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Participants at the CLIMLIFE meeting with Scientific Advisory Committee, 9 September 2022.
CLIMLIFE MEETING WITH SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE (30.09.2022)
The CLIMLIFE project gave a comprehensive presentation of undertaken research for its Scientific Advisory Committee.
Runa Falck presenting: “Public support for individual and government climate action”
“Public support for individual and government climate action” (30.09.2022)
Research fellow in the LINGCLIM group, Runa Falck, gave a presentation at the DIGSSCORE/Norwegian Citizen Panel lunch seminar.
Participants to the 2022 edition of The Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities.
NORWEGIAN RESEARCHER SCHOOL IN ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES (30.09.2022)
The Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) took place August 22–26 2022.
Øyvind Gjerstad, Francis Badiang Oloko and Kjersti Fløttum participated at the Nordic Romanist Conference (ROM22), at Aarhus university, Denmark, August 16-19 August 2022.
NORDIC ROMANIST CONFERENCE (30.09.2022)
Øyvind Gjerstad, Francis Badiang Oloko and Kjersti Fløttum participated at the Nordic Romanist Conference (ROM22).
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New geoconfiguational application of CNA (29.09.2022)
John Rich, Edward Miech, Daniel Semenza and Theodore Corbin applied CNA in a new study investigating the effect of 10 firearm laws in US states on homocide and suicide rates.
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Two new Centres of Excellence to the University of Bergen (23.09.2022)
Center for Digital Narrative and Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health have been awarded the status as Centres of Excellence (SFF) from the Research Council of Norway.
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Presentations at DOT, Berlin 2022 (20.09.2022)
CanCode had seven presentations, six of them in two Cancode-panels at the 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag in Berlin, 12.-17.09 2022 at Freie Universität Berlin. Read more about them here.
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Coincidence Analysis introduced to medical informatics (07.09.2022)
The data analysis method of Coincidence Analysis has been introduced to the field of medical informatics: Womack DM, Miech EJ, Fox NJ, Silvey LC, Somerville AM, Eldredge DH, Steege LM. (2022), Coincidence Analysis: A Novel Approach to Modeling Nurses' Workplace Experience, Applied Clinical Informatics, (4):794-802. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1756368.
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Millions granted to humanities research (06.09.2022)
Professor Scott Rettberg and associate professor Ingrid Halland receive 12 million each from the Research Council of Norway for projects at the intersection between technology and aesthetics.
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International Visiting Fellowship for Martyna Swiatczak (30.08.2022)
Martyna Swiatczak is visiting the University of Frankfurt for three months.
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Assembling the CALENDARS team to piece together a book (24.08.2022)
On 3-4 May 2022, the CALENDARS research project organised a scientific meeting at Solstrand Hotel near Bergen.
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What can we learn from getting lost in translation? (22.08.2022)
What follows are mid-term reflections from a human geographer and a legal researcher about their experience working together on the interdisciplinary project TemPro.
The SapienCE team from UIB excavating and Blombos Cave
Trapped 70 000-year-old artefact reveals hidden information about early humans (19.08.2022)
The SapienCE paper about a trapped artefact became the top ten most downloaded articles in the journal Geoarchaeology this year. The study demonstrates how the creative use of unconventional research methods turned an unfortunate archaeological sampling event into a scientific success story.
Kart over Kina og Taiwan hvor en leketanks står på Fastlands-Kina og peker mot Taiwan
Worth knowing about the Taiwan-China conflict (11.08.2022)
Nancy Pelosi was in Taiwan for barely a day. China responded with a massive military exercise in the waters around the island. What is Chinas mission? Postdoc fellow in Chinese studies and Taiwan expert Julia Marinaccio explains.
Webinar about Byen er Bergen (20.06.2022)
Watch the webinar here.
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New publication of the CNA group (07.06.2022)
Veli-Pekka Parkkinen argues that variable relativity is good, in a paper that recently appeared in Synthese: Parkkinen, VP. Variable relativity of causation is good. Synthese 200, 194 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03676-0
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Eight new honorary doctors at UiB have been appointed (03.06.2022)
In a solemn ceremony in the University Hall, the eight new honorary doctors at UiB were honored. They received the award for their outstanding work for science.
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What kind of government do we want? (31.05.2022)
On 24 May, SVT affiliate Cristina García Casañas successfully defended her PhD thesis "Imaginaries of innovation and science: critical analysis and sustainability concerns.”

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