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caitrionalee.bsky.social
@caitrionalee.bsky.social
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Health librarian. Ní neart go cur le chéile. Beatha teanga í a labhairt. Fáilte roimh chách! Sos cogaidh anois - Ceasefire now. Stop an cinedhíothú. Éiceolaíocht, Gaeilge, evidence synthesis, leabharlanna, medlibs.
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On Saturday, 15th November, the Stop Climate Chaos coalition will assemble at 13:00 in Parnell Square, Dublin for the National Climate Demonstration #NationalClimateDemonstration birdwatchireland.ie/birdwatch-ir... @birdwatchireland.bsky.social #StopClimateChaos #BirdwatchIreland
BirdWatch Ireland will march for end to fossil fuel era and greater protection for seabirds - BirdWatch Ireland
On Saturday, 15th November, the Stop Climate Chaos coalition will assemble at 13:00 in Parnell Square, Dublin. BirdWatch Ireland calls on its members to join it, and its human-sized Puffin, at the...
birdwatchireland.ie
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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wikimediaireland.bsky.social
📣Wiki Science Ireland 2025 Judging Panel!

Proudly introducing the judges for the #photocontest open until Nov. 30

🧬Dr Ruth Freeman, @researchireland.ie
🔬Mark “the Science Guy” @marklangtry.bsky.social
🌟Shakeela Singh, #scienceweekireland

🔗 Learn more and submit your entries: tinyurl.com/5drdkwkk
Announcing the Wiki Science Ireland 2025 Judging Panel! - Wikimedia Community Ireland
We’re delighted to introduce the expert judging panel for Wiki Science Ireland 2025, part of the international Wiki Science Competition, celebrating the beauty and diversity of science through photogr...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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techmeme.com
Draft documents show the European Commission plans to relax some privacy laws, including the GDPR, to boost AI growth and cut red tape for businesses in Europe (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
caitrionalee.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour, a hearty Sow Thistle of some sort - can't ID the dandelion spp!!! :-)
A Sow Thistle in bloom, showing pale yellow petals
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
caitrionalee.bsky.social
Nice @kildarelibrary.bsky.social news in the Liffey Champion this week! Green Transformation 2025: Life Sciences award for the Kildare Libraries Seed Library initiative; the service won the 2025 Heritage Cup for the redevelopment of Naas Library AND the Des Carty Sessions in Celbridge Library!
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
caitrionalee.bsky.social
2) Corn Oidhreachta 2025 bronnta ar an Seirbhís ó thaobh athfhorbairt Leabharlann & Ionad Cultúrtha Nás na Ríogh AGUS 3) Seisiúin Des Carty ar siúl i Leabharlann Cill Droichid! @kildarelibrary.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
caitrionalee.bsky.social
Scéalta deas faoi @kildarelibrary.bsky.social sa Liffey Champion inniu: 1) Gradam Claochlú Glas 2025: Eolaíochtaí Beatha 2025 don Malartán Síolta curtha i bhfeidhm ag Seirbhís Leabharlainne Chill Dara...
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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laibluesky.bsky.social
Climate Change, Sustainability and Special Collections.
Friday 28th November at National Library of Ireland.

Further details and booking on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/climate-change-sustainability-and-special-collections-tickets-1589550039959

Climate Change, Sustainability and Special Collections
Join the LAI Rare Books Group to learn how climate change affects buildings and special collections in libraries.
www.eventbrite.ie
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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wikimediaireland.bsky.social
We are looking for a new Irish Language Officer to join the team ☘️

Get your applications in before Monday!

✨Tuilleadh eolais anseo: wikimedia.ie/2025/10/17/o...
Job Opportunity: Oifigeach Gaeilge (Irish Language Officer) - Wikimedia Community Ireland
Is é Pobal Wikimedia Éireann, an eagraíocht náisiúnta chleamhnaithe de chuid Fhondúireacht Wikimedia in Éirinn, ag lorg Oifigeach Gaeilge. Is post lánaimseartha é seo agus deis iontach don iarrthóir c...
wikimedia.ie
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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libfocus.bsky.social
Our Latest guest post by Siobhan Bowman, Paul Breen, Stephanie Chen, Breeda Herlihy, Ronan Madden & Ben Williamson of UCC Library is now available.

They write about learning together to strengthen evidence synthesis skills and support research across campus.

www.libfocus.com/2025/11/libr...
Librarians learning together to enhance their evidence synthesis expertise
Guest post by Siobhan Bowman, Paul Breen, Stephanie Chen, Breeda Herlihy, Ronan Madden, Ben Williamson of UCC Library.  Introduction  Eviden...
www.libfocus.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🌡️ 2025 on track to be among top three warmest years. The #C3S Climate Bulletin reports that October was 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels, making it the third-warmest October on record and the first monthly average above 1.5°C since April.
Explore the insights👉 climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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wikimediaireland.bsky.social
🧬To promote the #WikiScience, we have launched a collection of bilingual postcards that can be found at libraries, galleries, museums and universities across Ireland now!

✨To enter the contest, submit your photographs to Wikimedia Commons in November.

🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/47v5zf6t

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November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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wikimediaireland.bsky.social
🎈We’ve signed the Open Heritage Statement, a global call to action to advance equitable access to public domain heritage and inform future international policy. @creativecommons.bsky.social

➡ Add your signature: openheritagestatement.org

#OpenHeritageStatement #TAROCHCoalition #CreativeCommons
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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padraigmcevoy.bsky.social
Some corrections to recent misinformation on judicial review and context around facts behind the application of EU law in Ireland, access to justice teased out on the Echo Chambers Podcast with Sabrina Kemper and Fred Logue

pca.st/episode/824e...
The Collison Corrections and Access to Justice
pca.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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damonberes.com
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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fplogue.bsky.social
Despite the click-bait headline my contribution has been accurately reported in this piece by @eithnedodd.bsky.social unfortunately on the industry side the wool has been pulled over her eyes by the usual self-serving rhetoric

By way of followup a short 🧵
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
caitrionalee.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour, some Lady's Mantle I think (Alchemilla vulgaris), doing its best to shine in the drizzle. Do TráthNamBláthanna, seo Dearna Mhuire (Alchemilla vulgaris), loinnir bheag sa cheobhrán
The yellow-green tiny star-shaped clusters of Lady's Mantle flowers, with some green palmate leaves of the plant in the background
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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wikimediaireland.bsky.social
✨Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh!✨🎃
Báirín breac and colcannon were traditionally used for fortune-telling.

Read more on #Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmbrack
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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kimzetter.bsky.social
Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Update to our Terms and data use | LinkedIn Help
Update to our Terms and data use
www.linkedin.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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kbruisch.bsky.social
We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
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Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
drb.ie
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social
It's been one year since 5,000 people signed a petition to save 200-acres at Glen of the Downs. Now it has come to light that some of the adjacent biodiverse oak woodland has been destroyed. We are waiting. @npwsireland.bsky.social
@envpillar.bsky.social
www.greystonesguide.ie/whitmore-wan...
The Greystones Guide | Whitmore Wants Government To Pull The Finger Out On Bellevue Land
One year since petition to save 200-acre Delgany site…
www.greystonesguide.ie
October 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
caitrionalee.bsky.social
Tá mo vóta caite agam 🗳️
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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wikimediaireland.bsky.social
One week to go! ⚛️🍄📸✨🔭

The Wiki Science Competition 2025 opens on 1 November.
Share your photos of science, nature, and research and contribute to open knowledge worldwide.
Details: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

#WikiScience #OpenKnowledge#Photocontest#winprizes
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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lenushse.bsky.social
📢 Health & Social Care practitioners — are you involved in research without an academic affiliation?

Have your say in shaping the new Open Health Research Ireland Network (OHRIN).
Take the short survey 👉 forms.office.com/e/W...

#HSELibray #OpenResearch #OHRIN #OpenAccess
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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johnnyryan.bsky.social
Shock in Brussels and outrage across civil society.
This story is not going away.

euobserver.com/digital/ar6c...
Outrage as Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief
Civil society is outraged by Ireland data protection agency — the key one in the EU — picking a former Meta lobbyist as its new commissioner.
euobserver.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM