Researchers jubilant over swift ministerial response to rule they say would hamper international recruitment. This quote is taken from a recent article in Nature commenting the Norwegian governement’s proposal to remove the existing requirement for non-Norwegian PhD’s and Post Doc’s…
Month: April 2025
New ethical guidelines for Science and Technology
The National Research Ethics Committee for Natural Sciences and Technology (NENT) has through the last years been working on a revision of the ethical guidelines for Science and Technology. The revised guidelines are now published in Norwegian and English: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/retningslinjer/nat-tek/forskningsetiske-retningslinjer-fornaturvitenskap-og-teknologi/…
Michael Sars guest seminar 25 April, Michael Dorrity: Temperature and timing in embryonic development
10.00-11.00 Michael Sars seminar room, 2nd floor, Bioblokken, Høyteknologisenteret
Editorial – 4.4.2025
Hei, alle sammen! On behalf of the Department, I would like to congratulate Margareth Hagen along with Sigrunn Eliassen and the reast of her team, for her re-election as UiB Rector for another 4 years.
New member of staff – Tianyuan Wang
Hello, I am Tianyuan and am quite happy to be in Bergen and join in such a big community. While ever been to Finland for a short exchange program during my undergraduate, I have never been to Norway before, and…
BIO publications week 14
Pärtel, Meelis, Riin Tamme, Carlos P. Carmona, Kersti Riibak, Mari Moora, Jonathan A. Bennett, Alessandro Chiarucci, mfl. «Global Impoverishment of Natural Vegetation Revealed by Dark Diversity». Nature, 2. april 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08814-5. [With: Vigdis Vandvik, Rubert Thormodsæter og Kristine Birkeli] Wang,…
One Ocean Week is rolling!
One Ocean Week started on Saturday and last the whole week – see full program here. University of Bergen (UiB) serves you a range of opportunities to learn and engage with experts on ocean related themes, both in English and…
News from the Sci Tech Faculty: Nature-contribution inspired PhDs
[Our translation] Kristine Birkeli and Ruben Schelbred Thormodsæter embarked on their doctoral studies after they, as master’s students, contributed data collection to an article in Nature – one of the world’s leading research journals. Read more in this news story…
Klimaråd 2025: Recommendations for better climate policy
[Our translation] Klimaråd 2025 provides an interdisciplinary assessment of Norway’s climate efforts on the path towards a low-emission society, and presents specific recommendations to decision-makers in politics, administration and business. Klimaråd 2025, with Vigdis Vandvik as one of the authors…
News from the Sci Tech Faculty: the “Nygårdshøyden sør” project page is updated
The websites for the Nygårdshøyden South land development project have now been updated and will be “live” pages in the future. For now, the primary target group is external partners and decision-makers, but they provide useful information about the project…