Roberto García Roa, a postdoc at the Department of Biology, won the Springer Nature BMC Ecology and Evolution photo competition. The winning image “The story of a conquest” shows a parasitic fungus erupting from the body of an infected fly in the Peruvian forest of Tambopata.
See the winning image (blogs.biomedcentral.com)
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The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) is calling for applications for funding from international collaborative projects. The main foreign party must be located outside the EU/EFTA and the UK. Project should preferably include activities involving both research and higher education, but STINT also supports pure research collaborations. The application deadline is 26 September.
Read the calls on the STINT website:
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The Nordic Centre has put out a call for applications for 3-4 planning grants of EUR 10,000 each for research collaborations between Nordic and Chinese universities. Projects should be related to one of the Nordic Centre’s four focus areas:
- Sino-Nordic perspectives
- Sustainable development
- Digitalisation and technology
- Health and welfare
The application deadline is 1 October.
Read more and apply for the planning grant on the Nordic Centre’s website |
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You can search for calls for applications and funding bodies from all over the world and across all research areas in Pivot-RP. You can even search for grants to take part in academic conferences and postdocs funding.
Read more about how to use Pivot-RP (staff.lu.se) |
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Mentimeter is a web-based tool for creating interactive presentations and surveys where participants can vote for different options or enter their own answers. It is a quick and easy way to create engagement among your participants and works just as well during digital lessons as in conventional lectures. Lund University has a licence that gives employees access to all of Mentimeter’s features. You can find more information about the tool on the University’s website Teaching and learning online:
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In the previous edition of Insidan, there was an item about the course “Education for scientific literacy – sustainability, equality and ethics”, which will be given in a long and a short version.
A clarification about registration: in order to attend the course, in either the long or short versions, you must register for the first workshop, “Education for scientific literacy – Introduction”, which will be held 12 October, from 13:15 to 16:00. The registration deadline is 5 September.
Read more and sign up for the workshop via the faculty's internal website
About the course: Sustainability, equal opportunities and ethics should be part of all higher education. But how does this work in practice? In this course, you will be given support by guest lecturers in developing your teaching, as well as concrete tools and examples. |
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Several of the departments from the Faculty of Science are putting on activities for both kids and adults during this year’s Culture Night. Enjoy our fast-paced shows, popular science talks, planetarium tours, experiments and exhibitions, science slam and telescope viewings. Time and place: 17 September, from 11:00 to 01:30.
See the faculty’s programme for Culture Night (lu.se) |
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| Jadranka Rota will be giving an associate professorship lecture with the title “The evolution of insects”. Time and place: 28 September, from 13:00 to 14:00 in Röda rummet, Ekologihuset. |
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| Thomas Pugh will be giving an associate professorship lecture with the title “Should we geoengineer the land?” Time and place: 5 October, from 13:15 to 14:15 in Pangea, Geocentrum II. |
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The course is aimed at those who are about to be appointed as assistant supervisors for doctoral students at the Faculty of Science, but do not have qualifying supervisor training. Time and place: 11 November, from 09:00 to 16:00 in Lundmarksalen, Astronomihuset. The registration deadline is 26 October.
Read more and sign up for the course via the faculty's internal website |
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| Eran Elhaik, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed in many media outlets about a new method for accurately dating human remains that are tens of thousands of years old. “Reliable and accurate dating is a big problem within research, which results in vague and contradictry reports. Our method makes use of artificial intelligence to date genomes from DNA data with incredible accuracy,” says Elhaik. |
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| Lina Eklund, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about how rising wet bulb temperatures, which combine dry bulb temperatures and humidity, could make large parts of the Middle East completely uninhabitable in 80 years. “When it’s hot, the body cools itself by sweating, but if humidity is high, the body can’t sweat as much and therefore doesn’t cool itself down,” she says. Areas with high temperatures and close proximity to water, such as the Persian Gulf region, are particularly vulnerable. |
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| Jonas Åkerman, senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about his research on how the warming climate is thawing the permafrost in Svalbard. As the permafrost thaws, greenhouse gases are released, making the climate even warmer. Åkerman says permafrost covers 15% of land surface in the Northern Hemisphere and warns that huge amounts of carbon dioxide and methane could be released into the atmosphere. |
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| Karin Rengefors, professor at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about the algae Gonyostomum semen, which grows in lakes and can cause itching and skin irritation for bathers. “Our studies show that it is becoming increasingly widespread. It is present in more lakes and the blooms last for longer. Not only that, but they’re very small. Maybe they have been present in smaller quantities without us seeing them, but now there are a lot more of them,” she says. |
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| Several researchers in the Faculty of Science have co-written an opinion piece on the need for politicians to take the climate crisis seriously. “The majority of our political parties are abandoning effective climate politics and instead proposing or implementing policies that run counter to the Paris Agreement and Sweden’s climate and environmental goals,” they write. |
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| Patrik Vestin, research engineer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about a new study on the effects of climate change on the carbon balance in northern wetlands. The results show that the balance of carbon is sensitive to when in the growing season the warming occurs. “If warming occurs in early summer, it has a positive effect on plant productivity and net carbon uptake can be maintained or even increased. But if it happens in late summer instead, it can lead to falling groundwater levels, increased soil respiration and reduced carbon uptake,” says Vestin. |
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| Johanna Alkan Olsson, senior lecturer at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has written an opinion piece on the climate adaptation of cities and different measures to limit global heating. |
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| Markku Rummukainen, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has been interviewed about a new study showing that climate heating is occurring up to four times faster in the Arctic compared to the rest of the world. |
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| Stefan Andersson, professor at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about green space that has been converted into meadows and is being mowed in the old-fashioned way in the northern part of Lund. “Now you see a lot more plant species, many of which are host plants for insects,” says Andersson. |
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Henrik Smith, professor at the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, and Markku Rummukainen, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Environmental
and Climate Science, have written an opinion piece about two ongoing crises – climate change and the loss of biodiversity. |
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| Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, and Håkan Wallander, professor at the Department of Biology, have answered a question on whether tree stumps can contribute to climate-friendly forest management. |
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| Mikael Sörensson, visiting lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been mentioned in an article about spiders. The focus is on the Pholcidae family among others, commonly known as cellar spiders, which are relatively new in Sweden and have spread very rapidly. |
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