Blogs of the FEZ research group

Here you can find all our blogs related to the advent calendars since 2020.

2021

International Seasons Greetings

Christmas is just around the corner, so it’s time to open the last door of our advent calendar. We hope you enjoyed this year’s wrap up. 2021 was a demanding year, but quite successful for...

Catching up! Door 22 – Progresses and challenges during 2021

Everyone has missed a day […]

December 23, 2021

Door 23: The origin of the Islandic beetle-fauna

By Vetle Løveng Since last […]

December 23, 2021

Door 21 – Persistent considerations for molecular analyses of museum specimens

Many factors come into play […]

December 21, 2021

What’s in a Postdoc? Life inside the gears of the academic machine

When we head home for […]

December 20, 2021

Philonthus spinipes, one of the many species of the genus Philonthus.

Identification of African staphylinid beetles

Identification of African staphylinid beetles […]

December 19, 2021

Finishing the tale of stone

In last year’s advents calendar, […]

December 18, 2021

Door 17 – The teaching portfolio of the FEZ group

Academic teaching is a central […]

December 17, 2021

Out of all things, why marine invertebrates?

By now, everyone knows that […]

December 15, 2021

Door 15: Cryptic species and public outreach

An essential aspect of doing […]

December 15, 2021

Field Trip to Sylt

By Alberto Valero-Gracia In my […]

December 14, 2021

Door 13: Christmas Excitement at the Museum

“On the thirteenth day of […]

December 13, 2021

Maths and Models: The Mechanics of Invertomics

As the nights get longer […]

December 12, 2021

Exploring coastal beetle fauna of the Sakhalin island

Most species of the hydraenid […]

December 11, 2021

Stygocapitella – an incredibly old worm found beneath your beach towel

Species of the genus Stygocapitella […]

December 10, 2021

Door 9: Bowhead whales – giants of Arctic waters

Bowhead whales (scientific name Balaena […]

December 9, 2021

Meet the critters from the Artsdatabanken project

After introducing the Artsdatabanken project […]

December 8, 2021

December 7: How are the Aegialites-beetles?

A year has passed since […]

December 7, 2021

Field Trip to Roscoff

By Alberto Valero-Gracia In this […]

December 6, 2021

Door 5: Modern DNA Sequencing Meets Oslo Natural History Museum Wet Collections: Testing the Impact of Age and Formalin

Pia Merete Eriksen, Rita M. […]

December 5, 2021

Science From Lockdown: Advent Calendar December 4th 2021

So we’re in advent again! […]

December 4, 2021

Staphylinid beetles of Ebu Forest, Cameroon

In June 2021 Vladimir Gusarov […]

December 3, 2021

Biodiversity research in the Genomics era

Sequencing technology has changed in […]

December 2, 2021

Photo: NHM Oslo

Opening the first door – The iconic polar bears respond to climate change

The iconic polar bear (scientific […]

December 1, 2021

2020

International Happy Seasons

A tale of stone and ice

Probing the mud

Beetles, sheep and the Faroes

Huge and endangered

Combining group fun with genomic research

Coming from Japan all the way to Norway

Teaching in Covid times

The intertidal beetle genus Aegialites

Meiofauna occuring at public swimming beaches on Nesodden

Training in African Insect Biodiversity

Never Cry Wolf

Beetles on the Falkland islands

Where do all the sharks live

From small body size to big data

Bringing museum specimens back into the light: Meet the new postdoctoral researcher molecularly exploring museum collections

Assessing biodiversity in the marine algae belt

Did the vikings bring beetles along to Iceland?

The wrong food chain

Natural history collections in the molecular era

A new PhD student in town

Summer project at rocky shores

The first defense

The first door of the calendar

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