genomic #eDNA Let me know yours to be added and repost to bring more on the benefit of all go.bsky.app/Jan37L2