Earth becoming an increasingly unhealthy place for people - UN report independent.ie/life/health-we…

Revise "Junior Cycle Science Nature of Science" with 50 multiple choice questions quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5c8…

These STEM role model posters now come in 8 different languages! The women featured serve as amazing role models in their fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, download them all for free medium.com/nevertheless-p…

This trampoline moving at constant velocity (and therefore not accelerated) shows you how the horizontal component of velocity in an acrobat motion remains constant [source of the gif: ow.ly/VtkL30oet7L] [explanation by Rhett Allain: ow.ly/2WX930oetjg]

1st year students explored genetics and evolution by creating their own unique sponge monsters

One looming problem for lithium mining is that even “clean” energy isn’t completely clean. #longreads ow.ly/U5cd30oFrCn

BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 #NobelPrize in Physics has been awarded with one half to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”

85 per cent of the matter in the universe is made of something that isn’t atoms – and we have no clue what it is bit.ly/33OKInr

Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop. But why? So we can—talk. Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:

The Irish Cancer Society has had to cancel Daffodil Day. Having worked with them, I can tell you that this means an ENORMOUS hit to them financially. Many of their services truly rely on Daffodil Day donations. Please donate €4 now by texting CANCER to 50300.

Let's remember to leave something for those who really need it... #COVID2019IRELAND

This is where Almond "milk" comes from. No biodiversity. Bees trucked in for pollination. Huge volumes of water needed for irrigation. Large amount of insecticide and other pesticides needed to protect yields...

“History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.” US president-elect Joe Biden reads the words of Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

Just because it's not on TV or in the papers today, rest assured the #ClimateEmergency is gathering pace. Here's the hellscape from Argentina right now

Superb creativity from JC students for their energy conversion projects. #PW7 JCT Science

David Waters, a teacher in Greenhills Community College in Dublin 12, commences his term as TUI Vice President today. As a teacher appointed after 2011, David has been significantly involved in the Union’s campaign to end pay discrimination.