👩‍🎓🎓 UCD Assistant Professor Mary Kennedy has been appointed to the Social Workers Registration Board by Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD. Dr Kennedy is Programme Director of the Professional Master of Social Work at the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice.

🏦♻️ @novaucd.bsky.social and PTSB have announced a new accelerator programme to support the next generation of Irish climate technology and renewable energy start-ups to scale their businesses and bring sustainable solutions to global markets.

🦾🤖 Quantum computing can address very complicated problems for hospitals, banks, and manufacturers. UCD Assistant Professor Simon Caton explains: "Typically, they will come to us with a problem that they cannot solve." www.rte.ie/news/ireland... @ucdscience.bsky.social

Ireland plans to be key quantum computing player by 2030

The Government has published a new plan to make Ireland a key player in quantum computing by 2030.

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So happy to share that I passed my PhD viva earlier this week!! Massive thank you to my examiners Lynda Johnston & Dorota Szelewa, to my supervisors Kath Browne & Alun Jones, and to all the amazing people at @ucddublin.bsky.social (and beyond!) who have been there for me throughout this journey. 💜

👨‍🎓🎓 Many congratulations to UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School alumnus Eamonn Sinnott on his appointment to the Central Bank Commission for a five-year term.

🧑‍🎓📜 Warmest congratulations to UCD alumnus and Governing Authority member Dr Prag Sharma on his appointment as Bank of Ireland’s first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. @ucdsmurfitschool.bsky.social @ucdengarch.bsky.social

🚣🏆 What a weekend! Student rowers from UCD Ladies Boat Club and UCD Boat Club secured five national titles at the 2026 Irish Rowing Championships, with victories across novice, club and senior competition.

Congratulations to Professor Pat Guiry MRIA, former President of the RIA (2023-2026), on receiving the European Chemical Society’s Division of Organic Chemistry Award for Service 2025.

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🥇🧑‍🔬 Many congratulations to UCD Professor Pat Guiry, who has received the European Chemical Society’s Division of Organic Chemistry Award for Service 2025.

🥇🧑‍🔬 Many congratulations to UCD Professor Pat Guiry, who has received the European Chemical Society’s Division of Organic Chemistry Award for Service 2025.

Our PhD student Megan Nyhan's study, which involved 87 students from five different secondary schools in Ireland, found- involving young people directly in decisions about how social media platforms are designed and governed. Read more👇

University College Dublin@ucddublin.bsky.social · 4w ago

😤🤳 Teenagers are not passive victims of social media algorithms. They have a sophisticated understanding of how recommendations work and want a greater voice in the design and governance of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. 🧵

🏘️🔋 Ireland’s approach to housing will influence not only where people live, but how they travel, access services and use energy: "There are real-world consequences to quick-fix deregulation. Private property has public consequences." - Orla Hegarty, UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Env. Policy

Orla Hegarty: Garden cabins, rural sprawl and tiny apartments: housing has become a numbers game

The push is for more supply, any supply - but at what cost?

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💙💛 The University is deeply saddened by the passing of Oscar-winning Irish actress and UCD honorary degree recipient Brenda Fricker.

🥇💳 1st Place: Congratulations to UCD Computer Science students Adam McIntyre, David Remenyik and Simon Lasak, who have won first place and a $10,000 prize at an international AI hackathon in Boston. 👏 @ucdcs.bsky.social

🇮🇪🦈 Almost half a century of sightings has revealed that Ireland’s waters remain an important seasonal refuge for the endangered basking shark, with new research identifying long-standing hotspots where the world’s second-largest fish returns year after year. 🧵 @irishbaskingshark.bsky.social

🎓🏎️ Best of luck to UCD Formula Student as they take on teams from around the world at Formula Student 2026 at Silverstone this weekend. @ucdengarch.bsky.social

💙💛 President Catherine Connolly hosted a reception at Áras an Uachtaráin for students from Gaza who have come to study at universities in Ireland, including University College Dublin. @president.ie

🧑‍💻⛈️ “Weather forecasting has been completely transformed by our AI over the last two or three years.” - Professor Andrew Parnell, Met Éireann Professor of Data Science for Climate and Weather at UCD, Director of AIMSIR research institute #artificialintelligence #datascience #climatechange

AI is improving Pittsburgh's tornado forecasting — but its full potential isn't clear

New weather modeling AI could make forecasting major storms easier, but the future of this technology isn’t clear.

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🧑‍🎓👏 UCD alumnus Niall Norton appointed as Chief Executive Officer of TechIreland. @techireland.bsky.social A graduate of the UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business with a Bachelor of Commerce (BComm)...

💙💛 Our warmest congratulations to UCD Professor Cormac Taylor, who has been named the recipient of The Physiological Society’s 2027 Widening Participation in Physiology Prize Lecture.

‘Me and My Research’ is a new podcast series from History Hub which sees @ucddublin.bsky.social MA in Public History student Josh Clarke sit down with researchers from UCD School of History to explore their work, and the ideas that inspire them historyhub.ie/me-and-my-re...

Episode 1, 'Women in Early Modern Ireland, Me and My Research' features an interview with @francesmnolan.bsky.social who is PI on 'Law versus Practice' and SFI-IRC @researchireland.ie Pathway Fellow at @ucddublin.bsky.social historyhub.ie/me-and-my-re...

🇮🇪🇮🇹 University College Dublin (UCD) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD) joined forces to celebrate Ireland's pioneering role in Italian Studies as the first country in the world to establish university chairs in modern European languages.

UCD and TCD celebrate Ireland’s historic tradition and global vision in Italian Studies

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🥸🇮🇹 Dante… Bruno. Vico.. Joyce: When James Joyce was studying Italian at UCD between 1898 and 1902, one of his greatest discoveries was the 16th-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno. 📰 Read Frank McNally's latest @irishtimes.com An Irish Diary entry: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Talking Italian: Frank McNally on Joyce, Beckett and 250 years of language studies in Ireland

Joyce’s studies had been shaped by Giordano Bruno – a man considered a ‘terrible heretic’ in his own lifetime

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Thanks to @hwfmorris.bsky.social for this lovely little review of my latest album in today’s New York Times! Hat tip, to Howard Skempton also, without whom I might not have become a composer. @ucddublin.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/a...

5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

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💙💛 Many congratulations to UCD Professor Karina Pierce on her appointment as Dean of Agriculture at UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, becoming the first woman to hold the position. www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...

First female dean of agriculture appointed at UCD

Professor Karina Pierce is internationally recognised for her research on sustainable dairy cow production systems spanning grassland management, dairy cow nutrition, greenhouse gas emissions and farm...

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👨‍🎓🕰️ Congratulations to UCD graduate Ian Kinsella on an outstanding run in Channel 4's Countdown. Ian reached the semi-finals of this year's series after becoming an 'octochamp' with eight consecutive victories, scoring an impressive 812 points during his initial run. @channel4tv.bsky.social

😤🤳 Teenagers are not passive victims of social media algorithms. They have a sophisticated understanding of how recommendations work and want a greater voice in the design and governance of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. 🧵

👩‍🎓👩‍🔬 Enterprise Ireland chief executive Jenny Melia knows first-hand the importance of state financial support. Without grants from Kildare County Council, she might never have been able to study chemistry at UCD in the 1980s. www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

We’re nurturing future rock stars, says Enterprise Ireland boss

As head of the state development agency, Jenny Melia is just as happy to dole out cash to up-and-coming two-person teams as tech unicorns

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🔝🔟 ‘Top 10 Most Interesting Medical Publications’ of 2025: A study by UCD Professor Carel le Roux, comparing two of the world's leading obesity treatments, has been recognised by Altmetric as one of the ‘Top 10 Most Interesting Medical Publications’ of 2025. @ucdmedicine.bsky.social @altmetric.com

🏅💙 Warmest congratulations to UCD School of Medicine Professor Catherine Godson on being awarded the prestigious John Vane Medal by the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London.