We're looking for records of ground nesting bees around Europe! Can you help? Follow the simple steps below! @aicbrn.bsky.social @esai-irl.bsky.social @ucdearth.bsky.social @pomscheme.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

7 April spring campus walks

Ready to put a spring in your step? Then join our lunchtime campus walks which kick off next week with an exploration of sound!

🗓️ Wednesday 15 April
⏰ 1pm-2pm
📍 Chess garden next to the UCD lake and the Science Centre

All welcome, no booking required. 👋

More details
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www.ucd.ie/earth/news-o...

How to tackle Ireland’s unhealthy food environment: Experts on changes they want to see We asked five food experts to detail the key changes they would like to see to give us all easier access to healthy foods on a daily basis

Food for thought from Earth Institute journalist in residence Sylvia Thompson in @irishtimes.com, where she highlights research by Asst Prof Sarah Browne (UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science) on 🇮🇪's school meals programme, its issues & opportunities.🥗
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02 April coffee morning

📣 UCD researchers - want to know if your work could make headlines?

Find out at our next coffee morning where you’ll meet this year's journalists in residence: @tommygreene.bsky.social, Sylvia Thompson (co-hosted with @biorbic.bsky.social) & @jadewilson.bsky.social.

Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/y3h4uuah

World Water Day 2026 YouTube video by UCD Earth Institute

For #WorldWaterDay2026, we heard from three #UCD researchers working on water-related topics. From the impact of #climatechange on #saltmarshes to the study of #oceanpollution & #citizenscience, their #research is vital to protecting our most valuable resource. 🌍💧

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📢 Don’t miss our next Adapt for the Future seminar!

𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞

🗓️ Tues 24 March
⏰ 12pm-2pm
📍 MoLI, 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, D02XY43

Details & tickets 👉 tinyurl.com/5n6cksma

#Communities #Culture #Heritage #Policymakers #UNESCO

18 February Journalists in Residence 2026

to the Institute over the coming weeks and months, where they will get to meet and collaborate with researchers from the Institute and across @ucddublin.bsky.social more broadly. 🤝

Find out more about the 2026 journalists and our journalist-in-residence programme
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We're delighted to announce that @tommygreene.bsky.social along with @irishtimes.com journalists Sylvia Thompson and Jade Wilson are our journalists in residence for 2026! 🎉

We look forward to welcoming Tommy, Sylvia (whose residency is being co-hosted with @biorbic.bsky.social ) and Jade

As part of my #Climate Fellowship at @ucdearth.bsky.social I will be presenting next week at a fantastic event organised by the Learning Planet Institute on Child-Centred #ClimateEducation through storytelling for agency, empowerment and hope.

All welcome in-person or online: lnkd.in/eF65VKW9

Offshore cultural ecosystem services

humans and marine environments and inform policy and decision-making.

Discover more
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www.ucd.ie/earth/commen...

Our latest Earth Comment piece, based on a recently published journal article by Dr Ashley Cahillane, Dr @dotklobuk.bsky.social, Prof John Brannigan & Prof Johanna Forster, outlines how a novel approach to collecting data on cultural ecosystem benefits can illuminate cultural relationships between

From Risk to Resilience: Future-Proofing Ireland’s Transport Networks Increasing pressures on transport systems are creating risks to the safety, reliability, and long-term performance of national transport.

📍 Museum of Literature Ireland, 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, D02XY43
📆 Tuesday 24 February 2026
⏰ Doors open at 12pm
❗ Book your seat today ➡️ tinyurl.com/5yfs88ym

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The seminar, entitled 'From Risk to Resilience: Future-Proofing Ireland's Transport Networks, brings together policymakers, infrastructure authorities, researchers and practitioners to discuss how resilience can be systematically embedded into transport planning, investment and operations.

Our next 'Adapt for the Future' seminar, which takes place in Museum of Literature Ireland on Tuesday 24 Feb, will focus on the mounting pressures on Ireland's #transport systems & how tackling these challenges means a gear shift from reactive measures towards strategic #adaptation & #planning. 🎯

Has Govt been too slow to build flood defences? Eoin O'Neill, Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Earth Institute at University College Dublin, discusses the impact of Storm Chandra.

Missed the discussion? Listen back
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... the delivery of critical #infrastructure. He also stressed that the lack of planners, specialist engineers & construction workers only exacerbate these delays, particularly when there is competition to deliver other critical infrastructure such as #water, #energy & #publictransport projects.

Our director, Eoin O'Neill, spoke on @rteradio1.bsky.social earlier, discussing the impact of #StormChandra. While he hightlighted investment by the State in #flood defences in the past decade, and its ongoing work, he said lengthy #planning processes & decision lead-in times are delaying...

#ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Wetlands
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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.

Some excellent reporting here by @ucdearth.bsky.social journalist-in-residence @eithnedodd.bsky.social on the state of Ireland’s #saltmarshes, featuring UCD Climate Fellow Dr Grace Cott from @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Biology and Environmental Science.
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It was an absolute pleasure to host this years Irish Pollinator Research Network meeting in @ucddublin.bsky.social yesterday. A great bunch of people doing great research, while also supporting the All Ireland Pollinator Plan. Thanks to @ucdearth.bsky.social for support!

Telling the truth about Ireland’s climate future To avoid the political polarisation we see in the US, climate action needs to remain a shared national priority, grounded in evidence rather than ideology

An excellent read in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social by our director Prof Eoin O'Neill in which he outlines how honesty is the best policy when it comes to informing people about what’s actually required to tackle #climatechange and for Ireland to #decarbonise at scale. 🌍⚡

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UCD Citizen Science logo in white and Irish Weather Service Met Eireann logo in aqua green, with an images of an open ledger book and weather index card. A portrait of female researcher Dr. Rhonda McGovern is displayed along with the UCD Research and Library logos consisting of the UCD crest and text.

UCD #CitizenScience event🌀
Met Éireann is calling on the public to help rescue millions of historic weather observations currently held in handwritten paper records.
Dr. Rhonda McGovern will run a free hands-on workshop on 27 Jan in James Joyce Library Link 3.
Register: forms.gle/cXs26gVj68pN...

19 December peatland beer mats

Peatland archaeology and ecology beer mats! Another fab output from our amazing Irish Peatland Archaeology Across Time Project, in collaboration with the UCD Earth Institute and Peatland Finance Ireland! www.ucd.ie/earth/news-o... @ucdearth.bsky.social @ucc.ie

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👉 How approaches such lipidomics & genomics are providing interesting new insights

👉 That the farmers who were at the event are positive about being part of the solution to the #biodiversitycrisis & how projects involving farmers are opting for co-creation models instead of a top-down approach 🤝

baseline soil sampling programme ever undertaken (600k+ of 700k potential fields have been sampled!)

👉 Hopes that the EU's 1st law on soil monitoring & resilience (the Soil Monitoring Law), which comes into force on 16 December, will have a significant impact on improving knowledge and practices

Some of the key talking points from last Friday's event in UCD included:

👉 The rollout of new online data sources in RoI & NI on soil properties and nutrients

👉 The scale of sampling in NI – the Soil Nutrient Health Scheme, funded by @daera-ni.gov.uk & managed by @afbini.gov.uk is the largest

We were delighted to support 'Our Living Soil' – a conference organised by our colleagues Olaf Schmidt, @aislingmoffat.bsky.social, Shane O'Reilly, @thoscummins.bsky.social from UCD School of Agriculture & Food Science, @tudublin.bsky.social & @sssireland.bsky.social to mark #WorldSoilDay 🌱🟫

Great to hear Dr Tadhg O'Mahony discussing his recent @irishexaminer.bsky.social opinion piece about Ireland's #climate policy with Fionnuala Jones on
@seanmoncrieff.bsky.social's 📻 show on @newstalkfm.bsky.social today.

Listen back ➡️ tinyurl.com/38p2aw2x

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