Des Higgins
Lapsed bioinformaticist. Dublin. Molecular Evolution and sequence alignment. Clustal. Current birder and not very good jazz guitarist. Ex TCD, EMBL, EBI, UCC and UCD.
- This is a 2 hour video that is part odyssey, part road trip, part investigation of why birders keep lists and is hilarious and witty and cleverly put together. What's not to like? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
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- I'm just back from 8 days seawatching from the Bridges of Ross in the west of Ireland. 355 sabine's gulls on one of the days.
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- So I'm watching a modern London version of a Sherlock Holmes story and I see a front door with the number 221b. I Google the address of SH and I see variants of the search including "Where did the real Sherlock Holmes live"? And there I was thinking it was fiction
- First day this year seawatching. 31 wilson's petrels seen from the Bridges of Ross from 6.30am until 6.30pm
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- RIP Ozzy. This was the sound of my mid teens complete with guest piano by Rick Wakeman. youtu.be/noUYAPdLMp0?...
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- 800 Palestinians killed waiting for food in the past 6 weeks. Am I anti-semitic in finding this appalling
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- I went past this view hundreds of times over the past 55 years and never looked up. You can smell the malt being roasted at certain times of the day. Those big vertical white tanks are full of Guinness. This is on the western outskirts of Dublin City centre upriver along the Liffey.
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- This is it. It is the endgame. Once established it gives absolute power. Expect arrests at polling stations. It is all so prosaic and easy and happening in front of everyone and everyone will do their "duty" or look away
- Reposted by Des HigginsHungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
- Twitch to Tory Island, 10km off N coast of Ireland today to see Ireland's first ever Song Sparrow (n American passerine). Found by @robertvaughani.bsky.social
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- @squidgerugby.bsky.social you are at the match in Dublin!!! I just saw the pair of you on Irish TV
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- I have seen lots of these abroad but this morning I managed to see a Bee-eater in Ireland, in Donegal. Photo taken using phone and scope.
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- Nightingale twitch on Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. Saw it for 2 seconds after 4 hour stakeout.
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- I was behind a Skoda Superb at traffic lights and got to thinking about the name was a bit ostentatious for Ireland. I came up with the more restrained: Skoda Not Too Bad Skoda Grand Skoda Fuckin Deadly In order of increasing cost
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- Higgins is derived from the viking (and current Norwegian) word for viking (Uigin). Dublinia viking museum offerering free entry for Paddy's Day.
- This is from Kilkee Co. Clare a year ago. It was a sunny day and I was relieving my suffering using conventional methods.
