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When humans are ill, we tend to be less active. This also applies to wild animals, but so far, it has not been known how long the reduced activity lasts or which activities are affected the most. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that birds' activity decreases for up to three weeks when they become ill - something that could mean the difference between life and death. The researche

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/disease-affects-blackbirds-more-previously-thought - 2025-11-05

How do micro-plastics affect our soil? What's the impact of urbanization on biodiversity? And how can drones be used for measuring carbon fluxes from Swedish peatlands? These were a few of the questions raised at the initial PhD student spring meeting at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC). The first ever intergovernmental, global report on biodiversity and ecosystem services,

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-makers-focus-environmental-and-climate-effects - 2025-11-05

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored an article in the journal Applied Soft Computing. The article, "Temporal cluster-based local deep learning or signal processing-temporal convolutional transformer for daily runoff prediction?", is written by Vahid Moosavi (Tarbiat Modares University), Sahar Mostafaei (Tarbiat Modares University) and Ronny Berndtsson (CMES). AbstractWater scarci

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/deep-learning-and-runoff-prediction-iran - 2025-11-05

The Department of Strategic Communication was visited last week by various lecturers who represent components of some of the department’s courses. Last Tuesday, our Bachelor’s students received a lecture by Susanna Laurin, CEO of the company Funka, providing information on how we can create a more humane Internet. On the Wednesday our Master’s students had the opportunity to meet Thomas Öberg and

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/what-communication-more-humane-internet-trip-bob-hund - 2025-11-05

The earthy smell in spring when the fields are ploughed and the garden soil in flower beds is dug over has a previously unknown purpose. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and other institutions have examined the soil smell and were able to show that it is linked to intricate interplay between millimetre-long insect-like organisms that has e

https://www.science.lu.se/article/story-behind-earthy-smell-spring - 2025-11-05

En blodgåta från 1927. Ett högspecialiserat instrument i masspektrometri som fått namnet ”Trinity” från filmen Matrix. Och en förvånad forskargrupp som firar med ”blodkroppstårta” när ett överraskande protein dyker upp. Ja, det är komponenterna i en helt vanlig, ovanlig forskarvardag på Lunds universitet.  På våningsplanen intill varandra sitter forskargruppen Transfusionsmedicin och Centrum för m

https://www.lu.se/artikel/en-blodgata-far-sin-losning - 2025-11-03

Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish labour market works. If we dared to shake up the regulations we would gain a lot

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2025-11-03

Minst 20 procent fler flyktingar i arbete efter tre månader. Det är prognosen efter att ett datorprogram börjat användas för att matcha flyktingar till nya hemorter i USA. Programmet är skapat av tre ledande universitet, i samarbete med en amerikansk frivilligorganisation. Nu hoppas professor Tommy Andersson, från Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet, att programvaran Annie MOORE kan användas i

https://www.lu.se/artikel/algoritmer-okar-flyktingars-chanser-till-jobb - 2025-11-03

Einar Anton Hansen var en dansk-svensk affärsman som i mitten av 1900-talet grundade ett framgångsrikt företagsimperium med förlagsverksamhet och rederier som hörnstenar. Han var också en långvarig vän till Lunds universitet och stöttade dess humanistiska fakulteter, ett givande som fortsätter än idag via flera av hans stiftelser. Ingvar Ganestam är idag ordförande i Einar Hansens Allhemsstiftelse

https://www.lu.se/artikel/einar-hansen-lu-vanlig-brobyggare-och-mecenat - 2025-11-04

Strax före jul gick hans institution miste om en internationell toppforskare, en satsning värd drygt hundra miljoner kronor. Någon månad senare rapporterade hans grupp ett stort genombrott inom feromonforskningen. Professor Christer Löfstedt, prefekt för Biologiska institutionen, en av universitetets största, är först ut i en artikelserie om det akademiska ledarskapets vardag – en tillvaro som går

https://www.lu.se/artikel/toppar-och-dalar-i-prefektvardagen - 2025-11-03

Dagens styrning av universitet och högskolor är kortsiktig, dåligt samordnad och alltför generell och konkurrensbaserad. Uppdelningen av anslagen mellan utbildning och forskning har skapat onaturliga gränser och främjat en kultur inom akademin som undervärderar utbildning i förhållande till forskning. Pam Fredman, tidigare rektor vid Göteborgs universitet, leder Styr- och resursutredningen, Strut.

https://www.lu.se/artikel/strut-forordar-gemensamt-anslag-till-forskning-och-utbildning - 2025-11-04

Skogen står i fokus för en intensiv debatt för tillfället. Det handlar, grovt förenklat, om vilka klimatnyttor skogen kan ge, antingen genom att stå kvar och binda kol, eller genom att användas som ersättning för fossila bränslen och fossilintensiva material. I en ny kunskapsgenomgång från Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC) vid Lunds universitet går Markku Rummukainen, professor i klimat

https://www.lu.se/artikel/skogens-klimatnyttor-en-balansakt-i-prioritering - 2025-11-04

There has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A -- until now. A new study suggests that the vitamin improves the insulin producing β-cell´s function.The researchers initially discovered that insulin-producing beta-cells contain a large quantity of a cell surface receptor for vitamin A. "There are no unnecessary surface receptors in human cells. They all serve a purpose but which, in ma

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/role-vitamin-diabetes - 2025-11-03

Niels Grarup, Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen, will recieve the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research. In his research, he has shown, among other things, that there is a genetic explanation for the increase in type 2 diabetes in Greenland. The prize, worth SEK 100 000, is sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordis

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/award-research-gene-increases-risk-type-2-diabetes-greenland - 2025-11-05

How can the climate movement continue its struggle and be a force for change in the light of other current crises such as social and economic injustices, inequalities and pandemics? Mine Islar, researcher at LUCSUS, says that joining forces with other causes and movements are one way forward, another is to stay focused and keep a long-term perspective. On October 15, LUCSUS is organising the event

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-will-climate-movements-continue-shape-future - 2025-11-05

Megg Garcia-Ryde’s thesis sheds light on the early pathological processes in Alzheimer’s disease and the interplay between neurons and microglia as the disease evolves. October 10, she defends her thesis. Now, she gives her perspectives from a close collaboration between the experimental neuroinflammation laboratory and the experimental dementia research group and how she brings together the exper

https://www.neuroinflammation.lu.se/article/neuroimmune-crosstalk-early-alzheimers-disease-phd-interview-megg-garcia-ryde - 2025-11-05

Using a torch, a camera, a water bottle and pieces of Lego, Emanuel Larsson built a scanner now used as a prototype to develop future beamlines at ESS. It was late on a Friday evening in December three years ago that Emanuel Larsson, a postdoc in solid mechanics, started constructing a tomography scanner out of objects he found in his kitchen at home. ‟At the time, the aim was to be able to explai

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/home-built-scanner-helps-construct-beamline-ess - 2025-11-04

It can take a long time between words and action at the University, sometimes a little too long. This is one of the reasons the University management has developed a platform for strategic work. It speaks to what is most important to the University right now and will help it to act much faster as the world changes. Pandemic, war in Europe, fake news, increased polarisation at home and abroad and,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/changing-world-requires-agile-university - 2025-11-04

The new retail landscape is complex. New types of touchpoints and new store formats mean messy, non-linear customer journeys with multiple online and offline touchpoints. If we want to understand these journeys, and what value customers derive from new and innovative touchpoints, we must use methods that allow them to explain their own complex customer journeys in all their messy glory! While work

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/messy-customer-journey-self-mapping - 2025-11-05

Growing Up Googie, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station 3. april 2020 - 19. april 2020 Due to the recommendations of the Danish health authorities the Exhibition Space Sydhavn Station will temporarily be closed, but the Growing Up Googie exhibition will launch online on Friday 3rd April on GrowingUpGoogie.dk Nanna Abell (DK), Emilie Bausager (DK/UK), Joe Crowdy (UK), Mads Juel (DK), Tina Kryhlmann (N

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-growing-googie - 2025-11-03