Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
@b-r-i-fada-d.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Marine Institute of Ireland & UCC
Sharks & rays 🦈 | rare & data-poor spp 🐟 | ecological modelling 💻
Director of the scientific outreach non-profit @marinedimensions & Ireland's elasmo eggcase citizen science project Purse Search IE
Sharks & rays 🦈 | rare & data-poor spp 🐟 | ecological modelling 💻
Director of the scientific outreach non-profit @marinedimensions & Ireland's elasmo eggcase citizen science project Purse Search IE
I'll be speaking at the @icesmarine.bsky.social Annual Science Conference 2025 in Klaipėda next Monday afternoon in Theme Session R. Hope to see some familiar faces there! 🌊
September 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I'll be speaking at the @icesmarine.bsky.social Annual Science Conference 2025 in Klaipėda next Monday afternoon in Theme Session R. Hope to see some familiar faces there! 🌊
Amárach, ag an gComhdháil Idirnáisiúnta Liamhán Gréine in ATU, beidh mé ag tabhairt cainte faoi Limistéar faoi Chosaint Speisialta na Muirí a shainaithint le haghaidh Liamháin Gréine agus faoi thionscadal ISRA an IUCN! 🦈
Tomorrow, as part of the International Conference on Basking Sharks hosted by @irishbaskingshark.bsky.social at ATU Galway, I'll be discussing the @iucnshark.bsky.social ISRA project & how it has been used to highlight important areas for Basking Sharks. 🦈
August 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Amárach, ag an gComhdháil Idirnáisiúnta Liamhán Gréine in ATU, beidh mé ag tabhairt cainte faoi Limistéar faoi Chosaint Speisialta na Muirí a shainaithint le haghaidh Liamháin Gréine agus faoi thionscadal ISRA an IUCN! 🦈
Tomorrow, as part of the International Conference on Basking Sharks hosted by @irishbaskingshark.bsky.social at ATU Galway, I'll be discussing the @iucnshark.bsky.social ISRA project & how it has been used to highlight important areas for Basking Sharks. 🦈
August 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Tomorrow, as part of the International Conference on Basking Sharks hosted by @irishbaskingshark.bsky.social at ATU Galway, I'll be discussing the @iucnshark.bsky.social ISRA project & how it has been used to highlight important areas for Basking Sharks. 🦈
A couple of weeks ago I presented my work on a sensitivity analysis of fish spcies in the Northeast Atlantic at @embssymposium.bsky.social in Bodø Norway. Thanks for the opportunity! 🐟🌊
Thank you all for a great #EMBS58
July 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A couple of weeks ago I presented my work on a sensitivity analysis of fish spcies in the Northeast Atlantic at @embssymposium.bsky.social in Bodø Norway. Thanks for the opportunity! 🐟🌊
Reposted by Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
Check out the new Purse Search Ireland logo! I just love it!
🚨 We're so excited to announce that our citizen science project, Purse Search Ireland, has a new logo! 🚨
We're going to miss our old ray friend, but we're very excited about the fresh new look! Thanks to our co-director @tdmedina.bsky.social for the new design!
We're going to miss our old ray friend, but we're very excited about the fresh new look! Thanks to our co-director @tdmedina.bsky.social for the new design!
June 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Check out the new Purse Search Ireland logo! I just love it!
Check out the new Purse Search Ireland logo! I just love it!
🚨 We're so excited to announce that our citizen science project, Purse Search Ireland, has a new logo! 🚨
We're going to miss our old ray friend, but we're very excited about the fresh new look! Thanks to our co-director @tdmedina.bsky.social for the new design!
We're going to miss our old ray friend, but we're very excited about the fresh new look! Thanks to our co-director @tdmedina.bsky.social for the new design!
June 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Check out the new Purse Search Ireland logo! I just love it!
The ocean sunfish will regularly bask on their sides near the ocean's surface. With no tail fin, this bony fish does appear as unusual, using its prominent dorsal and anal fins to swim and manoeuvre our oceans.
🎥: Byron Dilkes
#saveourseasfoundation #oceansunfish #molamola #southafrica #bonyfish
🎥: Byron Dilkes
#saveourseasfoundation #oceansunfish #molamola #southafrica #bonyfish
June 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Delighted to see the first chapter of my PhD published in the @icesmarine.bsky.social journal of marine science!
This paper discusses developing a holistic understanding of the sensitivity of fish species in our seas and offers practical recommendations for enchanced species mgmt & protection. 🦈🐟
This paper discusses developing a holistic understanding of the sensitivity of fish species in our seas and offers practical recommendations for enchanced species mgmt & protection. 🦈🐟
Multiple sensitivity metrics are needed to adequately assess a species’ sensitivity for conservation and management
Abstract. Fish populations are declining globally due to increasing anthropogenic pressures. While research has been carried out to understand the impacts
academic.oup.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Delighted to see the first chapter of my PhD published in the @icesmarine.bsky.social journal of marine science!
This paper discusses developing a holistic understanding of the sensitivity of fish species in our seas and offers practical recommendations for enchanced species mgmt & protection. 🦈🐟
This paper discusses developing a holistic understanding of the sensitivity of fish species in our seas and offers practical recommendations for enchanced species mgmt & protection. 🦈🐟
Reposted by Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
This silky shark is using its nictitating membrane, a protective inner eyelid, as it swims up close to the camera. Sharks usually expose this membrane just prior to feeding, or when they encounter another shark, as a way to protect their eyes from potential injury.
Filmed by Simon Hilbourne
Filmed by Simon Hilbourne
May 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This silky shark is using its nictitating membrane, a protective inner eyelid, as it swims up close to the camera. Sharks usually expose this membrane just prior to feeding, or when they encounter another shark, as a way to protect their eyes from potential injury.
Filmed by Simon Hilbourne
Filmed by Simon Hilbourne
Reposted by Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
Last call! Our next Important Shark and Ray Areas workshop will focus on the European Atlantic. Preliminary areas of interest must be submitted by April 18th.
Please spread the word to interested colleagues!
Learn more about us and the ISRA process: sharkrayareas.org/isra/faq
Please spread the word to interested colleagues!
Learn more about us and the ISRA process: sharkrayareas.org/isra/faq
April 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Last call! Our next Important Shark and Ray Areas workshop will focus on the European Atlantic. Preliminary areas of interest must be submitted by April 18th.
Please spread the word to interested colleagues!
Learn more about us and the ISRA process: sharkrayareas.org/isra/faq
Please spread the word to interested colleagues!
Learn more about us and the ISRA process: sharkrayareas.org/isra/faq
Looking forward to presenting at this! 🌊
This Friday, our researcher Bríd O’Connor (Marine Institute) presents a sensitivity analysis of fish species in the Northeast Atlantic—spotlighting which ones are most vulnerable and where protections may be missing.
With @cibbrina.bsky.social & ReduceProject 🦈
@horizoneu.bsky.social #Bycatch
With @cibbrina.bsky.social & ReduceProject 🦈
@horizoneu.bsky.social #Bycatch
April 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Looking forward to presenting at this! 🌊
April 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
Get Involved: Interested in contributing to shark and ray conservation? Find out how to become a member of the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group.
Have additional questions? See more in our FAQs page (www.iucnssg.org/faq.html)
#shark #ray #chimaera #conservation #ocean #WeAreSSC
Have additional questions? See more in our FAQs page (www.iucnssg.org/faq.html)
#shark #ray #chimaera #conservation #ocean #WeAreSSC
March 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Get Involved: Interested in contributing to shark and ray conservation? Find out how to become a member of the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group.
Have additional questions? See more in our FAQs page (www.iucnssg.org/faq.html)
#shark #ray #chimaera #conservation #ocean #WeAreSSC
Have additional questions? See more in our FAQs page (www.iucnssg.org/faq.html)
#shark #ray #chimaera #conservation #ocean #WeAreSSC
Reposted by Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
I'm honoured to be featured on @empowerus.bsky.social series #WomenMakingWaves alongside Máire Éinniú & the legend herself, Gráinne Ní Mháille!
Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙
#InternationalWomensDay
Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙
#InternationalWomensDay
🌊Women Making Waves - Ireland🌊
The #WomenMakingWaves series celebrates women across Europe who have been empowered by the ocean or have empowered it in return. This week we’re sharing stories of women in Ireland whose lives are shaped by the ocean.
Read here: empowerus-project.eu/news-and-eve...
The #WomenMakingWaves series celebrates women across Europe who have been empowered by the ocean or have empowered it in return. This week we’re sharing stories of women in Ireland whose lives are shaped by the ocean.
Read here: empowerus-project.eu/news-and-eve...
March 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I'm honoured to be featured on @empowerus.bsky.social series #WomenMakingWaves alongside Máire Éinniú & the legend herself, Gráinne Ní Mháille!
Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙
#InternationalWomensDay
Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙
#InternationalWomensDay
I'm honoured to be featured on @empowerus.bsky.social series #WomenMakingWaves alongside Máire Éinniú & the legend herself, Gráinne Ní Mháille!
Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙
#InternationalWomensDay
Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙
#InternationalWomensDay
🌊Women Making Waves - Ireland🌊
The #WomenMakingWaves series celebrates women across Europe who have been empowered by the ocean or have empowered it in return. This week we’re sharing stories of women in Ireland whose lives are shaped by the ocean.
Read here: empowerus-project.eu/news-and-eve...
The #WomenMakingWaves series celebrates women across Europe who have been empowered by the ocean or have empowered it in return. This week we’re sharing stories of women in Ireland whose lives are shaped by the ocean.
Read here: empowerus-project.eu/news-and-eve...
March 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I'm honoured to be featured on @empowerus.bsky.social series #WomenMakingWaves alongside Máire Éinniú & the legend herself, Gráinne Ní Mháille!
Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙
#InternationalWomensDay
Irish women have always played an important role in marine communities and sciences & I'm so grateful for my little part in that 💙
#InternationalWomensDay
A model I've been running since Dec. 17th crashed last night 🙃
a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
ALT: a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
media.tenor.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A model I've been running since Dec. 17th crashed last night 🙃
Reposted by Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
** One month left to tender **
Please share with your networks!
@scotlink.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @fairseas.ie @swanireland.ie @natcapirl.bsky.social @antaisce.bsky.social @feasta1998.bsky.social @streamscapes.bsky.social @coastwatch.bsky.social @coastalfutures.bsky.social
Please share with your networks!
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The IEN’s MARÉIRE (MArine Renewable Energy and the IRish Environment) project is reopening applications to tender on: Review of the legislation underpinning environmental safeguards in the development of ORE in Ireland. Deadline: noon on Friday, April 11. More info: ien.ie/learn-about-...
Marine Biodiversity & ORE: Our Work - IEN
The IEN’s Offshore Renewable Energy and Marine Biodiversity capacity-building project is calling for applications to tender on the following topic: ORE Legislative review - Call for tender. The main p...
ien.ie
March 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
** One month left to tender **
Please share with your networks!
@scotlink.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @fairseas.ie @swanireland.ie @natcapirl.bsky.social @antaisce.bsky.social @feasta1998.bsky.social @streamscapes.bsky.social @coastwatch.bsky.social @coastalfutures.bsky.social
Please share with your networks!
@scotlink.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @fairseas.ie @swanireland.ie @natcapirl.bsky.social @antaisce.bsky.social @feasta1998.bsky.social @streamscapes.bsky.social @coastwatch.bsky.social @coastalfutures.bsky.social
The Irish for the goblin shark (the obvious winner here!) is "siorc bocánach". 👹🦈 #OceanAsGaeilge
If you don't already, check out @misselasmo.bsky.social Shark Madness! Every day in March they share info about sharks that face off in daily head to heads to find the best shark! 🦈
If you don't already, check out @misselasmo.bsky.social Shark Madness! Every day in March they share info about sharks that face off in daily head to heads to find the best shark! 🦈
Blacktip reef shark and the goblin shark....stop making this so tough to choose. 😢 Both these sharks have their own special traits, but only one can move on. Vote via our IG/FB Story, X or Threads! #sharkscience 🦈
March 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The Irish for the goblin shark (the obvious winner here!) is "siorc bocánach". 👹🦈 #OceanAsGaeilge
If you don't already, check out @misselasmo.bsky.social Shark Madness! Every day in March they share info about sharks that face off in daily head to heads to find the best shark! 🦈
If you don't already, check out @misselasmo.bsky.social Shark Madness! Every day in March they share info about sharks that face off in daily head to heads to find the best shark! 🦈
It's Ireland's Women in Sport Week! 💚
Growing up I thought I was "unsporty", but I finally realised that isn't a thing. Sports are for everyone, you just need to find the right people to play with. Happy #WIS week to my fellow tag rugby-playing women from work. Can't wait to start this season! 🏉
Growing up I thought I was "unsporty", but I finally realised that isn't a thing. Sports are for everyone, you just need to find the right people to play with. Happy #WIS week to my fellow tag rugby-playing women from work. Can't wait to start this season! 🏉
March 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It's Ireland's Women in Sport Week! 💚
Growing up I thought I was "unsporty", but I finally realised that isn't a thing. Sports are for everyone, you just need to find the right people to play with. Happy #WIS week to my fellow tag rugby-playing women from work. Can't wait to start this season! 🏉
Growing up I thought I was "unsporty", but I finally realised that isn't a thing. Sports are for everyone, you just need to find the right people to play with. Happy #WIS week to my fellow tag rugby-playing women from work. Can't wait to start this season! 🏉
It's so frustrating to sit back and watch conservation effort after conservartion effort thwarted by the hands of people who refuse to accept the reality of what's happening to this planet
The Florida Keys are dying. NOAA spent 13 years developing a new recovery plan for the sanctuary.
It wasn’t even some big radical proposal. It was watered down, keeping 95% of the park open to fishing, yet still a big step forward.
DeSantis vetoed it anyway.
www.wusf.org/environment/...
It wasn’t even some big radical proposal. It was watered down, keeping 95% of the park open to fishing, yet still a big step forward.
DeSantis vetoed it anyway.
www.wusf.org/environment/...
DeSantis rejects long-planned management proposal for a Florida Keys marine sanctuary
Gov. Ron DeSantis said the plan, which took more than a decade to hammer out, failed to pave the way for artificial reefs in state waters and stripped Florida of managing its own wildlife.
www.wusf.org
March 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It's so frustrating to sit back and watch conservation effort after conservartion effort thwarted by the hands of people who refuse to accept the reality of what's happening to this planet
Really cool footage in this article! The Irish for "cuttlefish" is "cudal" & the Irish for "crab" is "portán" 🐙🦀 #OceanAsGaeilge
This is so good. The videos are mesmeric. Great research from @matteosanton.bsky.social.
🦑🌎🧪🦀
🦑🌎🧪🦀
What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish (Gift Article)
Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their prey.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Really cool footage in this article! The Irish for "cuttlefish" is "cudal" & the Irish for "crab" is "portán" 🐙🦀 #OceanAsGaeilge
Reposted by Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
📣 Looking for marine science and research accounts to follow on BlueSky? 🌊
Check out this list of marine starter packs below ⬇️
Feel free to suggest any I might have missed out!
Check out this list of marine starter packs below ⬇️
Feel free to suggest any I might have missed out!
A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊
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go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I
go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II
go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science
go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads
go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women
go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II
go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology
go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I
go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II
go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science
go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads
go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women
go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II
March 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📣 Looking for marine science and research accounts to follow on BlueSky? 🌊
Check out this list of marine starter packs below ⬇️
Feel free to suggest any I might have missed out!
Check out this list of marine starter packs below ⬇️
Feel free to suggest any I might have missed out!
That's a wrap on this leg of the Irish Anglerfish & Megrim survey! 🎣 The ocean wasn't particularly kind to us, but it's always great to step away from the laptop and get back to the ocean for a bit 🌊
February 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
That's a wrap on this leg of the Irish Anglerfish & Megrim survey! 🎣 The ocean wasn't particularly kind to us, but it's always great to step away from the laptop and get back to the ocean for a bit 🌊
Reposted by Bríd Ní Chonchúir 🦈
#BREAKING: We’re taking the Trump administration to court!
Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt
Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt
February 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#BREAKING: We’re taking the Trump administration to court!
Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt
Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt
The Irish for "sperm whale" is "caisealóid" 🐋 #OceanAsGaeilge
SPERM WHALES
Massive sperm whales rise from the depths, their specialized heads housing natural sonar. These remarkable divers can plunge 4,000 feet deep to hunt giant squid in total darkness.
📹 globetrottingbaes
Massive sperm whales rise from the depths, their specialized heads housing natural sonar. These remarkable divers can plunge 4,000 feet deep to hunt giant squid in total darkness.
📹 globetrottingbaes
February 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Irish for "sperm whale" is "caisealóid" 🐋 #OceanAsGaeilge