Nessa O'Connor

Now Open: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Role within the BRICONS Project 🌊🔬 The BRICONS Project – Building Resilient Irish Coasts through Oyster Restoration is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PD1 level) to join an exciting, interdisciplinary res…

BRICONS (Building Resilient Irish Coasts through Oyster Restoration) - are looking for a new postdoctoral researcher - deadline 19th February - details 👇
🦪🌊 @drjosemfarinas.bsky.social @annikaclements.bsky.social
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Shipworms aren’t worms. They’re bivalves that eat wood with the help of symbiotic bacteria turning wooden shipwrecks into functioning ecosystems. #MolluscMonday Fantastic image from seahistory.org/sea-history-...

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Here's a list of Dublin City Council accounts on Blue Sky

SEAGROW is GO!

The world is your…. 🦪 fantastic work from @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social and Belfast Harbour!

It’s a grey thing, with creamy patches around its eyes and large mascara-like smears running from the eyes outwards. Long arms clinging to a narrow tree branch. General Chewbacca vibe.

Good morning here is your emergency sloth

YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin Zoology Alumni

It’s Trinity Open Day and one of the most common questions I get asked is ‘what kind of jobs do zoologists do?’ - so we asked our alumni… youtu.be/lJr4AsZ_rLc?...

Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest.
#Aras25 #Speirgorm

This little bivalve larva is taking a stroll with its foot…
#marineplankton 🦑

We also launched the BRICONS project this week! There's a lot of work to do restoring habitats in the face of global change!

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SEAGROW has begun! We cannot wait to get started quantifying all the benefits of regenerative ocean farming! @tcddublin.bsky.social

Cork scientists hope new 'Living Sea Wall' in Cobh will soon teem with many species of marine life UCC marine ecologist said wall would provide ideal homes 'for barnacles, limpets and a lot of different types of seaweed and algae'

Delighted to see the Living Seawalls in Ireland!
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This is definitely true… 😔

Wowsers! And ‘wandering meatloaf’ is probably the best common name ever!

The couple who bought a Wicklow golf course and turned it into a native woodland The former Glen of the Downs Golf Course greens are now covered in 80,000 native trees, planted by Anke and John Moran

This went completely under my radar. A rewilded Glen of the Downs Golf Course that creates an unexpected corridor between the GOTDs, Kindlestown Wood and the Little Sugar Loaf 🤯
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Ugh so frustrating! Just hurry up and build it! 🚆

The Irish media bear significant responsibility for Ireland's lack of progress.

The example below illustrates this clearly. Their deference to climate-denying billionaires like Michael O'Leary is so deeply ingrained that it's often overlooked — but it continues to undermine real progress.

She’d definitely get my vote! #Aras25 #spéirghorm

Tourist discovers ‘extinct’ jellyfish while rock-pooling in Outer Hebrides Thistle-shaped Depastrum cyathiforme was last seen in France in 1976, but has now been found on South Uist

"Tourist discovers ‘extinct’ jellyfish while rock-pooling in Outer Hebrides"

this is why #InverteFest encourages you to smell the flowers and ogle the critters. cameras have gotten exponentially better over the years and EVERYONE has a high chance of making scientific discoveries in normal places.

EU4Algae Interview Spotlight – Bridging Seaweed Science and Society: A Deep Dive with Mariana Cerca, Researcher & EU Projects Specialist In this edition, we explore the work of Mariana Cerca, Researcher, Manager & EU Projects Specialist, as she connects scientific research with community engagement to advance regenerative ocean farming...

the brilliant @marianacerca.bsky.social is highlighted this week by EU4Algae! Read about her groundbreaking work linking seaweed science and society! maritime-forum.ec.europa.eu/eu4algae-int...

This review clearly shows that macroalgal decomposition rates vary significantly between experimental approaches and are severely underestimated when a refractory pool is not considered, impacting scaled-up estimates of macroalgal carbon export to the deep ocean 🌊🌱

Silence is complicity

Atlantic Mackerel (Scomber scombrus) and their beautifully patterned backs.
County Clare, Ireland.

American climate journalist Alec Luhn missing on Norwegian glacier A search is underway for award-winning climate journalist Alec Luhn, a Wisconsin native, who is missing on a Norwegian glacier.

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

Windfarmed We’re doing more than producing fossil free electricity at some of our offshore wind farms. We’re growing seaweed there, too.  We call it Wind Farming.

Mother**** wind farms!!! 😀🌊🌱
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Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

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"What, I meant to do that"

The remains of a Weather balloon- with its transmitter still attached. Been seeing a few of these washing in over the summer months 🤔
County Clare, Ireland.