Editorial board meeting of Biosemiotics attended in Sheffield

Today, during the fourth day of the 26th Gathering in biosemiotics, in Sheffield, UK, I attended the annual editorial board meeting of Biosemiotics.

#1; environmental semiotics chapter revised

Over the last four days I have completed what amounts to an article writing day, the first in the Autumn semester. In the process of taking part in revising the book chapter "Environmental Semiotics", which I co-write with Jonathan Beever, I added some 800 words to the manuscript (we also shortened the title). Moreover, I also composed five bullet points concerning practical implications related to the article "Friluftsliv in Therapeutic Residential Care: When Staff Take Youth Out to Find a Way In", which I co-write with Joakim Jiri Haaland and which has since been published (cf. separate post).

"Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care" article published in Residential Treatment for Children & Youth

The article "Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in", which I have co-written as second author, has now been published. This is Joakim´s third article in his ph.d. thesis work, and the second article on use of friluftsliv in residential care (child protection) I have co-authored. The article is Open Access. 

Reference:

— Joakim Jiri Haaland and Morten Tønnessen 2026. Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in. Residential Treatment for Children & Youth. Published online July 29th 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/0886571X.2026.2707082 

My 10 most read Springer Nature articles; "Wasted GDP in the USA" read 20.000+ times

According to Springer Nature, these are my most accessed Springer articles (prior rank refers to March 2025 list; as does prior number of accesses):  

1 (2). Wasted GDP in the USA (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023) 20.228 (14.297) 

2 (1). The Ethics of Laying Hen Genetics (Mia Fernyhough et al., Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2019) 18.088 (14.986)  

3 (3). Umwelt Transitions: Uexküll and Environmental Change (Biosemiotics, 2009) 7.557 (6.175)    

4 (4). Phenomenology and Biosemiotics (Morten Tønnessen, Timo Maran & Alexei Sharov, Biosemiotics, 2018) 7.001 (5.675)    

5 (5). Jesper Hoffmeyer’s Biosemiotic Legacy (Morten Tønnessen, Alexei Sharov & Timo Maran, Biosemiotics, 2019) 4.890 (3.789)    

6 (6). Current Human Ecology in the Amazon and beyond: a Multi-Scale Ecosemiotic Approach (Biosemiotics, 2020) 4.782 (3.673)   

7 (7). Towards Synthesis of Biology and Semiotics (Alexei Sharov, Timo Maran & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2015) 3.891 (3.022)

8 (9). Comprehending the Semiosis of Evolution (Alexei Sharov, Timo Maran & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2016) 3.602 (2.892) 

9 (-) Introduction to the special issue "Umwelt theory and phenomenology" (Carlo Brentari & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2024) 3.589

10 (8). Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2020 (Claudio Julio Rodríguez Higuera & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2021) 3.383 (2.908) 

"Making the Umwelt Bubble of the Modern Synthesis Burst" (Biosemiotics, 2021), with its 3.112 accesses (2.552), is thus out of the list, while "The evolutionary origin(s) of the Umwelt" (Biosemiotics, 2022), with 3.344 accesses, did not quite make the top 10. Altogether Springer Nature lists 24 publications of mine with a total of ca. 94.700 accesses and some 281 registered citations. The top 10 accounts for 76.536 accesses.

See also:

My 10 most read Springer Nature articles; ca. 60.000 accesses in total (March 2025)

"My 10 most accessed articles with Springer Nature; ca. 44.000 accesses combined" (November 2023)

Paper «Life in Earth – a new look at the nature of life» presented at GiB26 in Sheffield, UK

Today, at the first day of the 26th Gathering in biosemiotics, which is held at the University of Sheffield, in Sheffield, UK July 27th to 31st, I have presented my paper «Life in Earth – a new look at the nature of life» as part of the session «Ecological biosemiotics», which was chaired by Sara Cannizzaro. The presentation took place in the building The Wave and was attended by about 40 people.

Second co-authored friluftsliv article accepted for journal publication

I have been notified that the article "Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in", which I have co-authored with Joakim Jiri Haaland, has been accepted for publication.

Preliminary reference:

Joakim Jiri Haaland and Morten Tønnessen, forthcoming. Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in. Residential Treatment for Children & Youth.

Ethics of CCS paper rejected for NEEN26 event

I have been notified that my paper submitted to NEEN26, the NEEN & ISEE Conference on Environmental Ethics which is to be held at Umeå University, Sweden, October 14-16th, titled "The ethical case against Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)", has been rejected by the organisers. 

This is the second or third time I have had a paper on this theme rejected. For some reason, the ethics of CCS seems to be anathema.

See also:

CCS paper submitted to NEEN26 conference