Foto: Eivind Senneset
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 coast, hypoxia in Norwegian fjords, to how Brexit has impacted Norwegian mackerel fishing.
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 in the A and B blocks as well as on the 3rd floor of the bio-building. There will be 15 groups and 15 paper sheets on the coming Wednesday from 12-14 and slightly fewer 14-16. We have clarified this with the department.
Last year, we received many nice feedback from colleagues who thought this was nice, but we have a great understanding that some may think this is too noisy. That is why we are warning now!
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).
Please remember that for some pictures we need consent for use of the photos; read more here:
Sofie Søderstrøm, prisvinner DLN 2024. Foto: Anders Goksøyr
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 mammal toxicology” was chosen by the jury among 33 strong contestants.
Congratulations, Sofie!
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 to the second floor by the elevator of the A-building, right by the expedition.
Kind regards,
The Ekspedition
[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 and development work – and highlighed it’s importance for society.
The deadline for submitting candidates is Friday 15 November at 12:00
Questions can be directed to the committee’s secretary, Jin Sigve Mæland, jin.maeland@uib.no 922 29327
[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 communities be made aware of the opportunity to provide input via the government’s website. Joint input from the faculty will not be prepared.
[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:
[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 be distributed to participants the week before the seminar
For more info and to sign up, see the webinar homepage [Norwegian language]
The role of ecology, historical climate change and tectonic events on the evolution and diversification of extant rocky-shore marine species: The case of Smaragdinella snails
Cardiopharyngeal progenitors fate and behaviour in the ascidian Ciona
