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Assessing shipping noise as a potential driver of harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) habitat selection
No full textOver the past decade, anthropogenic noise from activities such as shipping has significantly increased in the ocean, raising questions on their potential impact on coastal species such as harbour seals. In this study, we assessed the spatial overlap between ships (equipped with AIS transmitters) and harbour seals (tracked using telemetry) in the English Channel, one of the densest shipping areas in the world. We then studied how their habitat selection varied according to environmental parameters taking into account shipping noise as a potential driver. A total of 28 harbour seals were captured and equipped with GPS-GSM tags. AIS data (ships > 15 m length) was used to estimate shipping traffic density and model the associated shipping noise. We then used generalised additive mixed models to assess harbour seals’ habitat selection using distance to haulout, distance to shore, bathymetry, tidal current, sediment type, and shipping noise as explanatory variables. The model selected had an explained deviance of 71.8%. Our findings indicate that distance to haulout sites was the primary driver of habitat selection (~91.5% deviance), while other environmental factors such as bathymetry (~4.4%), distance to shore (~3.1%), tidal current (~0.3%), sediment type (~0.6%), and shipping noise (~0.1%) had only minor influences on their selection. Despite a high spatial overlap between shipping activity and tracked seals (73% of overlap), the weak contribution of shipping noise suggests that either seals may be habituated to chronic noise exposure or that noise levels rarely exceed tolerance threshold levels. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first article integrating shipping noise into harbour seals’ habitat selection models. These findings provide an understanding of harbour seal habitat selection in anthropogenic environments
By-catch of common minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Norwegian demersal trawl and longline fisheries, 2011–2020
No full textThe Norwegian High Seas Reference Fleet (HSRF) reported one minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) by-caught in demersal trawl fisheries and one in a longline in the period 2011–2020. The HSRF comprises 25–30 concurrent fishing vessels larger than 15 m total length, contracted by the Institute of Marine Research to provide detailed reports on fishing effort, catch, and by-catch. The HSRF is designed to be as representative as possible for large fishing vessels in all of Norway. By-catch per effort for demersal trawl and longline fisheries was calculated based on data from the HSRF and extrapolated using effort data from the corresponding non-observed fleet (vessels ≥ 15 m) to obtain fleet-wide total by-catch estimates. The total by-catch in demersal trawl and longline fisheries was 57 whales for the 10-year period (95% CI: 0–157). No by-catch of minke whales was observed in other gear types (purse seine, Danish seine, and gillnets), but information from various sources indicates that there is an unknown amount of cryptic minke whale by-catch in other gears that we cannot currently quantify. Pot and creel fisheries, for example, were not covered by the HSRF, and there is a need to quantify by-catch in these fisheries. Notwithstanding undocumented sources of by-catch, the results show that even if 100% of minke whale by-catches are fatal, documented by-catch in Norwegian fisheries is only about 0.5% of the PBR and can be considered negligible from a sustainability perspective. Even so, minke whale by-catch is still a serious animal welfare issue
Diamond Open Access – DIAMAS and the EDCH: Built by, with, and for the community it serves
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The EC-funded DIAMAS Project has done much to develop a more sustainable social, technical, and organisational infrastructure for Diamond OA publishing across Europe—creating a foundation that will endure well into the future.
We will share how DIAMAS built a vibrant international Diamond community and developed tools and services that address concrete challenges through strategic co-creation and stakeholder consultation. We will also discuss how the project assumed responsibility for sustaining these efforts longer term through the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH).
This session will take you on our 3-year journey of community engagement, culminating in the EDCH: a new hub for the Diamond OA ecosystem in Europe. We’ll show how we convened over 4,000 experts across 60+ DIAMAS-organised events—including hackathons, surveys, webinars & workshops—delivered in multiple languages and regions. By leveraging existing networks and nurturing new ones, DIAMAS helped catalyse the growth of national and regional Diamond Capacity Centres across Europe.
Strategic communication with stakeholders—from funders and institutional publishing service providers to policymakers and learned societies—was central to making progress with Diamond OA in Europe. Recommendations and services were designed to be both ambitious and realistic, grounded in a deep understanding of the needs of institutional publishers. Key outcomes—such as the DIAMAS recommendations, the DOAS quality standard, sustainability services, the EDCH registry, and the EDCH forum—have been enriched through broad-based community input and collaboration.
The EDCH now carries forward the legacy of DIAMAS. It is a collective initiative aimed at strengthening the European Diamond OA ecosystem by supporting institutional, national, and disciplinary Capacity Centres, along with Diamond OA publishers, service providers, and tech providers. It provides tailored support, training, and networking opportunities for Diamond OA journal editors. Fostering a collaborative community through its registry and forum, the EDCH provides best practices, quality assurance frameworks, and tools that enhance editorial management. This approach reinforces integrity and transparency in scholarly publishing and stimulates a sense of belonging among editors—encouraging peer exchange and mutual support.
The transition to Diamond OA is a significant challenge, but one that can be achieved when built by, with, and for the community it serves. We hope this presentation will inspire others to design capacity-building publishing projects with people at the centre from the outset to help meet longer-term goals and OA change management challenges
Curled up with a good game: A survey study on personality traits and game motives of cozy game players
No full textCozy games, risen in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic, are generally characterized by their easy mechanics, prosocial narratives, lack of violence, and overall feelings of comfort, safety, abundance, and softness. While academic research primarily focuses on defining cozy games and exploring their impact during the pandemic, little is known about who plays them and why. Therefore, we conducted an online survey of 277 cozy game players, examining players’ game motives and their Light and Dark Triad personality traits. Results show key reasons to play cozy games, including moral self-reflection (i.e., seeing cozy gameplay as a morally sensible activity), agency (i.e., having the freedom and control to make decisions and pursue actions according to players’ own desires or goals), escapism (i.e., escaping from daily reality into a safe virtual environment), experiencing eudaimonic emotions (i.e., feeling moved, awe, and having elevating or heartwarming or feelings), and an interest in the game’s narrative. Additionally, players scored significantly higher on Light Triad personality traits, with those scoring high on Humanism being more motivated by eudaimonic and social reasons. This study provides novel insights into the study of cozy games, the (eudaimonic) motives to play them, and cozy game players’ personality traits
Lies of P and a real boy in fake Bloodborne: Nostalgia and critique in Soulsborne fandom
No full textNostalgia as a longing for a place or time can simultaneously act as an invitation toward belonging and also as a barrier that divides. Utilizing Svetlana Boym’s (2001) framework of restorative and reflective nostalgia, this study undertakes an analysis of press coverage (n=8) and fan comments on YouTube videos (n=400) addressing the digital videogame Lies of P (2023) as a nostalgic trigger. Understanding Lies of P, both in press coverage and fan discussion was often laden with nostalgia for the 2014 videogame Bloodborne and various adaptions of the children’s story The Adventures of Pinocchio. In the case of fan comments in particular, reflective nostalgia, which allows for the possibility of both longing and critical thought to manifest together, emerges strongly as fans contest their understandings of videogames and childhood stories. Lies of P as a nostalgic trigger precipitates fan participation in analysis and critical reflection of media they might otherwise consider above critique. Understanding such gaming and gaming-adjacent spaces where critique and affection blends offers further insight into the social and technical structures that facilitates boundary maintenance
Introducing Septentrio Creative: A channel for creative formats in academic publishing
No full textResearchers do unexpected things. They are creative and in need of a place where their many different kinds of work can find a home. Septentrio Creative is such a place. As a diamond open-access publication channel led by scholars at UiT The Arctic University of Norway it supports and explores creativity in academia. By opening a space for diverse academic materials and their theoretical explorations, the channel publishes creative outputs from research, development, teaching, innovation, mobility, outreach, administration, community engagement, interventions, and more.
Septentrio Creative is also a place to publish digital exhibitions, installations, short fiction, poetry, music, digital art, software, scores, blueprints, and complementary materials to research published elsewhere. Submissions are welcome to mix more than one form of expression to bring lateral thinking to their topic
On Projecting Causality
Get PDFCausation is familiar as a meaning component in the V-domain, but it can also be found in the C-domain, as witnessed by a variety of wh-adverbial, reflexive adverbial and light verb construals in Mandarin. This paper explores the idea that a loosely organized hierarchy of causality can be stretched from the first phase (i.e., the V-domain) up to the second phase (i.e., the C-domain) along the clausal spine according to the analyticity setting of Chinese. It is shown that all the causality construals under investigation here displays a systematic correspondence between their distributions and interpretations in cartographic terms. We also draw on evidence from non-canonical usages of how-expressions across languages to demonstrate that the “height of interpretation” does matter at the syntax-semantics interface
Stack-Sorting Grammar
Get PDFI propose that, within local domains corresponding to extended projections, typologically possible information-neutral word orders are limited to the stack-sortable (231-avoiding) permutations of a universal head-complement-specifier linear order. This proposal explains and unifies some well-known but previously unrelated word order universals, while successfully generating phenomena that challenge traditional approaches. Applications include Cinque’s revision of Greenberg’s Universal 20, the Final-Over-Final Condition, a modified Head Movement Constraint allowing attested Long Head Movement, English Affix Hopping, Germanic cross-serial subject-verb dependencies, and Icelandic Stylistic Fronting. Extending the system to multiple extended projections requires stack-sorting in cycles, expanding the set of allowed orders
Bohccuid dálvebiebman – váikkuhusat bohccuid láhttenvieruide, boazodoalu geavadagaide ja birrasii: Raporta NJK-bargobáji birra Árvvesjávrris 8.–9.6.2022
No full textThis report is based on the results from a Nordic network project funded by The Nordic Joint Committee for Agricultural and Food Research (NKJ) during the years 2021-2022. This network was created to encourage further cross-border discussions about the prospects of winter feeding of reindeer. In reindeer husbandry winter feeding has increased during the last decades due to competing land use activities and climate change. Herders in Norway, Sweden and Finland have previously raised concerns about the benefits and risks associated to the increasing need of winter feeding of reindeer in all three countries.
The report, published in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and North Sámi, and covers the main findings from a series of preparatory workshops within each country and a main workshop in Arvidsjaur 8-9 June 2022. During the network activities, reindeer herders, researchers and managers discussed the effects of feeding on reindeer behaviour, herding practices and the environment. The two main topics discussed at the preparatory workshops were 1) the short- and long-term effects of winter feeding on reindeer behaviour, and 2) local to large scale effects of feeding on the environment and the natural pastures. During the main workshop, discussions were held about reasons for feeding of reindeer, the preconditions of feeding in the three countries, how winter feeding is usually performed, and best practices in relation to reindeer behaviour and the environment.
The work aimed at promoting knowledge exchange on winter feeding of reindeer among all participants to help find solutions and mitigation actions to avoid changes in reindeer behaviour and negative effects of feeding on reindeer, reindeer herding and the environment. The report is aimed at herders, managers, as well as other land users, authorities and policymakers to give information on what was discussed and a summary of the challenges related to winter feeding and effects on reindeer behaviour and reindeer husbandry, and the environment.
Rangifer Report No 23 is the North Sámi version of the report. The Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian versions have already been published (Rangifer Report No 18, 19 and 20 respectively). 
Helsesykepleieres erfaring med tverrprofesjonelt samarbeid for å forebygge frafall i skolen: En kvalitativ studie
No full textCompletion of secondary education is crucial for individuals\u27 integration and participation in the labour market. However, one in five students in Norway does not complete secondary school. In this study we examined how school nurses can facilitate interdisciplinary work to counteract school dropout. Based on three focus group interviews with 13 school nurses in secondary schools, qualitative statements were analysed using a stepwise deductive-inductive method. The findings indicate that school nurses strive to understand the reasons for student absences by considering the whole student, but they face challenges in showcasing their own competence to their collaborators. Implicit power structures, including school leadership, significantly influence the inclusion of school nurses in interdisciplinary teams. To promote interdisciplinary collaboration and strengthen their role, school nurses should actively make themselves and their expertise visible.Gjennomføring av videregående opplæring er avgjørende for tilknytning til og deltakelse i arbeidslivet. Likevel fullfører en av fem elever i Norge ikke videregående skole. I denne studien undersøkte vi hvordan helsesykepleiere kan legge til rette for tverrprofesjonelt arbeid for å motvirke skolefrafall. Basert på tre fokusgruppeintervjuer med 13 helsesykepleiere i videregående skole, ble kvalitative utsagn analysert ved hjelp av en stegvis-deduktiv-induktiv metode. Funnene indikerer at helsesykepleierne tilstreber å se hele eleven for å forstå fraværsårsaker, men har utfordringer med å synliggjøre sin egen kompetanse for samarbeidspartnere. Implisitte maktstrukturer, inkludert skoleledelsen, spiller en betydelig rolle i helsesykepleiernes inkludering i tverrprofesjonelle team. For å fremme tverrprofesjonelt samarbeid og styrke sin egen rolle, bør helsesykepleierne aktivt synliggjøre seg selv og sin kompetanse