March
March is to Spring like November is to Autumn, someone once said. A month a bit in limbo, where we wait for something better to come, or to pass. Spring should be entering, but it actually has been a long Winter. But we shouldn’t complain, when the sun shines and the snowdrops are peeping up from the ground.
March is the time for reporting to the faculty. It is the department’s tax returns for 2015 on teaching, research, and doctoral education. Some of us miss an organized summary of innovation and outreach activities as well. Wouldn’t that be something to consider?
This week’s innovation report: On Wednesday we had a visit from two representatives from the BlueBio Alliance in Portugal. They are looking for collaboration partners in Norway for a joint postgraduate training course in Sea Business & Innovation, as part of Porto Business School. The objective is to provide a course connecting different sectors and bringing convergence and cross-over thinking to future entrepreneurs within the blue bioeconomy. Exciting ideas and possibilities both for the department and for innovative biologists.
This week’s outreach report: Eight articles on this week’s list. Three of these at level 2. A nice share, but a bit disturbing that it is our adjunct faculty members who contribute most to level 2 publications. This doesn’t result in many publication points to BIO’s tax return. Anyway, congratulations to Tina Selvarajah and Lawrence Kirkendall (BMC Evolutionary Biology), Duncan Colquhoun (Journal of Fish Diseases), and Kenneth Glover (BMC Evolutionary Biology), and their coauthors!
Some of the research groups also contributed nicely to this week’s Open day for high school students. Excellent efforts from a lot of people and big thanks to Fisheries ecology and aquaculture, Marine biodiversity, and Environmental toxicology!
Congratulations also to John Birks, who this week was elected Corresponding Fellow i Royal Society of Edinburgh!
Hilsen Anders
