Today I have had half a writing day, with some 200 words added to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA". September totaled 7,5 writing days and some 4.000 words written. Number of writing days so far this Autumn is up to 14.
Today I have attended one scheduled meeting. This week I have altogether attended 13 scheduled meetings (yesterday I was on sick leave). So far this autumn I have attended 98 scheduled meetings and 2 conferences.
Today I have had a writing day devoted to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", with some 600 words written.
Today I have attended 4 meetings including an employee appraisal (total to date: 72, of which 9 in the Autumn). This also included chairing a seminar on "Research impact in an international perspective", which was attended by close to 20 people.
The book The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain, with my chapter "Beyond the human animal: Towards a cross-species neurosemiotics", has now appeared in Google Books.
Today I have attended 3 scheduled meetings. This included the weekly faculty leadership group meeting, and the Autumn´s first department leadership group meeting.
Today I have had 4 scheduled meetings. This included my weekly meeting with the office manager.
Today I have had a writing day, this Autumn´s writing day #12,5, devoted to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", with some 400 words written, a table updated and one more started on.
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 100 words added altogether to our GDP review article and my article "Wasted growth in the USA". Number of writing days so far this Autumn is up to 11,5.
Today I have attended 5 scheduled appointments. This included a board meeting for the Nordic association for semiotic studies, and 4 UIS meetings.
The week total is 14 meetings/scheduled appointments. So far this autumn: 85 meetings and 2 conferences.
Today I have attended 2 scheduled appointments. This included a ph.d. supervision session.
Today I have attended 4 scheduled appointments. This included a ph.d. supervision session over lunch.
Today I ended up having only half a writing day, #10,5 this Autumn, devoted to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", with some 200 words added and more HDI data updated.
Today I have attended one meeting.
Altogether I have attended 10 scheduled meetings/appointments this week. So far this Autumn I have attended 71 scheduled meetings/appointments and 2 conferences.
Yesterday, on Thursday, I attended 2 scheduled appointments/meetings. This included a seminar on economy routines and responsibility at UIS and the final meeting of the work group planning for allocation of study places.
Today, on the 10th writing day this Autumn, I have had a writing day devoted to updating my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" and making a requested amendment to my recently finished Commentary article "The evolutionary origin(s) of the Umwelt", with some 200 words written altogether.
Over the two last days, Wednesday and Thursday, I have had half an article day, devoted to finishing my Commentary article "The evolutionary origin(s) of the Umwelt" - a commentary on Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg´s Target article in Biosemiotics, "Learning and the Evolution of Conscious Agents", with some 900 words written. Number of writing days this Autumn is up to 9.
Today my chronicle "Menneskelig utvikling i revers etter pandemien" (Human development in reverse after the pandemic) was published in print in the Norwegian regional daily Stavanger Aftenblad. It was also quoted on p. 2 in the newspaper.
Today I have attended 3 scheduled meetings/appointments. This included a training seminar on economy management.
Today I have chaired the Autumn´s first staff meeting at Department of social studies, which was attended by some 40 people.
Today I have attended 3 scheduled meetings. This included my weekly meeting with the office manager.
Today I have had half an article day, devoted mostly to writing a commentary to a Target article by Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg, "Learning and the evolution of conscious agents". The work title of my commentary is "The evolutionary origin(s) of the Umwelt". I also added a couple of references to my book manuscript Captured. Altogether I wrote some 800 words.
Number of writing days this Autumn is 8,5 so far.
Our article on friluftsliv at residential care units has now been published as part of an issue - issue 3 in volume 43 of Child & Youth Services.
Reference:
Haaland, Joakim Jiri & Morten Tønnessen (2022). Recreation in the outdoors – exploring the friluftsliv experience of adolescents at residential care. Child & Youth Services, 43:3: 206–236. Published online March 7th 2022. DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2022.2044771
Today I have attended 2 scheduled appointments, including a regular meeting and a web pre-defense event.
Altogether this week I have attended 11 scheduled appointments/meetings. So far this Autumn I have attended 61 meetings/scheduled appointments and 2 conferences.
Today I have had a writing day, the 8th this Autumn, devoted to our GDP review article and my wasted growth articles, with some 100 words written altogether.
My chronicle "Ut og skyte ulv" (Out shooting wolves), which was published in print more than a week ago, appeared online yesterday in the Norwegian national daily VG.
Today I have attended, and hosted, a full-day meeting with Bufetat Region Vest, at the University of Stavanger campus.
I am (briefly) interviewed in the Khrono news story “Droppar samarbeid med Forandringsfabrikken” which was published today (journalist: Hilde Kristin Strand), along with several others.
Today I have attended 2 scheduled meetings. This included the third meeting this year in Norway´s Council for animal ethics.
Today I have attended 2 scheduled meetings, including the faculty´s weekly leadership group meeting.
Yesterday, on my way back from Thessaloniki towards Stavanger, I had half a writing day, with readings done related to a commentary I will likely write for Biosemiotics on a Target article by Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg, "Learning av the evolution of conscious agents". Number of writing days so far this Autumn is up to 7.
This week I have attended 6 scheduled meetings/appointments, and a conference. The total so far this Autumn is 50 meetings and 2 conferences.
Today, at the "15th World Congress of Semiotics - Semiotics in the lifeworld", held in Thessaloniki, Greece (August 30th to September 3rd), I presented two papers, "Umwelt theory for practitioners - semiotic guidelines for a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology", in the session "Biosemiotics, Umwelt, and the lifeworld", with some 25 people attending, and "Semiotics of ethology and zoology", in the session "Semiotics in the diciplines", with some 50 people attending.
"The Greenhouse: An environmental humanities initiative at University of Stavanger", which has until now formally been a program area for research, has from September 1st onwards been granted the status as a research center, titled "The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities". I have been one of the members of The Greenhouse from the start in 2017.
Yesterday evening, I attended most of the General Assembly of the International Society for Semiotic Studies (IASS). I remain a representative for Norway, and for the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), in the Executive Committee of IASS.
Yesterday Kobus Marais kindly referred to our book Semiotic Agency: Science beyond mechanism in his keynote talk at the 15th world congress of semiotics (Thessaloniki, August 30th–September 3rd) “The Thermodynamics of Semiosis”, specifically making use of a figure on bodily agency over different levels of biological organization.
ResearchGate stats: I currently have a "Research Interest Score" of 400.0, 18,340 Reads, 414 Citations (h-index of 12), 28 Recommendations and 719 Mentions by their metrics. Cf. my profile page there.
In comparison I recorded ca. 7.000 reads by early 2020 and ca. 11.000 reads by early 2021.
