Dr Sjúrður Hammer
@sjurdur.bsky.social
Faroe Islander Seabird ecotoxicology, 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 - got Meniere's too
2003 🇫🇴🏴🇩🇰🏴🇫🇴2017
2003 🇫🇴🏴🇩🇰🏴🇫🇴2017
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Dear grad students,
Reminder: it’s also totally fine to ignore your [uncle] who thinks your research is a waste of time and resources. You don’t owe people an explanation! They don’t have to get it!
Or, as someone told me as a life-changing piece of advice: reasons are for reasonable people.
Reminder: it’s also totally fine to ignore your [uncle] who thinks your research is a waste of time and resources. You don’t owe people an explanation! They don’t have to get it!
Or, as someone told me as a life-changing piece of advice: reasons are for reasonable people.
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Dear grad students,
Reminder: it’s also totally fine to ignore your [uncle] who thinks your research is a waste of time and resources. You don’t owe people an explanation! They don’t have to get it!
Or, as someone told me as a life-changing piece of advice: reasons are for reasonable people.
Reminder: it’s also totally fine to ignore your [uncle] who thinks your research is a waste of time and resources. You don’t owe people an explanation! They don’t have to get it!
Or, as someone told me as a life-changing piece of advice: reasons are for reasonable people.
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I know zero real scientists who say this.
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I know zero real scientists who say this.
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www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
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The party that firmly defined womanhood can’t decide what a child is
What is a Pedophile?
The party that firmly defined womanhood can’t decide what a child is
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The party that firmly defined womanhood can’t decide what a child is
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My contribution to #SuperSeabirdSunday: Blue Fulmar, Svalbard, June 2023.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My contribution to #SuperSeabirdSunday: Blue Fulmar, Svalbard, June 2023.
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Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share videos, photos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. This is my contribution; a family of Razorbills on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share videos, photos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. This is my contribution; a family of Razorbills on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday
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new account 🚨! hi everyone I'm Paige Byerly, a postdoc researcher from the US living in Germany. I work on conservation #genetics of a lot of species, including the endangered Great Bustard I'm holding, but my true love is #seabirds. I'm excited to rebuild a community of scientists on here ❤️
November 18, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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In our Climate Report my coauthors and I say: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. Consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
doi.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
In our Climate Report my coauthors and I say: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. Consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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f you’ve never heard of the Circular Seabird Economy, it’s the idea that seabirds feed on marine prey, and at their colonial nesting sites, primarily on islands, they deposit significant amounts of those nutrients (mostly in the form of guano) onto land.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
f you’ve never heard of the Circular Seabird Economy, it’s the idea that seabirds feed on marine prey, and at their colonial nesting sites, primarily on islands, they deposit significant amounts of those nutrients (mostly in the form of guano) onto land.
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I am very excited to share that we have a new paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com
In it, we summarize the state of knowledge on the Circular Seabird Economy!
1/n 🧪
Link to paper here: rdcu.be/eMOUd
In it, we summarize the state of knowledge on the Circular Seabird Economy!
1/n 🧪
Link to paper here: rdcu.be/eMOUd
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I am very excited to share that we have a new paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com
In it, we summarize the state of knowledge on the Circular Seabird Economy!
1/n 🧪
Link to paper here: rdcu.be/eMOUd
In it, we summarize the state of knowledge on the Circular Seabird Economy!
1/n 🧪
Link to paper here: rdcu.be/eMOUd
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If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
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👩🌾 Grab your tools
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
👩🌾 Grab your tools
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just broke my computer liking this post so hard
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
just broke my computer liking this post so hard
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Exit seminar done!
The recording is now available at this link: www.youtube.com/live/plSnpuK...
(you'll have to skip to around 29:30 as the livestream started 30 mins early)
The recording is now available at this link: www.youtube.com/live/plSnpuK...
(you'll have to skip to around 29:30 as the livestream started 30 mins early)
CSB/EEB seminars
YouTube video by CSB&EEB-Seminars
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Exit seminar done!
The recording is now available at this link: www.youtube.com/live/plSnpuK...
(you'll have to skip to around 29:30 as the livestream started 30 mins early)
The recording is now available at this link: www.youtube.com/live/plSnpuK...
(you'll have to skip to around 29:30 as the livestream started 30 mins early)
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Almost PhDone! I'll be giving my PhD exit seminar in the morning (Thursday), and defending on Friday.
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Almost PhDone! I'll be giving my PhD exit seminar in the morning (Thursday), and defending on Friday.
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I used to blame the original researchers who thought wolves in captivity were a good model. Now that the updated information has had decades to spread, I kinda blame the Omegaverse.
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I used to blame the original researchers who thought wolves in captivity were a good model. Now that the updated information has had decades to spread, I kinda blame the Omegaverse.
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More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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30-year anniversary lookback at Sokal affair hits differently as science, not only cultural studies/the humanities, is also being dismantled
thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...
thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...
Belittled Magazine | Bruce Robbins
Thirty years after the Sokal affair, whither the little magazine?
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
30-year anniversary lookback at Sokal affair hits differently as science, not only cultural studies/the humanities, is also being dismantled
thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...
thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...
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Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
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Gosh. Story has gone from 0 to 60 in the UK. Is leading BBC News this morning.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Gosh. Story has gone from 0 to 60 in the UK. Is leading BBC News this morning.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thinking about how the perfectly sane and humane - and not remotely radical - words coming out of this man’s mouth makes him an outlier in today’s political landscape.
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Thinking about how the perfectly sane and humane - and not remotely radical - words coming out of this man’s mouth makes him an outlier in today’s political landscape.
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Women and girls who have been sexually abused deserve justice
Whether they have been trafficked and raped by the rich and famous, or by other cruel men and women
#JeffreyEpstein
#GhislaineMaxwell
#DonaldTrump
Whether they have been trafficked and raped by the rich and famous, or by other cruel men and women
#JeffreyEpstein
#GhislaineMaxwell
#DonaldTrump
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Women and girls who have been sexually abused deserve justice
Whether they have been trafficked and raped by the rich and famous, or by other cruel men and women
#JeffreyEpstein
#GhislaineMaxwell
#DonaldTrump
Whether they have been trafficked and raped by the rich and famous, or by other cruel men and women
#JeffreyEpstein
#GhislaineMaxwell
#DonaldTrump
Who would have guessed that the wooly socks I bought in tkmaxx in Edinburgh were modelled off St. Kildan feet?
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Who would have guessed that the wooly socks I bought in tkmaxx in Edinburgh were modelled off St. Kildan feet?
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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