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Kristin Asdal was invited as a visiting professor at the Department of Sociology and Work Science of the University of Gothenburg for two months this spring.

The Little Tools team met for two days of intense discussion on writings in-progress.

Hilde Reinertsen and Kristin Asdal have published a paper in a special issue of Arr - the Norwegian history of ideas journal focused on the ocean.

The Little Tools project invites submissions for a panel they are organising at the next 4S Conference in August.

Submissions welcome for Kristin Asdal and Maximilian Fochler's panel on the entanglement of valuation and knowledge practices!

Kristin Asdal and Marte Mangset have written a blog post for the website Sociology Lens. They present their work on the inner working of the State.

On October 31st, the Science Studies Colloquium Series organised a panel on Responsible Research in the Life Sciences at Oslo Litteraturhuset. Anne Kveim Lie (Institute of Health and Society) and Kristin Asdal (TIK) chaired the discussion. 

The Little Tools team was lucky to receive two visitors this fall.

Kristin Asdal is one of the speakers at Arctic Day 2018 on 31 October 2018.

The first paper in the new working paper series is titled "From Commodification to Co-modification", written by Professor Kristin Asdal, leader of the Little Tools project.

In May 2018 Kristin Asdal participated in a panel discussion arranged by "Historiekollektivet". The discussion is now available as podcast (in Norwegian).

The panel discussion will take place on May 25th, 7 pm at Chateau Neuf - The Norwegian Students' Society.

Among the newest additions to the Little Tools project is PhD student Tommas Måløy. Previously a tram driver and philosophy student, he now finds himself amidst cods and computers.

Béatrice Cointe is a new addition to the Little Tools project, strengthening the group's capabilities in researching economic transcriptions of fish.

Kristin Asdal participates in a debate on research dissemination, organized by the University of Oslo and Nytt norsk tidsskrift.

Kristin Asdal and Hilde Reinertsen comment on the political impact of a report on the future of Norwegian fish farming.

The Little Tools project organized a workshop on the sea and its economies on March 9^th – 10^th in Kabelvåg, Lofoten

The Norwegian Research Council has a limited understanding of the role of research in society, writes Kristin Asdal in the Norwegian business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.

Kristin Asdal speaking at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, 15:00 on February 15th

The edited volume 'Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More-than-Human Condition' has been reviewed favourably in the journal cultural geographies.

Within the LittleTools project, you may find interesting, fun and relevant ideas for master theses about science, politics, the economy, and the environment - with a special focus on oceans, fish, and aquaculture.

The Little Tools team convened on Lysebu to discuss current projects and plan for the future.

The Little Tools project is now recruiting a new postdoc with background from STS, valuation studies, economic history or economic sociology.

Kristin Asdal has published an essay in Klassekampen on politics as work.

Kristin Asdal on the concept of valuation in the newly published anthology New Big Science in Focus.