Plant Scientist at UCC, Ireland. Sustainable agriculture; rhizospheres; plant pathology; trees & green infrastructure.
www.tree-explorers.ie
www.ucc.ie/en/arboretum/
www.lettice.eu
'We're all smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind'.
Eoin Lettice
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I'll be at #BordBiaBloom on Sunday this year. Speaking on the Sustainable Living Stage in the afternoon at about 3.45pm. If you're there, come and say hello. If nothing else, to see what botanically-themed shirt I'll wear!
We're at the Cork Carnival of Science this weekend in Fitzgerald Park. Our stand is jam-packed with science (and scientists!)
I cannot look at this without wanting to grab my bike and fly down that rolling, curving road into that infinite landscape of colour. Garrowby Hill by David Hockney.
Eoin Lettice
Eoin Lettice
There is LITERALLY nothing more English* than the Cornish language. It is endemic, spoken in England, in one form or another since the Iron Age, via its Common Britonic ancestor.
It is a sign of the callousness of the fascist Reform extremists to seek to erase this cultural gem.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/6) Neglected seed dispersers and research compartmentalisation: How much do we know about what we don’t know?
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This Viewpoint from Mendes et al. provides a continent-wide, multi-guild assessment of animal-mediated seed dispersal.
Ahoy there.
Cork city was heaving today. Lots going on.
The strategy to boost written, heard and learnt Cornish was debated at a meeting.
Cork City Council are seeking applications to the role of Tree Officer.
www.corkcity.ie/en/council-s...
Eoin Lettice
Valuable paper on the need for scientists to move beyond dispassionate scientific writing and tell stories if we're to persuade others of the urgency of the nature crisis
Sadly it doesn't recognise that actions speak louder than words
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people.
Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority.
Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.
