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Pervasive surveillance of people is being used to access, monetise, coerce, and control
Analyses of over 40,000 documents, computer vision papers and downstream patents spanning four decades indicates the extent of this surveillance and the rise of obfuscating language that helps to normalise such approaches.
25 Jun 2025
Culture|Research|Society
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers its first exoplanet
The exoplanet – TWA 7 b – is similar in mass to Saturn, and around 10 times lighter than anything we have previously been able to image from afar.
25 Jun 2025
Research|Science
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Trinity researchers secure Research Ireland Pathway awards
Four Trinity researchers have secured awards worth a combined total of €2.57 million under Research Ireland’s Pathway funding programme.
25 Jun 2025
Awards and Funding|Culture|Health|Research|Science
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Custodian of Romanian Crown visits Trinity
Her Majesty Margareta, Custodian of the Romanian Crown, and His Royal Highness Prince Radu came Trinity today as part of their visit to Ireland.
24 Jun 2025
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Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, the creator of Sfera con Sfera, has died
Catherine Giltrap, Curator and Head of the University Art Collections expressed her heartfelt sympathy to Pomodoro’s colleagues and family, and plans to continue with Trinity's preparations to commemorate 100 years since his birth in 2026.
23 Jun 2025
Arts|Community|Society
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A genomic wormhole – rapidly reorganised genomes likely helped species switch from the sea to the land
A comparative study shows that marine worms shattered their genome and rebuilt it in a radically different form when they first emerged from the sea 200 million years ago
23 Jun 2025
Research|Science
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Trinity researchers receive €500,000 to develop AI platform to help teachers
The €500,000 funding was granted under Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund, which supports third-level researchers to translate their research into innovative and commercially viable products, services and companies.
23 Jun 2025
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Science
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Three new Trinity projects to address climate challenges
Dr John Kennedy, Prof. Wolfgang Schmitt, and Matthew Chersich have secured Environmental Protection Agency funding to support related research.
19 Jun 2025
Awards and Funding|Environment|Health|Research|Science
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Trinity climbs to 75th place in 2026 QS World University Rankings
Trinity’s Provost and President Dr Linda Doyle said: “The rankings news encourages us to be even bolder in our ambition for Trinity and, indeed, for Ireland - an ambition that should be championed and defended regardless of the rankings. "
19 Jun 2025
Awards and Funding|Community|Research
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Scientists solve 30-year micronutrient mystery, opening door to new medical research
The discovery will help scientists now explore the important role of “queuosine”, a microscopic molecule first discovered in the 1970s, in cancer and human health.
18 Jun 2025
Health|Research|Science
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New video series teaches long-term impacts of political conflict
The Centre for Economics, Policy and History has collaborated on a new video series for students showing how data can help us understand the long-term impacts of political conflict.
18 Jun 2025
Research|Society
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Irish language champion Linda Ervine receives Trinity honorary degree
Dermot Smurfit, renowned osteoporosis expert Moira O’Brien, and Sir Donnell Deeny also all received Trinity’s highest honour from Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese at a ceremony conducted in Latin in the historic Public Theatre.
13 Jun 2025
Awards and Funding|Business|Community|Society
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More supports needed for children and young adults experiencing domestic violence and abuse
The main consideration of the research was to elevate and centre children’s voices, to clearly show that they have distinct needs that must be addressed separately from adult survivors.
12 Jun 2025
Health|Society
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Trinity PhD candidate wins 2025 EU 3-Minute Thesis competition
With her presentation, called "Triggering Healing: Materials that outsmart Brain Cancer", Almudena had emerged victorious from the final of Trinity's internal 3MT competition, which took place in March.
12 Jun 2025
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Students
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Centre for Forced Migration Studies hosts Wole Soyinka Lecture
Trinity's Centre for Forced Migration Studies recently hosted the 27th Wole Soyinka Lecture, titled "Building Resilient, Cohesive Communities and the Challenges of Global Migration".
10 Jun 2025
Community|Society
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Silicate clouds discovered in atmosphere of distant exoplanet
Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant “exoplanets” form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in extraordinary detail.
10 Jun 2025
Research|Science
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Trinity chefs go hyperlocal, serving herbs grown on campus
Trinity Catering chefs will cook meals from ingredients grown in a newly installed kitchen garden, called Trinity Beo, on the roof of Trinity Business School. The garden has hardier plants like rosemary, thyme, mint and nasturtium, along with fruits like strawberries, apples and pears.
9 Jun 2025
Sustainability
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Eavan Boland Award celebrates creativity, connection & cross-border exchange in poetry
The award is open to submissions from early-career poets based in the UK and mid-career poets based in Ireland.
6 Jun 2025
Awards and Funding|Culture|Research
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From That Small Island TV series features Trinity researchers and treasures
A host of Trinity researchers will feature in a new four-part documentary series on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player which traces 8,000 years of Irish history, with the first episode airing on Sunday, June 8th.
5 Jun 2025
Culture|Research|Science|Society
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Heatwaves greatly influence parasite burden; likely spread of disease
New research from scientists at Trinity College Dublin strongly implies that heatwaves have a major influence on the spread of many diseases – and that many existing predictive models have overlooked this complexity.
4 Jun 2025
Environment|Health|Research|Science