Breakfast Seminar – The Good Working Environment. Changing Working Life – What About the Working Environment? Digital Breakfast Seminar Wednesday, September 24, 2025: Mental Health, Emergency Preparedness and Knowledge
Data Management Planning Course 1-2 October 2025
[Our translation/Google translate] Digital Life Norway and ELIXIR Norway invite you to an engaging and practical workshop on Data Management Planning (DMP) for researchers in life sciences. Why participate? All Norwegian universities, as well as research projects funded by the…
UiB informs: UiB’s procurement strategy is updated / New e-learning course for sorting of general waste [kildsortering]
Universitetets anskaffelsesstrategi | Økonomiavdelingen | UiB Gjeldende anskaffelsesstrategi ble vedtatt av universitetsstyret 23.4.2020 www.uib.no Nytt e-læringskurs i kildesortering ved UiB
IT update: Eduroam to be moved outside UiB’s internal network
As part of the IT department’s ongoing efforts to strengthen security, there will be a change in how the wireless network eduroam operates on campus starting October 1. What’s changing?Eduroam will be moved “outside” UiB’s internal network. This means that…
Editorial – 8.9.2025
Members of the Ecology and Evolution Fagruppe will be heavily affected by the area reduction process planned over the coming year. All the facilities that we use regularly, from the palaeoecology labs on the 4th floor to the DNA and systematics labs on the 2nd floor, will be moved from A to B Block in Thormøhlensgate 53. Examples of the ongoing work done by our group in these laboratories include: extraction of ancient pollen grains from sediments to reconstruct past vegetation communities; scanning, weighing and measuring of leaves to establish trait-environment relationships; isolation of parasites from bird nests to investigate host-parasite interactions; and metabarcoding of fungi from soils to better understand the relationships between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
The dean’s blog 03.09.2025
I et valgår skjerpes det politiske budskapet og utrykk som «tullefag» og «et Norge som står stille» har skapt engasjement både i vår sektor, og den nasjonale debatten. Denne uken har vi markert både etableringen av Skandinavisk senter for fjellforskning og innkjøpet av en ny autonom undervannsfarkost (AUV). To viktige begivenheter som tydelig viser at …
bioLUNCH Thursday 11. Sept with Erwan Lagadec and Snorre Sulheim
BIO-publications week 35
Arno, A., Sarmiento, V., Elvebo, O., Araujo, P., 2025. Critical Evaluation and Validation of a High-Throughput Microplate-Based Cupric Reducing Antioxidant Capacity Method for the Analysis of Fish Feed Ingredients. Antioxidants 14, 728. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox14060728 Groeve, J.D., Rijsdijk, K.F., Rentier, E.S., Flantua,…
Have you been invited to join a consortium for the infrastructure call at the last minute?
The faculty requests that we report participation in partner applications for the call National Infrastructure 2025. The prioritized list of partner applications led by another BOTT university will be submitted by the faculty by September 9. Partner applications led by…
Visit from Hokkaido University September 2nd
On Tuesday, September 2nd, our department had the honour of hosting a delegation from the Faculty of Fisheries Science at Hokkaido University, led by Dean Yasuaki Takagi, Professor Munetaka Shimizu, and two colleagues. During their visit, the delegation met with…
Summer research school in marine viral ecology and evolution 4–15 August 2025
In early August, we hosted a summer school for PhD students at the Marine Biological Station at Espegrend, sponsored by the Intpart project ConFect. Twelve students from 6-7 different countries took part. During the course, they learned both classical and…
Join this years plastic clean up campaign 25. September!
On Thursday, September 25, UiB and its partners are organizing a plastic cleanup event in the coastal area outside Hellesøy. Sign up for a meaningful, academically engaging, and social cleanup activity here. For more info and sign-up, see the event…
The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) is now ready for use at UiB
Employees at UiB can now use NVA to register and edit their publications. Log in to NVA via Feide at https://nva.sikt.no/login Please note that as the migration of files to NVA is still ongoing, the system may occasionally be slow and…
Do you have a suggestion for a diversity and equality initiative that the department can seek support for? PLEASE CONTACT nina.holland@uib.no BEFORE 18. SEPTEMBER
UiB is announcing support for diversity and equality initiatives, see a translation of the announcement letter below. Initiatives for which support is being sought must be in line with the GenderAct2 project, the faculty’s action plan for equality, inclusion and…
UPDATE: The Olav Thon award for outstanding teaching – N.B. – internal deadline 29. Sept 12am
[Our translation/Google translate] The Olav Thon Foundation was established in December 2013. The Foundation’s statutes, § 7c), stipulate, among other things, the following tasks for the Foundation: c) Support may be provided in the form of personal awards for outstanding…
NRC Call: Communication and Dissemination of Climate, Environment and Ocean Research
The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) will provide a global boost to raise knowledge about the oceans and ensure that society can make use of this knowledge so that we can achieve the UN Sustainable Development…
UiB Climate Fund and Green master
The fund shall finance measures that support the work to ensure a more environmentally and climate friendly university. Either through direct reduction of UiB’s climate footprint, or by motivating students and employees to participate in a joint “environment and climate…
Course: HSE risk assessment and safe job analysis (SJA) 30. October
Content: In this course, you will learn how to carry out HSE risk assessments and Safe Job Analysis (SJA) using UiB’s templates, and receive an introduction to legal requirements, risk concepts, risk matrices, as well as participate in practical exercises…
UiB: Mobility seminar for researchers
Are you planning a research stay abroad? This seminar will help you with the planning. More info and sign-up here