[Our translation/Google translate] PhD student Mika Helene Kirkhus (BIO) explores how fungi collaborate with heather plants to reduce damage from climate change. Her work provides valuable insight into nature’s complex interactions. Read the story and watch a video about the…
Category: Communication
One Ocean Week: update
One Ocean Week is approaching. For details, please see: UiB’s program during One Ocean Week Entire One Ocean Week program
Reminder: The journal Naturen is seeking an editorial member (biologist) and possibly an editor.
The journal Naturen would like to remind you about our call for a member of the editorial board and possibly an editor which was published in last weeks Bionytt. If you are interested in joining the Naturen editorial board, please…
The journal Naturen is seeking an editorial member (biologist) and possibly an editor.
[Our translation/Google translate] Professor emeritus at BIO, Arne Skorping, has announced that after 11 years in the service, he is stepping down as editor and editorial board member of the traditional journal Naturen. We thank Arne for his efforts!
Forskningsdagene i Bergen 17-26 September 2025
Forskningsdagene er en årlig, nasjonal festival i regi av Norges forskningsråd, med mål om å skape begeistring og forståelse for forskning. Årets festivalperiode er 17.09. – 26.09.2025. For mer informasjon om festivalen se vedlagte invitasjon fra UiB: Forskningsdagene2025_Invitasjon
One Ocean Week: De unges havdag Monday April 7th
If someone wants to reach out to pupils in ‘videregående skole’, it is still possible to get a place at Festningskaien to attract future students. See attachment and info below to register a stand. Invitajsonsbrev- uten kostnad- One Ocean Week…
Info from UiB regarding failed negotiations with Wiley
[Our translation/Google translate] UiB, UiO, NTNU and UiT, together with Sikt – the knowledge sector’s service provider, have in 2024 negotiated a national publish and read agreement with Wiley from and including 2025. Now there is a break in the…
Deep Sea Biology Symposium to Bergen in April 2028
[Our translation (Google translate)] In collaboration, five researchers from several research institutions in Bergen have succeeded in attracting the largest international conference in deep sea biology to Bergen in 2028.
The plastic clean-up campaign headlighted by the UN’s Academic Impact Initiative (UNAI)
Students and staff at UiB, together with good partners, cleared the “plastic island” Lisle Lyngøy during the plastic clean-up action on 12 September 2024, which was organized by the Plastics Network and the Sustainability Pilots at UiB, in collaboration with…
Ragnhild Gya on the government’s white paper [Stortingsmelding] for natural diversity in the NaturVest-podden
[Our translation] The government’s white paper for natural diversity aims to ensure that Norway keeps what we have committed ourselves to in the UN Nature Convention, but the target of 30% protection by 2030 is miles away with the plan…