Conservatives have long tried to attack regulators such as the EPA with “weaponized transparency”. Coupled with the inflation of uncertainty, the intent is to make regulations impossible.
University of Bergen
With its 17,000 students and more than 2,500 staff, the University of Bergen (Norway) is a medium-sized European university and is both a teaching and research institution organized in seven faculties and some 90 departments and specialised centres. Six faculties cover most of the traditional university disciplines:
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Faculty of Psychology
Faculty of Social Sciences
There are also an increasing number of multi-disciplinary research centres, projects and units.
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Nailed to the door of the London School of Economics, the ‘33 Theses’ offer a long overdue challenge to economics dogma. But there are omissions as well.
The final report of the EU’s summit in Sweden makes generous use of the adjective “fair”. With populism and xenophobia are on the rise, could this be the basis of a new narrative for Europe?
We are observing two new phenomena. On one hand doubt is shed on the quality of entire scientific fields or sub-fields. On the other this doubt is played out in the open, in the media and blogosphere.
How can we improve the PISA standardised tests?
Insisting that science has a monopoly on the truth invalidates dissent and undermines what should be an open dialogue between science and society.
Trump is not science’s biggest problem.
Scientists must bear some responsibility for the post-truth era and the current crisis in democracy.
Is the election of Donald Trump going to reignite a futile war between science and anti-science?
Science’s quality control processes are under question. Scientists should think about changing the rules and extending their peer communities.
The discovery of the world’s oldest jewellery at the Blombos Cave in South Africa has resulted in a paradigm shift in our understanding of human evolution.
Loss of sea ice near Greenland and Iceland portend a colder future for Europe.
Performance enhancing or doping substances such as anabolic steroids and erythropoietin, a hormone that enhances the production of red blood cells and increases oxygen consumption in the body, are no longer…
The use of anabolic steroids has been associated primarily with men. But over the past few decades, we’ve been discovering more about different groups who use these drugs – including women and younger…
A competitive spirit is an indispensable aspect of human life, where it could be argued that a failure to compete only results in participating in a competition to fail. Over a very long period of time…
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Professor of Geomorphology, University of Bergen
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Professor of Political Science, University of Bergen
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Associate Professor, University of Bergen
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Research Fellow, University of Bergen
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PhD candidate, University of Bergen
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Associate Professor of English Linguistics, University of Bergen
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen
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Postdoctoral fellow at the department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Bergen
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Senior Researcher in Archaeology and Cognitive Psychology, University of Bergen
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Researcher in Information sciences and media studies, University of Bergen
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University of Bergen
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Programme director IMR Global Development, Institute of Marine Research, professor, University of Bergen
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Postdoctor in archaeology at SapienCE, University of Bergen
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PhD Candidate, Center for Climate and Energy Transformations, University of Bergen