Interviewed in UIS news story about Alice Crary Steffens lecture 2024

I am interviewed in the University of Stavanger news story "Henrik Steffens-forelesningen 2024: Alice Crary om dyrs rettigheter og menneskets verdighet", which is composed by Karen Anne Okstad and also released as a press release.

16 recruitment positions allocated to UIS; Cognitive Lab referred in new UIS news story

Yesterday the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research issued a press release with some details on the distribution of the 4.000 study places and 250 recruitment positions that is proposed added in relation to the revised state budget. University of Stavanger gets 250 study places and 16 recruitment positions.

In an UIS news story titled "Utdanningsløftet gir god uttelling for UIS" (the UIS gets good share of education measure), Vice rector for research Merete Vadla Madland comments on the 16 recruitment positions, emphasizing plans for establishing a cognitive lab (in which I have been involved).

See also:

UIS has asked Ministry of Education for ph.d.s and post.doc.s for Cognitive Lab; UIS news story

MA press release composed and distributed

This night I composed and distributed a press release from Minding Animals Norway, announcing that Bergljot Børresen was given the Minding Animals Norway Award 2015 at Dyreverndagen (the Norwegian Animal Protection Day). Cf. also yesterday´s post.

Press release from Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference addresses double standards concerning fish

Here, on the homepage of the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, is this year's press release, "Dyreetikkonferansen tar opp dobbeltmoral om fisk" [the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference addresses double standards concerning fish]. The press release, which was posted online a day or so before the conference (which took place in Trondheim August 20th), features some statements by me as Chair of Minding Animals Norway as well as statements from Tore Kristiansen and Kristian Bjørkdahl.

Green Party press release on poultry welfare featuring Minding Animals

Minding Animals Norway was featured in a press release from Norway's Green Party released April 3rd and entitled "Vil ha kylling på Stortinget" [Want(s) chicken in Parliament]. The occasion for the press release was the seminar on animal welfare in the poultry industry co-arranged by Minding Animals Norway and the Green Party on April 7th. The seminar program was attached to the press release, where the Green Party states that they want animal welfare for chickens to be on the political agenda, and want the Norwegian parliament to discuss the poultry industry's future.

See also:

Parliament seminar on poultry welfare organised; introductory talk given

Minding Animals parliament seminar reported on in poultry industry magazine

Report from poultry welfare seminar in MAI bulletin #22

Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference: Press release distributed; undersecretary of Ministry of Environment to open conference

Today I have distributed the press release of the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2013 to my share of recipients.

See my Norwegian language blog Utopisk Realisme for the full text, which includes an updated program for the conference (latest news: Undersecretary at the Ministry of Environment Ellen Øseth will open the conference).