Expanded Reason Awards - application

I have just submitted my chapter "A Biosemiotic Perspective on the Human Condition and the Environmental Crisis" to the Expanded Reason Awards, with a CV, an extended abstract, and a 3.000 word  "explanatory document" written for the occasion.

Just published: "Biosemiotics Achievement Award for the Year 2020"

Our award announcement text has just been published online (the article is available Open Access, including for PDF download):

Reference:

Rodríguez Higuera, Claudio Julio & Morten Tønnessen 2021. Biosemiotics Achievement Award for the Year 2020. Biosemiotics. Published online August 21st 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s12304-021-09445-9

Letten Prize application

I applied for the Letten Prize 2018. Like 200 or so others.

Almo Farina new member of selection panel for biosemiotics award

Also Farina has been appointed as the new member of the selection panel of the Annual Biosemiotic Achievement Award, replacing Karel Kleisner, who served for the first year as the journal Biosemiotics´ appointee.

Winner of Biosemiotic Achievement Award 2015 announced

The Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the year 2015 is given to Scott Gilbert and Lynn Chiu for their article "The Birth of the Holobiont: Multi-species Birthing Through Mutual Scaffolding and Niche Construction" (Biosemiotics 8(2): 191-210). The award announcement is available here.

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.

Statutes of Annual Biosemiotic Achievement Award published on ISBS webpage

The statutes of the Annual Biosemiotic Achievement Award has been published on the webpage of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS). I have taken part in formulating the statutes, as one of the three Editors-in-Chief of the journal Biosemiotics.