There are worse places to spend a week writing.

I'm just going out. I may be some time. #finse

Wolves, bears, lynx, elg and glutton in Norwegian forests. nrk.no/norge/jeg-spio…

Is it 1st April again already? This has to be the daftest response to public transport being too popular. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Introducing shinyleaves, a shiny app to demonstrate how leaf area is calculated from leaf scans. Designed for teaching, also useful to test difficult leaves. Install from github github.com/richardjtelfor… or try it at richardjtelford.shinyapps.io/shinyleaves/

If you have repeated community surveys from the same vegetation plot, turfmapper can help find taxonomic discrepancies and other problems between surveys between-the-fjords.github.io/turfmapper/

Been on the West Coast Main Line for two hours now without a hint of sea. How is that not false advertising?

I går på bergensbane, trodd jeg at det var mye mer lupiner enn før. I dag, rapporter NRK nrk.no/sorlandet/prov…

Discover essential skills in data management and creating reproducible workflows using GitHub and R. Ideal for PhD students and ECR in ecology. Join us at Hjerkinn, Dovrefjell, 4-9 Nov 2024. Register now! #OpenScience #EcologyTraining uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/17…

Do you want to gain new skills in ecological data management, making your data #FAIR, and your workflows #reproducible? 💻🦊🪲🐟🌱🍄 Join us for a training course at Dovrefjell from the 4.-9. November 2024. Application deadline: 1. September 2024: rb.gy/iogpte

The #lucyletby trial appears to have been a tragic farce. Yet Cheshire Police seem unable to realise what a huge miscarriage of justice they have caused and want to waste more money the case.

Custom callouts for quarto documents - changing the icon and colour of one of the existing callout flavours. richardjtelford.github.io/unpublishable/…

Norge trenger mer tog. theguardian.com/news/article/2…

Jeg har glemt - hvilken farge er solen? nrk.no/vestland/ny-re…

Deadline extended to the 15th September- please apply - it’s a great course (if I don’t say so myself!)

Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on the DURIN project, linking fieldwork and trait ecology of arctic shrubs within FATES (the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator). betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/come-work-with…

The students are getting younger and younger every year we run this open science course. Flikk is just 3 years old!

Why does PLOS One insist that figures should not be embedded in manuscripts, making the manuscripts harder to review? This seems like an anachronism, especially for the first round of review.

Don't go pining for the fjords, come and work as an associate Professor in global change ecology at the University of Bergen. jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige-s…