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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A great deal of moral courage or a really desperate situation – these are the requirements for someone to disclose state secrets. And life will most certainly never be the same again. This is what emerges from the experiences of the Cold War’s first major defectors, Mr and Mrs Petrov, as from those of Edward Snowden,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spy-novel-way-present-new-research - 2026-06-21

De flesta könsnormer ifrågasätts i takt med att samhället förändras. Trots det fortsätter samma jultomte att dyka upp år efter år, i media och i våra hem. Vad är det med jultomten som gör honom immun mot den kritik som andra patriarker får utstå? – Många svenska föräldrar är idag progressiva och medvetna om genusfrågor. Detta verkar dock inte ha lett till att våra binära julritualer ifrågasätts. V

https://www.lu.se/artikel/darfor-accepterar-vi-jultomtens-traditionella-maskulinitet - 2026-06-23

Länge sades det att typ 1-diabetiker är normalviktiga och att typ 2-diabetiker ofta är överviktiga. Det stämmer inte längre. Bland personer med typ 1-diabetes är övervikt och fetma allt vanligare och med samma hälsovådliga konsekvenser som vid typ 2-diabetes. En svårighet med att hålla vikten är att insulinbehandling i sig ökar risken för övervikt. Frågan togs upp i tidskriften The Lancet Diabetes

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/overvikt-ar-ett-vaxande-problem-bland-personer-med-typ-1-diabetes - 2026-06-23

The University wants to improve its ability to recruit research talent from other countries. A working group has identified existing gaps and developed proposals to address them in order to increase recruitment. Other Swedish higher education institutions are more successful in nominating, recruiting and obtaining funding for international research talent in relation to Wallenberg Academy Fellows,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promise-employment-attract-foreign-research-talent - 2026-06-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that slows

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2026-06-21

Production for the textile and fashion industry can, for many countries, represent a first step out of poverty. But what does this mean for those who work in the sector, and what happens when even poorer countries begin to compete by paying even lower wages for the seamstresses in the factories? Linn Ternsjö has studied the clothing manufacturing industry in Mauritius from a sustainability perspec

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/model-inclusive-growth-or-warning-lessons-garment-industry-mauritius - 2026-06-21

Production for the textile and fashion industry can, for many countries, represent a first step out of poverty. But what does this mean for those who work in the sector, and what happens when even poorer countries begin to compete by paying even lower wages for the seamstresses in the factories? Linn Ternsjö has studied the clothing manufacturing industry in Mauritius from a sustainability perspec

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/model-inclusive-growth-or-warning-lessons-garment-industry-mauritius - 2026-06-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish nature is teeming with wild edible plants. Some taste good, others don’t. A group of biologists from 11 different countries got to learn which plants are edible, and what they taste like, when the department’s SACT (Scientific Activities) group organised a herbal excursion to Abusa Valley outside Södra Sandby

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biologists-feasting-spring-abusa-valley - 2026-06-21

No 61, 20 May 2026 Welcome to a new addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   Registration for our two last training events is closing soon:The NAISS introduction training days are aimed at new users of our infrastructure and users who are already using our foundation but require more guidance regarding the foundations of using an HPC service.  Please feel free to attend those sessions which ar

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-14 - 2026-06-21

This year Lund Stem Cell Center and MultiPark, two strategic research areas based at Lund University, are happy to launch a new joint technical platform in an effort to ensure easy access to high quality core electrophysiology techniques and expert knowledge for investigating cells and tissues that exhibit electrical properties. In 2009, the Swedish government decided to invest in strategic resear

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-scc-and-multipark-join-forces-ensure-researchers-have-high-quality-electrophysiology-facilities - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The mountainsides are on fire. In the village below, activities are in full swing: women and men working in the fields, fishing in the river, and herding cattle along the grassy wetlands. The painting took four days to produce during fieldwork in Tanzania. Emma Johansson Li, a researcher in physical geography, has ded

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/physical-geographer-uses-art-her-research - 2026-06-21

Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historianMartha Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of California (UCLA). She also works at the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Baile

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2026-06-21

Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historianMartha Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of California (UCLA). She also works at the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Baile

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2026-06-21

Canadian Daniel Benoit is the Director of the new MoRe Lab. This is how it´s been coming to Medfak from the ouside, and settling in a new habitat. How did you end up at the Faculty of Medicine in Lund?– My wife was actually born right here in Lund, and her family are all Lund University alumni, so we have always had an eye on opportunities here. Then some years ago I met Professor Eva Ageberg thro

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/new-sweden-new-medfak-daniel-benoit-new-director-new-more-lab - 2026-06-21

Daniel Conley, professor i biogeokemi på geologiska institutionen, tilldelas Björn Carlsons Östersjöpris tillsammans med Jacob Carstensen, professor vid Aarhus universitet. De får priset på tre miljoner kronor för sina innovativa forskningsinsatser för Östersjöns miljö. Daniel Conley har sedan flera år drivit ett stort projekt, finansierat av Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse, som kretsar kring

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/geologiprofessor-belonas-med-fint-ostersjopris - 2026-06-23

I förra veckan ändrades rekommendationerna angående testning vid misstänkt covid-19 i Sverige. Då ingen nationell statistik förs över de antigentester (snabbtester) som tas runtom i landet hemma eller på privata testcenter så blir det svårt att utläsa trender i smittläget utifrån teststatistiken de kommande veckorna. Tidiga signaler från källor som inte är beroende av PCR-testning, såsom symtomöve

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/covid-symptom-study-borjar-rapportera-statistik-over-snabbtester - 2026-06-23

Var med och spring Lundaloppet tillsammans med kollegor. Som vanligt bjuder Lunds universitet på anmälningsavgiften för alla anställda. Lundaloppet är Skånes största motionslopp där människor i alla åldrar samlas för att springa eller gå. Välj om du vill springa 2,5 kilometer, 5 kilometer eller 10 kilometer.– Jag hoppas att vi får se många LU-kollegor fylla Lunds gator, både som löpare och publik,

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/delta-i-lundaloppet-4-maj - 2026-06-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Smoke - Ingrid Furre & Olof Nimar - Opening: 26th of nov, 7pm Bikini WaxBenjamin Franklin 20Interior 2, Colonial EscandonMexico CityThere is something comfortable with the house, almost lazy. The carpet crumbles when John snuffles over the floor. People are home, but no one has turned on the lights. The concrete wal

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/ingrid-furre-olof-nimar-mexico-city - 2026-06-23

Nu börjar kanadensiska forskningsprojektet ta form, där CASE-forskarna Oskar Jonsson och Björn Slaug ska utforska hem- och närmiljöer som inte inkluderar personer med funktionsnedsättningar. Hem- och närmiljöer som tillgodoser behov hos personer med olika funktionella begränsningar, gör det möjligt för fler att leva ett mer självständigt liv en längre tid med mindre hjälp från andra. – För persone

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/de-hjalper-till-att-gora-kanada-fritt-fran-barriarer - 2026-06-23

SWEAH Alumni Interdisciplinary Network (SAIN), har som främsta syfte att skapa en bas för långsiktig och framstående svensk forskning om äldre och åldrande. Detta ska ske genom ämnesöverskridande samarbeten mellan svenska lärosäten. SWEAH-alumnen Charlotta Nilsen från Jönköping University och Stockholms universitet, ingår i styrgruppen för nätverket. Hon har tillsammans med Caroline Hasselgren (Gö

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/nytt-alumnnatverk-har-sett-dagens-ljus - 2026-06-23