Can I once again suggest that the freed up capacity in PCR testing now be made available once again to younger age groups. This change to testing was to accommodate the over-demand for testing..With demand decreasing there is no rationale to keep this in place HSE Ireland #PCRTest

Staff overhearing students attempt to reach a book from a high shelf, then... excitedly - "look, you can use this little dalek".

Archaeology of Ireland 101. Mesolithic: Little Stones. Neolithic: Big Stones. Bronze Age: Cooking Stones. Iron Age: Getting Stoned. Early Medieval: Holy Stones. Late Medieval: Decorated Foreign Stones. Early Modern: Industrial Mill Stones.

Way too many non-chronically ill people think they're not sick because they found the magic formula and lived their life "right", rather than simply not losing the chronic illness lottery (so far), and it shows

greenways are great but in my opinion, safe urban infrastructure *on* city streets should be the priority. no point being able to safely cycle (on a winding off-road route) if the final half mile to the shops gets you turned to mulch by an articulated lorry

Sicín, bagún,agus pepperoni 🍕

This, while good news, should not be mistaken as a solution for doctor shortages. We already train more doctors per capita than most. They just don't stay here because (louder for those in the back) CONDITIONS ARE REALLY BAD. Training for export. #StandingUp4NCHDs #CareCantWait

Do you know how bad you have to be at science to think that a mask does not block a virus but does block oxygen and carbon dioxide?

Don’t believe everything you see. This video by The Happy Pear says that mushrooms reduce your risk of getting #breastcancer. This is NOT true.

The amount of harmful nonsense that people with all sorts of conditions are bombarded with is truly frustrating to me as both a biologist and a patient. Nice to see a sensible counterpoint gaining some traction!

We are thrilled that our Research Ireland funded research is being recognized by international experts! Congratulations to Deirdre Winrow for winning the Excellent Poster Award at the Anti-helminthics VI meeting in Toronto, Canada! 🥳 We are very proud of you, Deirdre!

MPL on Tour! 🧳✈️🚍 Lab visiting Aiste Vitkauskaite 🇺🇦 and Krystyna Cwiklinski in Liverpool🤩

🦠🌍 Our PhD students are continuing World Parasite Awareness Day! Aiste is ‘spreading the worm’ to the Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway Microbiology Society 🦠🧫🔬 #ParasiteAwareness #LiverFluke

Beautiful paper by my talented PhD student Aiste Vitkauskaite 🇺🇦 and colleagues published in Virulence - this paper should be a gamechanger. Contact us if you are interested. JohnD Thanks to Research Ireland for funding this great work. Link to the paper below👇: tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/10…

Prof John Dalton spoke on tackling global parasites affecting humans & their livestock during the Planetary Health session at Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway's College of Science & Engineering Research & Innovation Day 2025, followed by an expert panel on the role of planetary health in society. 🌍

Great job by Jake McAuliffe Jake McAuliffe, who presented both a talk and a poster on the pleiotropic effects of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica peroxiredoxin at the 22nd SFRRI Biennial Meeting, organised by Europe-SFRR! 👏👏👏 Thanks to Research Ireland for funding this work.

Fantastic to catch up with friends & colleagues at this year’s ISP meeting, hosted by Queen's University Belfast 🎓. We enjoyed excellent presentations by our lab members Jake, Eve, Saoirse, & Deirdre. Thanks to the organisers for a great event - looking forward to the next one! 🪱

Keeping it in the MPL - two years running! 🥳 Well-deserved congratulations to our talented PhD student Eve O’Kelly on winning the Prof. William C. Campbell Postgraduate Award for best presentation at this year’s ISP meeting, presented by ISP president Dr Christopher J Coates.👏