Cylindrical cream flower head with red swathe - in woodland setting.

Arum maculatum
Lords and ladies
Cuckoo pint
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour
In Elizabethan times their starch rich roots were used to stiffen linen ruffs. #Heritage #botany

Found my Mammy, aged 1!

Just so you know you won't get any response from Ireland or the Irish today. We are all busy looking for our families in #Census1926 #heritage #Ireland #emigration #GlobalIreland

How commercial sand dredging is reshaping the largest lake in the UK – new study When sediment is stirred up, the effects ripple through the ecosystem.

When sediment is stirred up, the effects ripple through the ecosystem.

#OpenAccess Paper + compelling bathymetry & satellite imagery: Sand dredging is associated with benthic habitat alteration and chronic turbidity with profound ecological consequences likely for the UK and Ireland's largest freshwater lake. #limnology #Ireland
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ammonia pollution hotspots found in areas of UK with most pig and poultry factory farms Map reveals most severe concentrations of ammonia emissions, which are dangerous to health and environment

Ammonia pollution hotspots found in areas of UK with most pig and poultry factory farms

Our researchers have discovered Lough Neagh is under threat due to commercial sand dredging, in a first-of-its-kind study from Queen's in collaboration with Newcastle University.

Click here to find out more: https://ow.ly/hi5c50YJNNY

Two female botanists stand by a lake, with grassland behind; they are smiling, holding aquatic plants they have fished out of the lake for identification

We're looking to recruit a manager for 2 fabulous botanical projects in Ireland:
#AquaticPlantProject
#IrishGrasslandProject
You'll be coordinating expert-led field events & developing training materials for botanists at all skill levels.
2 days per week.
Apply by 25 May:
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Mosaic of 4 English river channels.

Every year we see innovative and inspirational developments being incorporated into approaches to river restoration.

Congratulations to the UK River Prize finalists 2026! It is a pleasure and a privilege be on the judging panel.

@therrc.bsky.social #PressRelease www.therrc.co.uk/assets/files...

Irish musician Moya Brennan dies aged 73 Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of Grammy and BAFTA-winning group Clannad, has died aged 73.

Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of Grammy and BAFTA-winning group Clannad, has died aged 73

(PDF) The Search for Eurycercus glacialis (Cladocera) in Scotland, 1988 & 1991. A report to support a freshwater zooplankton collection deposited by Catherine Duigan in the National Museum of Scotland... PDF | Found in freshwater lakes and ponds, Eurycercus is a relatively large planktonic micro-crustacean in the Family Chydoridae. Two species - E.... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

The Search for #Eurycercus glacialis #Cladocera in #Scotland, 1988 & 1991 @britishecologicalsociety.org - report for @fionaware.bsky.social at National Museum of Scotland available @researchgate.bsky.social; supported by fieldwork images and personal memories.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Screenshot of a review of the Lighthouses of Wales book in Amateur Photographer, 7 Apr 2026

It was great to see a review of my Lighthouses of Wales book in Amateur Photographer magazine, saying ‘…from a photography perspective, it’s illustrated beautifully’
Available from all good bookshops in Wales, online dealers, or get your signed copy from me at lighthouses.wales/lighthouses-...

Gravestone highlighting inscription "of Dublin"

"of #Dublin"

A shared #heritage - #Holyhead where you can literally find #Dubliners under your feet - in St. Cybi's Church.

#Sunday #Ireland #Wales #migration #IrishSea #Anglesey #YnysMôn #IrelandWales

St Cybi's Church, Holyhead - Holy Island Ministry Area - Bro Cybi We are delighted that St Cybi’s Church is now open for our Sunday service at 11am and midweek services – Wednesdays at 10:30am with refreshments afterwards. There will be a series of different events ...

Information on recent renovations and visiting here: www.holyheadparishchurches.co.uk/st-cybis-chu...

Church interior with speaker. Background window also on display screen.

"Islamic patterned #glass is very specific to #YnysMôn."
#heritage #culture #religion #diversity #art #architecture

A rare treat to hear interpretation of #stainedglass by Martin Crampin in St. Cybi's Church #Holyhead #Anglesey

Church interior view showing Altar and Side Chapel below oak barrel ceiling.

A shared heritage - From Celtic saints to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company - so many connections between #Ireland & #Wales conserved in the magnificent St. Cybi's Church #Holyhead #YnysMôn #IrishSea #migration

Historic black and white photography of tobacco being harvested in Ireland

1829-30: cultivation of #tobacco in #Ireland excited much attention among agriculturists: several hundred acres were raised in different counties ; Royal Dublin Society was directed to the subject; #BAAS paper, #Dublin 1935 meeting #envhist #agriculture #crops #FridayFlashback #historyofscience

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet Garden birds should not be fed seeds and nuts over the summer months, the RSPB has said, in an attempt to reduce the spread of avian diseases. Bird lovers are being urged to take down their bird feeders between May and October to help birds such as the greenfinch, whose numbers have plummeted after the spread of trichomonosis, a parasitic disease transmitted more easily when birds cluster around feeders in the warmer months. Continue reading...

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB

Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable | Christiana Figueres Those facing the earliest and harshest consequences are, overwhelmingly, those who did the least to create them

Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable | Christiana Figueres

An illustration of a woman wearing a thick heavy skirt and headscarf, carrying a wicker basket over her arm and another on her back

Fishwives, or ‘oyster lasses’, were common figures in the streets of 1700s Edinburgh. Oysters were so plentiful that they were considered to be cheap snack food. The shells themselves, when ground up, were taken to relieve heartburn

Painting of empty room with window, table and chair

A corner of the artist's room in #Paris.
#GwenJohn
#WelshArt
#AmgueddfaCymru
#WednesdayWindows
#WindowsonWednesday
#womensart 🎨

What I think people don't realise is that this went on to become a little cultural myth which naturalists loved debunking in the early modern period. At least 15 different naturalists told us beavers were no longer found in the River Teifi between 1568 and 1748!! 🦫❌

Quote from the Journey through Wales: Another fine river which rises in Plinlimmon is the Teifi. This flows down from the upper part of Cantref Mawr and Cariganshire, not far from the pasturelands of the rich monastary of Strata Florida. Lower down it divides Cardiganshire from Dyfed and runs into the Irish Sea. This is the only river in Wales which has beavers.

2. GERALD OF WALES
Gerald of Wales (example here from the Journey Through Wales) says that beavers are found in the River Teifi, near Cardigan and nowhere else in the south of Britain.
www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

#Artemis II -

Todays ‘Earthrise’ image is reminiscent of a similar image taken in 1968 by astronaut Bill Anders of Apollo 8

Bill was 1 of 3 crew who became the first to leave low-Earth orbit and travel to the moon.

Pic 1 - Apollo 8 1968
Pic 2 - Artemis II 2026

🚀🌕

Winter’s alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US Streamflows the West relies on for drinking water and farms used to follow a fairly predictable arc as winter snow melted. Rising temperatures are changing that.

Winter snowpack once sustained the West through summer drought. Now, rain is falling when it should snow and melting when it should stay frozen, fundamentally reshaping how water flows through the region's rivers and reservoirs.

Colourful mosaic of angel playing musical instrument

Inspired by the #architecture of the Mediterranean but in harmony with the Welsh #landscape - St. Philip's #Church #Caerdeon #Wales #Easter #Sunday #Angel @friendlesschurches.bsky.social
friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/church/st-ph...

Storm on the #Island - "We just sit tight while wind dives,
And strafes invisibly..."

So now I need to research if Seamus Heaney experienced a storm on #Anglesey #YnynMôn #Wales

#Ireland #Wales #StormDave #IrishPoetry #IrishSea

Christina Koch - Wikipedia

Christina Koch is the only member of the Artemis II crew that does not come from a military background.
🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Happy Easter! 🐣

Species of the Week: Irish Hare
Irish Name: Giorria
Scientific name: Lepus timidus hibernicus

The Irish Hare is a unique subspecies found only on the island of Ireland. See more info below ⤵️

Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.

@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Can you imagine a Bank of Bosmina? In the light of recent news that wildlife will be replacing historical figures on the next series of Bank of England banknotes... the latest FBA Voice asks: which #freshwater critter would you like to see?

Plus lots of FBA updates too:
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