"While this is a sad day for Northern Ireland, it is a shameful day for the DUP" Alliance Party leader Naomi Long criticises members of the DUP for taking their salaries but refusing "to take their seats and do the work to earn it" bbc.in/3FMwibs

#Bloom2022

Wonderful weekend of foraging in @whiteecotrails at the foot of the Blackstairs in Co Carlow

Having had this show's poster as my Twitter banner for the past 6 yrs, it's finally, apt. I'M GOING BACK to Bandon kinda. Starting today, I'll be performing #THOB @ 1pm, Mon-Sat for 3 whole wks! Thanks to Bewley's Café Theatre & @IrishTheatreIns Fishamble: The New Play Company Dublin Fringe Festival Hope2CuDer! <3

Happy #FossilFriday! Here are 2 images from our Library showing fossil #plants - a watercolour of a fossil fern frond from the Alps [c.1810s-1830s] and a print of a fossil horsetail from the Coal Measures of Dunkerton, near Bristol [c.1808]🌱 Find out more ow.ly/b2MI50JVP7Q

📢A fully funded 4-year PhD position UCD Earth Sciences iCRAG Centre to study global weathering rates and sediment fluxes during early Cenozoic hothouse climates. #IODP #Exp396 ECORD Full details: ucd.ie/earthsciences/…

Very pleased to see our Field Guide to western Ireland published. UCD Earth Sciences iCRAG Centre Geological Survey IE The Geological Society Geol Society Glasgow Belfast Geol Soc IAEG Earth & Ocean Sciences School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh UCDPublicEngagement UCD Science Take a look here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Section cut through a lherzolite from the Earth’s mantle. Magenta pyrope garnet and green clinopyroxene. Stained glass vibes.

Strange and wonderful! Highly recommend if you’re a Strickland fan

Good grief, The Economist does not hold back 💥 economist.com/leaders/2022/1…

These turned out spookier than expected… time to scare the neighbours!

Soil xkcd.com/2695

Two years since I took these pix of the Iveagh Markets. Here’s hoping that the mediation mentioned by Deirdre Falvey in her excellent piece here will lead to progress irishtimes.com/culture/2022/1…

trad idiots are close to saying it's impossible to build medieval cathedrals and castles, but the difference is just that the price of labor used to be low but today it's high. If you want to see what you can do with modern grad students, check out Château de Guédelon

The mobile phone you're likely reading this off requires several critical raw materials (CRM) in the manufacturing process. This #JustTheFacts looks at: 🪨What are CRM 🇪🇺EU and CRM 📃The Act 🗺A table of 30 CRM for the EU #CRMA

Just back from a field trip with UCD Earth Sciences students to visit the oldest rocks on mainland Ireland in and around Belmullet Co. Mayo. Gorgeous gneisses 🤤

I’ve moved to the other place. Find me at bsky.app/profile/gjosul… Lemme know if you want invite. Will be a few days before I have some. I’ll delete my account here in the next month or so.

We are calling on workers in Dublin city to assemble respectfully and show solidarity at 1pm on Monday 27th Nov at the GPO to denounce last night's rioting and show solidarity with victims of violence and all workers ictu.ie/news/ictu-stat…