A book review I have written has just been published in Biosemiotics.
Reference:
Tønnessen, Morten 2026. A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare. Book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren, Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, De Gruyter Mouton 2025. Biosemiotics. Published online October 9th 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-026-09668-8
Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done in relation to the interview that Federico Comollo has conducted with Michael Marder and me, and proof-reading conducted for my book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren´s book Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, titled "A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare", which is forthcoming in Biosemiotics. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 21,5 including 7 article writing days.
I have been notified, today, that my book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren´s book Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, has been accepted for publication by Biosemiotics.
Preliminary reference:
— Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming. A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare. Book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren, Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, De Gruyter Mouton 2025. Biosemiotics.
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 650 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare by Xany Jansen van Vuuren for Biosemiotics, during revisions requested by the journal. In the process I changed the title of the book review from "A primer on ecosemiotics and animal welfare" to "A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare", and resubmitted.
This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 20 including 5,5 article writing days. This was the first article writing day for more than a month (the last was in late August).
According to my Google Scholar profile my research has to date attracted a total of 1.660 citations (+13 since July 31st). This includes 96 citations so far in 2026 (+11 since July 31st). My h-index remains 22 while my i10-index is now 48 (+1 since July 31st).
My 48th text to reach 10 citations appears to be "Introduction to the Special Issue Semiotics of Perception Being in the World of the Living—Semiotic Perspectives", co-written with Kati Lindström (2010).
On August 27th I will take part as a commentator in the online symposium "The significance of semiotics in NBS co-creation", which is held by researchers involved in the ERC-funded research project "Coevolutionary approach to unlock the transformative potential of nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities (COEVOLVERS)".
The symposium, which takes place 1-3 p.m. CET, features the following three presentations, with comments/questions from me:
To register, see the event webpage.
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 1.200 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare by Xany Jansen van Vuuren for Biosemiotics in the process of finishing and submitting it. My review is titled "A primer on ecosemiotics and animal welfare". This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 3 including 2,5 article writing days.
Today I have had half a book writing day, with some planning made for the production process for my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. I also received copy-edited files and information about the production process from the book´s project manager at Integra Software Services, a company based in India which Bloomsbury Academic uses for producing my book.
Moreover, I had half an article writing day, with some 400 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics.
This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 2 including 1,5 article writing days and 0,5 book writing days.
Today, during the fourth day of the 26th Gathering in biosemiotics, in Sheffield, UK, I attended the annual editorial board meeting of Biosemiotics.
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
"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)
According to my Google Scholar profile my research has to date attracted a total of 1.631 citations (+19 since May 28th). This includes 73 citations so far in 2026 (+9 since May 28th). My h-index remains 22 while my i10-index is now 47 (+1 since May 28th). My i10-index means that 47 of my texts have at least 10 citations each.
My latest articles/chapters to reach 10 citations are:
"Agency in biosemiotics and enactivism" (2016)
"Outline of an Uexküllian bio-ontology" (2001) - my very first scientific article
My paper «Life in Earth – a new look at the nature of life» has been scheduled for oral presentation at the 26th Gathering in biosemiotics, which is to be held July 27–31st at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, on Monday July 27th at 14.30–15.00 as part of the session «Ecological biosemiotics».
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 1.500 words added to my article "Prospective lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures", which I have now remaned "Prolegomena to lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures". In terms of words written, this was the most productive writing day so far in 2026.
This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 37,5, including 24,5 article writing days.
Today I´ve had what ended up as half an article writing day and half a book writing day, upon receiving, at last, the peer-review of my book manuscript Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism from Bloomsbury Academic. I have today reworked writing plans for May and June considering the revision work I will now start with. Moreover, I did a little work on my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics.
This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 33, including 23 article writing days and 10 book writing days.
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.
Today I´ve had half an article writing day, with work done related to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics. Also, I took note that four Store Norske Leksikon encyclopedia entries I have previously suggested edits to have now been updated - specifically, this concerns the entries "Albert Schweitzer", "bærekraftig utvikling", "etikk", and "miljøbevegelsen". This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 28, including 19,5 article writing days.
Today I´ve had half an article writing day, with work done related to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 27,5, including 19 article writing days.
Today I´ve had what ended up as half an article writing day, with some work done on my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics and some initial work done on my climate change-themed article for a special issue of Journal of Cognitive Historiography, work-titled "Prospective lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures". I also rearranged my writing plans for the next few weeks.
This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 26,5, including 18 article writing days.
I have accepted to join the Scientific Committe of the conference "Biennial Meeting of the Polish Association for CogSci", with the theme «Making Sense of Meaning-making», which is to be held in Lublin, Poland September 21–23rd.
