Wednesday this week, I was invited to a seminar with the Fisheries and Marine Biology Group. After lunch, 16 (!) presentations were given by various members of the group, covering topics ranging from the invasion of foreign species along our…
Author: mbika
BIO is invaded by BIO100 students on Wednesday 13.11!
For the second year in a row, BIO100 has an in-depth exercise where the students will squeeze the Earth’s 4.6 billion-year long history onto a 15-metre-long paper sheet. For this exercise, we need to use most of the long corridors…
“Åpen dag 2025” – photos and videos for student recruitment
Dear all, We want new pictures and/or videos to use on our webpages and for recruitment of new students (https://www.opendag.no/). If any of you have pictures we can use please send them to head of studysection: Beate Ulrikke Rensvik (beate.rensvik@uib.no).…
Sofie won the Best Poster Award at DLN Annual Conference
Postdoctor Sofie Søderstrøm won the Best Poster Award and 5000 NOK at the final Digital Life Norway Annual Conference at Hurdalsjøen October 14-15. The poster “Marma-detox: Whales and polar bear in a petri dish – in vitro approaches in marine…
New defibrillator by the reception in the 2nd floor of Biologen (A-block)
Hi all! A few weeks ago, the defibrillator we had on the first floor of Biologen was stolen. We have now received a new one, but to prevent this from happening again, we have made the decision to move it…
The Dean’s blog Nov 6th 2024
Statsbudsjettet viser at vi må bygge sterkere allianser.
NatTech: Nomination of candidates for the dissemination award 2024
[Our translation] Through the dissemination award of NOK. NOK 20,000, the faculty wishes to highlight the faculty’s dissemination. The award will go to one or more people who have made an extraordinary effort to communicate the results of high-quality research…
Hearing – proposal to amend the climate act: The government’s proposal for Norway’s new climate target for 2035
[Our translation] We refer to the attached invitation to give input to the Government’s proposal to amend the Climate Act and new climate target for 2035 by 1 January 2025. Hoering_forslag_om_endring_av_klimaloven.Regjeringens_klimamaal_2025 [Norwegian language] We ask that the relevant scientific…
Info about Meltzer awards for 2024 – nomination deadline December 1st
[Our translation] We would like to inform you that in 2024 the nomination deadline for proposers to nominate candidates for the Meltzer Prizes will be 1 December 2024. On March 8, 2025, the Meltzer Foundation will award 3 prizes: The…
Mon 11. Nov – Webinar: Do we need approval of artificial intelligence research?
[Our translation] The national research ethics committee for natural sciences and technology (NENT) invites you to an open webinar on 11 November.Webinar: Do we need approval of artificial intelligence research? Practical info Time: 11. November, kl. 15.00-16.00 Link: Zoom-link will…