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Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty centre at the University of Bergen with a responsibility for research, teaching and dissemination within the field of "theory of science".
Register via the link by 11 March if you would like food at the event - if not, feel free to just pop by! @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social @galend.bsky.social @amykzhang.bsky.social @hofferdal.bsky.social
Front and back page of book, dark blue/black cover with text in white. Contents of front page, to the left: Title: Ethics and Mathematics: For Students by Students. Editors: Gunilla Öberg, Ingrid Kristine Jacobsen, Anita Stene Løvtvedt, Francesco Saltalamacchia. An image of six students of different genders and ethnicities, backs turned, looking at a whiteboard with calculations, illustration of a face, and a figure. Contents of back page, to the left, the text: This volume explores the ethical dimensions of mathematics as experienced and articulated by doctoral students in mathematics and the sciences. As society becomes increasingly reliant on mathematical models, algorithms, and data, the ethical implications of how mathematics is used — and misused — are gaining urgency. Yet most scientists and mathematicians receive little formal training in ethical reflection. Responding to this gap, this collection presents a series of thoughtful and accessible essays written by students taking a mandatory course on the theory of science and ethics. The contributions span topics such as scientific responsibility, the ethics of mathematical modeling, decolonization of research, automation, and the moral obligations of mathematicians. Framed by an expert introduction and concluding analysis, the essays provide a rare and engaging entry point into a field where literature for students is still scarce. World Scientific: www.worldscientific.com.
Join our release of the edited volume #Ethics and #Mathematics: For Students by Students on 17 March! The book explores the ethical dimensions of mathematics as experienced and articulated by #PhD students in #mathematics and the #sciences at @unibergen.bsky.social
www.uib.no/en/svt/18095...
Using social practice theory, we frame climate adaptation as something lived and performed in everyday life. Focusing on practices, rather than isolated behaviours or technologies, opens up new ways to support meaningful micro-adaptation on the ground.
In this systematic review, Scott Bremer, Etienne Dunn-Sigouin, Manuel Hempel and I examine beekeeping as a social practice. Drawing on peer-reviewed studies worldwide, we show how climate change reshapes meanings, competences, materials, temporalities and more-than-human relations.
We are happy to share our Open Access paper, “Adapting the social practice of beekeeping to a changing climate,” now published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social.
Climate change reshapes not only ecosystems, but everyday practices – beekeeping shows how.
doi.org/10.1007/s132...
🌟 New article
👥 SVT's PhD candidate Emma Lord & Parit Ole Saruni, The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy, TZ
👉 Socially embedding REDD+? A moral economy of leakage, corruption and agro-pastoral conflicts in Kigoma and Katavi regions, Tanzania
📗 Forest Policy and Economics
🔗 tinyurl.com/cca59mye
🧪 #OA
Ali Teymoori and I wrote up a piece for @markrubin.bsky.social's excellent Critical Metascience blog. We summarise our new paper on disciplinary crises in psychology and some of the key take-homes for psychologists.
We've all heard about the replication crisis in psychology. But psychologists have been calling "crisis" for as long as the discipline has been around. Ali Teymoori and I look at this history and what it means for today's crisis. #philsky doi.org/10.1177/1089...
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⚡🦋 Electrostatic pollination by butterflies and moths
Butterflies and moths accumulate electrostatic charge as they fly, allowing them to pull pollen grains off flowers without even touching them. In other words, they can literally attract pollen through the air.
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I år lanserer vi eit nytt og brennaktuelt emne ved SVT: I vårens danningsemne (VIT219) skal vi diskutere krisene og tryggleikstenkinga si tyding for kunnskaps- og samfunnsutvikling. Emnet er ope for studentar ved UiB med minst 30 avlagte stp. Frist 01.02, les meir 👇
www.uib.no/fag/dannelse...
Professor ved SVT, @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social, er blant dei nominerte i Khrono si kåring av Årets navn i akademia i år, for si rolle som prosjektleiar i det store internasjonale og tverrfaglege EU-prosjektet @butterfly-project.bsky.social. Lykke til, Jeroen!
www.khrono.no/her-er-de-no...
A reminder about our symposium 12 December: Security and preparedness: Culture, crisis, and control in troubled times. Register by 21 Nov (tomorrow) at noon.
Newly minted PhD Mathias Venning in suit and tie flanked by his advisors, committee members and chair of the defence.
A man in suit and tie in an auditorium, standing in front of a PowerPoint presentation and addressing a woman in front of a podium: PhD candidate Mathias Venning defending this thesis to his first opponent with the other committee members and the chair of the defence looking on.
Today, we're celebrating a new Doctor in our midst: Dr. Mathias Venning defended his thesis in an excellent way! He wrote the thesis "Enacting a Global Vision for Climate Services" at NORCE Climate and Environment in cooperation with the SVT. Congratulations, Mathias! 👏
www.uib.no/en/svt/18020...
Trial lecture and public defence: Mathias Venning Friday 14 Nov 2025, Bergen @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Dissertation:"Enacting a Global Vision for Climate Services"
Trial lecture: "Decolonisation of climate services production"
#climateservices
#decolonisation
www.uib.no/en/svt/18020...
In an era troubled by threats of ecological tipping points, geopolitical instability, and uncontrollable technological acceleration, security has become a central lens through which societies interpret and address their challenges.
Can we imagine other futures?
www.uib.no/en/svt/17996...
Security has become a central lens through which societies interpret and address their challenges. Join our annual symposium in Bergen on 12 December, where we will explore how the concept of security permeates our cultural imagination and institutional responses.
www.uib.no/en/svt/17996...
Screenshot of an article containing the title, lead text and illustration: Meet the project - Acting on AI: Exploring Digital Constitutionalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence What happens when political values and legal principles are increasingly mediated through algorithms, risk models, and technical standards? One of this year’s CAS projects, Acting on AI: Digital Constitutionalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, examines how the EU’s AI Act and related policies are redefining the relationship between technology, law, and politics – and the consequences for fundamental rights. Image: Three philosophers portrayed as cyborgs on a green background with details like ones and zeroes, a brain and a lightning bulb
Our Professor, Kjetil Rommetveit (@psheek.bsky.social), is currently leading a project at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) which will create a framework for studying the co-production of artificial intelligence and politics, mainly through the EU's new #AI Act 👇🧪 #STS
cas-nor.no/news/meet-pr...
Surely an expensive education *by itself* increases students' wage prospects, right? Only if one believes numerical fables.
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Caveat emptor: Sensitivity of Cost–Employability Metrics Across Higher Education Models
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @eurofound.europa.eu
Saman med @cappelendamm.bsky.social og Transiteatret arrangerer vi boklansering i Bergen 1. oktober for Triggersystemet, lesedramaet til vår gjesteforskar Tore Vagn Lid. Møt han i samtale med redaktør Ruben Reder, @sofiemarhaug.bsky.social og vår senterleiar Rasmus Slaattelid på Steppeulven kl. 18!
Under #Forskningsdagene i Bergen i morgon stiller vår forskar Mimi E. Lam på Forskningstorget på Festplassen frå 11-16. Du finn ho på stasjonen Klima/hav/miljø, der ho gjerne vil høyre frå besøkande: Kva likar du med havet? Kom og hels på!
www.forskningsdagenebergen.com/bergen/klima...
Debattinnlegg i Khrono av Henrik Berg, professor i vitskapsteori ved SVT/Institutt for klinisk psykologi (UiB) og UiA:
"Det vi trenger, mer enn noen gang, er en sakte samtale om hva vi ønsker med vitenskapen."
www.khrono.no/vitenskapeli...
Med utgangspunkt i Magnhild Øen Nordahl sin kunstinstallasjon «Tidevannsrelieffet» deltek Jan Reinert Karlsen ved SVT i ein panelsamtale i Sandnes i morgon for å snakke om kva rom det er for uvisse i forskinga i dagens politiske klima:
www.sandnes-kulturhus.no/program/4147...
Poster med overskrifta STAND UP 18 og undertittelen Tanker om tiden vi lever i ved sidan av ein illustrasjon av Rodin-statuen Tenkaren. Tekst: Bergen Kulturforum starter 11. september sin nye møteserie «Stand Up 18». Da vil Gunnar Skirbekk tenke høyt om vår tid sammen med publikum. Som kjent er grunnleggende verdier som demokrati og ytringsfrihet og rettsikkerhet i spill. Legger vi til stikkord som klima, natur, mangfold, kunstig intelligens, geopolitikk og økende ulikhet, blir behovet for nye tanker påtrengende. Formen på møtene blir sokratisk med flere spørsmål enn svar. De bastante påstander og løsninger får andre ta seg av! Gunnar Skirbekk er først ut i disse månedlige møtene. Han er nestor i norsk filosofi og tør å tenke stort og leter etter de lange linjene. Denne gangen vil han tenke høyt om modernitet og mangfold i en vitenskapsbasert verden i krise. Sted: byROMMET i Kong Oscarsgt. 24 med tilhørende kafé og bar. Tid: Torsdag 11. september kl. 18:00 Påmelding: post@bergenkulturforum.no Pris: kr 150,- kan vippses til 560992 Sted. byROMMET Arrangør: Bergen kulturforum (logo)
11.09 kl. 18 kan du få med deg vår stadig aktive og engasjerte professor emeritus Gunnar Skirbekk på Byrommet i Bergen, når han opnar Bergen kulturforum sin nye møteserie STAND UP 18:
www.bergenkulturforum.no
Skirbekk kjem til å tenke høgt om modernitet og mangfald i ei vitskapsbasert verd i krise.
How to 'unpack' a complex impact assessment? We utilize Brian Wynne's work from the 1980s, along with the checklist of sensitivity auditing, to examine the 2024 EU impact assessment on emissions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Snart går fristen ut for å melde seg opp til årets danningsemne: Komande måndag 1. september 👇
🦋 Amid the growing controversy over pesticide-heavy lily farming in the Netherlands, @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social sat down with @dvhn.nl for an in-depth interview. The conversation goes far beyond lilies – touching on wider environmental issues 🐛
👉 butterfly-europe.eu/interview-wi...
"Why would you grow a crop that requires so many dangerous substances?"
Jeroen van der Sluijs on the pesticides needed for lily farming.
butterfly-europe.eu/interview-wi...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Offcontinental locations: 1/3📍#Greenland
Rock cranberry, crowberry, cloudberry, and blueberry🫐 = important food sources for wildlife🦊 and the Indigenous communities in Greenland. Building on earlier work on pollination networks in eastern Greenland, we will expand to more populated areas in the west
@butterfly-project.bsky.social is hiring! Our partner ENSFEA has as vacancy for a #PhD in the topic "Economic evaluation of pollination services among European citizens".
Location: Toulouse, France
Application deadline: August 15, 2025
butterfly-europe.eu/vacancies/
🧪🌍🌐🌱 #SciPol #pollinators
