#20

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).

#3; book review "A primer on ecosemiotics and animal welfare" finished and submitted

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.

#55,5

Today I have had what ended up as another full book writing day devoted to finishing and submitting the revision of the manuscript for my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 1.200 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 55,5 writing days including 26 book writing days.

#46,5

Today, on my way back to Stavanger from Oslo, I have had an article writing day devoted to finishing my article "Prolegomena to lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures", which I have now submitted to a special issue of Journal of Cognitive Historiography about "Cognition and Evolution in Historical and Social Research". In the process I added 2.058 words to the manuscript - making this the most productive writing day so far this year in terms of words written. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 46,5, including 29 article writing days.

#1,5

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 200 words added to the article "Når gode råd er plagsomme" (When good advice is bothersome) which I co-write with Svein Tuastad. Moreover, I looked into a revised version of a Live Better article manuscript. Finally; I prepared and submitted the manuscript "Kan velferd og miljø måles i forlengelsen av BNP?", which I have co-written with Jan Karlstrøm, to Samfunn og økonomi.

This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 1,5.

#70; last writing day this Spring

Today I have had a book writing day (partly on the go, by train from Oslo to Stavanger, and partly on a library), with some 250 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This Spring I have had 70 writing days, including 61 book writing days.

This concludes my writing days in Spring 2025. Altogether, since New year I have logged 56.767 words written, including 55.726 words on Captured. This includes 5.826 words in June.

I am slightly delayed with the completion of the book manuscript, and now aim to finish it by July 10th.

Listed as co-author of Live better-paper submitted to Nature

I have been listed as a co-author of the article "The Golden Mean of Happiness: Need Balance and Well-Being Across 70 Countries and Regions", which has been submitted to Nature. The co-authorship is based on my data gathering in Norway in the Live Better research consortium.

Preliminary reference: 

— submitted, with Ewa Szumowska et al. The Golden Mean of Happiness: Need Balance and Well-Being Across 70 Countries and Regions. Submitted to Nature.

Listed as co-author of Live Better article submitted to PNAS

I have been listed as a co-author of the article "The Meaning-or-Affluence Paradox: Wealth Undermines Meaning, Spirituality and Conformity Preserve It", which has been submitted to PNAS. The co-authorship is based on my data gathering in Norway in the Live Better research consortium.

#39,5; second Steffens chapter finished and submitted

 Today, during sick leave and on Christmas Eve, I have had an article writing day, with some 1.700 words written on the article "Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered: Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene", which I have now completed and submitted. 

Altogether this Autumn I have had 39,5 writing days including 20,5 article writing days, including 6 writing days in December when I´ve been on sick leave. December ended up as the month I wrote the most, slightly ahead of August and October, and today ended up as the most productive day in the Autumn semester in terms of words written. For the year as a whole I have logged more than 50.000 words written, which is the second-most on record.

#32,5

Today I have had an article writing day, with work done on the article "Kan velferd og miljø måles i forlengelsen av BNP?" which I co-write with Jan Karlstrøm. The article has now been submitted to Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.

So far this Autumn I have had 32,5 writing days including 14,5 article writing days.

New title for third Live Better article

I have previously mentioned that I am listed as a co-author of an article that was work-titled "Expression of Positive Emotions Links to Independent Selfhoods, Globally with Minor Exceptions Only: Findings from Two Macro-Psychological Studies". The article now has a new title: "Does Expressing Positive Emotions Reflect Independent or Interdependent Models of Selfhood? Searching for Latin American ‘Expressive Interdependence’ in Two Global Studies." The article has now been submitted to Psychological Science.

See also:

Third Live Better manuscript

"What Arne Næss can teach us about the interdisciplinary nature of economics" resubmitted

Yesterday I submitted a revised version of the article on Arne Næss´ views on the philosophy of economics which I co-write with Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen, "Hva Arne Næss kan lære oss om økonomifagets tverrfaglighet" (What Arne Næss can teach us about the interdisciplinary nature of economics), to Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift. 

#26; applied Umwelt theory article finished and submitted

Today I have had half an article writing day, devoted to finishing my article "Applied Umwelt theory in the context of phenomenological triangulation and descriptive phenomenology". I added some 400 words to the manuscript, finished, and submitted to the guest editors of the Sign Systems Studies special issue "Contemporary applications of Umwelt theory" where it will appear this summer or so.

So far this Spring I have had 26 writing days.

#14,5; Næss article submitted to Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift

Today I have had an article writing day with work done on the article "Hva Arne Næss kan lære oss om økonomifagets tverrfaglighet" (What Arne Næss can teach us about the interdisciplinarity of economics), which I have co-written with Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Today´s work included reworking in-text and bibliography references and writing a summary in Norwegian and English. In the process I added some 500 words to the article, which has now been submitted to Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift. 

Marginally, I also did some work related to my book project Captured and my article "Applied Umwelt theory in the context of phenomenological triangulation and descriptive phenomenology".

So far this Spring I have had 14,5 writing days.

#5, first draft of "Ecological semiotics" chapter finished and submitted

Today I have had an article writing day devoted to finish a first draft of my chapter for the 3rd edition of Encyclopedia of ecology, "Ecological semiotics", with some 1.800 words written, the most so far this year in one day. I also submitted the manuscript to Elsevier´s system. I have further work to do during revisions. The number of writing days so far this Spring is now 5.

#33,5; article "Kan velferd og miljø måles i forlengelsen av BNP?" submitted to Samfunnsøkonomen

Over the last three days I have altogether conducted half a writing day, with some work done on my contribution to Encyclopedia of Ecology, updates received concerning the book Mars and the Earthlings and, indirectly, my book project Captured. Today I finally finished editing the article "Kan velferd og miljø måles i forlengelsen av BNP" (Can welfare and environment be measured in extension of GDP?), which I have co-written with Jan Karlstrøm, and which I just submitted to the Norwegian academic journal Samfunnsøkonomen.

The number of completed writing days this Autumn is now 33,5.

#26,5

Today I have had half a writing day, bringing this Autumn´s total so far up to 26,5 days, with some 500 words added to my contributions to the book Mars and the Earthlings, and my latest contributions submitted.

#7; "Wasted GDP in the USA" finished and submitted

Today I have had a writing day, devoted to finally finishing and submitting my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", with some 500 words written. Now resubmitted to Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

#3

Yesterday I had half a writing day, and submitted my brief article "The HDI´s maximum limit for income is unfounded" to Atlantic Economic Journal. Number of writing days so far this Spring is 3.

Letter "The HDI´s maximum limit for income is unfounded" rejected, submitted again

My Letter "The HDI´s maximum limit for income is unfounded" was rejected by Science, I have now submitted it to Nature.