My reason for traveling for three days to reach southern France was to attend the ALTER-Net Summer School in the beautiful village of Peyresq. As a PhD student, I’m not only supposed to do research and write scientific papers, I am also expected to advance my academic skills in a more general sense by presentingContinue reading “The ALTER-Net Summer School”
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once upon a time at a conference
A month and a half ago, there was a conference. Big, located in the fanciest, most central conference center in Stockholm. A thousand participants from all over the world. All about the frontiers of resilience research. Organized by Stockholm Resilience Centre. The planning had gone on for years. I jumped in about a year ago,Continue reading “once upon a time at a conference”
the anti-climatic nature of knowledge
I am preparing for a writing workshop with the communications team at SRC. How to write a popular science feature. We were given a list of reference pieces to read, stories about bilingualism, de-extinction, water goddesses, and really old trees. Long and very long articles where science, the lives of extraordinary people and snapshots ofContinue reading “the anti-climatic nature of knowledge”
Katja Malmborg 