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.

This was fun! www.uib.no/en/gov/17966...

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?

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...

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.

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?

Brilliant! Help Denmark buy California! Because why not...? denmarkification.com

Book burning? If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."

It’s already worse than imagined. Sell your Teslas.

And so the madness begins. Keep calm and carry on, until further notice - let’s prove we’re better.

Important reminder about the unfair distribution of citizen privileges in academia by my great colleagues @iamsubina.bsky.social and @shayanshokrgozar.bsky.social www.khrono.no/kolleger-med...

«Globally, cities in the top 10 list of lost winter days include Fuji, Japan; Turin, Italy; and Bergen, Norway, all of which lost more than 25 days annually»

Stellar academic performance by @iamsubina.bsky.social today, fencing excellent, tough and thorough questioning by opponents Debbie Hopkins from Oxford and Anders Tønnesen from CICERO. Well earned title, Dr. Shresta!

The one and only @iamsubina.bsky.social holding her trial lecture this morning - we’re all looking forward to the phd defense in a couple of hours!

PhD position available at @uibcet.bsky.social - in our project ECOBUDGETS: Actionable budgets for sustainable climate and nature governance, financed by the NFR. Have a strong social science background, Norwegian/English language skills, eco-interest? Apply! www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

New article alert, with a bunch of great people from the RISKSEC2.0 project - Variations of riskification: climate change adaptation in four European cities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Entropy isn’t what it used to be.

Kanskje greit at demokrati ikke kan måles i aksjeverdi eller bunnlinje, med disse ved roret er politisk og byråkratisk konkurs nærmest garantert. www.nrk.no/urix/elon-mu...

Meet & greet between our internship partner institutions, current and coming interns from the MA program in politics and governance of global challenges at Dept of Government, UiB! Great partners, great students!

The circus continues… www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Natur og samfunn: Planlegging er kanskje en intrikat og byråkratisk side ved offentlig sektor, men det er helt sentralt i forvaltningen av forholdet mellom oss og omgivelsene våre. Hva når politikken virker mot sine egne intensjoner, nedfelt i lov og forskrift? www.nrk.no/ytring/svikt...

Et av problemene med norsk klimapolitikk: www.nrk.no/ytring/den-n...

Dette er gode nyheter! Og et skikkelig stikk i siden til de som vil legge ned klimaetaten. Omstilling krever gode fagmiljøer og gode fagfolk! www.bergen.kommune.no/hvaskjer/bym...

Reputation management?

Om det er fusk, juks eller slurv politikerne har drevet med er en diskusjon i seg selv, en annen er at det må gjøres klinkende klart hva vi forventer av studentene våre. Om igjen og om igjen!

Monday morning, Department of Government #GOV215

Gratulerer, Rafael!!! Well done!

Sikkert gode intensjoner, men denne analogien mellom klimapolitikk og medisinsk behandling er direkte misvisende. www.bt.no/btmeninger/d...

Vi må rett og slett skjerpe oss. www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...

Som en lidenskapelig skikjører og engasjert forsker på klimafeltet er jeg bekymret!

Legge ned klimaetaten i Bergen? Fryktelig dårlig ide, mener Håvard og jeg. Nå uten betalingsmur! www.ba.no/bergen-treng...

Bergens bystyre foreslår å legge ned klimaetaten. Håvard Haarstad og jeg synes det er en dårlig ide, og skriver om det i Bergensavisen (plussak, dessverre) www.ba.no/bergen-treng...