Dorota Kolbuk

Offshore cultural ecosystem services

"Marine areas, unlike coastal or inland locations, are often seen as uninhabited resource sites and rarely looked at as spaces of lived experience or cultural meaning” - but that means we miss on a wealth of services (and disservices) the open sea brings to people.

🌊 shorturl.at/Wj0gQ

We propose a new method for marine ecosystem physical accounts: doi.org/10.1016/j.in...

Happy to have contributed to this with the Irish Sea case study📝

Decline in number and quality of saltmarshes in Ireland Saltmarshes are in decline all over the world, including in Ireland, which is seeing the size of its wetlands decreasing as well as a significant decline in the quality of the ecosystems.

'Decline in number and quality of saltmarshes in Ireland' - @news.rte.ie

#NatureConservation #HabitatsDirective

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab

102. Environmental + Climate Justice Syllabus

Assembling readings, articles, case studies & biographies from key writers, scholars & activists working for environmental freedom. Generating a searchable and citable list of Black, Indigenous & Latinx individuals, orgs & movements

#TabClosed2026

Tomorrow is the deadline for submissions against what @antaisce.bsky.social is describing as one of the greatest threats to our environment ever.

Please don't wait til it's too late, get it in today.

📑This project was funded by the UCD Research Culture Local Actions, Inititatives and Measures (ReCLAIM) - phase 2 (Wellcome Trust).

🍀 We thank everyone involved in making this event happen: our speakers, moderator, UCD and QUB attendees, and to Lisa Douglas and the QUB Postdoctoral Development Centre, UCD Research Culture, Colleen Thomas and Grace Mulcahy.

A group of people - postdoctoral researchers from UCD and QUB - sit around tables in a decorative room and listen to a presentation by a researcher.

UCD Postdocs Spotlight concluded last month with a seminar entitled "Scales of Research”.

We took the event and our UCD delegates outside of the Belfield campus all the way to Belfast - a great opportunity to meet the QUB community 🎓

@ucddublin.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Morphogenesis of the diamond-type stereom microlattice and the origin of saddle-shaped minimal surfaces in the echinoderm skeleton Echinoderm endoskeleton has a unique trabecular microstructure, called stereom, which can exhibit highly ordered geometries. A striking example of the…

Protoreaster nodosus (aka chocolate chip sea star🍪) has an unusual "diamond-type” stereom. How is it formed?

➡️📃Humański et al., 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#echinoderms #biominerals

🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨

We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social.

- Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP

- Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn

Open Syllabus: Galaxy The citation graph of the ~1M most-assigned books and articles (node2vec -> UMAP).

A tool worth looking at: non-profit @opensyllabus.bsky.social maps "college curriculum across 27.6 million syllabi”. You can find your discipline & check most commonly assigned books galaxy.opensyllabus.org

PS. Wouldn’t know that without @greatbooksprof.bsky.social YT channel. Thank you!

Sponges for the win! Fantastic work led by Magda Łukowiak from @ipaleopan.bsky.social & her colleagues.

And big thank you to the panelists of the Postdocs Spotlight seminar on Research Communication, which inspired this piece: @shaunacorr.bsky.social, @cjnicoson.bsky.social, Saule Akhmetkaliyeva, Ravikant Singh, Jim Carroll from @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

Thank you UofG-RCandRD-Team for giving us a platform to publish this piece, and everyone who attended #PostdocsSpotlight seminars (funded by ReCLAIM/Wellcome Trust) at @ucddublin.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researchers: bridled research communicators By Dr Audrey M Plan, Research Engagement Specialist, Dr Sara M Esteves, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Dr Dorota Kolbuk, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. Since March 2025, th…

⏳"Time is scarce for all in academia; for postdocs, time is oxygen”.

📣In the latest piece published on #TheAuditorium (blog by @glasgow.ac.uk Research Culture & Researcher Development Team) we discuss the challenges of research communication as postdocs: shorturl.at/6vyJc

#postdocs #researchstaff

Plenty of wonderful art around and focusing on Morecambe Bay - from sculptures and stories to festivals and community initiatives. To explore this phenomenon, my colleague Ashley Cahillane developed a story map with the support of @morecambebay.bsky.social - check the link below:

Thank you to all who participated in our Coastwatch Autumn Survey Results Launch 2025 and Marine Litter Prevention Workshop at the European Commission Representation Office in Ireland! @fairseas.ie @deptcee.bsky.social @irishenvnet.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social

EU Nitrate Derogation decision a bad day for Irish waterways Today’s vote by the European Nitrates Committee to approve an extension of Ireland’s nitrates derogation for another three years is a bad day for Irish waterbodies and for everyone who relies on clean...

"Today’s vote by the European Nitrates Committee to approve an extension of Ireland’s nitrates derogation for another three years is a bad day for Irish waterbodies and for everyone who relies on clean quality water in Ireland"

www.antaisce.org/news/eu-nitr...

Underwater Worlds: Art, Science and the Submerged Talk and screening by artist Sonia Levy followed by interdisciplinary panel discussion on visualising submerged ecosystems and narratives

💬UCD MESSAGE event coming up 3rd December, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in Dublin. Grab your free tickets: shorturl.at/FeHMy @ucdearth.bsky.social

📢 Join us!
The #UCD Research Staff Association (RSA) – SIPTU, a #postdoc led committee dedicated to supporting research staff, is hosting its Annual General Meeting

🗓️ Tues 25 Nov | 🕔 17:15
📍 Meeting Room 5, UCD Village

All postdocs, research assistants & research fellows are welcome!
📩 rsa@ucd.ie

🎓The session will have a moderator from the QUB community.

📝This project was funded by the UCD ReCLAIM phase 2 (Wellcome Trust).

Three UCD postdocs will be presenting their work:

✅ Eva de la Peña: 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦
✅ Paul Geyer: 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢'𝘴 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵: 𝘔𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢
✅ Edith Kubik: 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺

UCD Postdocs, that’s a wrap on this year’s edition of #PostdocsSpotlight! And a big announcement: for the grand finale, we'll go to... Belfast! @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

🙋🏽‍♂️Wanna join? Sign up here: shorturl.at/1WY06 (we'll cover cost of train tickets).

@ucddublin.bsky.social

Lovely! And it’s connected to MoLI gardens, which are another hidden gem❤️

New date, but same me🗣️ Sign up below⬇️

🛳️ In 2023, our colleague Ashley Cahillane asked researchers and crew of the RV #CelticExplorer: how do you interact with the sea? Do you think the sea benefits the society? Should the sea be valued?

🌐 Results of her research on offshore cultural #EcosystemServices are out now: shorturl.at/hzcbE

🌆An exciting seminar on sustainable urban planning coming up October 24th- registration open to all UCD staff now:
🙋🏼‍♀️ forms.gle/5QKLAaXK1A1Z...

@ucdearth.bsky.social @ucdsustainability.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

Irish Weather Rescue | Zooniverse - People-powered research Calling all weather and climate enthusiasts! Help us recreate the past climate of Ireland.

Great to see this new citizen science data rescue project by Met Eireann up and running: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met... especially proud of our ICARUS graduates Rhonda and Ciara for taking this on. Local followers do go along and digitise a few values please.

🇪🇸 That's a wrap for our 2025 General Assembly!

🔎 We've heard lots of ideas and contributions from all the consortium - and the discussions will continue in the final year of the project.

Thank you @lifewatcheric.bsky.social for hosting us this year, Seville was wonderful 💃

A coastal scene showing beachcombers looking down on tidal pools with boats and a town in the background.

Join postdoc Dorota Kolbuk as she shows how #CitizenScience can support marine & coastal research efforts.
Topics incl. how to get involved in coastal citizen science & the benefits these activities bring to environmental monitoring & community engagement.

Register at forms.gle/CpNWS3SEFtzi...