Transformation, alternative futures, extractive industries, life in the north. Research Director @nforsk - self-declared Northerner. Father of three.

Way up north
Joined February 2009
Ohh, would love to go!
Reminder: Individual paper and panel proposals for the Petrocultures 2024 conference in #LosAngeles @USC are due September 15! Details here: petrocultures2024.com/los-an… #EH #envhist #academia #oil #energy #ClimateAction #futures #CfP
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Trenger du en ny utfordring, en ny utfordring? Kom til oss da vel! karriere.no/jobb/forsker-492… Du kan jobbe på kontor på Mo, i Bodø eller i Svolvær.
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Looking for a new adventure in 2023? Join us at @Nforsk! karriere.no/jobb/researcher-…
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Taking a Twitter break. Bye.
Gode NF-kolleger i Morgenbladet, om digitaliseringens konsekvenser for eldre.
Det er fort gjort å overdrive den positive betydning som digitaliseringen kan ha for hverdagen til eldre, skriver våre forskere Merete Kvamme Fabritius, Therese Andrews og Trond Bliksvær i en kronikk i Morgenbladet. (Kronikken ligger bak betalingsmur.) morgenbladet.no/ideer/kronik…
Great news, keynotes from @22petrocultures from Kara Daggett, Cyril Obi and Oxana Timofeeva are now available!
Friends of #petrocultures: The keynotes from the @22petrocultures conference in Stavanger are now available online, see nordlandsforskning.no/en/new… @Nforsk @szemanimre @kstuvoy @_Sobieski @daninefar @FionaPolack @sidsareen @McNeishProf @redBRD @imarst
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Eu-prosjektet #EmpowerUs er endelig i gang og hele arbeidsgruppen deltar på kick-off i Barcelona. Nordlandsforsknings Maiken Bjørkan og Cecilie Bratt er prosjekt koordinatorer. @EmpowerUs_EU @EU_H2020 @ruralis_no @ERINNinnovation #kunnskapsparkenhelgeland
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At its core, solving the climate problem is conceptually rather easy: Just stop burning fossil fuels.
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… and the … says it all I guess…
To keep the global average temperature increase below 1.5°C requires CO₂ emissions to fall in the next decades considerably faster than they rose over the last century...
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Goodbye Stavanger & #petrocultures22. It’s been a blast. @22petrocultures @Nforsk
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On the challenges Nigeria faces in transitional times. Immensely interesting: Obis take is that hope lies in the great potential of the Nigerian people. #petrocultures22
Cyril Obi's presentation has started at Stavangeren. He is our first keynote and is discussing his work titled 'The Energy Transition and the Prospects for Transformation in a Post-Covid 19 Africa'. @CamillaHoueland will be commenting. #petrocultures22
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And we’re off! First session at ⁦@22petrocultures⁩ in motion
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Last stretch - program up and ready, most preps finalised. Let’s get this done!
Only 2 days for the conference to start. We are excited to meet you all in Stavanger! Registration is still open if you wish to join for the whole conference or just a single day. Free for all, we warmly invite you to join the Keynotes presentations.
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Keynote Friday @22petrocultures.
Oxana Timofeeva, keynote on Petrocultures 2022 will present Oil and War: A Geophilosophical Approach, attempting to deconstruct Russia's pertroimperialism not only as a political formation, but also as a state of mind. Join us on Friday 26 at 9:00, open for the public.
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Free access to this great talk!
Cyril Obi, keynote on Petrocultures 2022 will present The Energy Transition and the Prospects for Transformation in a Post-Covid 19 Africa, focusing on emerging challenges from the energy transition for African countries. Join us on Thursday 25 at 9:00, open for the public.
Great news - petrocultures program now available!
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