Róisín Moriarty

This morning Irish climate experts wrote to Minister O'Brien @deptcee.bsky.social to express deep concern that urgent #methane reduction risks being undermined if climate targets are set using a ‘temperature neutrality’ approach. 1/13

New Gist: The Petty Bourgeoisie This week Jim O'Callaghan, the Minister for Justice, had a rollercoaster ride through the media landscape, provided that rollercoaster was Oblivion, the vertical drop into darkness. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Empower kids. Support adults who support them.

Do you have experience in evaluation, applied social research or impact assessment, ideally involving culture, communities, climate and environment? Seeking expressions of interest from experienced Embedded Project Evaluators for exciting Creative Climate Action Project. www.antaisce.org/vacancies

What’s on the Line at COP31? Join An Taisce & Environmental Justice Network Ireland for an urgent briefing on what COP31 means for Ireland, global emissions and the race to shift from promises on climate to action. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @ejni.bsky.social #COP31 #ClimateCrisis

The Exxon ad Exxon doesn't want you to see. New from Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social and voiced by Woody Harrelson.

Climate To Identify As Bank In Hopes People Will Save It https://loom.ly/kW5VOTY

Out today, the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2026, with our new chapter (five) on where the world stands across the action areas of the global stocktake, and what we must do, together, to limit exceedance of 1.5°C🧵 Co-led with @sophieboehm.bsky.social and @louisejeffery.bsky.social

500 years ago today, a pandemic, a divisive election and white-on-white violence sparked one of America’s greatest traditions A thread.

"If fossil fuels keep burning at present rates, we are headed for apocalyptic civilisational collapse" "Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to stop them" 💚Sally Rooney💚

I had a fun change of audience today, talking to my kids’ primary school about where our energy comes from. I showed them the super book written by my friend @willmcdowall.bsky.social, and we brainstormed the brilliant jobs they could do when they’re older to help protect the planet.

#uptheworkers

We are advertising a Master 2 internship (5 months) starting end of January 2027! 📣 👇 If you want to dig into past Holocene glaciation in the Andes through cosmogenic dating and glaciological modeling, this is for you! 🏔️ 🧊 ⏱️ Work based in @cerege.bsky.social. Please apply before Nov. 5th!

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

The Irish for strike is stailc and it’s the perfect word for it, the defiance in your face when you say it out loud ✊

While writing up an analysis of environment implications of the budget I went back to what I had done for Budget 2025 for comparison. What people are missing is that the concern its just that the gov has paused the carbon tax, its that the carbon tax was never being allocated correctly to begin with

Urgent appeal to get Gaza students added to the evacuation lists before the deadline on October 15th. Add your name to the petition or send a letter to Minister Helen McEntee and your local reps. academiaforpalestine.org/support-for-...

I had a very very minor bit part to play in this hugely impressive work by Derrick Muhecki as part of his PhD rescuing millions of meteorological records from the Congo Basin. Congrats to Derrick on the work. esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Asbestos for the mind is a phrase I'll be using from now.

Climate Action Week is Ireland's National Festival of Climate Action. Let's all think big, be innovative, join in and have fun! Check out ClimateActionWeek.ie, it's a low-carbon website and a one-stop hub for events, resources and much more. #climateactionweek @climateambassador.bsky.social

Delighted to see this pre-print online. Great work by PhD student Neha Jaggeshar on creating a national intergrated model so we can explore interactions across land (L), energy (E), agriculture (A) and forest (F) systems. Discussion open egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

The Walkout As it was foretold, members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) held a one-hour stoppage on Maynooth University campus today to mark World Teachers’ Day. The turnout was very good, helped by the reasonably nice weather. As well as speeches from members of IFUT, there…

Today is #WorldTeachersDay. I will be joining members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) in a one-hour walkout as part of an ongoing dispute. For more information, see here. www.ifut.ie/content/ifut...

It would, I think, be worthwhile if those of us engaged in the work stoppage today, and the forthcoming strike days on the 14th & 21st (if they go ahead), were to observe the digital picket during those times. Posting is public engagement, and public engagement is part of your job. #digitalpicket

#digitalpicket

Members of my union, IFUT, will have a one hour work stoppage today, from 12-1, as part of the broader public sector union dispute. Read about it here: www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... - solidarity welcome on World Teachers Day

Good luck to IFUT colleagues in one-hour work stoppage today - hopefully these issues on public sector pay can be resolved soon

As part of the ongoing public sector pay dispute I participated in a 1 hour work stoppage this afternoon. Today is World Teacher’s day, if education is valued those who teach, research, supervise and support students need to be valued too! #Solidarity to all those who are taking industrial action

My column in The Irish Times today is about heating oil, and how policy can deal with the awful pain facing households depending on it to heat their homes this winter. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

WTF is he talking about? Unions have been trying to talk for months, if not longer, and the government has just dragged its heels

"Ending Fossil Power", the latest report from Stop Climate Chaos Ireland. –Data shows Ireland far off track from meeting climate commitments so urgent action needed. –Climate Action Plan is now long-overdue –Government is actively evading climate obligations. www.stopclimatechaos.ie/news/2026/09...

This is a significant move by the CRU and shows the risks of embedding data centres further into our grid. The response by the industry also highlights that tech companies are not 'good energy citizens' that will provide public services for free. 1/2 www.businesspost.ie/tech/irish-e...

The case for planning for the inevitable, well made.

Genuinely great to see solar, heat pump and retrofit grants targeting vulnerable homes. It's also good to see the boiler scrappage scheme come immediately rather than in January. I'm sure a lot of people retrofitting right now, and the companies, are relieved they will qualify.

something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵

We badly need to increase the level of transport capital funding for cycling and walking. We met Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers on the 15th to present our budget submission- www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/irish-cyclin... 1/3

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Despite finding success as a filmmaker in the 1950s and 1960s, Flora Kerrigan remains largely unknown today. A Research Ireland-funded project is helping uncover her story and shine a light on overlooked women in Irish film history. Read on @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/20...

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

"We each have responsibility to radically re-evaluate our own complicity in their power." I'm not normally one to recommend marking books but The Nerd Reich requires several different colour highlighters - there are so many quotes you will want to refer back to. My thoughts, condensed:

Imagine, globally, if all the resources - money, time, lobbying, land, investment etc. - given to tech data centres were transferred to libraries. What a wonderful world this would be📚💙

IFUT Strike Days The IFUT ballot has now closed, with the result an overwhelming majority (92.5%) in favour of industrial action, up to and including strike action.

Myself, Seán Fearon and Pat Brodie have published a report today examining the exaggerated benefits and significant costs of data centres to Ireland. Below is a short thread on some of the key takeaways. Read the full report here: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/21... 1/6