Tomato seedlings 🌱
Any primary school teachers here —
I’ll send you a signed copy of Nature’s Acre if you do one thing for nature with your class.
Doesn’t have to be big.
Just real.
Tell me what you’re going to try + your school address and I’ll send it on.
#EdChatIE
#PrimaryTeaching
#IrishTeachers
Have you a favourite lake ecology paper that you consider to be really important in your field?
Let us know!!
@gleonetwork.bsky.social
We were delighted to contribute some charr samples from Lough Bunaveela, Co.Mayo to this study.
Always good to plunder the depths of old freezers 😂😂
My first piece on my Ireland run, in today’s Guardian …
📢 Would you like to be a voice for nature? We are looking for a passionate nature advocate to join our team and help us advocate for the protection and restoration of nature in Ireland.
Apply before 18:00 on 26th January 2026.
🔗 iwt.ie/nature-advoc...
Lots of food for thought in this 30 minute film that neatly summarises 20,000 years of Irish biogeography
Well done Aidin Robbins 🙂🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🐑🐑🐑
youtu.be/8Qq9MhGJv2A?...
Delighted to have worked on this with all my wonderful @gleonetwork.bsky.social colleagues
Diel variation in CO2 flux is substantial in many lakes - de Eyto et al Limnology and Oceanography Letters - Wiley Online Library aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Northern Hemisphere region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to July 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Southern Hemisphere region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to July 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Arctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to July 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year and a strong seasonality in terms of the magnitude of the anomalies.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Antarctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to July 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year, but less obvious than the other regions.
Comparing the different seasonality and trends in the magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies since 1940 for the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic and Arctic. There are significant differences in the rate of long-term warming (blue to red lines).
Data: doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
If you, like us, are passionate about pearl mussels... check out our July issue of FBA Voice!
With super exciting news from our #FreshwaterPearlMussel Ark plus an article about our #LakeDistrict Charr Recovery & Management project, and much more!
Dive into the FBA Voice:
mailchi.mp/fba/welcome-...
This month, we have been lucky enough to observe the various stages of larval development of Freshwater Pearl Mussels, Margaritifera margaritifera
We are running a captive breeding program in collaboration with NPWS and Moorkens and associates
These are stage 4
The Farm UP project is looking for a project co-ordinator and project officer - deadline is monday
southmayo.com/farm-up-proj...
I freeze ours and use them for the year in porridge and muffins . They freeze great
We are in the 4th year of production of Freshwater Pearl Mussels at the Marine Institute’s hatchery in Furnace, Co.Mayo.
Lots of babies for us to mind for the next decade 😂😂 www.mayonews.ie/news/local-n... Endangered freshwater pearl mussel successfully bred at Mayo Marine facility - Mayo Live
Thanks @rayofoghlu.bsky.social for the write up
It was great to see everyone and discuss restoration of forested peatlands in Ireland.
@colinguilfoyle.bsky.social
www.farmersjournal.ie/more/climate... Wild Nephin: restoration, research and rewilding - Free
Check out the latest @gleonetwork.bsky.social Student Association (GSA) Limnoseries. Virtual workshops organized by students relating to Limnology. Find all workshop videos on #GLEON 's YouTube Channel. 🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87M0...
Fun infographic shows when we tend to peak at certain things. I wrote a column about this a few years back: buff.ly/tZoWb9o
New paper in EJWR led by newly minted Dr Paule-Emelie Ruy (passed PhD viva this week!) shows that avian influenza is circulating amongst Irish mesocarnivores link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How many salmon to herons eat?
Quite a lot. And they are willing to fly quite far to find them 😬🐟
👏🏼 analysis from Karl Philips et al
@colinguilfoyle.bsky.social @joshkakaufmann.bsky.social
bioone.org/journals/ard... Foraging Behaviour of Nesting Grey Herons Inferred from PIT-Tagged Salmonid Fish
Looks like we finally have an explanation for why the Atlantic (and, by extension, the Earth) was so warm of 2023. From Matt England et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yesterday, @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social showed me around the @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social's new 80-acre reserve, including about 30 of Atlantic rainforest, Coill Sheanadh Gharráin near Spiddal, Galway.
No words could do justice to the magic of the place. I was awestruck.
Image extracted from book review with reflected image of Irish lake on book cover and some marginal text.
Placing Ireland's lakes on the international stage as a critical resource responding to a changing world - #Lakes in #Ireland - Mirrors of Change" eds. @cathdalt.bsky.social @edeeyto.bsky.social & Eleanor Jennings
Read my #bookreview The Niche @britishecologicalsociety.org
#limnology #research 🇮🇪
After years of non-stop brainstorming and hard work with
@alamarins.bsky.social & co, we're thrilled to present IBASAM (v3): a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations. @inrhttps://ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=153305
Joshka, Joe and I had the opportunity to talk to Lorna Siggins during the week, about the Burrishoole salmon population and the recent heatwave.
@joshkakaufmann.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
#Madleen
“Let the Madleen reach Gaza. Let this small ship carry the weight of global conscience. Let it land in peace.” Mary Robinson
Join us on the gruelling Bangor Trail on Sat, June 21, hiking 26km in 9-12 hours.
See barrysguidedtours.com/the-bangor-t...
Agree. In Feeagh we are seeing a faster rate of warming (0.3 degree C/decade) in the winter months than in the summer (0.2 degreeC/ decade). So winter cooling isn’t happening to the same degree.
With the turn in the weather, the marine heatwave seems to have peaked. These data are from the M3 data buoy off southwest Ireland. Source: eurosea.marine.ie/his
Surface water temperatures on Lough Feeagh (west coast of Ireland) have been pretty high this year! Daily temperatures in May above the 99th% on most days. 🥵🌡️💦
So exciting to see the first of our 2024/2025 cohort of Freshwater Pearl Mussels starting to drop off their salmon host. We are working with NPWS to breed this endangered species at the Marine Institute’s hatchery in Newport, Co. Mayo
@marineinst.bsky.social
@philkeena.bsky.social
