Ed Carty
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Ed Carty
@EdCartyPA
Director of Marketing & Comms, and Media Relations @uniofgalway @OllnaGaillimhe. A former @PA news editor & special advisor (but I’m alright now, honest)
World Bee Day is being marked by researchers at University of Galway with a quest for the public to support the monitoring of more than 500 wild and native honey bee colonies 🐝 The team of academics at the Galway Honey Bee Research Centre (galwayhbrc.com) aim to use the data being recorded and reported on the free-living bees as part of efforts to devise better strategies for their conservation. The researchers are asking would-be citizen scientists to locate colonies - but not to report individual bee sightings - and for some people to become colony custodians, by regular monitoring and reporting on the survival of the colonies. Read more about the research here: ow.ly/C9Zm50RMSYY @scienceirl #UniversityofGalway #WorldBeeDay #Research #Galway #NativeHoneyBee
An international team of astronomers has shed new light on the fascinating and complex process of planet formation, capturing stunning images of more than 80 young stars and discs of dust and gas where planets are forming 🪐🌟 The data has been published today in three papers in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Dr Christian Ginski, lecturer at the University of Galway is lead author of one of three new papers published. The team studied 86 stars across three different star-forming regions of the Milky Way galaxy: Taurus and Chamaeleon I, both around 600 light-years from Earth, and Orion, a gas-rich cloud about 1,300 light-years from us that is known to be the birthplace of several stars more massive than our Sun. The observations were gathered by a large international team, with scientists from more than 10 countries. As technology advances, the team hopes to delve even deeper into the heart of planet-forming systems. The University of Galway is directly contributing to the instrumentation of what will be the biggest telescope on the planet, allowing our astronomers privileged access once it is completed. Read more here about the discoveries: universityofgalway.ie/about-us/news-… #UniversityofGalway #Research #Astronomy #PlanetFormation
Cois Fharraige to COP ♻️🌍| We asked 20 Gaeltacht teenagers what they would like to say to the world leaders meeting at COP28 in Dubai. They expressed their hopes and fears about climate change and described its impact here in the west of Ireland. Find out more about the ‘Cois Fharraige to COP’ project at: universityofgalway.ie/cop28 Buíochas le daltaí agus múinteoirí i gColáiste Chroí Mhuire, an Spidéal, agus Coláiste Cholmcille, Indreabhán. Buíochas freisin le Fóram Chois Fharraige um Phleanáil Teanga agus leis na haoichainteoirí ar fad a thacaigh leis an togra seo. #UniversityofGalway #COP28 #ClimateChange
My abiding memory of David Frost will be the strange way in which he ate biscuits during a meeting once. He literally just smashed shortbread around his face and in doing so, compromised the rest of the biscuits on the plate as he sprayed biscuit crumb over the table.