Last week, 8-9 June 2018, our ESR Lia ní Aodha took part in a Social Lab organised as part of the NewHoRRizon-project, that is working to foster the integration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into European, national and local research practice, and funding. SAF21 was invited to participate as the project scores highly in terms [...]
During the recent general annual meeting in Oslo, Charlotte Weber from SAF21 was elected board member of SiN – Stipendiatorganisasjon i Norge. SiN is the Association of Doctoral Organizations in Norway and works as the national interest organization for doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers. Charlotte joined the board to contribute to SiN’s activities, such as promoting [...]
Our ESR Rannvá Danielsen has published the paper “Fisheries policy in the Faroe Islands: Managing for failure?” in Marine Policy. The paper explores fisheries policy in the Faroe Islands between 1948, when the Faroe Islands gained competence over fisheries policy, and 2018. In this time period, the Faroe Islands have gone through several different management regimes [...]
Last week, 16-20 April 2018, our ESR Shaheen Syed co-organized and chaired the first workshop on uses of machine learning in fisheries and marine science hosted by ICES in Copenhagen. The workshop (WKMLEARN) explored how machine learning and deep learning can be of use to the existing ICES processes; from data to advice. A group of [...]
Shaheen Syed (SAF21 ESR) published the paper "Narrow lenses for capturing the complexity of fisheries: A topic analysis of fisheries science from 1990 to 2016" in the #1 fisheries journal Fish and Fisheries. The paper is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Melania Borit (SAF21 coordinator) and Marco Spruit (Utrecht University) where they used the latest computational tools [...]
Today the Eurodoc Conference kicks off in Tampere, Finland. It is organized by the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers and hosted by the University of Tampere. The conference will focus on the challenges of research careers and employment that early career researchers face and address relevant topics on doctoral training, teaching, contracts, [...]
Our early stage researcher Shaheen Syed published and presented his latest paper entitled "Selecting Priors for Latent Dirichlet Allocation" at the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2018) held in Laguna Hills, California, USA (Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2018). His work explores symmetrical and asymmetrical Dirichlet priors when utilizing the topic model latent Dirichlet [...]
Our ESRs Charlotte Weber from UiT and Shaheen Syed from MMU/UU have published their paper entitled "Using Machine Learning to Uncover Latent Research Topics in Fishery Models" in the journal Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture. During their collaboration (blog post), they utilized an unsupervised machine learning method called Latent Dirichlet Allocation to automatically uncover topics [...]
Some of our SAF21 members have joined EuroDoc and have been actively involved in the Working Group on Doctoral Training in order to contribute to and promote good practices of doctoral training in different contexts in Europe and to help with the implementation of recommendations from key documents. For this purpose, the Doctoral Training Working Group is [...]
Galicia embraces the Climathon challenge 2017 The region will participate as an innovator in Climathon, a global 24-hour climate change hackathon which will take place simultaneously in major cities around the world on 27 October 2017. ClimeFish and SAF21 teams are behind this initiative with the support of CETMAR Foundation, a partner in both projects. Galicia [...]
