Daily Archives: Thursday November 2nd, 2017

«Desperately seeking Susan»

This originates from an American film (1985), hosting Madonna in her first major screen role. The title was an announcement in the personal column of a newspaper (pre-internet).

What if you did not know if it was Susan you were seeking? Actually it was Stephanie! The REAL story (2017) takes place in Europe; A Basque neuroscience professor is looking for a collaborator skilled in neuro-genetics, rat models and brain investigations. How to find her? Era-net Neuron has issued a trans-national call, advertising 1 million Euro. Where to seek? On the Internet of course, and the UiB web-pages (which our Vice Dean of Innovation Helge Raeder wisely has nudged all research group leaders to actively update) and there he found her; his very Stephanie (Le Hellar), with a perfect scientific match. And so the grant was awarded them! Congratulations Stephanie! And for the rest of us; go home and update your personal UiB web page. Perhaps the scientist of your dreams is out there, waiting for your specific qualifications?!

And if you are desperately seeking dissemination assistance the brand new UiB « Lab of Learning and Dissemination» has just opened in Media City Bergen. They are eager and ready, with highly skilled personnel combining pedagogy and technology; journalism, photography, graphics, TV-productions, wanting to help just YOU! If you need assistance in producing a video to use while teaching (first priority) or research dissemination, they want to enable you to master this yourself. They have a “first-aid-kit” to lend for free, transforming your own cell phone into a capable recorder, and simple (to use) editing programs for you to transform the “take” into a proper video.

The goal should be that each teacher produces one short clinical video-clip for the students to see (and then practice the skill) because this is the OSCE-exercise she/he will organize for the coming spring OSCE. But sooner; coming Wednesday 8th of November is the autumn OSCE which many of us will contribute to. Good luck to you all; both the OSCE-general Ketil Grong, all his good helpers and all the students being tested.

HSE-Corner

Dear all

Thursday 7th December the safety representatives and head of administration will go through the physical work environment at BUS, Kvinneklinikken og Laboratoriebygget.

We kindly ask everyone to fill out and send in the forms to Julie (that fits you). If you have no remarks regarding your own workplace, please make a note of this in the forms. Deadline for sending the forms  in is Friday 10th November. Please get in touch if you have any questions. More information on the HSE round here:

http://www.uib.no/en/hms-portalen/80477/hse-round

 

Forms (only in Norwegian):

Office

Laboratory, Clinic, Workshop

Personell room, Meeting room, Group room

New publications

Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 29 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Johnny Laupsa-Borge.

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Do you want to contribute to Academic-Educational Day for Teachers?

Academic-pedagogical day for teachers will be launched Friday 2 February 2018. UiB invites all academic institutions from all faculties to register lectures, seminars, workshops and other academic contributions that may benefit and interest teachers mainly at junior and upper secondary school .

Registration deadline: November 15th

More information Here. (only in Norwegian)

 

Registration of the publishing channel

Have you published on a channel that is not registered in the Register of Scientific Publishing Channels? Publications registered in Cristin must be in one level 1 or 2 publishing channel to be eligible for NVI reporting. If you have published in 2017 in one channel (journal, publisher, series) that has not been registered, the channel must be submitted for review. The deadline for enrollment of publishing channels in 2017 is November 30th.

Search for channel in the registry here.

Registration of publishing channel here.

Procedures for proposals for the register here.