South East Technological University debate team were winners of the Dawn Meats McDonald's Ireland #GreatAgriFoodDebate 2024!! Fantastic result. Well done to a great group of students AgricultureSETU (Waterford)

**New PhD** alert - want to work with Vincent Wildlife and a great team from Aberystwyth University DLS/AGB and Queen's University Belfast 🎓 as part of OneZoo Centre for Doctoral Training ? Get in touch.

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions (shorturl.at/Sqz9m).🧵(1/13)🧵

Today marked the 5th meeting of the Biodiversity & Sustainability Forum. Highlights included Dr Eddy Fitzgerald's presentation on his new book Living Plants and inspiring talks from Jennifer Murphy @Sanofi and Michelle McCarthy Dawn Meats on their sustainability efforts.

I started Ireland's most ambitious camera trap project in Wicklow as part of Snapshot Europe. Since 2021, I partnered with Lab of Wildlife Ecology & Behaviour + ReWild Wicklow deploying 150 cameras, collecting ~400,000 photos, and ~31 years worth of survey effort. 2024's highlights below! 🧵👇

Thrilled to share Elsie🇰🇪🇮🇪's first first-author preprint! She explores 'Molecular characterisation of common Culicoides biting midges in Ireland,' including potential vectors of Bluetongue & Schmallenberg viruses. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!

Just out in Biological Reviews: Non-native species have higher consumption rates than their native counterparts Through a global meta-analysis, we show that non-native consumers are often characterised by more efficient use of resources 👾 🍱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Another Chinese mitten crab found in the cheekpoint area, Waterford. This small female has 1000s of eggs typically released at the end of spring early summer. Please report any sightings and get in contact Biodiversity Ireland. This is a high impact invasive alien species. UCD Science

This is a brilliant, engaging talk on the seven Irish corvids/crows by Ricky Whelan, with an emphasis on Rooks, their social structures, intelligence and yearly life cycle. Because they're everywhere, we often overlook how interesting they are. youtube.com/watch?v=AkIvOd…

I'm absolutely thrilled to share that I have passed my PhD viva! A huge thank you to my supervisors Dr. David O'Neill, Dr. Orla O'Donovan, and Dr. Catherine O'Reilly, and my examiners Dr. Orla Cahill Orla Cahill Dr Denise O'Meara Denise O'Meara for an engaging insightful discussion

Wow! Genetics of red squirrels on mainland Wales. A brilliant new report led by Denise O'Meara and Rebecca Synnott and just published by Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales

Glad to see all the hard work in one piece #phddone Looking forward to what the future holds.

Excited to share a new publication from my PhD research! Grateful for all the support on this journey.

Congrats to PhD candidate Raysa Hetherington (SETU Biology (Waterford)), who presented her poster at SETU’s Postgrad Research Conference in Carlow last week. Her research integrates morphological & molecular tools for accurate mosquito identification in Ireland.

Great to see SETU PhD researcher Evan Hickey and supervisor Dr Andrew Harrington installing bat boxes at Teagasc Kildalton this week. Evan will use DNA methods to ID species, count bats, and study diets. Thanks to Brian Clancy for the tour and support.