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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🇸🇪🇩🇰🇬🇱 PM of Sweden:
Only Denmark and Greenland have the right to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland. Sweden fully stands up for our neighboring country.
Only Denmark and Greenland have the right to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland. Sweden fully stands up for our neighboring country.
January 4, 2026 at 8:32 PM
🇸🇪🇩🇰🇬🇱 PM of Sweden:
Only Denmark and Greenland have the right to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland. Sweden fully stands up for our neighboring country.
Only Denmark and Greenland have the right to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland. Sweden fully stands up for our neighboring country.
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My cartoon for Monday's Metro.
January 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
My cartoon for Monday's Metro.
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There are people who say there's no such thing as the best seabird in the world. These are people who haven't seen Light-mantled Albatross. North of Elephant Island yesterday.
#Birds #Albatross #SuperSeabirdSunday
#Birds #Albatross #SuperSeabirdSunday
January 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM
There are people who say there's no such thing as the best seabird in the world. These are people who haven't seen Light-mantled Albatross. North of Elephant Island yesterday.
#Birds #Albatross #SuperSeabirdSunday
#Birds #Albatross #SuperSeabirdSunday
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In the same way the invasion of Ukraine motivated Finland & Sweden to immediately request full membership of NATO, both for their safety & as statement, Starmer should consider making an emergency request for the UK to rejoin the EU.
The post WW2 peace is over.
We live in a time of sharks & food.
The post WW2 peace is over.
We live in a time of sharks & food.
January 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
In the same way the invasion of Ukraine motivated Finland & Sweden to immediately request full membership of NATO, both for their safety & as statement, Starmer should consider making an emergency request for the UK to rejoin the EU.
The post WW2 peace is over.
We live in a time of sharks & food.
The post WW2 peace is over.
We live in a time of sharks & food.
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“There are signs seabird colonies are beginning to recover in Alderney after their numbers were devastated by avian flu, conservationists have said.
“The Alderney Wildlife Trust (AWT) said the island's Northern Gannet colony had grown by 11% since 2023.”
#Seabirds
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“The Alderney Wildlife Trust (AWT) said the island's Northern Gannet colony had grown by 11% since 2023.”
#Seabirds
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Conservationists celebrate rise in seabird numbers in Alderney
Alderney's gannet colony grows by 11% since 2023, suggesting recovery from bird flu, experts say.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 8:56 PM
“There are signs seabird colonies are beginning to recover in Alderney after their numbers were devastated by avian flu, conservationists have said.
“The Alderney Wildlife Trust (AWT) said the island's Northern Gannet colony had grown by 11% since 2023.”
#Seabirds
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“The Alderney Wildlife Trust (AWT) said the island's Northern Gannet colony had grown by 11% since 2023.”
#Seabirds
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wanted to go back to listen tó CDC ideas podcast in 2023 - an interview with Bill Montevecchi, but I can't seem to find it available anywhere. Do any fellow #seabirders happen to have a download of this episode?? 🧪🌍
January 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
I wanted to go back to listen tó CDC ideas podcast in 2023 - an interview with Bill Montevecchi, but I can't seem to find it available anywhere. Do any fellow #seabirders happen to have a download of this episode?? 🧪🌍
January 1, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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Man who supported governments that cut public services for fourteen years complains about cuts to police, schools and healthcare.
December 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Man who supported governments that cut public services for fourteen years complains about cuts to police, schools and healthcare.
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This is a grand idea for “reducing,” as the author says, “integrity issues that are harming the #scientific #literature.”
Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit, says researcher Jennifer A. Byrne
go.nature.com/4sgKWzg
go.nature.com/4sgKWzg
Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer
Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.
go.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is a grand idea for “reducing,” as the author says, “integrity issues that are harming the #scientific #literature.”
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And here ironically, I invoke the sainted Philip Kindred Dick:
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Because belief is not intellectual. It is material. And it is not inside our heads, but is what we do, and participate in, consciously and unconsciously.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Because belief is not intellectual. It is material. And it is not inside our heads, but is what we do, and participate in, consciously and unconsciously.
December 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
And here ironically, I invoke the sainted Philip Kindred Dick:
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Because belief is not intellectual. It is material. And it is not inside our heads, but is what we do, and participate in, consciously and unconsciously.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Because belief is not intellectual. It is material. And it is not inside our heads, but is what we do, and participate in, consciously and unconsciously.
Does it interest anyone on here to know that in a few small communities in the Nordics people still eat seabird eggs, and that we are going to screen those eggs for PFAS next summer to estimate the human exposure via consumption of seabird eggs. Let me hear your thoughts #seabirds #PFAS 🧪🌍
December 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Wrote this short blogpost on a topic I have been thinking about and wrestling with for years. I would love to hear if any of this resonates with any of you islanders or small communities. #academics #research #philosophy
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
Why the Faroese Academic Landscape Looks the Way It Does
When we talk about the Faroese academic field—its uneven standards, its peculiar hierarchies, its unpredictable pathways to credibility—we often fall back on a familiar explanation: meritocracy, or…
sjurdurh.wordpress.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Wrote this short blogpost on a topic I have been thinking about and wrestling with for years. I would love to hear if any of this resonates with any of you islanders or small communities. #academics #research #philosophy
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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Wrote this short blogpost on a topic I have been thinking about and wrestling with for years. I would love to hear if any of this resonates with any of you islanders or small communities. #academics #research #philosophy
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
Why the Faroese Academic Landscape Looks the Way It Does
When we talk about the Faroese academic field—its uneven standards, its peculiar hierarchies, its unpredictable pathways to credibility—we often fall back on a familiar explanation: meritocracy, or…
sjurdurh.wordpress.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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For the history buffs on here, do you think Trump is making a similar strategic mistake as Hitler did with Bismarck and Tirpitz?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
A ‘Trump Class’ Folly on the High Seas
Ukraine sees the future of naval warfare. The White House doesn’t.
www.theatlantic.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
For the history buffs on here, do you think Trump is making a similar strategic mistake as Hitler did with Bismarck and Tirpitz?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wrote this short blogpost on a topic I have been thinking about and wrestling with for years. I would love to hear if any of this resonates with any of you islanders or small communities. #academics #research #philosophy
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
Why the Faroese Academic Landscape Looks the Way It Does
When we talk about the Faroese academic field—its uneven standards, its peculiar hierarchies, its unpredictable pathways to credibility—we often fall back on a familiar explanation: meritocracy, or…
sjurdurh.wordpress.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Wrote this short blogpost on a topic I have been thinking about and wrestling with for years. I would love to hear if any of this resonates with any of you islanders or small communities. #academics #research #philosophy
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
sjurdurh.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/w...
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“Miss, do you agree with the sign?”
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Miss, do you agree with the sign?”
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
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-U.S. Democratic Socialist
"I don't want JD Vance to apologize for the color of his skin.
I want JD Vance to apologize for the content of his character."
"I don't want JD Vance to apologize for the color of his skin.
I want JD Vance to apologize for the content of his character."
December 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
-U.S. Democratic Socialist
"I don't want JD Vance to apologize for the color of his skin.
I want JD Vance to apologize for the content of his character."
"I don't want JD Vance to apologize for the color of his skin.
I want JD Vance to apologize for the content of his character."
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Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God reut.rs/4pbeags
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.
reut.rs
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God reut.rs/4pbeags
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Pope Leo vs. Franklin Graham
December 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Pope Leo vs. Franklin Graham
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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All I want for Christmas is Democrats for start driving their social media traffic to their Bluesky posts, not to Twitter.
Folks are welcome to post on Twitter/X but we should not be driving traffic there. Am amazed this remains a common tactic.
Folks are welcome to post on Twitter/X but we should not be driving traffic there. Am amazed this remains a common tactic.
December 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
All I want for Christmas is Democrats for start driving their social media traffic to their Bluesky posts, not to Twitter.
Folks are welcome to post on Twitter/X but we should not be driving traffic there. Am amazed this remains a common tactic.
Folks are welcome to post on Twitter/X but we should not be driving traffic there. Am amazed this remains a common tactic.
"Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD)"
An eclectic mixture of etnography, inorganic chemistry and seabird/island ecology. In 2026 we will be looking for a PhD student in AU in Denmark, and a PostDoc in the Faroes. Please share!
dff.dk/hvad-har-vi-...
An eclectic mixture of etnography, inorganic chemistry and seabird/island ecology. In 2026 we will be looking for a PhD student in AU in Denmark, and a PostDoc in the Faroes. Please share!
dff.dk/hvad-har-vi-...
Se oversigt over støttet forskning
På siden her kan du se alle forskningsprojekter, som Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond har støttet siden 2014.
dff.dk
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD)"
An eclectic mixture of etnography, inorganic chemistry and seabird/island ecology. In 2026 we will be looking for a PhD student in AU in Denmark, and a PostDoc in the Faroes. Please share!
dff.dk/hvad-har-vi-...
An eclectic mixture of etnography, inorganic chemistry and seabird/island ecology. In 2026 we will be looking for a PhD student in AU in Denmark, and a PostDoc in the Faroes. Please share!
dff.dk/hvad-har-vi-...