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Ever wondered how a salmon remembers its way home? Or how scientists can tell where a mammoth wandered thousands of years ago—without needing a GPS collar the size of a small car? Welcome to the world of migration from isotopes , where atoms become storytellers. This week at Atomic Ecology I have been preparing lectures for my new online  course took a dive into how isotopic chemistry can trace the movement of animals, from salmon in Scottish loughs to monarch butterflies flu

We are preparing for an election here in Ireland—we’ll be voting for our 10th president this day next week—and the pre-election polls, now synonymous with major elections, are landing fast and frequently. Thankfully, the Irish presidential election is not quite the ordeal that the US one is, and the polling is not quite as frantic. My decade in Canada coincided with several US election cycles, and like many Canadians, I spent far too long focusing on what was likely to happen

Friday is blog day, and this Friday also happens to be World Egg Day ! Yes, it seems we even have a special day to celebrate eggs. At...

An Atomic origin story…. Today is my birthday, I have just turned 45 and life is wide open and scary as hell. In the last year, I have...

Food webs are the blueprint for ecosystems, detailing how nutrients and energy fuel every aspect of life on Earth.