Dorota Kolbuk
@dotklobuk.bsky.social
Environmental scientist | Marine ecology, paleobiology, echinoderms🌊🔬
Three years ago our project @marbefes.bsky.social asked Ireland- and UK-based stakeholders: what are the biggest threats to biodiversity in the Irish Sea? We mapped the possible pathways from those concerns to ecological, economic and sociocultural outcomes: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough 🎉 Your storytelling has brought the wonders of the natural world into our homes and taught generations to look closer, care deeper and marvel at the living world around us. Thank you for the curiosity, the wisdom and the wonder. 🌍
For #MolluscMonday (belated, I know, I know), let’s put this wonderful group in the spotlight: Ammonoidea. 📕Great book and very enjoyable experience of reviewing with H-Net!
Daniella M.@farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 3mo agoCheck out Dorota Kolbuk's review of Jodi Summers's "We Dig Ammonites: Fact, Folklore, and History," published in 2025 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
📣Coming up! 🎟️Ocean with David Attenborough (screening + panel session) 📅17th April, 1:30 pm, The New Theatre in Dublin🇮🇪 www.eventbrite.ie/e/ocean-with... @marbefes.bsky.social
'Ocean with David Attenborough' Screening and Panel Discussion
Join us to view the spectacular 'Ocean with David Attenborough' followed by a thought-provoking panel discussion.
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Join us online Monday, 16 March 2026 for Josephine Taylor discussing her book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multispecies Encounters in Extraction Zones (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). Starts at 16:00 Central European / 15:00 GMT. Note! 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Last week Audrey Plan (UCD Research Culture) and myself on behalf of the #PostdocsSpotlight project had a chance to discuss our experience with running the project during the UCD-University of Strathclyde Joint Seed Funding Workshop & Everyday Cultures Collaboration Conference in Glasgow🏴 [1/2]
"Marine areas, unlike coastal or inland locations, are often seen as uninhabited resource sites and rarely looked at as spaces of lived experience or cultural meaning” - but that means we miss on a wealth of services (and disservices) the open sea brings to people. 🌊 shorturl.at/Wj0gQ
Offshore cultural ecosystem services
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We propose a new method for marine ecosystem physical accounts: doi.org/10.1016/j.in... Happy to have contributed to this with the Irish Sea case study📝
Redirecting
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MARBEFES@marbefes.bsky.social · 6mo agoOut now: 🌐A new method combining ecological valuation and EUNIS habitat classification system can help assess marine ecosystem extent and condition. 🗺️Tested on 3 European Atlantic case studies. ➡️Egidazu-de la Parte et al. (2026), doi.org/10.1016/j.in... #ecosystemservices #SEEA-EA
'Decline in number and quality of saltmarshes in Ireland' - @news.rte.ie #NatureConservation #HabitatsDirective www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Decline in number and quality of saltmarshes in Ireland
Saltmarshes are in decline all over the world, including in Ireland, which is seeing the size of its wetlands decreasing as well as a significant decline in the quality of the ecosystems.
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102. Environmental + Climate Justice Syllabus Assembling readings, articles, case studies & biographies from key writers, scholars & activists working for environmental freedom. Generating a searchable and citable list of Black, Indigenous & Latinx individuals, orgs & movements #TabClosed2026
The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab
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Tomorrow is the deadline for submissions against what @antaisce.bsky.social is describing as one of the greatest threats to our environment ever. Please don't wait til it's too late, get it in today.
Irish Wildlife Trust@irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 7mo ago⚠️ All Hands on Deck Needed to Respond to the Latest Attack on Access to Justice ⚖️ "This is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced" - @antaisce.bsky.social 🔗 Details and call for public submissions: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
UCD Postdocs Spotlight concluded last month with a seminar entitled "Scales of Research”. We took the event and our UCD delegates outside of the Belfield campus all the way to Belfast - a great opportunity to meet the QUB community 🎓 @ucddublin.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Protoreaster nodosus (aka chocolate chip sea star🍪) has an unusual "diamond-type” stereom. How is it formed? ➡️📃Humański et al., 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #echinoderms #biominerals
Morphogenesis of the diamond-type stereom microlattice and the origin of saddle-shaped minimal surfaces in the echinoderm skeleton
Echinoderm endoskeleton has a unique trabecular microstructure, called stereom, which can exhibit highly ordered geometries. A striking example of the…
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🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨 We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social. - Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP - Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn
A tool worth looking at: non-profit @opensyllabus.bsky.social maps "college curriculum across 27.6 million syllabi”. You can find your discipline & check most commonly assigned books galaxy.opensyllabus.org PS. Wouldn’t know that without @greatbooksprof.bsky.social YT channel. Thank you!
Open Syllabus: Galaxy
The citation graph of the ~1M most-assigned books and articles (node2vec -> UMAP).
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⏳"Time is scarce for all in academia; for postdocs, time is oxygen”. 📣In the latest piece published on #TheAuditorium (blog by @glasgow.ac.uk Research Culture & Researcher Development Team) we discuss the challenges of research communication as postdocs: shorturl.at/6vyJc #postdocs #researchstaff
Postdoctoral researchers: bridled research communicators
By Dr Audrey M Plan, Research Engagement Specialist, Dr Sara M Esteves, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Dr Dorota Kolbuk, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. Since March 2025, th…
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Plenty of wonderful art around and focusing on Morecambe Bay - from sculptures and stories to festivals and community initiatives. To explore this phenomenon, my colleague Ashley Cahillane developed a story map with the support of @morecambebay.bsky.social - check the link below:
MARBEFES@marbefes.bsky.social · 8mo ago🎨How does art support wellbeing, sense of place, and care for coastal environments? 🌅The MARBEFES story map, Art and the Healing Powers of #MorecambeBay, highlights artworks that strengthen place connection across the Bay: shorturl.at/FJZeA 💻Developed by Ashley Cahillane (UEA, UCD).
Thank you to all who participated in our Coastwatch Autumn Survey Results Launch 2025 and Marine Litter Prevention Workshop at the European Commission Representation Office in Ireland! @fairseas.ie @deptcee.bsky.social @irishenvnet.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social
"Today’s vote by the European Nitrates Committee to approve an extension of Ireland’s nitrates derogation for another three years is a bad day for Irish waterbodies and for everyone who relies on clean quality water in Ireland" www.antaisce.org/news/eu-nitr...
EU Nitrate Derogation decision a bad day for Irish waterways
Today’s vote by the European Nitrates Committee to approve an extension of Ireland’s nitrates derogation for another three years is a bad day for Irish waterbodies and for everyone who relies on clean...
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💬UCD MESSAGE event coming up 3rd December, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in Dublin. Grab your free tickets: shorturl.at/FeHMy @ucdearth.bsky.social
Underwater Worlds: Art, Science and the Submerged
Talk and screening by artist Sonia Levy followed by interdisciplinary panel discussion on visualising submerged ecosystems and narratives
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UCD Postdocs, that’s a wrap on this year’s edition of #PostdocsSpotlight! And a big announcement: for the grand finale, we'll go to... Belfast! @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 🙋🏽♂️Wanna join? Sign up here: shorturl.at/1WY06 (we'll cover cost of train tickets). @ucddublin.bsky.social
New date, but same me🗣️ Sign up below⬇️
UCD Library@ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 9mo agoJoin postdoc Dorota Kolbuk on 14 Nov as she shows how #CitizenScience can support marine & coastal research efforts. Topics: how to get involved in coastal citizen science & the benefits these activities bring to environmental monitoring & community engagement. Register at forms.gle/CpNWS3SEFtzi...
🛳️ In 2023, our colleague Ashley Cahillane asked researchers and crew of the RV #CelticExplorer: how do you interact with the sea? Do you think the sea benefits the society? Should the sea be valued? 🌐 Results of her research on offshore cultural #EcosystemServices are out now: shorturl.at/hzcbE
🌆An exciting seminar on sustainable urban planning coming up October 24th- registration open to all UCD staff now: 🙋🏼♀️ forms.gle/5QKLAaXK1A1Z... @ucdearth.bsky.social @ucdsustainability.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
Great to see this new citizen science data rescue project by Met Eireann up and running: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met... especially proud of our ICARUS graduates Rhonda and Ciara for taking this on. Local followers do go along and digitise a few values please.
Irish Weather Rescue | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Calling all weather and climate enthusiasts! Help us recreate the past climate of Ireland.
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🇪🇸 That's a wrap for our 2025 General Assembly! 🔎 We've heard lots of ideas and contributions from all the consortium - and the discussions will continue in the final year of the project. Thank you @lifewatcheric.bsky.social for hosting us this year, Seville was wonderful 💃
Join postdoc Dorota Kolbuk as she shows how #CitizenScience can support marine & coastal research efforts. Topics incl. how to get involved in coastal citizen science & the benefits these activities bring to environmental monitoring & community engagement. Register at forms.gle/CpNWS3SEFtzi...
Note: Saturday event cancelled due to (still) bad weather⚠️ Sunday still on - we'll be updating you if anything changes🌥️ @coastwatch-ire.bsky.social
Coastwatch@coastwatch-ire.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe are halfway through the survey season and there is still a lot of work to do! Join us this weekend at Dollymount Strand & Sandymount Beach! We hope to see you there, taking a moment to connect with nature & contribute to data around biodiversity, litter & water quality!
