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The Biotoxin Chemistry Laboratory at Marine Institute, Galway recently published a manuscript PLOS Sustainability and Transformation. Read about how they transitioned to efficient and sustainable laboratory practices journals.plos.org/sustainability…

Great to meet Jurgen Geist & Ralph Kuehn when they came to get DNA samples from the #FreshwaterPearlMussel captive population in Marine Institute. This is a @npwsBioData Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage funded project investigating genetic diversity in FPMs around 🇮🇪 Evelyn Moorkens Elizabeth Ryder

👍Great to see the Lunchtime Seminars back on the agenda at the Marine Institute 1️⃣Lab Sustainability - Introduction to My Green Lab. Labs account for 30-50% of energy-related emissions and have a major role to play in meeting decarbonisation targets in Ireland.

Yesterday, we got a new batch of 30 adult #FreshwaterPearlMussels from the Newport River for our captive breeding program at the Marine Institute Newport. Between 2022 and 2024, we will be refining our protocols and comparing mussel and salmonid cohorts Evelyn Moorkens @npwsBioData

Today, we had a great site visit from our colleagues in @npwsBioData Office of Public Works to the Marine Institute Newport hatchery, to share our experience to date of captive breeding #FreshwaterPearlMussel Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Department of Public Expenditure Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage Elizabeth Ryder Evelyn Moorkens

“I made this skirt to represent my pitch this afternoon!” A remarkable approach to communicating science from @DebbiPedreschi but tap to listen to the story of her science-inspired skirt! #ICESASC22 @ICES_ASC Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM)

Ken Whelan 29. I'll leave it there for today. Back tomorrow with a thread all about the fascinating #EuropeanEel. Here's a great video from the Marine Institute YouTube channel describing our day to day work. Grab a cup of 🫖 and enjoy the scenery youtu.be/4kk72wekk_A

1. Good morning! Early start on Saturdays thread as it’s the weekend 😄 I’m going just do a quick thread today about Lough Furnace, which is the aquatic link between the Burrishoole catchment and the North Atlantic

Just checking through the 2020 cohort ..... (i.e. encysted on #Salmon in 2020, dropped off in summer 2021 and now in November 2022) our #FreshwaterPearlMussels are about 2mm and looking pretty active and robust 😀 @npwsBioData Elizabeth Ryder Marine Institute Pearl Mussel Project

We are hiring - ecology environmental agriculture graduates! Habitat surveyors (*6) and regional survey coordinator (*1). Great opportunity to gain fieldwork experience in Galway / Mayo / Sligo. Further info: acreswestconnacht.ie/careers Agricultural Consultants Association (ACA) CIEEM Jobs ATU MFRC Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

Feargal Sharkey Southern Water The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklöf. More people need to know about the impact of light pollution on our natural world (see recent @Guardian essay). #Endlightpollution

Check out the details of the upcoming IFSA meeting on our website: freshwaterscience.ie and register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-freshw…

Today, we are moving our 2020 captive bred cohort of #FreshwaterPearlMussels to their new home, small boxes of sand which are better suited to their filter feeding stage. They are now about 3 mm long and pretty sturdy Marine Institute @npwsBioData Pearl Mussel Project #Margaritifera

Exciting Bursary Opportunities at ACRES West Connacht. Details of how to apply : acreswestconnacht.ie/career-bursary… #acres Agricultural Consultants Association (ACA) Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine LIFE IP Wild Atlantic Nature Corncrake/Traonach LIFE LIFE on Machair / SAOL ar an Mhachaire @TeagascMayo

So delighted to see this piece of work published 😍😍. The final chapter of Brian Doyle's #Cullen scholarship Marine Institute Marine Funding Opportunities CFES DkIT ATU Sligo The organic carbon budget of an oligotrophic temperate peatland lake (Lough Feeagh #Mayo) aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ln…

Last few days to get your applications in for our exciting Bursary programme

Quite a bit of size variation in our 2020 cohort of captive bred Freshwater Pearl mussels: the big one here is 3.5 mm and the small one is 1.3 mm #Margaritifera @npwsBioData Marine Institute

Hi Lidl Ireland 👋👋Any chance you would stop selling #Invasive #Rhododendron. We have enough problems with it already

The problem with going to a wader conference, filled with wonderful people as it is, is that the hope in your heart is extinguished hour by hour. So much science, so much love for birds, yet the graphs plunge ever downwards. we have to tackle the root of this. Nature education.