I have just completed registration of academic activities in Cristin, the Current research information system in Norway (cf. my Cristin profile) - 24 posts. This includes:
* 5 scientific texts (2 book chapters, 1 co-written article, 1 commentary, 1 Festschrift contribution)
* 5 conference talks
* 4 chronicles
* 4 interviews
For 2021 I had 19 posts. Altogether I now have 317 posts since I started registering in Cristin in 2012.
Today I have had the 12th writing day this Spring, with some 1.300 words added to my article "The study of past Umwelten". Altogether in January I have logged some 5.815 words written, which is more than any other recent month.
I have been scheduled to give a presentation in the HDRO research seminar (for the Human Development Report Office, UNDP) on March 21st, titled "Wasted Growth?", via Zoom.
Today I have had a writing day, the 11th this Spring, with some 100 words added to our GDP review article and our article on Arne Næss´ view on economics.
Today I have had the 10th writing day this Spring, with some 1.200 words added to my article "The study of past Umwelten" (my most productive writing day so far this Spring in terms of words written).
Today I have had the 9th writing day this Spring, with some 600 words added to my article "The study of past Umwelten".
Here is a link to my chapter "Semiotics in ethology and zoology", from Bloomsbury Semiotics. Only fully available to institutional subscribers.
Today I have had the 8th writing day so far this Spring, with work done on my "Open semiotics" chapter (proof reading), our GDP review article, and our article on Arne Næss´ view on economics.
I have recently done two peer reviews, one for Biosemiotics and one for Science as Culture.
Today I am proof-reading this chapter, which has updated bibliographical info:
Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming, 2023. Umwelt theory for practitioners: Semiotic guidelines for application in a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology. In Open Semiotics (4 volumes, ed. Amir Biglari), volume 4: Life and its extensions, pp. 303–314. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Today I have chaired a meeting in the steering group at Cognitive Lab at UIS. Among other things we revised the action plan for 2023.
I have recently been appointed as Department of social studies´ representative in the steering group, after filling the role earlier as Head of department.
There is now a webpage for the CCEP colloquium: After Nagel: Science and the Phenomenology or Animal Subjects (Conference), to be held at Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University, the Netherlands, in March 8-9th, where I am an invited speaker.
I have been invited as a speaker to a Henrik Steffens conference to take place in Stavanger September 8-9th 2023 at Museum of Archaeology, Stavanger.
Today I have had a writing day, devoted to finally finishing and submitting my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", with some 500 words written. Now resubmitted to Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
Today, on the 6th writing day this Spring, I have added some 300 words to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA".
Today I have given a guest lecture for NMBU in their course HET203 "Husdyrvelferd" , titled "Husdyrproduksjon og etiske problemstillinger", via Teams. Some 10 students attended in a room at NMBU, Ås.
Today I have had the 5th writing day this Spring, with some 600 words added to our GDP review article and a new article I am writing with Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen, work-titled "Hva Arne Næss kan lære oss om økonomifagets tverrfaglighet".
I have just submitted the abstract below to the ISQOLS 2023 organizers:
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Wasted GDP in the USA
Abstract
Many believe that the purpose of economic growth is to improve human welfare. Any economic activity has some degree of environmental impact, with higher activity as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) typically involving a more considerable environmental impact. In light of this circumstance, economic growth can be conceived of as wasted if it is not accompanied by improved welfare. In this paper, a concept of “wasted GDP” is introduced. In this perspective, GDP is wasted if it does not support welfare. By estimating what portion of a country´s GDP is wasted, we can assess how effectively the country promotes welfare. The paper is focused on a case study assessing the performance of the United States of America (USA), based on analysis of Human Development Index data. The USA started out as no. 2 in the world by HDI in 1990, but has since been sliding down the list in terms of ranking. While by 2010 the USA was no longer among the world´s 10 most developed countries by this measure, by 2021 it was no longer among the world´s 20 most developed countries. The average US citizen has an income that is considerably higher than the average income in most other countries, including in most rich countries. But despite solid economic growth, over the last three decades the USA has fallen behind several other highly developed countries in the Human Development Index (HDI). 27 countries, large and small, now outperform the USA in terms of nonincome human development, relating to the Health and Education dimensions of HDI. Of these, 22 countries outperforms the USA by nonincome HDI despite having a lower GNI per capita than the USA. I stipulate the share of US GDP that is wasted by comparing US HDI performance with the HDI performance of better performing countries by nonincome HDI that have a lower GDP per capita than the USA. I also estimate ecological pressures related to the USA´s suboptimal human development performance, specifically US CO2 emissions and material footprint related to wasted GDP.
Today I have had half a writing day, with some 200 words added to my article "The study of past Umwelten", among other tasks. 4 writing days so far this Spring.
Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 300 words added to my article "The study of past Umwelten". I have had 3,5 writing days so far this Spring.
Today I have had one meeting related to a statement of Norway´s Council for animal ethics.
Today I have had half a writing day, with some 300 words added to my article "The study of past Umwelten".
Today I had the second writing day this Spring, with some planning made and some 100 words added to my article "The study of past Umwelten".
According to Google Scholar my research has to date attracted 867 citations (+2 since December 29th), including 131 in 2022 (+3) and 14 so far in 2023 (+14) - cf. my profile. The numbers don't quite add up; indicating that some citations have been removed from Google´s dataset. My i10-index is now 34 (+1); my h-index remains 18.
Yesterday I had my final day as Head of department at Department of social studies, University of Stavanger (at Faculty of social sciences). I have hold the post since January 1st 2021, and was originally supposed to stay in the post until the end of 2024. However, on October 5th, 2022, I resigned (see the post "Quitting as head of department at UIS"), after increasing sleep problems (for a first sign, see the post "All appointments cancelled due to work-/stress-related sleep deprivation" from May 2022). Spread out over October - November - December I had about one month of sick leave altogether due to stress-related sleep deprivation issues.
Among the things I got done yesterday was deciding the action plan (handlingsplan) for the department for the period 2023-2026 (in effect a revision of the plan for 2022-2025). I also made a decision about not using supervisors for bachelor theses and master theses as internal examiner starting next academic year.
From today onwards, I am back in my ordinary position as Professor of philosophy.
Today, on my third last day as Head of department, I have attended 3 meetings, including my last faculty leadership group meeting and my final department council meeting.
Today I have attended 3 meetings. This included the final weekly meeting with our office manager which we have had over the last 2 years.
Today I have had this Spring´s first writing day, with some 300 words added to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA".
