Listed as co-author of Live better-paper submitted to Nature

I have been listed as a co-author of the article "The Golden Mean of Happiness: Need Balance and Well-Being Across 70 Countries and Regions", which has been submitted to Nature. The co-authorship is based on my data gathering in Norway in the Live Better research consortium.

Preliminary reference: 

— submitted, with Ewa Szumowska et al. The Golden Mean of Happiness: Need Balance and Well-Being Across 70 Countries and Regions. Submitted to Nature.

Letter "The HDI´s maximum limit for income is unfounded" rejected, submitted again

My Letter "The HDI´s maximum limit for income is unfounded" was rejected by Science, I have now submitted it to Nature.

Writing - on environmental crisis, nature

Today I have had half an article writing day, devoted to the revision of "Anticipating the societal transformation required to solve the environmental crisis in the 21st century: Umwelt trajectories revisited" and my phenomenology chapter for Semiotic agency, with some 400 words written. Total number of writing days in 2020 is up to 34,5.

Nature

I have just signed up for a year´s subscription to Nature, to be paid with my Outstanding Young Researcher funds.

Nature not to publish article on "global species"

After submitting a presubmission enquiry a few days back, today I was informed by an editor of Nature that they will not publish an article by me on the notion of "global species". "We do not doubt the interest of your study to others working in this and related areas of research", the reply went, but "after consideration, we are not persuaded that your findings represent a sufficiently outstanding scientific advance to justify publication in Nature."

See previous posts mentioning the keyword "global species" and cf. my 2010 article "The global species" (a preview is available via Questia).

Lecture to be given at Norwegian animal ethics conference: "What is nature in a world without wilderness?"

I will give a lecture on the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2013, in Oslo on August 22nd, with the title "Hva er natur i en verden uten villmark?" [What is nature in a world without wilderness?] (currently scheduled for presentation at 10.15-10.40 a.m.). An abstract has been posted in my Norwegian language blog Utopisk Realisme.

Links: Nature; Springer

I have received an email inviting me to apply for a complimentary subscription of the journal Nature methods. Pretty sure I will not be deemed to qualify. Not much purchasing power in my backyard.

A notification from Springer details the addresses of their Realtime Feed, giving an instantanous overview of the latest articles downloaded of Springer origin, and their Realtime Icons, which visualizes the latest downloads by detailing their source publication.

Complimentary magazine subscriptions

The Semiotics of Animal Representations: Rodopi confirms

Upon arrival in Sydney I received the message that the series editors of Rodopi's Nature, Culture and Literature (Hubert van den Berg (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan), Axel Goodbody (University of Bath) and Marcel Wissenburg (Radboud University Nijmegen)) have accepted our book proposal The Semiotics of Animal Representations (edited by Kadri Tüür and myself) for inclusion in the book series.

We have written to the contributors that "[i]n order to facilitate the cohesion and intertextuality of the book, we would like to propose that all contributors in addition [to full-length papers, due May 31st] send us a draft of their papers (including reference list) by March 25th." These will be distributed to the other contributors.

Below is the content list of the book.

Table of contents

1. Kadri Tüür (University of Tartu – Estonia) and Morten Tønnessen (University of Tartu – Estonia)

Introduction

2. Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University – UK)

Captivation and ecstasy: Animal immersion and human enchantment

3. Onno Oerlemans (Hamilton College – USA)

The semiotics of bird poems

4. W. John Coletta (University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point – USA)

Evolutionary bodies of knowledge; Or, the evolutionary phenomenology of J. J. Audubon, Georges Bataille, Theodore Roethke, and Octavia Butler

5. Louise Westling (University of Oregon – USA)

The zoosemiotics of sheep herding with dogs

6. Maki Eguchi (University of Tsukuba – Japan)

Representation of sheep in modern Japanese literature: From Natsume Sōseki to Murakami Haruki

7. Adam Dodd (University of Oslo – Norway)

Entomological rhetoric and the fabrication of the insect world

8. Kadri Tüür (University of Tartu – Estonia)

Like a fish out of water: Literary representations of fish

9. Sandra Grötsch (University of Oulu – Finland)

Animal representation and attitudes of humans toward non-humans in fantasy literature

10. Taija Kaarlenkaski (University of Eastern Finland – Finland)

Communicating with the cow: Human-animal interaction in written narratives

11. Christos Lynteris (University of St. Andrews – UK)

Speaking marmots, deaf hunters: Animal-human semiotic breakdown as the cause of the Manchurian pneumonic plague of 1910-11

12. Graham Huggan (University of Leeds – UK)

Attenborough, colonialism and the British tradition of nature documentary

13. Larissa Budde (University of Siegen – Germany)

The semiotics of insects and the hive in popular culture

14. David Rothenberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology – USA)

Animal music, animal aesthetics

15. Ralph R. Acampora (Hofstra University – USA)

The (proto-)ethical significance of semiosis: When and how does one become somebody who matters?

Index

References

Nature launches climate change journal

The journal Nature Climate Change has announced a CFP inviting academic submissions. They aim at becoming the world's leading climate change journal. Unlike Nature, their "mother journal", Nature Climate Change welcomes academic articles from the social sciences as well as natural science.

Scholars and others can apply for a free subscription (electronic or paper).

The first issue of the new Nature journal will be published next April.