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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🦇⭐️ Cover Star: Huge congratulations to UCD Professor Emma Teeling, whose latest groundbreaking bat research features on the most recent cover of the prestigious journal @nature.com. 👏 @emmateeling.bsky.social

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New paper out in Yeast: Fellipe de Mello & team established a collection of ecologically diverse Brazilian yeasts and screened their performance in industrially relevant conditions, discovering some species that could be used for industrial applications 🇧🇷 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Screening of Brazilian Isolated Yeasts Reveals Multiple Potential Chassis for Industrial Biotechnology

Harnessing Brazilian microbial diversity, comprehensive phenotypic screening of 79 yeast isolates identified non-conventional strains with superior multi-stress tolerance and metabolic versatility co...

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Stephen Daly @slishwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Explore this gift article from @nytimes.com about a study of bat evolution by my UCD colleague Prof. Emma Teeling @emmateeling.bsky.social and coauthors, just published in @nature.com. You can read the article free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/s...

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New Study Illuminates Bats’ Murky Origins (Gift Article)

The largest analysis of bat genomes and fossils suggests that the first bats emerged in Europe roughly 65 million years ago and that echolocation evolved early.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🍄‍🟫💻 Explore UKCEH’s new Fungi Explorer, an interactive tool revealing the hidden world of soil fungi across Great Britain using DNA data from 1,000+ Countryside Survey soil samples. Search species, map distributions, or match your own DNA sequences. connect-apps.ceh.ac.uk/fungal-explo…

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🐑📜 Some of Europe’s most well-known historic manuscripts, including the York Gospels, have proven to be biological time capsules for uncovering the 3,500-year history of the sheeppox virus (SPPV). 🧵

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026

Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon. Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

💙💛 Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

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Max Haase @maxhaase.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14

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Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres - Nature

Evolutionarily related ‘proto-point’ centromeres providing resolution to the evolutionary origins of point centromeres are identified in yeast, and comparison shows they evolved in an ancestor with re...

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 17/01/2026

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X. The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

💙💛 Nine UCD projects will share in €34.5 million of funding announced to support “high-risk, high-reward” projects. Funding under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme, seven UCD initiatives are supported through the Projects stream, while two were funded under the Awards stream.

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UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Exciting recognition for UCD undergraduate research! The @microbiologysociety.org has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗 bit.ly/3LiJonn

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This is great! Straight into the lab journal club folder

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DjuranovicLab at Brown University RNA Center @djuranoviclab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Our RAPPL purification of ribosomes and associated material is out. I am really proud of this study in collaboration primary with Pavlovic-Djuranovic lab, as well as Jovanovic and Hashem Labs. This method aims to replace 60 years old purification of ribosomes by sucrose cushions rdcu.be/ezlhg

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A rapid, simple, and economical method for the isolation of ribosomes and translational machinery for structural and functional studies

Nature Communications - Here, the authors present a method to rapidly isolate actively translating ribosomes in a time- and cost-effective manner using poly-lysine. The method is compatible with a...

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Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · 18/07/2025

Research Ireland, on behalf of @deptoffhed.bsky.social, have today launched Global Talent Ireland - a new initiative to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. For more information visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

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Global Talent Ireland - Research Ireland

Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. Researchers funded through this programme are required to transfer their rese...

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

NEW pub: The role of metabolism in shaping #enzyme structures over 400 million years. Now out in @nature.com Super grateful to have played a small role in this project - congrats to lead/corr authors Oliver, Benjamin, and Markus! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #alphafold #evolution #genomics

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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🧪👩‍🔬This Sat 14 June, 12 scientists will bring their fascinating research to Dublin city centre! #SoapboxScience Drop by South King St 1-4pm to join them in exploring topics ranging from nematodes & reptiles, to DNA & human health at this FREE event. ucd.ie/research/new...

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UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🎉Huge congratulations to Simran Khatri, Stage 3 Pharmacology student,who has been named joint winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award. Her essay “In Life for Life – A Monologue from the Heart of a Young Researcher,” is a powerful reflection on the ethics of animal research in science. bit.ly/4mtiwPR

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 08/05/2025

Only one week to go until the abstract submission deadline for Candida and Candidiasis 2025! Make sure to submit your abstract by 15 May 2025 at 23:59 BST. Find out more on our website. microb.io/Candida2025A... #Candida2025

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Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Felt surreal to be live on Sky News Breakfast talking about fungal pathogens and climate change🍄‍🟫🗺️ Hopefully more people will learn about the wonderful (and scary) world of fungi this way

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Help pupils from Irish schools who won a NASA competition to attend the International Space Development Conference in Florida and showcase their hard work. If you can, please click the link below to donate or share it with others. Thanks for your support!

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Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com · 04/04/2025

Abstract submission for the Candida and Candidiasis conference, held in Berlin 6th-9th October 2025, is open until 15th May: microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

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Candida and Candidiasis 2025

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Tariff rate is calculated the same way as the Impact Factor

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🔬💎 Exciting news for UCD Professors Oliver Blacque, Peter Haughton, and Eoin Casey, whose projects will receive over €5.3 million in funding from Research Ireland’s Research Infrastructure Programme. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

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UCD research infrastructure projects receive more than €5.3m in funding

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My mother had diphtheria. She survived the hospitalisation; her younger brother did not. Was common in Dublin, now eliminated.

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Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...

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Danny Boy

YouTube video by Blakwulf

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This was part of a fantastic presentation at ECFG17. HGT in real time! Straight to the lab journal club…

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

💎⛏️ Warmest congratulations to Professor Sarah Gleeson, the newly appointed Director of the iCRAG Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences at University College Dublin. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

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Professor Sarah Gleeson named new iCRAG Director

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Goodbye from (most) of the local organising committee for #ECFG17, see you all in Helsinki in 2027!

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Many congrats to Profs Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Aoife McLysaght @tcddublin.bsky.social featured on Irish stamps.

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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Registration is open for @official-smbe.bsky.social satellite meeting in Chile. We have a great lineup of speakers for topics in Microbial ExpEvo and Adaptation 👏👏 Please consider attending. Plenty of scholarships for students and postdocs! Register here: 👇 smbechile2025.cl @ibiochile.bsky.social

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SMBE Chile 2025

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We are indebted to Alessia Buscaino for the discovery that the Candida albicans type SC5314 type strain is an RNAi Argonaut mutant. Her great talk today also shows that this is relevant to microbiome and macrophage interactions and has host niche specific consequences. @ecfg172025.bsky.social

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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

380 Candida parapsilosis strains sequenced by Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social These strains are 99.98% similar! They are also phenotypically similar Pangenome analysis to the rescue! 🛟 They find 68 accessory genes... And these are often Major Facilitator Superfamily #ecfg17

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Pangenome analysis of Candida parapsilosis and its strategies for generating drug resistance via copy number variation ⁦‪Geraldine Butler #ECFG17

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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Cheers to 🍻 S. eubayanus - the lager beer! Sean Bergin reveals the population structure of wild S. eubayanus... And finds they are probably poor beer makers #ecfg17

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Great start to #ECFG17 today. Think I’ve heard this guy before…

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Good work George.

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