Fantastic Jeannie @ulsteruni.bsky.social Hope it has been a great day at #CONULTL26

Your Place and Mine - North West Angling Fair, Colin Davidson and Rathlin Island - BBC Sounds We hear from fishing enthusiasts returning to the River Mourne this weekend.

Lovely Your Place and Mine prog today on Radio Ulster which included a segment the Human Library event on Rathlin which was part of the @niscifest.bsky.social bringing together ‘human books’ from Rathlin & from @ulsteruni.bsky.social in a knowledge sharing opportunity. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

First Month In Role | Rathlin Island First Month In Role, By Erin McKeown, Programme Manager, LIFE Raft Firstly, a note of introduction, I’m LIFE Raft’s new Programme Manager, Erin McKeown having joined the team in June […]

Only 2 rats were seen in 2025 and none since June last year. There is just a set time period before the place can be announced to be officially ferret or rat free.

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Well done @stephen-roulston.bsky.social and all involved. A tremendous amount of work setting out key priority areas and briefing papers to inform #TransformingEducation in our corner of the world.

Registration for #LAICILIP2026 is OPEN!
Join us 29-30 April at Monaghan Peace Campus. Need bursary support? Apply now!
🔗More info: www.conference.libraryassociation.ie/
🔗Tickets: https://LAI-CILIP-2026.eventbrite.ie

Thanks @rluk.ac.uk for demonstrating the value of a virtual conference - over 130 attendees at our session this afternoon on adaptive leadership. Really engaging, valuable & different presentations with important shared takeaways and a very thoughtful discussion at the end. #RLUK26

Great to hear about @rluk.ac.uk #ReciprocalMentorship - a developmental partnership programme for library staff. Innovative, empowering and impactful focusing on 2-way conversations and shared problem solving. #RLUK26 #AdaptiveLeadership

@rluk.ac.uk #RLUK26 virtual conference session on Adaptive Leadership in Libraries underway and we’ll hear presentations about adaptive leadership in a range of contexts - first up ‘Adaptive Leadership under Pressure’

site.pheedloop.com/event/rluk26...

Looking forward to presenting our @ulsteruni.bsky.social Mosul Library Project with Janet Peden this afternoon at the @rluk.ac.uk Conference #RLUK26 #StewardshipInChallengingTimes #ReBuildingLibrariesPostConflict #VirtualConference #AcademicLibraries

📝 New BERA Blog Special Issue!

The heart of learning: Spotlight on school libraries in the UK and Ireland 📚
Edited by Jess Bates and Jayne Finlay

Read here: www.bera.ac.uk/blog-special-issues/the-...

Rathlin harbour pontoons in the foreground and sunset. Sky of orange.

#Rathlin #Sunset

Really excited for the #Rathlin book launch on Sunday 💚

A wooden surface on which there is the book ‘The Wild Robot Protects’, a homemade wild robot character (made from a wooden spoon and tinfoil) and a smaller bird character (a goose) which also features in the book.

Happy #WorldBookDay Love this creation from our house - task was to make a wooden spoon into a book character 💚

Photograph of Dr Claire Woods, Dr Jessica Bates & Professor Una O’Connor Bones in front of a lightbox display that reads ‘Ulster University Rathlin Research Forum. Connecting Research and Community’

Dr Claire Woods, myself and Prof Una O’Connor Bones, School of Education @ulsteruni.bsky.social , on Rathlin yesterday for @niscifest.bsky.social events. #KnowledgeSharing #KnowledgeExchange #TellingStories #HumanLibrary #BookLaunch #OralHistory #IslandLife #Sustainability

Today we had a super book launch for our oral history compilation focusing on Rathlin Island. Shout out to co-eds Dr Wes Forsythe & Prof Maxim Fomin & the Rathlin Oral History Group. Thanks to everyone who supported this book and came to the book launch @ulsteruni.bsky.social @niscifest.bsky.social

‘Every book it’s reader’ - had the best experience of running my first Human Library event today on #RathlinIsland as part of the @niscifest.bsky.social Everyone has a story to share and today really proved that. #KnowledgeSharing #TellingStories #HumanLibrary @ulsteruni.bsky.social

Coming up on Friday, get booked on the Rathlin Ferry and come on over…

Larry Magennis standing with his title presentation slide behind him.

Great presentation & discussion today on #Rathlin from @ulsteruni.bsky.social academic Larry Magennis, Belfast School of Art, on sustainable product design @niscifest.bsky.social

Combing the digital coastline The interactive invites museum visitors to explore Rathlin’s shoreline from the Design Museum, London.

"[drawing] on research ... exploring the environmental challenges faced by remote island communities [and] Focusing on Rathlin Island, the commission invites visitors to explore a section of the UK’s coastline, learning from the island’s community and its rich history."
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This year's NI Science Festival is almost upon us, and once again there are several fantastic events being hosted on Rathlin, this year between Friday 13th & Friday 20th February.

Check out the details here: rathlin360.com/visit/ni-sci...

#NISF26
@niscifest.bsky.social

Dr Michael Pierre Johnson facing the audience with a screen and the title slide behind him.

Great start to the @niscifest.bsky.social on #Rathlin, ‘Connecting Coastal Cultures’ with Dr Michael Pierre Johnson, Kirsten Millar, Jen Skinner. Great start to knowledge sharing, loved seeing their projects and the work they do. Will be exciting to work together @futureislandisland.bsky.social

Poster for the Human Library event with date and time (Friday 20 Feb, 11.30-1) and location (Manor House, Rathlin Island), a qr code which leads to the event information on the NISF website and an image of an open book.

We have a unique @niscifest.bsky.social event coming up on Fri 20 Feb - come along to our Human Library and hear someones story - with human books from Rathlin Island and @ulsteruni.bsky.social

nisciencefestival.com/event/ulster...

Ireland has Europe's biggest digital skills gender gap A new study from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has found that Ireland has Europe's largest gender gap in advanced digital skills use at work.

Ireland has Europe's biggest digital skills gender gap www.rte.ie/news/busines...

BBC Two - New Year's Day Concert, Live from Vienna 2026 Petroc Trelawny presents the traditional New Year’s Day concert live from Vienna.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Winter sun rays streaming through a boat in the Rathlin harbour

Seasons greetings, love and peace 🌊 🎄

Gathered fishing twine, marine litter and plastics from a beach clean.

It doesn’t take long to gather lots of beach litter, plastics and ghost gear. #Rathlin #BeachClean #Take3ForTheSea

Low winter sun coming through trees. Small church and graveyard visible and then to the right is the sea and the rock armour for the harbour.

Good morning from Rathlin

A book by Harold Pinter sitting on a printer

We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a

Graphic with purple background and coloured energy lines that reads: International Migrants Day

Today is International Migrants Day, which is an opportunity to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of migrants to our society. The theme for 2025 is: My Great Story: Cultures and Development.

Read more about this day here: www.un.org/en/observanc...

How can public libraries in Northern Ireland support children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) and their parents/carers? How can public libraries in Northern Ireland support children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) and their parents/carers?

www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll... Funded PhD opportunity. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #Libraries #Children #SpecialEducationalNeeds #Research #PhD