Selection panel of the Annual Biosemiotic Achievement Award appointed

The selection panel of the Annual Biosemiotic Achievement Award (see statutes) has now been appointed. Initially it counts the following members: Izabela Witkowska (Springer), Karel Kleisner (appointed by the Editors-in-Chief of Biosemiotics) and Don Favareau (appointed by the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS)).

The first award will be given to author(s) of an article in the 2015 volume (nos. 1, 2, 3) of Biosemiotics. The winner will be announced in Biosemiotics #1/2016 and on the ISBS webpage.

Biosemiotics journal presented at gathering in London

On Thursday July 3rd, during the 14th International Gathering in Biosemiotics (London, 30th of June to 4th of July), I participated in a panel presentation of the journal Biosemiotics, along with Alexei Sharov, Timo Maran and Springer's Izabela Witkowska. Here I presented the biosemiotic glossary project and plans for an annual prize which is for now entitled the "biosemiotic discovery prize". There was discussion about the latter.