Door 9 of this advent calendar was focusing on snow scorpionflies (genus Boreus), little noticed but very interesting group of insect whose adults are active in winter and can be easily spotted walking on snow when the temperature is staying close to zero degree Celsius. Yet Boreus is […]

Climate change is an issue that has targeted, and continues to target, the tolerance limits of many organisms. Efforts by international institutions in the form of conventions primarily serve as a serious warning against destructive human activities and, secondly, as an attempt to address their consequences, including the […]

Today is the winter solstice. Here in the northern hemisphere, it’s the shortest day and the longest night, a turning point when darkness reaches its peak and the slow return of light begins. For humans, the solstice often inspires reflection, celebration, or a simple awareness that winter has […]

En doktoravhandling er et viktig skritt i karrieren til en ung forsker. Men for disputasen trengs det faktisk tre til tango i Norge – kandidaten og de to eksterne opponentene. I år hadde jeg etter noen år igjen æren av å være en av de eksterne opponentene til […]

A PhD defense is an important step in the career of a young researcher. However, for the defense itself it needs actually three to tango in Norway – the candidate and the two external opponents. This year, I had after some years again the honor to be one […]

Published in Zoologica Scripta: link here. The paper named “Insight into the phylogeny of the intertidal beetle genus Aegialites (Coleoptera, Salpingidae)“, by Marianne N. Haugen, Vladimir I. Gusarov, Derek S. Sikes & Torsten H. Struck is now published in Zoologica Scripta. This paper, which is an important part […]

Written by Hilda Jakin Osei-Mireku What a “zombie fungus” and a ghost moth larva can teach us about patience, transformation, and waiting during Advent Advent is a season of waiting, anticipation, and preparation. While many of us count down the days to Christmas, high in regions such as […]

Svalbard reindeer running, photographed by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, under the Creative Commons.

I have to admit that I do not follow the annual announcements of the various Nobel Prizes with equal interest. Perhaps not surprising, the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences usually scores rather low as compared to e.g., the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine that is by default […]