May 2019
World Bee Day 2019
Happy World Bee Day! As well as launching our lab theme song, this World Bee Day, I was privileged to meet the President, Michael D. Higgins, at Áras an Uachtaráin. Along with Una Fitzpatrick, the Chair of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan from the National Biodiversity Data Centre, we visited the walled garden in the Áras […]
Ecofiction: The Bog Down in the Valley
This short story was first published in the March 2019 issue of The Niche, the magazine of the British Ecological Society, as part of their "Horizons" ecofiction series. "Horizons" aims to use fiction to help visualise a better future aided by ecological science.
PhD Retrospective: Finding new bird species in Sulawesi
Almost as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a Zoologist. Growing up on a steady diet of Attenborough documentaries, I dreamed of exploring new lands, discovering weird and wonderful species. I wanted to be the next Darwin. The next Wallace. In a lot of ways, my PhD research has been the fulfilment […]
ESJ 66: Best in Show
This was my first time in Kobe, famous for its beef and cheesecake. Much of the city was rebuilt in the wake of a devastating earthquake that claimed the lives of more than six thousand people in 1995. The city mascot is Kobear (コーベア), a pun almost as clever as the bear is cute. The […]