Dr Sjúrður Hammer

YouTube video by Arvasjúkan Steðgað á mállinjuni: Lógaruppskot um berarakanning fyri lívshættisligar ílegusjúkur.

In my spare time I'm volunteering for an ngo that is trying to work towards making it a free offer for any1 to get screened if they are carriers of specific genes that are the cause of some really horrible hereditary diseases which have a v high prevalence in the Faroes

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Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD) - Local Ecological Knowledge, stable isotopes, seabird islands.

If you're wanting to do a PhD project with us, please apply by 1 April.

#phdvacancy

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An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds A novel individual-based model to predict the impacts of offshore wind farms on seabirds during the non-breeding season, using long-term tracking data from SEATRACK. We demonstrate the model by simul...

✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds

doi.org/10.1002/2688...

@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@seatrackscience.bsky.social
@signecd.bsky.social
@masden.bsky.social

the aurora in Norway, photographed by Catherine Sheard -- the sky is full of bright green waves, above a snowy mountain

the aurora in Aberdeen, photographed by Catherine Sheard -- the sky is purple and pink over a beach

New pinned intro time:

Hi! I'm Catherine, a PI (fellow/lecturer) at the University of Aberdeen. My lab works on trait macroevolution, particularly the causes/consequences of behavioural innovations. I'm a senior editor at GEB, co-chair of BES Macro, and have zero chill about the northern lights.

Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD) - Local Ecological Knowledge, stable isotopes, seabird islands.

If you're wanting to do a PhD project with us, please apply by 1 April.

#phdvacancy

phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

Figure showing photgraphs of three seabird species (Atlantic Puffin, Sooty Shearwater and Eider Duck) plus illustration of new paper, a hand collecting seabird eggs and text reading: 'intentional take of seabirds for human consumption'

🚨New global review and next steps🚨

Intentional take of #seabirds for human consumption is happening in at least 56 countries and affects >100 migratory species. Data on sustainability, population impacts, and human health risks are often missing.

Read more: ➡️ tinyurl.com/ypbadzyr

#BLScience

Sounds super interesting!

Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion

phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

#phdvacancy 🌍🧪

Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion

phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

Hungary's leader orders extra security at energy sites, claiming Ukraine plots disruptions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after claiming Ukraine was attempting to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
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Front cover of the thesis, entitled 'Eyes in the sky'. Photo of a magnificent bird cliff in the Faroes

Big congrats to Johan Castenschiold for successfully defending his PhD thesis yesterday at Aarhus University!

It was a pleasure to supervise with @sjurdur.bsky.social . Also thanks to @masden.bsky.social and Jonas Hentati-Sundberg for excellent questions!

Det er svært at finde det rigtige tags og handles med bluesky, tak for hjælpen

Congrats to Johan Castenschiold at AU today for successfully defending his PhD thesis on drone and AI for monitoring of cliff-nesting seabirds #fulmar #gannet #eider

@seabirdmortenf.bsky.social

And thanks to @masden.bsky.social for some excellent points and constructive feedback

I thought you meant that almost one off kill of white sided dolphins

I try, but I haven't mastered time travel yet. I assume you mean the dolphin slaughter that happened five or so years ago?

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful.

When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.

Know the truth.

However valid Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is, it would suggest we treat ecosystems as a resource to satisfy physiological needs, and safety needs, survival in effect, not thriving, self-actualization for many of us is immersing ourselves in places of biodiversity and natural earth processes.

Some people can take a moral or spiritual approach which will not persuade but at least frames their own objection. For most of us we are left with a good list of important benefits, and a 'just look at it and feel the awe', we all do, others don't, why they do not is a question.

Migration strategies of skuas in the southwest Atlantic Ocean revealed by stable isotopes - Marine Biology Stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) were measured in feathers to compare the non-breeding distributions and habitat use of adult brown skuas Stercorarius antarcticus lönnbergi f...

Mills et al. Migration strategies of skuas in the southwest Atlantic Ocean revealed by stable isotopes link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ornithology #seabirds #teamskua

Thank you to @thelabandfield.bsky.social and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social , @adriftlab.bsky.social for the engaging conversations!
#seabirds

I'm never 100% sure something is true until these people deny it.

Fear and Fascism — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE I recently had coffee and spent some time with a Big Deal (TM) Psychologist—who I have looked up to for years and who’s lab I unsuccessfully applied to for my PhD. It was very wonderful, and I actuall...

"Sure, it’s scary to stand up to fascism, but... there is also risk to a version of the future where we don’t have vaccines, birth control, freedom, science, or a right to vote. Pick your poison: Scary now or scary later"

@cdelawalla.bsky.social

www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...

Interesting! Seems related to what I think of as "solarpunk consilience" - building better systems using difference as strength: a source of insight vs an opponent; reconciliation via understanding vs resolution by cherry-picking privileged sources; crowdsourcing vs argument from authority; etc.

Please feel free to contribute, comment or ask regarding any of these eight #punkscience thoughts. Let's make it more fun!

@mark-ungrin.bsky.social up for helping me write this book? It's a pretty mental proposition!

"You can simply decide to forget progress. Disease is caused by miasma, insufficient beef tallow, corn syrup, the evil eye. You can simply decide to burn coal and witches and books again."

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One thing I learned last year is that there's no turning back if you give up on matching socks. It started only very occasionally that I wouldn't bother, but now hardly any of my socks match. Stay safe!

Nazis are lame

Some stroker in the telegraph writing this bullshit: MATT RIDLEY CO2 is simply not a danger to human health, and it's actively good for crops

The same stroker with an amended headline: MATT RIDLEY an asteroid is simply not a danger to dinosaur health, and it's actively good for dinosaurs