Nigel Monaghan

A Roseate Tern, standing beside a list of seabird jobs being advertised by Birdwatch Ireland.

We are currently hiring for a range of #seabird jobs at @birdwatchireland.bsky.social , with a deadline of 22nd March. If you'd like to join our Seabird team this summer see birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved...

‘twas mad altogether

@injournal.bsky.social did this a while back, worth a follow

You can’t get much more preserved than taxidermy 😉

Two taxidermy birds building a nest in a tin can

Irish hedgerows are protected by an annual ban on cutting from 1 March to support nesting birds. These European Robins from Crumlin, Dublin are countryside birds from 1902 and a tin can will do. National Museum of Ireland - Natural History @nmireland.bsky.social #SpeirGorm

Volume 42: Roden et al. review old maps and new records of Killarney Fern, Beech Fern and filmy ferns in the Slieve Aughty Mountains. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #INJCentenary #Botany #Pteridology

YouTube video by Brian McNeil - Topic Bring Back The Wolf

There’s a good Scottish somg about rewilding with people first www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2A...

Lance Boyle, the TV presenter in the MegaRace video games series en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...

Interesting project looking into a great fossil collector based in Norfolk and his earliest ice age bones, some of which are now in Dublin

Bone with slicing teeth in centre and pointed teeth on right at front of the jaw

Lower jaw bone with centimeter scale bar and several museum labels

One of my favourite fossils too, original sabre tooth cat mandible is in the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History where we paid £14-14-0 for it in 1907 @nmireland.bsky.social

An artwork by a UCC BEES student, showing branches with green, spotted leaves and berries or fruits of varying colours growing in clumps on the branches.

A crotched or knitted artwork by a UCC BEES student, created into a plant with large leaves and draping vines growing out of a hanging pot made entirely of yarn.

A three-dimensional artwork from a UCC BEES student, showing a large, black bird's head with open beak situated above a scene of dirt with tall, thick, leaved plants growing out of it, one of which has a striped caterpillar sitting on a leaf, with a mouse and green beetle on the ground next to the stalks of the plants.

An artwork by a UCC BEES student showing a side-profile of a strawberry plant, seen from both above and below ground. The plant above ground is vibrantly green with leaves, strawberries in various stages of growth, and a couple of flowers and buds; below the ground, the roots are stretching in all directions. The plant may have some kind of fungus or disease though, as three of the many roots have black blotches on them that are starting to spread up to the base of the plant, and one of the smaller, lower branches that has the blotches is also browning in the leaves.

We were delighted to collaborate again with #uccbees for their Visual Representations of Biological Control module. Exploring collection works engaged with nature, students produced visual responses to their studies in plant pathology. Click through to see some of their works!

#CrawfordArtGallery

Of course we need to work together on this but for the record the most recent Irish data actually shows “8% decrease on 2021 (373 deaths). It is the second consecutive year that these deaths have fallen” www.drugsandalcohol.ie/deaths-data/

A frog had his DNA tested.

It came back that he was part Irish, part German and a tad Pole.

Volume 42: Ryan et al. reveal the scale of Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) fishing in Ireland from 1947–1987. Read more—subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org
#INJCentenary #Zoology #Sharks #BaskingShark #Science

Just wait at Limerick Junction until you turn 66 (it will feel like that anyway) and the whole journey will be free

Come to #Dublin and immerse yourself in a wonderful eighteenth century library

@hornimanmuseum.bsky.social

The RIA's Archaeology Research Grants and Radiocarbon dates schemes are open to applications from now until 25 March.

Archaeologists and archaeology students (undergrad, postgrad, PhD) who wants to carry out research based in Ireland (including NI) can apply: www.ria.ie/2026/02/12/w...

Delighted that Dorothy Cross is now a ‘Saoi’ which is Ireland’s highest honour for an artist. It means ‘wise one’ and is reserved for a maximum of seven creative artists in an ancient tradition. Her work often draws inspiration from nature, she is a deep thinker and a joy to work with. #SpeirGorm

Nominations are now OPEN for the Edward Forbes Prize! 🏆

We’re celebrating outstanding contributions by early career researchers in taxonomic and systematic palaeontology 🦴🌍

Know someone shaping the future of the field? Nominate them today!

#Palaeontology #EarlyCareerResearch #Taxonomy

A life‑sized taxidermied hippopotamus, fully wrapped in protective plastic, is suspended by straps and chains as it is lifted through a wide, newly opened section of a brick wall.

Q: How do you get a 🦛 hippo out of a museum?
A: Very, very carefully. 👀
Go behind the scenes with Anna Massignan to see how thousands of specimens were safely moved during the Dead Zoo decant.
👉: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
#NaturalHistory #MuseumLife #Museumology #NaturalHistory #NMIBlog

Excellent news

Volume 42 – Stephen Heery explores Ronald Mathias Lockley (1903-2000) in Ireland: naturalist and islandman. Subscribe: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
#INJCentenary #Zoology #Ornithology # History #Science

You may not have heard of her but @sarahmillican.bsky.social is quite good

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Current trail camera footage of a Pine Marten (Martes martes) at a site in north Co. Tipperary. The Irish name for the Pine Marten is 'Cat Crainn', meaning 'tree cat'.

This native Irish species provides many ecological benefits, including helping to control the non-native invasive Grey Squirrel.

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 267.

In late summer males of most species of #bumblebees try to attract new queens to mate by flying a circuit of up to a couple of hundred metres in length each morning depositing a pheromone on surfaces as a scent mark.
#bees
#nature
#education

Reviving the Past: Restoring Historic Display Cases for a New Generation | National Museum of Ireland Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

The National Museum of Ireland - Natural History has 350 custom display cases from 1850s to 1910s that are part of the major conservation of the building www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
@nmireland.bsky.social @archiseek.bsky.social #SpeirGorm

We're hiring text poster with a photograph of a man looking at negatives

📣 We’re #hiring! AK1 Photographic Collections 📸

The National Library of Ireland is recruiting an Assistant Keeper Grade 1 to help care for and develop our Photographic Collections.

🗓️ #Apply by 3pm, 27 Feb 2026 via our website: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

Alisa Craig rock is very distinctive and turns up in ice age sediments along the Wexford coastline, brought there by the huge Irish Sea ice sheet flowing south from Scotland