Field site at Risør fjord in Norway.
News Archive:
12/04/24: Our lab is officially funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF)! Exciting research ahead!
08/04/24: Our new Food for Thought article 'The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List does not account for intraspecific diversity' focused on Atlantic cod and sugar kelp is out in ICES Journal of Marine Science.
05/01/24: Well the first 6 months flew by! I'm delighted to welcome MSc student Rebecca Krohman (University of New Brunswick) and PhD student Claudia Lacroix (University of Agder) to the lab! They will study the genomic architecture (Rebecca) and bioacoustics (Claudia) of cod in relation to their environment.
2023
01/07/23: On my first day as a professor I have the honour of welcoming new PhD student Simon Henriksson to the lab! Simon is based at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory and will uncover the genomic basis of cod ecotype divergence.
30/06/23: New preprint from the Sampling & Sample Processing Committee of the European Reference Genome Atlas: 'Contextualising samples: supporting reference genomes for European biodiversity through sample and associated metadata collection'.
29/06/23: The TORSKETROMMING team had a blast in Harstad, Norway this week presenting our new sound sculpture, musical lecture, and children's workshops at the True Northern Arts Festival. Check out the review in NRK!
22/06/23: Huge congratulations to Annika Lie who defended her masters thesis with flying colours today! Annika will join the lab as a Research Assistant this fall to continue her research on cod bioacoustics.
14/06/23: It was an absolute dream to deliver the Early Career Researcher Award talk at the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution meeting. I'm so grateful to be a part of this society for the last 14(!) years and look forward to many more!
11/05/23: Honoured to receive the Crafoord Grant for young researchers from the King of Sweden today alongside Crafoord Prize recipient Dolph Schluter. Congratulations to Dolph and the other four recipients!
15/04/23: I will be joining the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of New Brunswick Saint John as an Assistant Professor starting July 1st! I'm thrilled to join such a vibrant department focused on the coastal ocean.
11/04/23: Our Santa Fe Institute working group Sociality Under Scarcity led by Albert Kao & Helen McCreery published 'Opposing responses to scarcity emerge from functionally unique sociality drivers' today in The American Naturalist.
01/03/23: TORSKETROMMING wraps up another incredible Barents Spektakel! We shared our new sound sculptural installation Dialects of the Deep, a human-cod concert, scientific exhibition, two popular science talks, and 5 children's workshops! Congrats to the team: John Andrew, Anastasia, Maja, Paul, Susanna, and guests Per Anders & Sainkho.
17/02/23: The ERGA Consortium's new review paper on how genomics can help biodiversity conservation is out today in Trends in Genetics.
11/01/23: Postdoc Jeppe Rasmussen has been awarded a prestigious Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship to start his own research program on species monitoring using deep learning-based bioacoustic detectors! We're all immensely proud of his accomplishment.
2022
02/12/22: I'm extremely grateful on behalf of the whole TORSKETROMMING team to receive the 2022 'Formidlingsprisen' ('Communication Prize') at the Institute of Biosciences at the University of Oslo! I will use it to continue to spread the word about the ecology, evolution, and struggles of the cod.
25/10/22: In some whirlwind weeks at the Santa Fe Institute, I led an incredible working group on linking cod sexual networks to populations dynamics (CodNet), shared my academic journey with super-talented complexity postdocs, and participated in the unparalleled Interplanetary Festival. Amazing people + amazing science = some of the best weeks of my career to date!
28/09/22: Thrilled to be a part of the global team launching Biodiversity Genomics Europe today! I will lead the University of Oslo's contributions to the project: community sampling and sequencing "difficult" species for reference genome generation of European biodiversity. Read more: 'Forskere vil samle DNA fra alle arter i Europa - for det er for sent'.
21/09/22: Speaking at a public meeting on the cod crisis in Skagerrak/Oslofjord, I was delighted to meet so many engaged fishers and members of the public who are concerned with these issues. Coincidentally, our new paper 'Warming accelerates the onset of the molecular stress response and increases mortality of larval Atlantic cod' was published today!
22/08/22: New preprint! 'Comparison of de novo and reference genome-based transcriptome assembly pipelines for differential expression analysis of RNA sequencing data'. Stay tuned for the companion paper about the biological findings!
16/07/22: Our sound sculptural performance work Cod Connection (part of TORSKETROMMING) showed at Torsken Kunstfestival in Grimstad this weekend. Fun to see it develop in a new context! Stay tuned for Arendal 27/08/22.
11/07/22: Officially joining the Earth Biogenome Project Norway (EBP-Nor) team as the Scientific Coordinator today. Looking forward to bridging national, European, and global efforts to sequence the genomes of all eukaryotes!
19/05/22: Our open access review 'Genomic reaction norms inform predictions of plastic and adaptive responses to environmental change' is out now as part of the special issue Understanding climate change response in the age of genomics at the Journal of Animal Ecology.
30/04/22: We premiered the new iteration of the TORSKETROMMING project 'Cod Connection' at Only Connect Festival of Sound at MUNCH in Oslo through a public lecture, concert, and mobile sound installation.
11/04/22: Our obituary for my late mentor and friend Jeff Hutchings is now available in Fish & Fisheries. We hope to shed light on the breadth and depth of his impact globally on both professional and personal levels.
06/04/22: Wrapping up my time as a JSMF fellow with one last visit to the Santa Fe Institute was as inspiring as ever! So grateful for the support and freedom the JSMF-SFI community gave me over the last few years.
09/03/22: I was honoured to deliver a keynote talk entitled 'Towards forecasting fish responses to environmental change' at the annual LUOVA Spring Symposium at the University of Helsinki.
06/03/22: A new open access paper led by postdoc Jeppe Rasmussen presents a new software for efficiently measuring larval fish size from photographs. It can work with larger fish as well, give it a try!
26/02/22: The TORSKETROMMING team participated in a panel discussion on community formation and emergence at Det Gode Liv // The Sweetness of Living Symposium at Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes, Norway.
24/01/22: Our open access paper on the era of reference genomes in conservation genomics is out now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. This is the first output of the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium!
23/01/22: Check out the in-depth coverage of our TORSKETROMMING (COD DRUMMING) project on the Norwegian national news NRK: Lager musikk av torskens orgasme (Making music from the cod's orgasm)
14/01/22: Our open access paper on deep learning in marine ecology is out now in ICES Journal of Marine Science.
10/01/22: We welcome masters student Annika Lie to the team! Annika will use experimental approaches to better understand factors affecting survival and reproduction of Atlantic cod ecotypes.
2021
29/09/21: Our ArtiFISHal Intelligence Group at UiA has a new preprint, 'Unlocking the potential of deep learning for marine ecology: overview, applications, and outlook'. This was fun to write and we hope it will help ecologists get into AI.
21/09/21: Our new paper led by Jesse Wolf, 'Preprinting is positively associated with early career researcher status in ecology and evolution', is out today! I was fortunate to participate in this grassroots effort by undergraduate and masters students to better understand the importance of preprints to early career researchers.
19/09/21: TORSKETROMMING premiered at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival! With three sold out performances, 120 people have now experienced the magic of the cod mating ritual.
12/09/21: I wrapped up my first week as a BAR International artist-in-residence at Pikene på Broen in Kirkenes. It involved a different type of field work than usual - gathering local perspectives on the changing fisheries in the Barents region.
26/07/21: Our new paper 'Pathways towards a sustainable future envisioned by early-career conservation researchers' in Conservation Science & Practice incorporates survey and workshop data into a framework for helping ECRs to achieve real change in protecting biological diversity.
08/07/21: I had fun presenting at the Temporal Genomics Twitter Symposium about our new project investigating the mechanisms maintaining divergent cod ecotypes in the coastal Skagerrak hybrid zone.
05/07/21: Sissel Jentoft and I held the second Genomic Forecasting Symposium at SMBEv2021 and were in awe of the creative ways people are using genomics to predict population responses to environmental change! Anyone can still view all the talks via the conference website! And talks from last year's GFS2020 are always available here.
08/06/21: Huge congratulations to Julie, Emilie, Amalie, Nora, Paul, and Fredrick who all defended their bachelor theses with flying colours! Watch out world!!
01/05/21: I'm excited to officially join the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) at the University of Agder to continue exploring applications of machine learning and AI to marine ecology and evolutionary biology!
23/04/21: A busy week in the media sharing our upcoming TORSKETROMMING TOUR 2021-2022 culminated in a feature story on VG-TV (>40K views and counting)!
15/04/21: Our paper on barriers to early career researchers in interdisciplinary marine sciences is out today in Frontiers in Marine Sciences.
11/04/21: A new preprint (about preprints)! A fun collaboration with researchers from my alma mater shows the impact of career stage and institution size on preprint usage. It also highlights difficulties of studying authorship by gender.
29/03/21: A fantastic feature announcing our upcoming TORSKETROMMING TOUR 2021-2022 was published at Titan: 'Trommende torsk går til scenen' ('Drumming cod take the stage')
03/02/21: Our new preprint 'Cryptic microgeographic variation in responses of larval Atlantic cod to warmer temperatures' is out now! This is the first in a series of experimental studies that will be coming out over the next year.
25/01/21: The European Reference Genome Atlas officially launched as a pan-European consortium today! I'm honoured to serve as Council Representative for Norway along with Prof. Torsten Struck at the UiO Natural History Museum.
11/01/21: We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Jeppe Have Rasmussen to the TORSKETROMMING team! Jeppe will use deep learning to understand cod sounds and mating behaviour for his postdoc in collaboration with CAIR and Mechatronics.
2020
28/10/20: Our article 'Evolution of Reaction Norms' (with Jeff Hutchings) is out now at Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. It's a guide to the reaction norm literature for research and teaching at all levels!
23/10/20: I was delighted to speak to the Women in Ecology & Evolution Podcast for their "Paper in Focus" segment about our paper on the consequences of genomic architecture for evolutionary responses to environmental change.
21/10/20: I attended my first Bioacoustics Day and learned so much about sound in the sea! Thanks to Karen De Jong at the Institute of Marine Research for the invitation.
05/10/20: Our op-ed about cod dialects is out today in Agderposten.
25/09/20: It was thrilling to speak about cod and artificial intelligence at Young Researchers Night for the brain-themed Forskningsdagene ('Research Days') 2020.
22/09/20: Had a blast staying up way past my bed time to speak to the Evolution courses at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo about my research, career path, and life! Many thanks to Dr. Matthew Knope for the invitation.
01/09/20: Thrilled to welcome Griet Nobis to the team! Griet will join us as an intern this year exploring alternative management strategies for coastal cod in Norway.
23/07/20: It was a pleasure to deliver a seminar to the Zoology Department at Punjabi University, Patiala. It's available on their YouTube channel.
04/07/20: Our Invited Perspective on the consequences of genomic architecture for evolutionary responses to environmental change was published in the Journal of Heredity as Editor's Choice!
01/07/20: The Genomic Forecasting Symposium (#GFS2020) today was a huge success with over one hundred participants from several continents! Update: All talks are now freely available on the website in perpetuity.
19/06/20: I'm excited to host the first ever, free, online-only Genomic Forecasting Symposium (#GFS2020) on July 1st! We'll bring together researchers using genomics to predict the responses of organisms to environmental change.
19/05/20: We're hiring! We have a Postdoc in Artificial Intelligence for Marine Bioacoustics available at the University of Agder. Deadline: June 21st, 2020. Flexible starting conditions.
06/04/20: Our perspective on the evolutionary significance of structural genomic variation is online at Trends in Ecology & Evolution! I summarized it in a twitter thread.
19/03/20: Our SFI working group on 'Sociality under scarcity' just released our preprint "Changes in group size during resource shifts reveal drivers of sociality across the tree of life"! I learned so much (and had so much fun!) in this collaboration.
16/03/20: We're livestreaming cod spawning from the Flødevigen Research Station! Watch along with videos of me explaining the cod mating ritual (available in English here).
13/02/20: We previewed new audio and video from our TORSKETROMMING project at the Technical Museum of Oslo for the annual Lysvandring of the Oslo Life Sciences Conference. 400 more people have heard what cod sound like!
04/02/20: Our new preprint on the "Consequences of single-locus and tightly linked genomic architectures for evolutionary responses to environmental change" is available on bioRxiv. Check out the explanatory twitter thread!
15/01/20: I presented an upcoming paper on the evolutionary significance of genomic structural variation at Evolution in Sweden. Many interesting discussions followed!
2019
22/11/19: I accepted a Researcher II (Senior Researcher) position at the Centre for Coastal Research at the University of Agder! I look forward to working with students from the MSc in Coastal Ecology programme and many other wonderful colleagues.
12/11/19: We wrote an article in Aftenposten (Norway's largest newspaper) about how the cod crisis in Oslofjord-Skagerrak is due to more than just climate change. The new fishing ban offers the best chance for recovery.
09/11/19: Our symposium proposal entitled 'Genomic predictions of responses to environmental change' has been accepted for the Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution 2020 Meeting in Québec City June 28th - July 2nd.
02/11/19: My colleagues and I gave a public talk at the Norwegian National Academy of Sciences and Letters about the many threats that cod face in the Oslofjord-Skagerrak area.
21/09/19: I had a blast chatting with people about cod at the Oslo Science Expo ('Forskningstorget'). Our exhibition was called Torsk og du! ('Cod and you!') and featured the first sneak listens of our #TORSKETROMMING project.
30/08/19: Wrapped up another amazing Postdocs in Complexity conference at the Santa Fe Institute, meeting with fellow JSMF, SFI, and University of Michigan postdocs. So grateful for this inspiring group!
20/08/19: I gave an invited talk about integrating genomic data into evolutionary predictions of responses to environmental change at the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution 2019 Meeting and learned a lot about ecological forecasting. Many thanks to CSEE for supporting my travel!
24/07/19: I gave a talk on the genomic architecture of temperature responses in cod at the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution 2019 Meeting.
25/06/19: I presented a poster about the CODSIZE project at the 5th International Conference on Fish Telemetry in Arendal, Norway.
18/06/19: I gave a flash talk and learned how to perform simulations with genomic data at the SMBE Satellite Meeting on 'Identifying barriers to gene flow in the genome' on Tjärnö, Sweden.
28/05/19: Exciting kick-off meeting for the newly deemed "priority research centre", the Centre for Coastal Research, at the Flødevigen Research Station on Hisøy, Norway.
01/05/19: My talk has been accepted for the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution 2019 Meeting in the symposium 'Understanding the Genomics of Climate Change Response' in Manchester, UK this July.
15/04/19: I've been awarded an Ecological, Evolutionary, and Conservation Genomics Research Award from the American Genetic Association to support my work on the genomic architecture of adaptation in Atlantic cod.
15/04/19: Started my JSMF postdoc in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale systems at CEES!
13/04/19: I've been invited to speak at the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution 2019 Meeting in the symposium 'Predictions in the Anthropocene: combining theory and practice' in Fredericton, New Brunswick this August.
02/04/19: Heading off to the Arctic for the first time to make audio and video recordings of the cod mating ritual at Nofima's National Cod Breeding Centre (#ProjectCodLove).
15/03/19: Another fantastic Postdocs in Complexity conference at the Santa Fe Institute, meeting with fellow JSMF/SFI + U. Michigan postdocs.
06/03/19: After cancelled flights and university closures, I finally defended my PhD thesis! Passed with no revisions. Huge thanks to my external examiner Louis Bernatchez who helped make the experience very enjoyable!
03/02/19: Santa Fe Institute working group meeting out in the desert to construct a model for Sociality Under Scarcity across animal taxa.
2018
21/12/18: Our paper led by Nancy Roney on fine-scale differences in reproductive success in Atlantic cod is out in Ecology & Evolution.
07/12/18: Our proposal CODSIZE led by Esben Moland Olsen was recommended for funding by the Norwegian Research Council! This project will extend my postdoc for one year while I seek to link molecular, phenotypic, population, and ecosystem level effects on Atlantic cod body size.
12/04/24: Our lab is officially funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF)! Exciting research ahead!
08/04/24: Our new Food for Thought article 'The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List does not account for intraspecific diversity' focused on Atlantic cod and sugar kelp is out in ICES Journal of Marine Science.
05/01/24: Well the first 6 months flew by! I'm delighted to welcome MSc student Rebecca Krohman (University of New Brunswick) and PhD student Claudia Lacroix (University of Agder) to the lab! They will study the genomic architecture (Rebecca) and bioacoustics (Claudia) of cod in relation to their environment.
2023
01/07/23: On my first day as a professor I have the honour of welcoming new PhD student Simon Henriksson to the lab! Simon is based at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory and will uncover the genomic basis of cod ecotype divergence.
30/06/23: New preprint from the Sampling & Sample Processing Committee of the European Reference Genome Atlas: 'Contextualising samples: supporting reference genomes for European biodiversity through sample and associated metadata collection'.
29/06/23: The TORSKETROMMING team had a blast in Harstad, Norway this week presenting our new sound sculpture, musical lecture, and children's workshops at the True Northern Arts Festival. Check out the review in NRK!
22/06/23: Huge congratulations to Annika Lie who defended her masters thesis with flying colours today! Annika will join the lab as a Research Assistant this fall to continue her research on cod bioacoustics.
14/06/23: It was an absolute dream to deliver the Early Career Researcher Award talk at the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution meeting. I'm so grateful to be a part of this society for the last 14(!) years and look forward to many more!
11/05/23: Honoured to receive the Crafoord Grant for young researchers from the King of Sweden today alongside Crafoord Prize recipient Dolph Schluter. Congratulations to Dolph and the other four recipients!
15/04/23: I will be joining the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of New Brunswick Saint John as an Assistant Professor starting July 1st! I'm thrilled to join such a vibrant department focused on the coastal ocean.
11/04/23: Our Santa Fe Institute working group Sociality Under Scarcity led by Albert Kao & Helen McCreery published 'Opposing responses to scarcity emerge from functionally unique sociality drivers' today in The American Naturalist.
01/03/23: TORSKETROMMING wraps up another incredible Barents Spektakel! We shared our new sound sculptural installation Dialects of the Deep, a human-cod concert, scientific exhibition, two popular science talks, and 5 children's workshops! Congrats to the team: John Andrew, Anastasia, Maja, Paul, Susanna, and guests Per Anders & Sainkho.
17/02/23: The ERGA Consortium's new review paper on how genomics can help biodiversity conservation is out today in Trends in Genetics.
11/01/23: Postdoc Jeppe Rasmussen has been awarded a prestigious Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship to start his own research program on species monitoring using deep learning-based bioacoustic detectors! We're all immensely proud of his accomplishment.
2022
02/12/22: I'm extremely grateful on behalf of the whole TORSKETROMMING team to receive the 2022 'Formidlingsprisen' ('Communication Prize') at the Institute of Biosciences at the University of Oslo! I will use it to continue to spread the word about the ecology, evolution, and struggles of the cod.
25/10/22: In some whirlwind weeks at the Santa Fe Institute, I led an incredible working group on linking cod sexual networks to populations dynamics (CodNet), shared my academic journey with super-talented complexity postdocs, and participated in the unparalleled Interplanetary Festival. Amazing people + amazing science = some of the best weeks of my career to date!
28/09/22: Thrilled to be a part of the global team launching Biodiversity Genomics Europe today! I will lead the University of Oslo's contributions to the project: community sampling and sequencing "difficult" species for reference genome generation of European biodiversity. Read more: 'Forskere vil samle DNA fra alle arter i Europa - for det er for sent'.
21/09/22: Speaking at a public meeting on the cod crisis in Skagerrak/Oslofjord, I was delighted to meet so many engaged fishers and members of the public who are concerned with these issues. Coincidentally, our new paper 'Warming accelerates the onset of the molecular stress response and increases mortality of larval Atlantic cod' was published today!
22/08/22: New preprint! 'Comparison of de novo and reference genome-based transcriptome assembly pipelines for differential expression analysis of RNA sequencing data'. Stay tuned for the companion paper about the biological findings!
16/07/22: Our sound sculptural performance work Cod Connection (part of TORSKETROMMING) showed at Torsken Kunstfestival in Grimstad this weekend. Fun to see it develop in a new context! Stay tuned for Arendal 27/08/22.
11/07/22: Officially joining the Earth Biogenome Project Norway (EBP-Nor) team as the Scientific Coordinator today. Looking forward to bridging national, European, and global efforts to sequence the genomes of all eukaryotes!
19/05/22: Our open access review 'Genomic reaction norms inform predictions of plastic and adaptive responses to environmental change' is out now as part of the special issue Understanding climate change response in the age of genomics at the Journal of Animal Ecology.
30/04/22: We premiered the new iteration of the TORSKETROMMING project 'Cod Connection' at Only Connect Festival of Sound at MUNCH in Oslo through a public lecture, concert, and mobile sound installation.
11/04/22: Our obituary for my late mentor and friend Jeff Hutchings is now available in Fish & Fisheries. We hope to shed light on the breadth and depth of his impact globally on both professional and personal levels.
06/04/22: Wrapping up my time as a JSMF fellow with one last visit to the Santa Fe Institute was as inspiring as ever! So grateful for the support and freedom the JSMF-SFI community gave me over the last few years.
09/03/22: I was honoured to deliver a keynote talk entitled 'Towards forecasting fish responses to environmental change' at the annual LUOVA Spring Symposium at the University of Helsinki.
06/03/22: A new open access paper led by postdoc Jeppe Rasmussen presents a new software for efficiently measuring larval fish size from photographs. It can work with larger fish as well, give it a try!
26/02/22: The TORSKETROMMING team participated in a panel discussion on community formation and emergence at Det Gode Liv // The Sweetness of Living Symposium at Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes, Norway.
24/01/22: Our open access paper on the era of reference genomes in conservation genomics is out now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. This is the first output of the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium!
23/01/22: Check out the in-depth coverage of our TORSKETROMMING (COD DRUMMING) project on the Norwegian national news NRK: Lager musikk av torskens orgasme (Making music from the cod's orgasm)
14/01/22: Our open access paper on deep learning in marine ecology is out now in ICES Journal of Marine Science.
10/01/22: We welcome masters student Annika Lie to the team! Annika will use experimental approaches to better understand factors affecting survival and reproduction of Atlantic cod ecotypes.
2021
29/09/21: Our ArtiFISHal Intelligence Group at UiA has a new preprint, 'Unlocking the potential of deep learning for marine ecology: overview, applications, and outlook'. This was fun to write and we hope it will help ecologists get into AI.
21/09/21: Our new paper led by Jesse Wolf, 'Preprinting is positively associated with early career researcher status in ecology and evolution', is out today! I was fortunate to participate in this grassroots effort by undergraduate and masters students to better understand the importance of preprints to early career researchers.
19/09/21: TORSKETROMMING premiered at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival! With three sold out performances, 120 people have now experienced the magic of the cod mating ritual.
12/09/21: I wrapped up my first week as a BAR International artist-in-residence at Pikene på Broen in Kirkenes. It involved a different type of field work than usual - gathering local perspectives on the changing fisheries in the Barents region.
26/07/21: Our new paper 'Pathways towards a sustainable future envisioned by early-career conservation researchers' in Conservation Science & Practice incorporates survey and workshop data into a framework for helping ECRs to achieve real change in protecting biological diversity.
08/07/21: I had fun presenting at the Temporal Genomics Twitter Symposium about our new project investigating the mechanisms maintaining divergent cod ecotypes in the coastal Skagerrak hybrid zone.
05/07/21: Sissel Jentoft and I held the second Genomic Forecasting Symposium at SMBEv2021 and were in awe of the creative ways people are using genomics to predict population responses to environmental change! Anyone can still view all the talks via the conference website! And talks from last year's GFS2020 are always available here.
08/06/21: Huge congratulations to Julie, Emilie, Amalie, Nora, Paul, and Fredrick who all defended their bachelor theses with flying colours! Watch out world!!
01/05/21: I'm excited to officially join the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) at the University of Agder to continue exploring applications of machine learning and AI to marine ecology and evolutionary biology!
23/04/21: A busy week in the media sharing our upcoming TORSKETROMMING TOUR 2021-2022 culminated in a feature story on VG-TV (>40K views and counting)!
15/04/21: Our paper on barriers to early career researchers in interdisciplinary marine sciences is out today in Frontiers in Marine Sciences.
11/04/21: A new preprint (about preprints)! A fun collaboration with researchers from my alma mater shows the impact of career stage and institution size on preprint usage. It also highlights difficulties of studying authorship by gender.
29/03/21: A fantastic feature announcing our upcoming TORSKETROMMING TOUR 2021-2022 was published at Titan: 'Trommende torsk går til scenen' ('Drumming cod take the stage')
03/02/21: Our new preprint 'Cryptic microgeographic variation in responses of larval Atlantic cod to warmer temperatures' is out now! This is the first in a series of experimental studies that will be coming out over the next year.
25/01/21: The European Reference Genome Atlas officially launched as a pan-European consortium today! I'm honoured to serve as Council Representative for Norway along with Prof. Torsten Struck at the UiO Natural History Museum.
11/01/21: We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Jeppe Have Rasmussen to the TORSKETROMMING team! Jeppe will use deep learning to understand cod sounds and mating behaviour for his postdoc in collaboration with CAIR and Mechatronics.
2020
28/10/20: Our article 'Evolution of Reaction Norms' (with Jeff Hutchings) is out now at Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. It's a guide to the reaction norm literature for research and teaching at all levels!
23/10/20: I was delighted to speak to the Women in Ecology & Evolution Podcast for their "Paper in Focus" segment about our paper on the consequences of genomic architecture for evolutionary responses to environmental change.
21/10/20: I attended my first Bioacoustics Day and learned so much about sound in the sea! Thanks to Karen De Jong at the Institute of Marine Research for the invitation.
05/10/20: Our op-ed about cod dialects is out today in Agderposten.
25/09/20: It was thrilling to speak about cod and artificial intelligence at Young Researchers Night for the brain-themed Forskningsdagene ('Research Days') 2020.
22/09/20: Had a blast staying up way past my bed time to speak to the Evolution courses at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo about my research, career path, and life! Many thanks to Dr. Matthew Knope for the invitation.
01/09/20: Thrilled to welcome Griet Nobis to the team! Griet will join us as an intern this year exploring alternative management strategies for coastal cod in Norway.
23/07/20: It was a pleasure to deliver a seminar to the Zoology Department at Punjabi University, Patiala. It's available on their YouTube channel.
04/07/20: Our Invited Perspective on the consequences of genomic architecture for evolutionary responses to environmental change was published in the Journal of Heredity as Editor's Choice!
01/07/20: The Genomic Forecasting Symposium (#GFS2020) today was a huge success with over one hundred participants from several continents! Update: All talks are now freely available on the website in perpetuity.
19/06/20: I'm excited to host the first ever, free, online-only Genomic Forecasting Symposium (#GFS2020) on July 1st! We'll bring together researchers using genomics to predict the responses of organisms to environmental change.
19/05/20: We're hiring! We have a Postdoc in Artificial Intelligence for Marine Bioacoustics available at the University of Agder. Deadline: June 21st, 2020. Flexible starting conditions.
06/04/20: Our perspective on the evolutionary significance of structural genomic variation is online at Trends in Ecology & Evolution! I summarized it in a twitter thread.
19/03/20: Our SFI working group on 'Sociality under scarcity' just released our preprint "Changes in group size during resource shifts reveal drivers of sociality across the tree of life"! I learned so much (and had so much fun!) in this collaboration.
16/03/20: We're livestreaming cod spawning from the Flødevigen Research Station! Watch along with videos of me explaining the cod mating ritual (available in English here).
13/02/20: We previewed new audio and video from our TORSKETROMMING project at the Technical Museum of Oslo for the annual Lysvandring of the Oslo Life Sciences Conference. 400 more people have heard what cod sound like!
04/02/20: Our new preprint on the "Consequences of single-locus and tightly linked genomic architectures for evolutionary responses to environmental change" is available on bioRxiv. Check out the explanatory twitter thread!
15/01/20: I presented an upcoming paper on the evolutionary significance of genomic structural variation at Evolution in Sweden. Many interesting discussions followed!
2019
22/11/19: I accepted a Researcher II (Senior Researcher) position at the Centre for Coastal Research at the University of Agder! I look forward to working with students from the MSc in Coastal Ecology programme and many other wonderful colleagues.
12/11/19: We wrote an article in Aftenposten (Norway's largest newspaper) about how the cod crisis in Oslofjord-Skagerrak is due to more than just climate change. The new fishing ban offers the best chance for recovery.
09/11/19: Our symposium proposal entitled 'Genomic predictions of responses to environmental change' has been accepted for the Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution 2020 Meeting in Québec City June 28th - July 2nd.
02/11/19: My colleagues and I gave a public talk at the Norwegian National Academy of Sciences and Letters about the many threats that cod face in the Oslofjord-Skagerrak area.
21/09/19: I had a blast chatting with people about cod at the Oslo Science Expo ('Forskningstorget'). Our exhibition was called Torsk og du! ('Cod and you!') and featured the first sneak listens of our #TORSKETROMMING project.
30/08/19: Wrapped up another amazing Postdocs in Complexity conference at the Santa Fe Institute, meeting with fellow JSMF, SFI, and University of Michigan postdocs. So grateful for this inspiring group!
20/08/19: I gave an invited talk about integrating genomic data into evolutionary predictions of responses to environmental change at the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution 2019 Meeting and learned a lot about ecological forecasting. Many thanks to CSEE for supporting my travel!
24/07/19: I gave a talk on the genomic architecture of temperature responses in cod at the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution 2019 Meeting.
25/06/19: I presented a poster about the CODSIZE project at the 5th International Conference on Fish Telemetry in Arendal, Norway.
18/06/19: I gave a flash talk and learned how to perform simulations with genomic data at the SMBE Satellite Meeting on 'Identifying barriers to gene flow in the genome' on Tjärnö, Sweden.
28/05/19: Exciting kick-off meeting for the newly deemed "priority research centre", the Centre for Coastal Research, at the Flødevigen Research Station on Hisøy, Norway.
01/05/19: My talk has been accepted for the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution 2019 Meeting in the symposium 'Understanding the Genomics of Climate Change Response' in Manchester, UK this July.
15/04/19: I've been awarded an Ecological, Evolutionary, and Conservation Genomics Research Award from the American Genetic Association to support my work on the genomic architecture of adaptation in Atlantic cod.
15/04/19: Started my JSMF postdoc in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale systems at CEES!
13/04/19: I've been invited to speak at the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution 2019 Meeting in the symposium 'Predictions in the Anthropocene: combining theory and practice' in Fredericton, New Brunswick this August.
02/04/19: Heading off to the Arctic for the first time to make audio and video recordings of the cod mating ritual at Nofima's National Cod Breeding Centre (#ProjectCodLove).
15/03/19: Another fantastic Postdocs in Complexity conference at the Santa Fe Institute, meeting with fellow JSMF/SFI + U. Michigan postdocs.
06/03/19: After cancelled flights and university closures, I finally defended my PhD thesis! Passed with no revisions. Huge thanks to my external examiner Louis Bernatchez who helped make the experience very enjoyable!
03/02/19: Santa Fe Institute working group meeting out in the desert to construct a model for Sociality Under Scarcity across animal taxa.
2018
21/12/18: Our paper led by Nancy Roney on fine-scale differences in reproductive success in Atlantic cod is out in Ecology & Evolution.
07/12/18: Our proposal CODSIZE led by Esben Moland Olsen was recommended for funding by the Norwegian Research Council! This project will extend my postdoc for one year while I seek to link molecular, phenotypic, population, and ecosystem level effects on Atlantic cod body size.