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Almost 14 million viewers have watched Anils Seth’s TED Talk “Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality”. In the beginning of May, he visits Lund University and Neuroscience Day to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. We meet on zoom for a conversation about AI, the mystery of consciousness and – of course – to find out what he knew about Sweden. … how would you explain consciousne
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hello-there-anil-seth - 2025-12-19
Professor Søren Brunak från Köpenhamn tilldelas 2019 års stora Nordiska pris av Eric K. Fernströms stiftelse. Det är ett av de största skandinaviska forskningspriserna inom medicin och Søren Brunak får utmärkelsen för sina insatser som pionjär inom gränslandet mellan matematisk analys och biomedicinsk forskning – ett område som banar vägen för precisionsmedicin inom många olika sjukdomstillstånd.
https://www.lu.se/artikel/miljonpris-till-pionjar-inom-bioinformatik - 2025-12-18
Professor Søren Brunak från Köpenhamn tilldelas 2019 års stora Nordiska pris av Eric K. Fernströms stiftelse. Det är ett av de största skandinaviska forskningspriserna inom medicin och Søren Brunak får utmärkelsen för sina insatser som pionjär inom gränslandet mellan matematisk analys och biomedicinsk forskning – ett område som banar vägen för precisionsmedicin inom många olika sjukdomstillstånd.
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/miljonpris-till-pionjar-inom-bioinformatik - 2025-12-18
Lunds universitet får 47,8 miljoner kronor för att utbilda fler ingenjörer och satsa på forskning inom elektrifiering och batteriteknik. Regeringen satsar på en permanent utbyggnad av Lunds universitets civilingenjörs- och basårsutbildningar samt på en strategisk forskningssatsning på batterier som lärosätet delar med Chalmers och Uppsala universitet. Satsningen innebär ett extra tillskott till Lu
https://www.lu.se/artikel/satsning-pa-ingenjorer-och-batteriforskning-i-budgetpropositionen - 2025-12-18
Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten erbjuder fem metodworkshops i september och oktober. I år ingår bland annat en workshop om ChatGPT i forskningen och en femdagarsworkshop i mixed methods, om hur man kombinerar och integrerar kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder. Workshopparna vänder sig till lärare, forskare och doktorander från samtliga ämnen och fakulteter som önskar bredda och fördjupa sin meto
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/metodworkshoppar-under-hosten-2023 - 2025-12-18
Islamofobi, antisemitism och kristofobi – muslimer, judar och kristna väcker rädsla och avsky i olika läger. I Malmö vittnar unga muslimer om en utspridd vardagsrasism. De olika trosfobierna tas upp i en föreläsningsserie på CTR i höst. Islamologen Johan Cato ger sin syn på den växande islamofobin. Islamologen Johan Cato. Foto: Jenny Loftrup. – Genomför t.ex. Al-Qaida ett terrordåd måste muslimer
https://www.lu.se/artikel/svartvit-syn-pa-muslimer-bakom-okad-islamofobi - 2025-12-17
Isabel Schoultz, nu verksam här på Rättssociologen i Lund, har disputerat vid Stockholms universitet, Kriminologiska institutionen med avhandlingen ”Controlling the Swedish State. Studies on formal and informal bodies of control”. Avhandlingen analyserar hur individer och organisationer kan hålla myndigheter och stater ansvariga genom att anmäla fel som begåtts till exempelvis Justitieombudsmannen
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/myndigheter-och-stater-som-begar-brott - 2025-12-17
The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-chancellor, how important the vice-chancellor is to them and which areas of develop
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-union-st - 2025-12-17
“The Tokyo Forum was a great opportunity to discuss the opportunities and challenges of sustainable social change, especially processes that involve local actors, into a high-level arena." LUCSUS researcher, Barry Ness participated in the Tokyo Forum held at the University of Tokyo place December 6-8, 2019.The forum was a joint initiative between the University of Tokyo and the Chey Institute for
Lars J Nilsson is Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies at LTH and a member of the Seoul International Energy Advisory Council, an advisory body working on energy-efficiency enhancement and sustainable development in South Korea’s capital. Lars J Nilsson. What have you learned from your work on sustainable development in a megacity like Seoul? I have learned a lot about humility re
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-researcher-gives-seouls-mayor-advice-energy-efficiency - 2025-12-17
What is happening to the climate and what role does climate research play in society? The strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and SMHI are together arranging a climate symposium in Norrköping on 16-18 May 2022, the Swedish Climate Symposium. The conference means that Sweden's largest players in climate research gather for the first time for a major sympos
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/national-symposium-norrkoping-focuses-climate-research - 2025-12-17
Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new research conducted at Lund University in Sweden, among others. The research results can potentially benefit the development of navigation robots in crisis situations where GPS does not work, for example. According to the study, bumblebees appear capable of navigating as well as vertebrates can, an
https://www.science.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2025-12-17
... PhD Student at INES, who visited the Forum for Research Communication on Science Festival in Gothenburg some time ago. How was the forum for science communication?It was really inspiring! There were different types of research communication, ranging from discussion groups, quick presentations, tips on different ways to communicate and also fun to meet people from all sorts of institutions and
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hi-ylva-persson - 2025-12-17
The happy buzz among the students who just completed their Leadership Academy journey more than made up for the gray skies, as they gathered in Skånis and received their diplomas. They were joined by the teachers Christine Blomquist, and Nadja Sörgärde, Maria Ekelund from our partner Deloitte, coach Pernilla Thellmark, and project Manager Simon Öhlin. The program is an extracurricular activity for
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/leadership-academy-graduation - 2025-12-18
The manager's extended arm and their guidance in HR issues. To listen and contribute with solutions. As of June 1, all of the University's HR employees will receive new titles. Emelie Falck at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, who was previously titled staff coordinator, explains her role. – Our main role is to guide managers in HR issues in their daily work. For example, we get questions abo
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/hr-guides-managers-and-promotes-good-work-environment - 2025-12-18
Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new research conducted at Lund University in Sweden, among others. The research results can potentially benefit the development of navigation robots in crisis situations where GPS does not work, for example. According to the study, bumblebees appear capable of navigating as well as vertebrates can, an
https://www.biology.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2025-12-19
Policy instruments and business models for closed material loops:Lamp collecting systems in need of improvement A group of three IIIEE researchers are busy searching for good examples of how discarded lamps can be collected and the materials reused in new lamps. “With authorities taking more responsibility consumers could contribute better, says IIIEE researcher Thomas Lindhqvist, explaining why
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-thomas-lindhqvist - 2025-12-18
Under fem år satsar EU 163 miljoner kronor på forskningsprojektet POLARIN. Syftet är att främja tvärvetenskaplig forskning i polarområdena. Naturgeografen Margareta Johansson är en av forskarna som kommer att jobba i projektet. Varför behövs det här polarforskningsprojektet?– Den pågående klimatförändringen märks som tydligast på våra nordligaste och sydligaste breddgrader. Vi behöver därför lära
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/eu-storsatsar-pa-polarforskning-i-arktis-och-antarktis - 2025-12-17
Sara Kalm, Lisa Strömbom och Anders Uhlin har författat artikeln ”Civil Society Democratising Global Governance? Potentials and Limitations of ’Counter-Democracy’”. Artikeln har publicerats I tidskriften “Global Society”. Om artikeln (på engelska)The article proposes a new way of analysing the potential of civil society organisations (CSOs) to democratise global governance. The aim is to explore t
https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/civilsamhalle-och-global-demokrati - 2025-12-17
