Dr Sjúrður Hammer

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Islander Seabird ecotoxicology, biomarkers - biodiversity and invasive species. Hoarder of bird skulls, feathers & eggshells. Natural history books and taxidermy are my love languages. University of Aberdeen and Glasgow alumni

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'Pablo Escobar’s Abandoned Hippos Are Wreaking Havoc in the Colombian Jungle' (H/T Dynamic Ecology) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... 🧪🦛

Pablo Escobar’s Abandoned Hippos Are Wreaking Havoc in the Colombian Junglewww.smithsonianmag.com Decades ago, the drug baron smuggled the beasts into South America for his private menagerie. They’ve been multiplying ever since. Now officials are taking extreme measures to counter the problem

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A study from the University of Exeter suggests Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) chicks prefer seafood even after being raised on a diet of the sort of scraps found around humans. #Seabirds #Ornithology www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Herring gull chicks would rather have fish than your chips, finds studywww.theguardian.com Rescued chicks favour seafood, suggesting they turn to urban diet as adults from necessity rather than preference

Footballs coming home

#naturalisttrolling

OK who put Ibisbills in with Oystercatchers?! We're gonna have to go outside and "discuss" this...

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The shark doctor is in! Ask me anything. Have questions about sharks? Marine biology? Ocean conservation? Me? Anything at all? Ask me anything! Ask away, my flight is in two hours and I’m bored. Tag friends who might have questions, and please share! 🧪🦑🌎

Researchgate are you alright?

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Here’s an element of my teaching philosophy. If one student has a question, maybe just they didn’t understand the topic. If several students ask the same question, it probably means I didn’t explain it well enough. If I get the same question from 3+ students, I email the answer to everyone.

Nice day deploy GPS loggers on Northern fulmar #seabirds #biologging 🌍🧪

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📢 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY Applications now open for our Small Research Grants and Career Development Bursaries Funding #ornithology around the globe Deadline: 31 October 2024 ➡️ Research Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... ➡️ Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...#ornithology around the globe Deadline: 31 October 2024 ➡️ Research Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... ➡️ Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...

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A tiny, rare fragment of wild native habitat around a rushing river at Puleen, Beara. These places exist only because they're inaccessible to sheep + other grazers. We *know* what's required for nature to return. #Rewilding 🌎

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

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#Postdoc position in #seabirds spatial population dynamics at NINA Tromsø. Apply by 1st September. nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/57-post... #jobs

Norsk institutt for naturforskning | Postdoctoral position in spatial population modelling in seabirdsnina.attract.reachmee.com IntroductionNorwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) is the leading research institute for applied ecology in Norway. Applications are invited for a two-year postdoctoral research associate posi...

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Tonight I saw a good and decent man who may be past his prime, but has made great progress on a lot of issues I care about. And I saw a terrifying lying crazy person who would destroy a lot of things I care about, if not the country itself.

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I’m honored.

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Lately, journalists have asked if scientists didn't warn us enough, or didn't know how bad climate change would be. Scientists did their jobs. It's fossil fuel companies who lied about climate impacts FOR DECADES. They're to blame for these heat waves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents showwww.theguardian.com Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak

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This looks good, by @robthomasbirds.bsky.social "The first definitive work on the European Storm-petrel and its relatives, by one of the world's leading experts on the species." There's a pre-order offer before publication on 18 July. #Seabirds #Ornithology www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stormpetr...

In order to make the trapping as good as possible, I estimate predicted hatching date using egg volume over mass Aldará et al (doi.org/10.61350/sbj...) #fieldcraft #seabirds 🌍🧪

Magnificent birds great skuas #seabirds

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A taste of what rewilding might look like in Ireland. Our nation is more in need of wild places than virtually any other on the entire planet. Time to start letting nature come back: into our land, into our lives. 🌎

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It's not harmless. It's not "just an innocent thing" to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level. Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.

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We are heading towards 3°C #globalwarming. What will it be like? And how can we prevent it, with the help of nature-based solutions? New book - open access! springerprofessional.de/3-degrees-mo... All chapters can be downloaded for free (including mine).

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The Biden-Harris administration has been excellent on climate and the environment 🧪🌎 www.americanprogress.org/article/secr...

Secretary Deb Haaland Has Made Historic Progress at the Department of the Interiorwww.americanprogress.org Deb Haaland, the 54th U.S. secretary of the interior, has delivered historic conservation policies and made groundbreaking progress in addressing the treatment of Tribal and Indigenous peoples in the ...

@shteyngart.bsky.social your cruise story in @theatlantic.bsky.social was my favorite prose of the year!

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Wiley's 'fake science' scandal "The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Wiley has now pulled more than 11,300 papers and shuttered 19 journals."

The Wiley scandal illuminates a much bigger crisis of trust confronting universities around the worldwww.abc.net.au Wiley's Hindawi scandal offers a window into a thriving black market of fake science, corrupted research and bogus authorship. It also illuminates a much broader crisis of trust confronting universiti...

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The @adriftlab.bsky.social is looking for applicants to the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship scheme! We do cutting-edge research on the effects of #PlasticPollution on wildlife, mixing lab & field tools. Folks with CT/morphology or wildlife acoustics experience particularly encouraged!

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Projecting marine fish distributions during early life stages under future climate scenariosonlinelibrary.wiley.com Fish and Fisheries is an interdisciplinary journal covering fish biology, fisheries and aquaculture – from molecular biology & genetics to behavior & conservation.

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My recent story on Tromelin Island has been syndicated to @theatlantic.bsky.social — great to see seabird conservation getting a bigger stage! 🌍🧪

A Rat Purge Saved This Islandwww.theatlantic.com Eliminating the rodents was all it took to revive a seabird paradise.

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"Clearly now, we are reaching a very high level of interest so I would say that yes it seems to be inevitable." - ISA Secretary-General Michael Lodge. www.cnbc.com/2024/02/19/c.... $TMC

Deep-sea mining 'seems to be inevitable,' UN regulator says, as fight for critical minerals heats upwww.cnbc.com Michael Lodge, secretary-general of the ISA, told CNBC that global interest in deep-sea mining has climbed to levels not seen since the 1970s.

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Several #seabird species, especially common guillemots and #puffins in the SEAPOP-colony Hornøya, are currently affected by an #oilspill. The source of the oil is unknown. Article in Norwegian - pictures speaking for themselves #pollution www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnm...

Oljesøl dreper utrydningstruede sjøfugler i Finnmark – jakt på kilden til utslippetwww.nrk.no Tung, seig olje har rammet hundrevis av utrydningstruede sjøfugler i naturreservatet på Hornøya i Finnmark. Ingen vet hvor dødsfellen befinner seg i havet.