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Discovery of 80 000 year old bone tools from SA. Pictures showing experimental methods to find out how the tools were used.
UiB scientists discover 80 000-year-old bone tools (15.11.2022)
An international team of archaeologists, led by a UiB scientist, has identified the oldest bone tools from southern Africa. The tools are 60,000 to 80,000 years old and were likely used for debarking trees and to dig into the ground.
Picture of the panel: Espen Gamlund, Ida Vikøren Andersen and Øyvind Gjerstad.
Breakfast meeting: Why aren't we humans doing enough for the climate? (14.11.2022)
On 10 November, Ida Vikøren Andersen and Øyvind Gjerstad from the CLIMLIFE project attended a breakfast meeting together with Espen Gamlund for a conversation about why we are not doing enough in the face of climate change.
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Sign up for an interdisciplinary PhD course at the Pandemic Centre (09.11.2022)
In January, the Pandemic Centre offers a two-week course for students on learning from the COVID-19 pandemic. The course builds on last year's digital module and is open to all students at master's and PhD level.
Illustration by Signe Wohlfeil.
NEW REPORT: Older Norwegians' (65+) attitudes to climate and lifestyle (08.11.2022)
The CLIMLIFE project has completed a report on the results of a survey on the attitudes of the elderly (65+) to climate and lifestyle.
Kjersti Fløttum, research group leader for LINGCLIM.
"Will technology solve the climate problem?" (08.11.2022)
The research shows great technology optimism in the population.
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Number-crunching maths models may give policy makers major headache (20.10.2022)
Mathematical models that predict policy-driving scenarios may be too complex and deliver "wrong" answers, a new study reveals.
A person is sitting at a table in front of a computer, behind them is a person participation in a live Zoom call
How does the University of Bergen facilitate diversity? (14.10.2022)
A vision of diversity is central to the work on the new UiB strategy, but what does diversity mean, and how does diversity policy translate into action?
Svante Pääbo, awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Svante Pääbo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (04.10.2022)
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. "Warm congratulations to Svante Pääbo. We are extremely proud of our collaboration with the new laureate", says SapienCE-director Professor Christopher Henshilwood at the University of Bergen.
Jill og Scott Rettberg
The Center for Digital Narrative has been awarded the status of Centre of Excellence (03.10.2022)
The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) has been awarded the status of Center of Research Excellence. The center will investigate new forms of digital narrative in electronic literature, digital games, social media and AI-driven storytelling.
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.
Scott Rettberg og Ingrid Halland
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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