🌊 Share your science, expand your network & contribute to the future of marine research at #ICESASC25 Join us from 15–18 September 2025 in Klaipeda, Lithuania🌎 📢The Call for Abstracts is now OPEN! 🗓️Deadline 17 March 2025 Find all the ℹ ices.dk/news-and-event…

Not jumping the ship here quite yet, but I've finally joined Bluesky If any of my community here are on there, I'd love to stay connected 💙 bsky.app/profile/b-r-i-…

I know what I'll be doing this weekend! 🦈🥚 #egghunt #mermaidspurse #shark #ray #conservation #citizenscience

Word of the day is 'spuddle' (19th century): to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.

For meaningful & effective conservation, an elasmobranch conservation strategy should not only lay out the plans to monitor/research populations, but actionable preservation, mitigation & restoration measures must be made possible 🦈🌱 fairseas.ie/2025/02/18/con… #FairSeas #Sharks

I did the summer bursary programme back in 2012 (😳) and I absolutely loved it! If you know any 3rd level students looking for some marine science experience, this was invaluable for me 🌊

That's a wrap on this leg of the Irish Anglerfish & Megrim survey Marine Institute 🎣 The ocean wasn't particularly kind to us, but it's always great to step away from the laptop and get back to the ocean for a bit 🌊

A decade of partnership making waves! The Marine Institute Explorers Education Programme is so thrilled to be a part of this important work with DCU Institute of Education to help future educators increase their ocean literacy! #keepexploring

It's Ireland's Women in Sport Week!💚 Sport Ireland I always thought of myself as unsporty, but I've realised that isn't a thing. Sport is for everyone, you just need to find the right people to play with. Happy #WIS week to my fellow tag rugby-playing women from Marine Institute! 🏉

To mark #InternationalWomensDay, EmpowerUs is excited to launch #WomenMakingWaves, a series that celebrates and highlights female ocean trailblazers across Europe. Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we share the inspiring stories of these remarkable women!

The Irish for the goblin shark (the obvious winner here!) is "siorc bocánach". 🧌🦈 #OceanAsGaeilge🌊🇮🇪 If you don't, check out Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS) Shark Madness! Every day in March they share info about sharks that face off in daily head to heads to find the best shark! 🦈

A model I've been running since Dec 17th crashed last night 🙃 I never should have stopped hula hooping, running away with the circus would have been a solid move right now

I'm honoured to be featured on EmpowerUs series #WomenMakingWaves with Máire Éinniú & the legend Gráinne Ní Mháille! Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙 #InternationalWomensDay

Looking forward to presenting at this! 🌊

Top 100 Explore Your Shore! Species #66 - Common Spider Crab / Portán Faoilinne Atlantach / Maja brachydactyla is the largest Irish crab species. Shore: Sandy. Distribution: West & south coasts, fewer records from the east coast. Explore Your Shore! at exploreyourshore.ie

Check out the new Purse Search Ireland logo! I love it! 💙

A couple of weeks ago I presented my work on a sensitivity analysis of fish spcies in the Northeast Atlantic EMBS @embssymposium.bsky.social in Bodø Norway. Thanks for the opportunity! 🐟🌊