Thomas Völker
@thomasvoelker.bsky.social
SEAS Fellow at the University of Bergen's Senter for Vitenskapsteori. Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Governance, Aquaculture & Salmon Feed
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A reminder about our symposium 12 December: Security and preparedness: Culture, crisis, and control in troubled times. Register by 21 Nov (tomorrow) at noon.
Security has become a central lens through which societies interpret and address their challenges. Join our annual symposium in Bergen on 12 December, where we will explore how the concept of security permeates our cultural imagination and institutional responses.
www.uib.no/en/svt/17996...
www.uib.no/en/svt/17996...
Security and preparedness: Culture, crisis, and control in troubled times
SVT's 2025 symposium explores how the concept of security permeates our cultural imagination and institutional responses.
www.uib.no
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
A reminder about our symposium 12 December: Security and preparedness: Culture, crisis, and control in troubled times. Register by 21 Nov (tomorrow) at noon.
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If the 2010s were marked by techno-solutionism, then the 2020s might be the decade of "natural solutionism". Both are flawed, disdain the regulatory state, and in both "expertise is treated as suspect, corrupt, or altogether illegitimate, with anecdotes and mantras replacing verifiable data"
The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers
From RFK Jr. to Hollywood A-listers and Democratic senators, people across the political spectrum are jumping onto the slippery slope of nature-based solutionism.
newrepublic.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
If the 2010s were marked by techno-solutionism, then the 2020s might be the decade of "natural solutionism". Both are flawed, disdain the regulatory state, and in both "expertise is treated as suspect, corrupt, or altogether illegitimate, with anecdotes and mantras replacing verifiable data"
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Prosjekt Butterfly: pollinator stewardship in all sectors. Operasjonen på Landøy er en del av et EU-prosjekt Butterfly som har som mål å ta vare på, og restaurere, pollinerende insekter. www.nrk.no/sorlandet/se...
Setter fyr på øya for å redde truet natur
Brannkonstabler og frivillige brenner vekk uønsket einerkratt på Landøy i Lindesnes. Målet er å gjenskape vegetasjonen slik den så ut for 100 år siden.
www.nrk.no
March 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Prosjekt Butterfly: pollinator stewardship in all sectors. Operasjonen på Landøy er en del av et EU-prosjekt Butterfly som har som mål å ta vare på, og restaurere, pollinerende insekter. www.nrk.no/sorlandet/se...
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Marine #sustainability, leadership and #interdisciplinarity – more than just buzzwords? Our two postdocs in UiB's SEAS programme, @thomasvoelker.bsky.social & Aistė Klimašauskaitė, are interviewed in a news piece about what they see core parts of SEAS. Link below 👇🧪 #oceanography
December 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Marine #sustainability, leadership and #interdisciplinarity – more than just buzzwords? Our two postdocs in UiB's SEAS programme, @thomasvoelker.bsky.social & Aistė Klimašauskaitė, are interviewed in a news piece about what they see core parts of SEAS. Link below 👇🧪 #oceanography
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The workshop Social Science and Humanities Perspectives on Fish Feed at @unibergen.bsky.social next week, co-organized by our researcher @thomasvoelker.bsky.social, has 3 public keynotes. Topics that will be covered are controversies, food security and developments in feed sector. Links below👇🧪#STS
December 3, 2024 at 11:09 AM
The workshop Social Science and Humanities Perspectives on Fish Feed at @unibergen.bsky.social next week, co-organized by our researcher @thomasvoelker.bsky.social, has 3 public keynotes. Topics that will be covered are controversies, food security and developments in feed sector. Links below👇🧪#STS
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My paper "Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk" received its 100th citation today scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
January 23, 2024 at 5:01 PM
My paper "Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk" received its 100th citation today scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
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A new one from me in Science. What does it mean to trust a technology? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 15, 2023 at 12:11 PM
A new one from me in Science. What does it mean to trust a technology? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Our article is o-fish-ally out! Co-written with Torill Blix, Lotte Holm, Anne Ingeborg Myhr and Bjørn Myskja.
A social and ethical game-changer? An empirical ethics study of CRISPR in the salmon farming indust...
The genome editing technology CRISPR is described as a technological game-changer because of its flexibility and precision, and as an ethical game-changer due t...
journals.sagepub.com
December 9, 2023 at 7:54 AM
Our article is o-fish-ally out! Co-written with Torill Blix, Lotte Holm, Anne Ingeborg Myhr and Bjørn Myskja.
New publication out of the #H2020 project TRANSFORM, open access: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
"(...) there is more governance than one may see at first sight, and (...) there is a need to rethink the borders of technoscience and the spaces in which it resides."
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
"(...) there is more governance than one may see at first sight, and (...) there is a need to rethink the borders of technoscience and the spaces in which it resides."
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Translations of Responsibility | Innovation Governance in Three Europe
In 2020, a group of European researchers got a European Union (EU) grant to do a project called TRANSFORM. The objective of TRANSFORM was to integrate the
doi.org
December 12, 2023 at 9:13 AM
New publication out of the #H2020 project TRANSFORM, open access: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
"(...) there is more governance than one may see at first sight, and (...) there is a need to rethink the borders of technoscience and the spaces in which it resides."
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
"(...) there is more governance than one may see at first sight, and (...) there is a need to rethink the borders of technoscience and the spaces in which it resides."
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social