"Umwelt trajectories" published online in mid-February

My article "Umwelt Trajectories", published in Semiotica no. 198 (Special Issue on zoosemiotics, guest-edited by Timo Maran), was ahead of print publication published online on February 15th 2014 (DOI: 10.1515/sem-2013-0106). Abstract and keywords is available to non-subscribers.

Agents of nature paper accepted for presentation at IACS conference

My paper "Will the agents of nature please rise: What is agency?" was quite some time ago accepted for presentation at the First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference (Lund, Sweden, September 25-27, 2014). Three reviews of my abstract as originally submitted (see also updated abstract) was communicated to me. Of these two were strong accepts, whereas one was strong reject.

Human distinctiveness paper finished at night in April

During the night April 4-5th I finished the academic essay "Menneskedyret og dets plass i verden" [The human animal and its place in the world] (see also previous posts on this essay). 

Biosemiotics' Impact Factor for 2013 the highest yet

Today I was informed about Biosemiotics' Impact Factor for 2013, calculated by Thomson Reuters (Journal Citation Reports): 0,488. This is up from 2012's 0,364 and above 2011's 0,444, which was the first year the journal had an Impact Factor. Last year's Impact Factor is thus the highest yet for the journal.

An Impact Factor of 0,488 in 2013 means that citable publications in Biosemiotics in 2011 and 2012 were on average cited 0,488 times each in 2013 in publications in other listed journals.

Fish happiness conference listed in MAI bulletin #23

The upcoming fish happiness/welfare conference in Trondheim (August 20th), the 3rd Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, is listed in bulletin no. 23 of Minding Animals International, which is distributed these days (p. 6).

Minding Animals homepage updated with banner linking to fish happiness conference

I've updated the top banner on the homepage of Minding Animals Norway so that it now links to this year's Norwegian Animals Ethics Conference (Trondheim August 20th).

Essay on Norwegian nature view, "Visjon 2040", available online x 3

My academic essay "Visjon 2040: Fra overlagt rovdrift til Utopi Buane" [Vision 2040: From deliberate exploitation to Utopia Buane], written and first published in 2011 entitled "Fra by og land, mann mot mann til visjon 2040 [From city against countryside, man against man to vision 2040], is now available online (for viewing and download) via Academia.edu, ResearchGate and Scribd, after I withdrew it from Kulturverk.com, where it was originally published, about three months ago. At ResearchGate it has been given a DOI. See below for the DOI and links.

Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2011. Visjon 2040: Fra overlagt rovdrift til Utopi Buane [Vision 2040: From deliberate exploitation to Utopia Buane]. Available online (Academia.edu, ResearchGate (DOI: 10.13140/2.1.4708.9289), Scribd). 18 pp.