Dr Cara Daly (she/her)
@plantsoup.bsky.social
Plant, Biodiversity and EDI Enthusiast. Plant Science Lecturer at @SETU and Gardener. 🌈🌴🌲🍄🏵️🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺
Frankenstein (2025) is cinematic. Wonderful movie..
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Frankenstein (2025) is cinematic. Wonderful movie..
Great morning teaching our MSc Organic Ag & Hort students how to use belt transects to survey plant diversity. Lots of curiosity, teamwork & learning in the field today! #Fieldwork #Biodiversity #Horticulture #SETU
October 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Great morning teaching our MSc Organic Ag & Hort students how to use belt transects to survey plant diversity. Lots of curiosity, teamwork & learning in the field today! #Fieldwork #Biodiversity #Horticulture #SETU
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McCarthy stressed that his nomination of Steen was “not an endorsement …voters will have the right to decide who is best suited to serve.”
Aubrey: you’re a senator cos people voted for YOUR PRINCIPLES & expect you to REPRESENT THEM in your actions, not support opposing views potentially into power.
Aubrey: you’re a senator cos people voted for YOUR PRINCIPLES & expect you to REPRESENT THEM in your actions, not support opposing views potentially into power.
September 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
McCarthy stressed that his nomination of Steen was “not an endorsement …voters will have the right to decide who is best suited to serve.”
Aubrey: you’re a senator cos people voted for YOUR PRINCIPLES & expect you to REPRESENT THEM in your actions, not support opposing views potentially into power.
Aubrey: you’re a senator cos people voted for YOUR PRINCIPLES & expect you to REPRESENT THEM in your actions, not support opposing views potentially into power.
USA haven't shown up! #wrwc #womensrugbyworldcup
August 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
USA haven't shown up! #wrwc #womensrugbyworldcup
Irish government is blocking these children's visas. Please sign this petition. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie
Let Them Play
Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine
my.uplift.ie
July 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Irish government is blocking these children's visas. Please sign this petition. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie
I'm quite enjoying seeing our local anti-LGBT+ activists going absolutely apoplectic over Una's article this week.
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism
Where LGBTQ+ rights are bolstered, so too are women’s rights, and where they collapse, so too does authentic feminism
www.irishtimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I'm quite enjoying seeing our local anti-LGBT+ activists going absolutely apoplectic over Una's article this week.
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
At the #TUI Congress 2025 - General Secretary Michael Gillespie delivers his report. #FreePalestine
April 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
At the #TUI Congress 2025 - General Secretary Michael Gillespie delivers his report. #FreePalestine
Honestly, the pope wasn't perfect, but as an LGBT+, and an environmentalist, I can't help but thinking of future could be hugely influenced by the new pontiff..
April 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Honestly, the pope wasn't perfect, but as an LGBT+, and an environmentalist, I can't help but thinking of future could be hugely influenced by the new pontiff..
So impressed with all the anti-trans folks worried about womens' rights who are also diligently campaigning for increased sentences for rapists, for increased funding of womans sports, for domestic abuse shelters etc. while also punching down on a vulnerable minority. Multi-tasking heroes!
April 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So impressed with all the anti-trans folks worried about womens' rights who are also diligently campaigning for increased sentences for rapists, for increased funding of womans sports, for domestic abuse shelters etc. while also punching down on a vulnerable minority. Multi-tasking heroes!
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426.55 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air
30-Mar-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
30-Mar-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
March 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
426.55 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air
30-Mar-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
30-Mar-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Word of the day: Sycophant
March 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Word of the day: Sycophant
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We're hiring!
Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers?
Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad...
Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March
Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers?
Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad...
Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March
February 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We're hiring!
Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers?
Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad...
Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March
Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers?
Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad...
Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March
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I interviewed the very talented and brave accidental activist Dr Lydia Foy:
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’
The trans activist who fought the State for years for the right to change her gender on her birth cert would prefer to ‘talk about me as a person rather than all the baloney with the courts’
www.irishtimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I interviewed the very talented and brave accidental activist Dr Lydia Foy:
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
February 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
I'm on to recommend the Star Walk app.. I've the free version and it really brings the night sky to life ⭐🌍☄️ Explore the planets, stars, comets, and satellites. It's amazing..
January 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm on to recommend the Star Walk app.. I've the free version and it really brings the night sky to life ⭐🌍☄️ Explore the planets, stars, comets, and satellites. It's amazing..
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Why is public Irish media @news.rte.ie @rte.ie not changing its digital and social media strategy and is still sending public media audiences to places like X that now resemble Truth Social? It's using this platform but has not adapted share buttons or policy/playbook for journalists?
January 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Why is public Irish media @news.rte.ie @rte.ie not changing its digital and social media strategy and is still sending public media audiences to places like X that now resemble Truth Social? It's using this platform but has not adapted share buttons or policy/playbook for journalists?
@waterfordlibraries.bsky.social Hi Folks, is your online membership tool working? I've tried it a few times in the past few weeks and it's telling me that my registration was unsuccessful.
waterford.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...
waterford.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...
Register online | Waterford Libraries
waterford.spydus.ie
January 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
@waterfordlibraries.bsky.social Hi Folks, is your online membership tool working? I've tried it a few times in the past few weeks and it's telling me that my registration was unsuccessful.
waterford.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...
waterford.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...
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January 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)
docs.google.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Garden peas, steeped (?) peas, and sugar snap peas, turnip, parsnip, roast potatoes, celery, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower.
This is not my shopping list, it's just the vegetables my mother prepared for the Christmas dinner. A record breaking year. #Christmas2024
This is not my shopping list, it's just the vegetables my mother prepared for the Christmas dinner. A record breaking year. #Christmas2024
December 25, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Garden peas, steeped (?) peas, and sugar snap peas, turnip, parsnip, roast potatoes, celery, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower.
This is not my shopping list, it's just the vegetables my mother prepared for the Christmas dinner. A record breaking year. #Christmas2024
This is not my shopping list, it's just the vegetables my mother prepared for the Christmas dinner. A record breaking year. #Christmas2024
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Despite attempts to address it, such as increasing the gender quota to 40%, Dáil Éireann has the worst gender diversity in western Europe.
Out of 174 seats in last month's general election, 44 went to women in a representation of slightly more than 25%.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Out of 174 seats in last month's general election, 44 went to women in a representation of slightly more than 25%.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Irish parliament has worst gender diversity in western Europe, study finds
Out of 174 seats in the November election, 44 went to women in a representation of slightly more than 25%
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Despite attempts to address it, such as increasing the gender quota to 40%, Dáil Éireann has the worst gender diversity in western Europe.
Out of 174 seats in last month's general election, 44 went to women in a representation of slightly more than 25%.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Out of 174 seats in last month's general election, 44 went to women in a representation of slightly more than 25%.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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LOOK at wee Zara’s face - what an incredible chance for a girl who loves science, getting to meet the first Irish Woman going into Space. Unreal. #LateLateToyShow
December 6, 2024 at 10:42 PM
LOOK at wee Zara’s face - what an incredible chance for a girl who loves science, getting to meet the first Irish Woman going into Space. Unreal. #LateLateToyShow
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So #Ireland is on course for a penalty of a scale not seen since the bank bailout, and we hear about it the week after the election? In which climate action was barely covered in the #GE24 debates?
Who's the RTÉ Environment Correspondent again?
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Who's the RTÉ Environment Correspondent again?
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
State 'facing €20bn fine' if it fails to reduce emissions
The State could face a cost of €20bn if it fails to achieve reductions in carbon emissions in 2030, according to an assessment by the watchdog which advises on the public finances.
www.rte.ie
December 5, 2024 at 5:32 PM
So #Ireland is on course for a penalty of a scale not seen since the bank bailout, and we hear about it the week after the election? In which climate action was barely covered in the #GE24 debates?
Who's the RTÉ Environment Correspondent again?
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Who's the RTÉ Environment Correspondent again?
www.rte.ie/news/busines...