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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 17h

The Kennedy ancestral home is very close for sure 👌😂

Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 19h

Always a pleasure to come across an #EcoEngineering info board! Nice work #Ecostructure team 🙌. Looks like your panels are functioning similarly to #LivingSeawalls in Plymouth - fucoid city! 🤎 @anaellelemasson.bsky.social @livingseawalls.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 20h

You’ll like this! @limpetsovertime.bsky.social

Gerardo Zardi @gerardozardi.bsky.social · Jul 27

Sometimes the smallest details steal the show 🦦🔍🐚

#limpets #biodiversity @katynicastro.bsky.social @bionept.bsky.social #art #intertidal

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 20h

Possibly the most beautiful Sabellaria alveolata 🪱 reefs I have seen in Ireland 🇮🇪 Cullenstown beach, Co. Wexford. Just stunning 🤩. Duncannon - you have some competition! 💪 #Prograding @aec13.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 20h

Whale skull washed up on beach at #Bastardstown, Co. Wexford. 🐋💀🌊. 😮 #IWDG

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks 🙏 Ben Rowson for inviting me to talk about #Limpets at Conchological Society meeting. 🐚🐌🦪Interactive props: bottle of #Shackleton whisky 🥃, #Belleek pottery (limpet design) , copy of The Silver Darlings 📚, breast shells 🤱, fridge magnet 🧲 & shell of largest limpet ever - Scutellastra mexicana

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t comment on each individually… whoa 😧 I love them… we should chat

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 1d

You’re totally right Helen. I would have loved it. Amazing stuff 🤩. Love the creativity. You must have loved it yourself! 🙌

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 2d

Rescued 100s of acorns from the driveway and threw them into the garden. 🌱 Maybe one or two might take root and grow into a fabulous oak tree someday 🤞🙏. Come on Atlantic Rainforest 🌳

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 5d

So saddened by the passing of the extraordinary Manchán Magán. Your passion for language, folklore & Irish culture reignited ours too: your energy, your generosity, your brilliance were a gift to us all. 🇮🇪 Your legacy will live on in every story told, every word revived. RIP Manchán 🌿💚

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 6d

Last chance to apply for this postdoc! deadline 12pm tomorrow.

Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 23d

Postdoc opportunity at University College Cork Ireland 🇮🇪. Interdisciplinary approaches to urban coastlines & multispecies relations. 🚶‍♀️🐚👨‍⚕️🦀👩‍🔬🪸👤🐟 Open to EU & non-EU applicants 🌎 Deadline 3rd Oct. Interviews 9th & 10th Oct. #LivingSeawall #EcoEngineering #Sustainability my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 7d

Still plenty of time to submit papers to the Annals of Botany special issue on #Macroalgae and #EcosystemServices. Deadline for submissions is Nov 30th! #Kelp #Fucoid #seaweed #CCA @annbot.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @twernberg.bsky.social @chrisecornwall.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 8d

Four days left to apply! @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 23d

Postdoc opportunity at University College Cork Ireland 🇮🇪. Interdisciplinary approaches to urban coastlines & multispecies relations. 🚶‍♀️🐚👨‍⚕️🦀👩‍🔬🪸👤🐟 Open to EU & non-EU applicants 🌎 Deadline 3rd Oct. Interviews 9th & 10th Oct. #LivingSeawall #EcoEngineering #Sustainability my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 9d

Honeycomb worms 🍯🐝🪱thriving at #Streedagh strand #Sligo. Reefs forming refuge for green algae 🌿 from #Limpet grazing 🐚. The stunning Ben Bulben as dramatic backdrop 🤩. @aec13.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @ucc.ie @benthicecol.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 10d

The honeycomb worm 🍯🐝🪱 (Sabellaria alveolata) doing quite well at #Lisfannon beach on Lough Swilly #Donegal. Competing for space with #Limpets 🐚 & invasive oysters 🦪 #Magallana @npwsireland.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 12d

#Limpets of the basalt columns of the #GiantsCauseway. 🪨🐚Always nice to see a spot of #epibiosis - green algae on the shells of Patella ulyssiponensis - we think it’s a form of associational defence books.google.ie/books?hl=en&...

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 13d

Still time to apply! Deadline tomorrow for postdoc on #NbS in salt marshes with fantastic Jim van Belzen & Tjeerd Bouma. Going to be fun project & team! 🤩 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @stonelivinglab.bsky.social

Jim van Belzen @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you to Laura Airoldi & team 🇮🇹 for hosting us and for facilitating productive scientific discussion to kick off Project #Blueshores - investigating nature based solutions #NBS to salt marsh erosion. 🌱🌾 Bring it on 💪🙌😀 @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 13d

Project #Blueshores fieldtrip to the salt marshes 🌱🌾 of the #Venice lagoon. Scoping out sites for hybrid blue-green infrastructure #HBGI trials. @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 13d

Project Blueshores is go! 🇪🇺 Kick off meeting at Uni Padua marine station, Chioggia 🇮🇹 is a beautiful location for meeting old &new friends ☺️@amandahsiung.bsky.social
@benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 14d

3 more days to apply for great postdoc opportunity on saltmarhses with amazing team NIOZ in the Netherlands @niozsearesearch.bsky.social

Jim van Belzen @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 14d

There is nothing about bioinformatics or geospatial in the job advert I am afraid

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 18d

Autumn colours on the rocky shore 🧡🤎💛🍁🍂 #fucoids #seaweed #algae #feamainn

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 18d

Great line up at #NanoNagle Place for #CultureNight Cork. UCC’s wonderful Irene Ní Shúilleabháin sharing her love of #birds 🦅 🐦‍⬛🪺 & #birdsong of Lee Fields. Screening of ‘Listen to the Fields’ 🦢🎶 by visual artists Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly. @ucc.ie #biodiversity #spokenword #music #poetry #film

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 23d

@livingseawalls.bsky.social @benthicecol.bsky.social @anaellelemasson.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @cariocamayer.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie @stonelivinglab.bsky.social @daniel-lopez.bsky.social @fporri.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social