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You can’t see DLD – but it is time the world did

You can’t see DLD – but it is time the world did #DevelopmentalLanguageDisorder Kristina Khoo-Rhodes, University of Oxford. Raising Awareness of DLD Day, Fri 17th October www.radld.org
www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/you-can... The Intervention Consensus for Language Disorders: www.ucc.ie/en/ticld/.

A yarrow plant in flower, with lots of pink florets

For #WildflowerHour, some rosy-looking Yarrow still valiantly blooming in Maynooth! Achillea millefolium/ Athair thalún/ Lus na fola: www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail... Athair thalún bándearg faoi bhláth i Maigh Nuad inné www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/tran... @duchas-ie.bsky.social

Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

Paul Carreo Order Now THE STONEY COLLECTION – 2 Book Series new stories & poems from emerging Dublin writers Featured Post: Book Launch! PC Studios, a publishing company, presents The Stoney Collecti…

Great fun at the book launch of the Stoney Writers Group's newest collection of works in Dublin tonight! (The book is packed with creative and imaginative stories and poems, available from the writer Paul Carreo's PC Studio website here: paulcarreo.com/stoneycollec... ) #StoneyCollection

Wiki Loves Pride 2025: Photo Competition Winners! - Wikimedia Community Ireland We are delighted to announce the winning photos in the Wiki Loves Pride 2025 competition! This year we received beautiful photos, depicting the life, history and LGBT+ communities of the country. We l...

We are delighted to announce the winning photos from Wiki Loves Pride!
Congrats to the winners and a special thanks to our judges this year. 🌈 There are some great photos of the Transgender and Intersex Pride March, Dublin events and the Dublin Dyke March this year 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍
🔗 wikimedia.ie/2025/10/09/w...

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How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their...

Don lá atá inniu ann - beidh do leabharlann nó siopa leabhar in ann an ceann seo a fháil duit: microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder.

Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.

Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

Just out of The Librarians film, thanks to the Lighthouse Dublin for showing it! thelibrariansfilm.com Still some showings coming up: www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/the-lib... Táim díreach tar éis an scannán The Librarians a fheiceáil -buíochas mór don Lighthouse BÁC é a thaispeáint #medlibs #library

Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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‘An mbeifeá compordach ag labhairt Gaeilge ar an dtraein?’ Tá suirbhé faoi úsáid na Gaeilge ar thraenacha á reáchtáil ag Iarnród Éireann

‘An mbeifeá compordach ag labhairt Gaeilge ar an dtraein?’
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Dr Jane Murphy, co-author of the HRB report

HRB report finds substantial gaps across the OECD, in understanding of conditions affecting women, including early pregnancy loss and mental health after childbirth.
More, incl publication & interactive gap maps: tinyurl.com/2vmvme6m
#womenhealth

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Support our work: http://novara.media/support Our journalist Kieran Andrieu is on Adara ship as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla - watch our coverage as the boats approach Gaza. Dedicated feed of Adara here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddzyM8kXsqc BREAKING: A Fleet of Vessels is Approaching the Global Sumud Flotilla

You can follow the interception and attack on #GlobalSumudFlotilla here.

They are currently surrounded by large warships. In 2011 flotilla, ribs were launched from these which then boarded our boats and took our boats over and took us to an Israeli port.

Flotilla tracker: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

Using a Wikipedia edit-a-thon as a cross-curricular STEM representation assignment - Discover Education Background Wikipedia is a highly used, free, online encyclopedia with known gender disparities across its biography content. Editing Wikipedia has entered STEM classrooms as a writing-focused and sometimes equity-focused assignment. This paper presents a Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts focused on improving articles about women in STEM. This edit-a-thon promoted cross-disciplinary collaboration and community building with faculty and undergraduate students across eleven courses and disparate disciplines and offices at the university. Results Edit-a-thon attendees edited pages on women in STEM and listened to five-minute lightning talks by women in the university community: students, former faculty, and administrators. The impacts of the event include the addition of more than 15,000 words and 100 references to more than 100 articles on Wikipedia. The event supported a variety of student learning outcomes in participating courses across disciplines in the sciences and humanities. Conclusions A Wikipedia edit-a-thon supported student learning across multiple subjects while contributing to underdeveloped biography articles about women in STEM and helping students find a voice in the Wiki space. The edit-a-thon has potential as a cross-curricular touchpoint and to support equity and representation work.

Seredinski, A., Litchock-Morellato, F., Lange, A. et al. Using a Wikipedia edit-a-thon as a cross-curricular STEM representation assignment. Discov Educ 4, 368 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s442... #OpenAccess

Efficacy and safety of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines - Saif-Ur-Rahman et al - 2025 | Cochrane Library #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

Two rows of colourful books with white slips of paper in them

Congratulations to Claire Dunne @ucdlibrary.bsky.social winner of the 2025 @conultraindev.bsky.social Library Assistant Blog Award! Read her blog post 'Shells, Shorthand, and Skipping Classes: Documenting Prize Bookplates in the John Manning Collection of Children's Books' now at www.libfocus.com

A Hawthorn tree covered in red haw berries

Close shot of bright shiny red Hawthorn berries or haws

When all fruit fails,welcome haws. A good year for the the Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna/ Sceach gheal) #WildflowerHour

Bright yellow flowers of (perforate) St John's Wort - 5 petals and lots of stamens

Possibly the last of the lovely St. John's Wort (perforate I think? Hypericum perforatum/ Lus na Maighdine Muire) flowering in North Kildare today for #WildflowerHour

The blue flower of a Field Scabious

Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis or Cab an ghasáin in Irish) in bloom on the Royal Canal in Kildare today. #WildflowerHour

From Story Time To eBooks: Kildare Library Service Celebrates National Open Day Tomorrow This year’s campaign, “Take a Closer Look”, highlights that membership is free and showcases services ranging from books and eBooks to digital resources, events, and creative spaces.

From Story Time To eBooks: Kildare Library Service Celebrates National Open Day Tomorrow. By Martin Osborne for @kfmradio.bsky.social www.kfmradio.com/news/localne... #LibrariesOpenDay Check out @kildarelibrary.bsky.social!

URL: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

Only five days left to enter Wiki Loves Monuments '25 📸

Calling all photographers (both amateur and pro) across Ireland! WLM is open until 30 Sept It’s your chance to celebrate Ireland’s built heritage and contribute stunning images to Wikimedia.

⭐Upload here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

Fair Seas unveil 200ft hourglass in sand after it was announced that it will be the middle of 2026 before any MPA legislation is passed.

Press Release: https://fairseas.ie/2025/09/24/time-running-out-to-protect-irelands-seas/ 

#FairSeas

Ireland was set for average summer heat but climate change pushed temperature to record high Unusually high night-time temperatures saw June, July and August into the record books

Ireland was set for average summer heat but climate change pushed temperature to record high

Net loss? Why Ireland trails Europe on marine protection Marine Protected Areas are seen as a solution to biodiversity loss and dwindling fish stocks, but why has Ireland has yet to deliver the law to make them real?

Net loss? Why Ireland trails Europe on marine protection. 🦈🌊

Don't miss this tonight on RTE's Prime Time at 10.35pm after #TraitorsIreland 👀

#rtept

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