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Elvira de Eyto

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Dec 11

Lakes in Ireland - Mirrors of Change.

Available to download here: oar.marine.ie/handle/10793...

Edited by @cathdalt.bsky.social @ejen.bsky.social and @edeeyto.bsky.social with chapter contributions from 52 authors and sponsorship from state agencies & HEIs

Limited print copies available - DM me

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted to have worked on this with all my wonderful @gleonetwork.bsky.social colleagues

Diel variation in CO2 flux is substantial in many lakes - de Eyto et al Limnology and Oceanography Letters - Wiley Online Library aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 26

Comparing the different seasonality and trends in the magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies since 1940 for the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic and Arctic. There are significant differences in the rate of long-term warming (blue to red lines).

Data: doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Northern Hemisphere region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to July 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Southern Hemisphere region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to July 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Arctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to July 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year and a strong seasonality in terms of the magnitude of the anomalies.

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Antarctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to July 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year, but less obvious than the other regions.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you, like us, are passionate about pearl mussels... check out our July issue of FBA Voice!

With super exciting news from our #FreshwaterPearlMussel Ark plus an article about our #LakeDistrict Charr Recovery & Management project, and much more!

Dive into the FBA Voice:
mailchi.mp/fba/welcome-...

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Jul 21

This month, we have been lucky enough to observe the various stages of larval development of Freshwater Pearl Mussels, Margaritifera margaritifera
We are running a captive breeding program in collaboration with NPWS and Moorkens and associates
These are stage 4

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Farm UP project is looking for a project co-ordinator and project officer - deadline is monday

southmayo.com/farm-up-proj...

FARM-Up Project Coordinator - South West Mayo Development Company

This position will contribute to the monitoring and coordination of South West Mayo Development Company (SWMDC) social inclusion programmes that support new communities, through the Social Inclusion &...

southmayo.com

Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Jul 6

I freeze ours and use them for the year in porridge and muffins . They freeze great

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are in the 4th year of production of Freshwater Pearl Mussels at the Marine Institute’s hatchery in Furnace, Co.Mayo.
Lots of babies for us to mind for the next decade 😂😂 www.mayonews.ie/news/local-n... Endangered freshwater pearl mussel successfully bred at Mayo Marine facility - Mayo Live

Endangered freshwater pearl mussel successfully bred at Mayo Marine facility

Scientists at the Newport based research facility have had great success breeding juvenile freshwater pearl mussels

www.mayonews.ie

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks @rayofoghlu.bsky.social for the write up
It was great to see everyone and discuss restoration of forested peatlands in Ireland.

@colinguilfoyle.bsky.social

www.farmersjournal.ie/more/climate... Wild Nephin: restoration, research and rewilding - Free

Wild Nephin: restoration, research and rewilding

"Restoration of peatlands is both costly and complicated," writes Ray O Foghlú. The current system of licensing and permissions is not fit for purpose.

www.farmersjournal.ie

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Jenna Robinson @jrob09.bsky.social · Jun 24

Check out the latest @gleonetwork.bsky.social Student Association (GSA) Limnoseries. Virtual workshops organized by students relating to Limnology. Find all workshop videos on #GLEON 's YouTube Channel. 🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=87M0...

GSA Limnoseries - Data QC: Before Starting Everything Should be in Order

YouTube video by GLEONetwork

www.youtube.com

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Jun 21

Fun infographic shows when we tend to peak at certain things. I wrote a column about this a few years back: buff.ly/tZoWb9o

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Allan McDevitt @shrewgod.bsky.social · Jun 19

New paper in EJWR led by newly minted Dr Paule-Emelie Ruy (passed PhD viva this week!) shows that avian influenza is circulating amongst Irish mesocarnivores link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Jun 16

How many salmon to herons eat?
Quite a lot. And they are willing to fly quite far to find them 😬🐟
👏🏼 analysis from Karl Philips et al
@colinguilfoyle.bsky.social @joshkakaufmann.bsky.social
bioone.org/journals/ard... Foraging Behaviour of Nesting Grey Herons Inferred from PIT-Tagged Salmonid Fish

Foraging Behaviour of Nesting Grey Herons Inferred from PIT-Tagged Salmonid Fish

Studies of fish behaviour and ecology create opportunities for studying piscivores that have been underutilised. A leading example is the widespread use by fish biologists of Passive Integrated Transp...

bioone.org

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jun 4

Looks like we finally have an explanation for why the Atlantic (and, by extension, the Earth) was so warm of 2023. From Matt England et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Drivers of the extreme North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023 - Nature

Atmospheric reanalyses combined with ocean observations and model simulations show that the extreme 2023 North Atlantic heatwave was primarily driven by anomalously weak winds leading to strongly shoa...

www.nature.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Jun 14

Yesterday, @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social showed me around the @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social's new 80-acre reserve, including about 30 of Atlantic rainforest, Coill Sheanadh Gharráin near Spiddal, Galway.

No words could do justice to the magic of the place. I was awestruck.

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · Jun 12

Placing Ireland's lakes on the international stage as a critical resource responding to a changing world - #Lakes in #Ireland - Mirrors of Change" eds. @cathdalt.bsky.social @edeeyto.bsky.social & Eleanor Jennings

Read my #bookreview The Niche @britishecologicalsociety.org
#limnology #research 🇮🇪

Image extracted from book review with reflected image of Irish lake on book cover and some marginal text.

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Mathieu Buoro @matbuoro.bsky.social · Jun 13

After years of non-stop brainstorming and hard work with
@alamarins.bsky.social & co, we're thrilled to present IBASAM (v3): a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations. @inrhttps://ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=153305

IBASAM: a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations

To improve our understanding and management of species’ response to environmental and anthropogenic changes, there is a critical need for integrative modeling approaches that encompass demographic, ec...

ibe.pensoft.net

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Jun 9

Joshka, Joe and I had the opportunity to talk to Lorna Siggins during the week, about the Burrishoole salmon population and the recent heatwave.
@joshkakaufmann.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Fish and rising sea temperature

Marine biologists explain how warming of the seas is going to affect Atlantic salmons.

www.rte.ie

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Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain (PhD) @aoibhinnos.bsky.social · Jun 8

#Madleen
“Let the Madleen reach Gaza. Let this small ship carry the weight of global conscience. Let it land in peace.” Mary Robinson

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Barry Murphy @barrysguidedtours.bsky.social · May 27

Join us on the gruelling Bangor Trail on Sat, June 21, hiking 26km in 9-12 hours.
See barrysguidedtours.com/the-bangor-t...

The Bangor Trail | 26km Strenuous Trek | Barry's Guided Tours

The Bangor Trail is a 26km long strenuous trek through the wet boglands that skirt the Nephin Beg mountains of wild west Mayo.

barrysguidedtours.com

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · May 27

Agree. In Feeagh we are seeing a faster rate of warming (0.3 degree C/decade) in the winter months than in the summer (0.2 degreeC/ decade). So winter cooling isn’t happening to the same degree.

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · May 27

With the turn in the weather, the marine heatwave seems to have peaked. These data are from the M3 data buoy off southwest Ireland. Source: eurosea.marine.ie/his

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · May 26

Surface water temperatures on Lough Feeagh (west coast of Ireland) have been pretty high this year! Daily temperatures in May above the 99th% on most days. 🥵🌡️💦

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Apr 17

So exciting to see the first of our 2024/2025 cohort of Freshwater Pearl Mussels starting to drop off their salmon host. We are working with NPWS to breed this endangered species at the Marine Institute’s hatchery in Newport, Co. Mayo
@marineinst.bsky.social
@philkeena.bsky.social

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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Marine Institute in Newport will be having an open day on April 27th

Lots of interesting activities for all ages

bit.ly/MIopenday