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Welcome meeting for Artificial Intelligence fellows (05.03.2025)
This week, the new LEAD AI researchers met each other for the first time.
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"Even after years of research, you may have no idea where it will end up." (24.02.2025)
Professor of informatics Fedor Fomin explains what he does for a living and talks about the current challenges in algorithmic theory.
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Yuhe Zhang is joining the CSD (21.02.2025)
Yuhe Zhang is a new Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and her project is part of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics. We met her to find out more about his background and the project.
Marija Slavkovik ved Institutt for Informasjons- og medievitenskap
New AI breakthroughs show that bigger isn’t always better (20.02.2025)
The success of DeepSeek shows an interesting example where funding is the means to research and innovation and not directly the end goal.
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Announcement of the election to the NT-Faculty Board 2025 (18.02.2025)
In the spring of 2025, general elections will be held for the faculty board and department councils at the NT faculty. We will have completely new boards this time, and until 19 March you can nominate candidates for your respective groups. For Gr. A and C the election period is 4 years, while for Gr. B and D it is one year. The new board period starts on 01.08.2025.
Portrait of Lionel Christiaen in the laboratory
Building a heart in a changing world (17.02.2025)
As the ocean warms, researchers are racing to uncover the impact of the climate crisis on marine life. In an innovative multi-scale project, developmental biologist Lionel Christiaen sets the focus on the very beginnings of life in a changing environment.
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Annual gathering of national research schools (17.02.2025)
Thursday and Friday last week was the annual gathering of national research schools. This year it was organized in Bergen by the research schools HySchool, BSRS, NORBARN, and INRESCOS.
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Wants AI to tackle climate challenges in new centre: "Take advantage of the best of both worlds" (13.02.2025)
The main goal of the centre is to transform the provision of weather, climate and environmental information to enable better- informed decisions in the face of unprecedented environmental challenges. All this by using artificial intelligence.
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The WormFEST project kicks off! (12.02.2025)
The start of the year marked the launch of WormFEST — a groundbreaking project exploring the fascinating worm forests found deep underwater near Arctic hydrothermal vents and cold seeps.
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Seven EU-funded postdocs to Bergen (12.02.2025)
The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year’s competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.
SEAS postdoctoral fellows at a workshop in autumn 2024.
UiB’s SEAS programme gets Ocean Decade status (07.02.2025)
The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
Panel discussions at Arctic Frontiers 2025 on energy transition. From left to right, moderator Tor Eldevik and panellists Torjer Andreas Olsen, Maja Sojtaric, Geir Inge Sivertsen, and Mona Benjaminsen.
Discussing the Arctic’s future energy needs (06.02.2025)
In the side event “License to Operate – The Arctic Energy Transition” at Arctic Frontiers 2025, stakeholders from across sectors joined forces to discuss the challenges lying ahead for the Arctic and the green transition of energy markets in a geopolitically challenging situation.
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BECOME Featured in New UNESCO Report (05.02.2025)
The UNESCO Chair project BECOME, is one of the initiatives mentioned in the newly published UNESCO report “The Earth Network: sharing tools for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in UNESCO-designated sites”, where they present a toolkit of practices that support both the 2030 Agenda and UNESCO-designated sites.
Fysikkprofessor Martino Marisaldi forsker på lynets opprinnelse.
UiB Researcher Revolutionizes Thundercloud Research (03.02.2025)
With the ENLIGHTEN research project, Professor Martino Marisaldi aims to solve one of the longest-standing mysteries in atmospheric electricity – simply what initiates lightning?
Anaïs Courtet, Alexandre Jan and Étienne Bourgouin in the laboratory
Michael Sars Centre partners with Paris Aquarium to introduce comb jellies to the public (03.02.2025)
The Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen and the Paris Aquarium have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to exchange expertise on comb jelly husbandry. The collaboration marks a significant milestone as animals first raised at the Centre are now on display in the aquarium’s Medusarium©, the largest jellyfish exhibit in Europe.
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How polar bear fur stays ice-free (30.01.2025)
A brilliant idea led nanophysicist Bodil Holst to investigate why polar bear fur doesn't freeze. Now, her research on the deicing properties of polar bear fur has been published as the cover story in Science Advances.
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Registration for the Michael Sars Symposium 2025 is open! (29.01.2025)
Join us on June 6, 2025 at Media City Bergen for a day of exceptional talks. This year, our invited speakers will explore the theme: "Decoding signals and unveiling architectures, from molecules to organisms". 
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Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research (23.01.2025)
The CULTIVATE project recently had its first paper published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. In this paper, the authors present a novel transdisciplinary learning framework that links notions of cultural heritage, landscape, and social-ecological systems thinking to support sustainable rural development.

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