Zoologist working on animal movement 🦊🐦
Postdoc RA, ATU Galway 👩💻📈
Fox and gull enthusiast
Tea addict ☕️
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People keep sending me nice emails today... I got into this line of work for the animals but wow do I feel lucky to have met so many kind and talented people through the work that I do
We closed the day with a profoundly moving talk by Seán Ronayne. We are lucky to have such a genuine advocate for nature and I'm absolutely looking for the documentary Birdsong on RTÉ player when I get home!
#DCUClimate2026
Successful first day at ATU!
The longer term job search continues but delighted to be working with ATU for the summer on a fun movement ecology project. This time I'm contributing to a feasibility study exploring the potential of setting up a Motus network in Ireland.
Watch this space!
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Just finished up focus group 1 for our new trans-inclusive fieldwork project. I'm excited for where this project could go.
Our previous LGBTQ+ inclusive fieldwork resources are already available here: inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride/
A small ask from us: if your professional work touches large carnivores anywhere in Europe (management, research, advocacy, policy, fieldwork) please consider taking our survey. We're trying to understand coexistence from a social-ecological perspective.
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The afternoon sessions begin with a panel on where we're going next.
Is the nature restoration law the spark of possibility we've been waiting for?
Education is facing major challenges (AI, high workloads) but big progress made centering sustainability.
#DCUClimate2026
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Excellent presidential address with salient points on climate change in Ireland & beyond, and the emissions arising from warfare in our unsettled world.
Catherine Connolly quotes Mary Robinson "incremental thinking will not suffice" & adds "incremental action will not suffice either"
#DCUClimate2026
'We must have the audacity to question self-serving narratives'. Our President challenged the normalisation of war, the emissions caused by ongoing conflicts, and the obscene profits being made on large-scale death and suffering. #DCUClimate2026
Hedgehog Conservation Ireland and researchers at University of Galway and Oxford are calling on people to take part in the inaugural Great Big All-Ireland Hedgehog Count
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.
https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
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Hedgehog Conservation Ireland and researchers at University of Galway and Oxford are calling on people to take part in the inaugural Great Big All-Ireland Hedgehog Count.
