Very happy to share, today, I started a part-time Senior Research Fellow (Zooarch) post with @shrewgod.bsky.social at ATU Galway City, on the COALESCE funded #PALAEO-IRELAND by @researcireland.ie

The Irish Upper Palaeolithic can’t hide from us! 🏺😊

Nothing like holding our prehistory in my hands - complete with cave sediment still on the bone fragment - here a partial tibia from reindeer. These cave bones will be washed next week and left to dry naturally for a couple of weeks. Then full examination and recording of info! #Palaeo-Ireland

Btw I recommend the current 'Wild Ireland' exhibition in the Ulster Museum. Lots of great wildlife and palaeo art by Julian Friers. A depressing record of so many species driven from the island by humans, but also includes examples of conservation success stories.

#museum #Belfast #wildlife #art

A busy return to Ireland, but the geology team of Clara and I had a great field season mapping palaeo-lake features in Glen Dee, such as this lake shoreline behind Corrour Bothy.

Finally can say our @researchireland.ie COALESCE funded project (coming up to half way through now), joint project between @ucddublin.bsky.social & ATU Galway & lots of collaborators, including Dr Richard Jennings @ljmuofficial.bsky.social & 14CHRONO

Our PALAEO-IRELAND project! 🏺

#PalaeoIreland

Dr. Paul S. MacDonald academic at Durham Uni, UK, then Murdoch Uni, Oz; retired in West Cork, Ireland. Author Descartes & Husserl (2000), History of the Concept of Mind vols. 1 & 2 (2003, 2007); two unpub’ed books from Amazon: Nature Loves to Hide (2018) and Palaeo-Philosophy (2020).