Ny kronik: Engelsk til besvær?

masv on 30. July 2024

Senterleder Mamelund hevder i ny kronikk i Khrono at “Ja, det finnes tildels store utfordringer når pensum, undervisning, publisering, formidling, konferanser og samarbeid alt skjer på engelsk. Inter­nasjonal­iseringen har imidlertid kommet for å bli og kan ikke reverseres”.

Du kan lese kronikken her: Engelsk til besvær? (khrono.no)

Ny kronikk: Sommerjobb som forsker: vinn-vinn for studenter og arbeidsgivere

masv on 24. July 2024

I en ny kronikk hevder senterleder Mamelund at relevant sommerjobb som forsker stjeler ikke tid fra studier og kan bidra positivt til læring, nettverk og til suksess i utdanning og det akademiske arbeidsmarkedet. Arbeidsgivere i akademia tjener også på å ha studenter som forskere i sommerjobb. Det er med andre ord en vinn-vinn-situasjon.

Kronikken kan leses i sin helhet her: Sommerjobb som forsker: vinn-vinn for studenter og arbeidsgivere (khrono.no)

New paper out:

masv on 18. July 2024

We are proud to have published yet another paper from our Social Science Meets Biology | CAS (cas-nor.no) project:

Read press release from OsloMet here: New research sheds light on mortality rate disparities in Alaska during the 1918 flu pandemic – OsloMet

Read full paper here: Death on the permafrost: Revisiting the 1918-20 influenza pandemic in Alaska using death certificates | American Journal of Epidemiology | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Abstract: The 1918-20 influenza pandemic devastated Alaska’s Indigenous populations. We report on quantitative analyses of pandemic deaths due to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) using information from Alaska death certificates dating between 1915 and 1921 (n=7,147). Goals include a reassessment of pandemic death numbers, analysis of P&I deaths beyond 1919, estimates of excess mortality patterns overall and by age using intercensal population estimates based on Alaska’s demographic history, and comparisons between Alaska Native (AN) and non-AN residents. Results indicate that ANs experienced 83% of all P&I deaths and 87% of all-cause excess deaths during the pandemic. AN mortality was 8.1 times higher than non-AN mortality. Analyses also uncovered previously unknown mortality peaks in 1920. Both subpopulations showed characteristically high mortality of young adults, possibly due to imprinting with the 1889-90 pandemic virus, but their age-specific mortality patterns were different: non-AN mortality declined after age 25-29 and stayed relatively low for the elderly, while AN mortality increased after age 25-29, peaked at age 40-44, and remained high up to age 64. This suggests a relative lack of exposure to H1-type viruses pre-1889 among AN persons. In contrast, non-AN persons, often temporary residents, may have gained immunity before moving to Alaska.