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Joseph Tabbi is the founder of electronic book review, which is now celebrating 30 years of continuous publication, making it one of the first scholarly open access journals on the web.
A groundbreaking philosophical approach to understanding proving in mathematics is on the horizon. Sorin Bangu does research that can change how we teach mathematics, making it more engaging.
SapienCE scientist Elizabeth Velliky and her team have uncovered that the world's oldest ochre mine, Ngwenya in eSwatini, wasn't the only source of ochre pigment as we once thought. Instead, people used a variety of local ochres, showcasing unique cultural traditions and social interactions in Stone Age communities in Eswatini.
University of Bergen guest researcher Silvio Funtowicz and his long-time colleague and friend Jerome Ravetz receive 2025 Boulding Award for lifetime contributions to ecological economics.
The Blombos Museum of Archaeology has launched the much-anticipated exhibition Origins of Early Southern Sapiens Behaviour marking a significant milestone in understanding early human prehistory.
Apply for admission to our new course Introduction to the Environmental Humanities! Through lectures, seminars, and fieldwork, the course explores cultural, historical, political, and creative engagements with the environment at local, national, and global scales.
On October 10 and 11, 2024, Dr. Jonathan Freitas (UFMG/Brazil) conducted an introductory CNA course at the Clinical Hospital of the School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo (HC/FMUSP). The course brought together approximately 30 members of HC’s Digital Health team. The event received exceptional feedback, sparking follow-up research initiatives centered on the CNA method.
Dr. Margit H. Simon is awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant of 2,17 million Euros to lead the PIONEER project which will transform our understanding of how environmental factors shaped the evolution of behavioural complexity in early Homo sapiens.
Jordan Becker, Paul Poast, and Tim Haesebrouck combined CNA with Regression Analysis in a mixed method approach to investigate why countries with disparate geography and perceptions of the international security environment agreed on NATO’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment.
Woollahra Digital Literary Award in digital innovation given to Alinta Krauth.
The climate found its way to Kulturhuset in Bergen.
Several LINGCLIM researchers participated at a conference in Nice, France, on September 4th 2024
Several researchers from the LINGCLIM group participated at the XXIIe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves in Finland.
With funding from the EU, University of Bergen researchers and their large transdisciplinary team set out to help society deal with threats related to pollinator decline.
Åslaug Ommundsen from the University of Bergen, along with three Nordic research partners, has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant to investigate how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE.   
The first volume devoted to the topic of Wittgenstein and practice. Contains essays from both internationally recognized and up-and-coming scholars. Directed at contemporary issues
Ernesto Semán at the University of Bergen has been awarded 12 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway for the project DARKLAX. Through an interdisiplinary approach DARKLAX will tell the history of salmon farming in Chile and the role Norway has played.
In this first ever book-length study of aesthetic expertise, Ole Martin Skilleås outlines the nature and purpose of aesthetic expertise, with particular emphasis on the direction of attention, and examines how aesthetic expertise manifests across diverse roles within aesthetic practices.

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