The calendar says May, and spring finally seems to be arriving in full force in Bergen. We recently organized a two-day student workshop in BIO316 (Selected Topics in Environmental Toxicology) at the Marine Biological Station (MBS, Espegrend) in Blomsterdalen. For…
Category: Editorial
Editorial – 28.4.2025
Hope everyone had a great Easter! Finally spring is truly underway, and there’s a lot of exciting and important things happening before summer arrives. This year’s student application numbers for the April 15 deadline are in, and once again, they…
Editorial – 14.04.2025
It has been a busy period leading up to Easter. This past week, the One Ocean Conference was held, and I hope many of you had the opportunity to attend the excellent and highly relevant program.
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.
Editorial – 28.03.2025
In January when Ståle made me an offer that I could not resist, I did not quite know what I was committing myself into. Already now I can say that leading the Fisheries and Marine Biology Group has been an…
Editorial – 21.03.2025
This week’s presentation at bioTEACH was given by David Grellscheid from the Department of Informatics, who provided insights into how large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, function.
Editorial – 14.03.2025
This week there has been a presentation of topics for master’s theses for students who will start their master’s in the fall. There was a good turnout and good engagement from both staff and students.
Editorial – 7.3.2025
One of the challenges we are currently facing is that our financial framework has seen a decline year by year, as factors such as inflation, price increases, and wage growth are not fully compensated through our annual allocation. It is…
Editorial – 28.02.2025
A short report from the study section this week, I have a little winter holiday in Trondheim for a few days. In recent weeks, we have had program board meetings in all four program boards we have at the institute,…
Editorial – 21.2.2025
Since last time I wrote, we have conducted a bioLUNCH, and this week, the first bioTEACH took place.