#31

Today I´ve had what ended up as half an article writing day, with some rearrangement of writing day plans done, some 100 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics, and some 100 words added to my manuscript "Prospective lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures" which is aimed for a special issue of Journal of Cognitive Historiography about "Cognition and Evolution in Historical and Social Research".

This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 31, including 22 article writing days. In April, I logged only 5,5 writing days (specifically, 4,5 article writing days and 1 book writing day), and 812 words written.

Google Scholar: 1.594 citations; 51 so far in 2026

According to my Google Scholar profile my research has to date attracted a total of 1.594 citations (+28 since March 31st). This includes 172 citations in 2025 (+5 since March 31st) and 51 citations so far in 2026 (+19 since March 31st). My h-index remains 22 and my i10-index 46.

#30,5

Today I´ve had an article writing day devoted to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics, with some 350 words added to the manuscript. Moreover, I discovered that my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, is now featured by Google Books, although no publication date has yet been set. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 30,5, including 21,5 article writing days.

Paperback edition of "Bloomsbury Semiotics" forthcoming in 2026

My chapter "Semiotics in ethology and zoology", published in volume 2 of the 4 volume set Bloomsbury Semiotics, will later this year be republished in a Paperback edition. According to Bloomsbury Academic the Paperback edition will be available from September 7th, 2026 - but it can already be pre-ordered.

Updated reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2022. Semiotics in ethology and zoology. Book chapter, in Bloomsbury Semiotics (4 volumes, ed. Jamin Pelkey), volume 2, Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences (ed. Jamin Pelkey and Stéphanie Walsh Matthews), pp. 75–91. Bloomsbury Academic. Hardback edition 2022 (9781350139329); paperback edition 2026 (ISBN 9781350641853).

News story on animal ethics episode published on UIS intranet

A news story titled "UiS forsker på skjermen: Tar opp etiske dilemmaer om dyr" (available only to UIS employees), featuring an interview with me and excerpts from the video series Etiske dilemmaer (published on Viten-TV), has been published on the intranet of University of Stavanger. The news story is written by Ida Tiberg.

Peer-review for Biosemiotics

I have recently done a peer-review for Biosemiotics.

#29,5

Over the course of the last three days, while attending the 22nd conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (NoSP), I´ve had half a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph in spe Being and Sign, with materials and references gathered, some thoughts made, and a little bit written. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 29,5, including 9 book writing days.