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We are a research-intensive university and, as such, research and scholarship are fundamental to our mission.

visit: maynoothuniversity.ie/research

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📢Calling academics and researchers!

Unlock Your Ideas: Join RTÉ Brainstorm Editor Jim Carroll to see how to get your work published! 🧠🔎

📆Wednesday, Dec 10, 2025 - 10:00 to 15:00
📍MU Library

Book your place: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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MU researchers are set to receive over €3 million in funding from Research Ireland under the Frontiers for the Future Programme to address key challenges in areas including sustainable chemistry, antifungal resistance, and machine learning in astronomy.

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-scie...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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📺Watch back: Prof Tim McCarthy on Futureville (Ep 2) demonstrated how automated drone docking station technology, supported by artificial intelligence, can help first responders deliver faster and more effective search-and-rescue operations in busy urban environments.

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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement will soon begin operations on a mission to study how stars form and evolve, writes Dr Emma Whelan of the Dept of Physics and MU's lead on the project. 🔭

@mu-physics.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

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November 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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MU welcomed hundreds of families, students, and science enthusiasts to the North Campus for #ScienceNight 2025, organised by the Faculty of Science and Engineering last Friday, 14 November. 🔭🌌🧪🔬🤖

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November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Congratulations to the Virtual Labs Team who have been awarded the Excellence in Education prize by the @rsc.org 👏 👏 👏

The Education Prizes are awarded annually to recognise individuals and teams that have shown outstanding innovation and dedication to chemistry education.
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Congratulations to Prof Philip Hyland of the Dept of Psychology and ALL Institute on making it onto the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers List 👏👏👏

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‘1 in 1,000’: 27 scientists in Ireland on Highly Cited Researchers list
27 researchers in Ireland have been named on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list 2025.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present. Their time limit… 3 minutes! The IUA ‘Three Minute Thesis’ competition is on Wednesday, November 19th. 👉 Visit www.iua.ie/3minutethesis to meet the finalists and register to save your seat!

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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Delighted to be part of a wonderful team and leading the new @reveljmce.bsky.social. Lots to come in terms of activities (please follow us!) - for now: thanks to our wonderful colleagues @maynoothlaw.bsky.social; @muresearch.bsky.social for their invaluable support!
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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💡 In this Expert Insights article from Centre for Human Specific Research, Dr. Dania Movia of @maynoothuniversity.ie talks about what it took for her to establish an animal-free respiratory research lab.

humanspecificresearch.org/the-path-to-...

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The Path to Founding a Human-Focused Research Lab: Expert Insights from Dr Dania Movia | Centre For Human Specific Research
Leading the way in animal-free technologies:  The Centre for Human Specific Research holds its first organ-on-chip training masterclass.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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El Putnam talks to Joanna Walsh about her book Amateurs: How We Built lnternet Culture and Why It Matters as part of a seminar on Digital Intersections: Exploring Art, Language and Resistance @maynoothuniversity.ie
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Prof David Malone from MU Hamilton Institute features in this @agriland.bsky.social piece on Daylight Saving Time

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/get-ready-to-fall-back-but-should-we-really-have-a-clock-change/
Get ready to 'fall back' but should we really have a clock change?
The clocks officially go back by one hour at 2am on Sunday (October 26) this year which means Daylight Saving Time (DST) kicks in.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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It's Research Week! MU invites the public in to hear about and engage with the rich body of multi-disciplinary research being undertaken right here in Maynooth, and the impact those discoveries are having across the globe.

#ResearchWeek #MaynoothUni

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October 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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From 20-23 October 2025, MU invites the public in to hear about and engage with the rich body of multi-disciplinary research being undertaken right here in Maynooth, and the impact those discoveries are having across the globe.

#ResearchWeek #MaynoothUni

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October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to portray Irish women as more independent and proactive than their English counterparts, writes Benedetta d’Antuono, PhD researcher at the Department of Early Irish. 💘

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October 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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We were delighted to have our very own Dr Tara Kealy as part of our #MUPsychologyat25 weekly seminar series. Tara discussed our new Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology & her own Ed Psych journey. @maynoothuniversity.ie
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Maynooth University is strongly represented in the World’s Top 2% Scientists rankings. This year, 30 of the University's researchers are recognised as leading experts in their fields in the rankings produced by Stanford University scientists.

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-soci...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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New research by climate scientists at Maynooth University in conjunction with Met Éireann has found Ireland's record summer night time temperatures this year were made 40 times more likely by human-caused climate change
Record temperatures linked to human-caused climate change
New research by climate scientists at Maynooth University in conjunction with Met Éireann has found Ireland's record summer night time temperatures this year were made 40 times more likely by human-ca...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Registration closes 7 Sept. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 Sept. @maynoothuniversity.ie

Please share widely. @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @mulibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Piece featuring Dermot Lynott, the head of PsyArXiv’s scientific advisory board and a psychologist at Maynooth University @mupsychology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back
Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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We are delighted to invite you to submit your abstracts for our annual Antimicrobial Resistance Conference at @maynoothuniversity.ie this October.

The submission portal is now open.
Scan the QR code below or follow the link.

tinyurl.com/36v8jy5x

Deadline: Monday 13th October.
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September 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Two Maynooth University research projects aimed at addressing societal challenges have been awarded combined funding of more than €500,000 under the Research Ireland COALESCE programme.

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September 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Listen back to Newstalk Breakfast where Dr Aedín Doris from our Dept of Economics discusses how Ireland can prepare for an ageing population

https://www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/how-ireland-can-economically-pre-Mzg3NmU2MDdmOGJiNzhjZjE0N2U3NGM4NGE5MWFjYWY=
How Ireland can economically prepare for an ageing population?
The number of people in Ireland aged 85 and over is projected to almost quadruple in the next 30 years, according to the Central Statistics Office. But what does that mean for the economics of a country, and how can we adapt? Shane discusses this further with Aedín Doris, Labour Economist and forme...
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August 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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🎆 LAUNCH 🎆

The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project have the pleasure of launching the revised & updated

𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database

Where: Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie
When: 12 Sept 2025, 15:30

@maynoothuniversity.ie @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie
August 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM