An early birthday present 🎉 My next read on my list is The Book of Animal Secrets by David Agus #AnimalSecrets

Wisdom

Girl, is your P value less than 0.05? Because you’re significant to me.

For unvaccinated at-risk stock - first season grazers or older cattle housed for long periods, lungworm disease can occur from now until September. Listen for coughing and in lactating cows look for a sudden drop in milk yield. #lungworm

Just tuned into Horiba’s “New Exotic Parasites – Worming Their Way In?” webinar 🪱 Really interesting stuff on emerging parasites and how they’re being detected, especially in the context of imported animals and zoonosis. Definitely got me thinking! 🧠🔬 #Parasitology #OneHealth

Honoured to speak at the EYE Online Conference on the role of AI in Parasitology 🤖🪱 Great to share insights on how AI can support parasite diagnostics, surveillance & resistance monitoring. Thanks to the organisers & all who joined the discussion! #AIinParasitology #OneHealth

Anthelmintic resistance is a silent killer. It occurs when parasites survive a dose of treatment that should kill them. In this article, Kieran gives an overview of athelmintic resistance and it's effects on Irish farms➡️ xlvets.ie/anthelmintic-r… #xlvetsfarmanimal #animalhealth

The Moorepark'25 Dairy Open Day took place on Wednesday, 2 July in Teagasc Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork. The theme of this year's event was ‘Innovating for the future’. The open day booklet is available to view online at teagasc.ie/moorepark25 #Moorepark25 Teagasc Dairy

Happy Friday! My Friday status is: ✅Coffee, ✅Nematodirus egg under the scope,⏳Weekend mode loading… I am still going through faecal egg counts and spotting some Nematodirus. Always fun to see them so clearly under the scope 🪱🥚💩 #Parasitology #Nematode #PhD #PhDlife

Pls RT SCOPS (Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep) are excited to share that Episode 1 of Series 3 of their podcast is now available! Available on all major podcast platforms and at this link here: scops-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/haemo… #teamsheep

Hookworm egg on top and Physaloptera egg on bottom, from a canine fecal. Physaloptera are spiruroid stomach nematodes that mainly infect wild carnivores. Adult worms are 3-6 cm in length. They have an indirect lifecycle involving an insect intermediate host #parasitology #vettech

On this #WormWednesday we're delivering loads of flukes from loads of snails. In this study, researchers collected snails from intertidal habitats all over Japan, and found 14 species of flukes from 6 different snail species cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Having a bond with furry friends may be good for our emotional health, but can affect our physical health if we're not careful. Humans can contract parasites from domesticated dogs and cats. Zoonotic diseases are transmitted between humans and animals. The most common parasites

Today I attended the Vienna Summer Symposium on Sustainable Worm Control in Dairy Cattle 🐄🌱 Great insights on parasite challenges and control. I especially enjoyed the talk on farmer behaviour & attitudes. Really relevant as I’ll soon be conducting focus groups on this myself!

In the latest episode of our #InYourNature podcast we speak to Sean McCormack MVB 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪(he/him) of EalingWildlifeGroup about the ealingbeaverproject project, bringing beavers back to London. Recorded live at Global Birdfair 2025. #UrbanWildlife #EalingBeaverProject #WildLondon buzzsprout.com/1701709/episod…

Another day, another air bubble in the Mini-FLOTAC 🫧🔬 Just another chapter in my PhD saga, mastering McMaster & Mini-FLOTAC (and hoping to soon let AI diagnostics join the fun) #PhDLife #Parasitology #Nematodes #VetScience

Charles Wardell Stiles, Ph.D. (1867–1941) 🪱 By 1900, the American South had not yet recovered from the economic impacts of the American Civil War. John D. Rockefeller appointed a special commission to look into the matter. The commission failed to identify a specific cause for

We’re excited to announce registration is OPEN for the 2025 Virtual Nematology Conference on November 13th & 14th! The conference is being organized by the Young Nematologists Network from Europe and the Student & Postdoc committee from our very own SON! 🪱

Happy Friday from the tiniest wrigglers in the lab 🪱🔬 Nothing like starting the weekend with a close up of a nematode doing its thing 🕺🏻 #PhDstudent #Nematology #Parasitology #VetScience #Sustainability

In July 2025, 21,307 records were submitted through Ireland’s Citizen Science Portal, from 1,696 individual recorders from all 32 counties. Butterflies and Moths took the top 10 spots of most commonly recorded species during this period.