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Posts by Simon Neby
Great students, great speakers, great topic! #GOV
Interested in climate adaptation? Here’s a new read based on the RISKSEC project - all open access: “Adapting to climate change: Implications of risk-based approaches”
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Balansen mellom narkoterror og oljeterror er ikke helt avklart, føler jeg.
If our students only use AI for their exams and we only use AI to grade their papers, we could all save time and energy by having AI produce the diplomas. Full circle to a debate gone completely in the wrong direction. #AI #Norway
…and next, in an intriguing turn of events, Infantino wins the FIFA award for comedy act of the year.
That would be my exact description of Norwegian climate policies….
Kom hit for å si dette, men du kom meg forkjøpet.
Question for those interested in Norwegian climate policy: do you have a “go-to” for a historical overview of Norway’s climate policies, say from 1985 until today? Looking for a list!
Question for fellow climate scholars, regardless of academic discipline: I'm working on the issue of time/temporality in climate knowledge, policies, decisions, etc. From politics to geological periods, decision processes to climate dynamics: any good tips for readings that deal with temporality?
Identifying who you are is a legitimate requirement, I guess - but what I don't understand is the need for separate registering process before voting: why aren't voting rights simply connected to citizenship in existing registries? I mean, surely the US knows who its citizens are... or?
Building roads and infrastructure is insanely expensive, takes time to finish, and so on. We know.
But why do we not question the premise for the entire idea of Hordfast? What IS the argument for seeing Bergen, Stavanger and everything in between as one integrated region? www.nrk.no/vestland/sa-...
"Scientific asylums" for US academics in Europe? It's happening.
I think I like it, but it is oh so important to remember to be just as forthcoming when equally deserving academics holding other passports knock on our doors! www.khrono.no/300-forskere...
86% of students that grew up in Oslo and attended higher education there, still resided in the city one year after finishing higher education. I'm thinking the up-and-comers of Oslo may well need to broaden their horizons a little! www.khrono.no/vokser-opp-i...
Det er vår felles kyst. Equinor sitt oljeutslipp. Kan de virkelig hemmeligholde hvor oljen slår på land?
For 8 dager siden sendte jeg på vegne av @naturvernforbundet.no en forespørsel til Equinor og til oljebransjens eget oljevern om å få se registreringene av oljepåslag etter Njord A utslippet.
Equinor now starts using the Gulf of America instead Gulf of Mexico. Explains their idea of sustainability, perhaps.
We #standupforscience2025 at the University of Bergen! Look how many people showed up just at a couple hours notice. To our colleagues in the USA: we support you and we hope you have courage to show up for today's demonstrations for science all over the USA and the world: standupforscience2025.org
Stand up! #standupforscience
I have 1 more PhD-related news to share: my last PhD-article has finally been published!
In "Less emissions or less freight? Conflicting narratives for sustainable logistics in Norway" I compare public and business narratives of sustainable logistics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
seems like a discursive triumph of populism: when everyone (both sides, I guess) is preoccupied with attacking some "elite" that supposedly is a danger for "the people", it is hard to join forces for the actual common good: the joint endeavor is to dismantle elites, not to improve society. Or?
Everyone likes a good and reliable weather forecast.
Have anyone ever heard of any political party or campaign that took a clear stand against weather forecasting?
The US was suppose to have a robust political system, but when it is possible to dismantle weather forecasting than anything goes.
This geopolitical dumbfuckery has to end. I'm afraid the narcissistic kindergarten behavior, the disgraceful rhetoric and complete lack of insight into what the world actually looks like will have consequences well beyond what the US, Europe, and certainly Ukraine can handle by "making deals".
No US delegation participating in the IPCC meetings prepping the next reports. Another day, another stupidity. www.nrk.no/norge/trump-...
Don’t know where it’s from (sorry, Edith), but a nice illustration of US policies these days.
Let’s just make sure we’re on the same page here: “the leader of the free world” is not a term applicable to anyone in today’s world, anywhere.
The whole thing is like Titanic heading for the iceberg, except everyone watching actually knows the iceberg is there and can clearly see that the ship is heading straight at it.
oh, yes...
"cash flow trumps (sic!) government oversight and audit"
"no need to protect personal information"
"no problems with American Mediterranean resorts replacing refugee camps"
"what's this with the rule of law, again?"
"pardon is the rational consequence of insurrection"
I'm just a political scientist making personal notes - *scribbling*
"State sovereignty can be overturned by orange goblins"
"States are no different than corporations"
"The richest man on the planet can shut down relief for the poorest people on the planet"
Let's see, what else?