Av anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - publicerad 28 november 2022 De lila partierna visar spår av fossilerad neural vävnad hos Cardiodictyon catenulum. Bild: Nicholas Strausfeld. Genom att analysera nervvävnad från ett fossilerat, maskliknande urdjur från Kina har forskare hittat likheter med moderna leddjurs hjärnors uppbyggnad. Studien kastar nytt ljus på det så

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/vavnad-fran-518-miljoner-ar-gammal-kinesisk-havsmask-kan-losa-forskarstrid - 2025-06-25

Av anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - publicerad 2 december 2022 Den vinnande bilden föreställer en sällsynt lövgroda vars ögon lyser i mörkret som två nästan hypnotiska juveler. Foto: Roberto García-Roa. Roberto García-Roa, postdoktor vid biologiska institutionen, har vunnit ännu ett prestigefullt fotopris. Den här gången är han totalvinnaren av “Capturing Ecolo

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/biolog-vann-stor-internationell-fototavling - 2025-06-25

Av anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - publicerad 11 januari 2023 Forskaren Christoffer Johansson har utvecklat en befjädrad robotvinge för att bättre förstå hur fåglar flyger. Foto: Anders Örtegren Fåglar flyger mer effektivt genom att fälla in vingarna under uppslaget, visar en färsk studie från Lunds universitet och schweiziska EPFL. Resultaten kan innebära att

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/befjadrad-robotvinge-banar-vag-framtidens-flaxande-dronare - 2025-06-25

Av anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - publicerad 24 januari 2023 Rudan reagerar med att växa på höjden när den simmar i vatten där det finns rovfisk. Foto: Jörgen Wiklund Honor och hanar av fiskarten ruda reagerar olika på rovdjursframkallad stress, enligt en ny studie från Lunds universitet. Hanarna förändrar sitt utseende genom att växa på höjden för att undkom

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/honors-och-hanars-formaga-att-hantera-stress-kan-vara-skillnad-mellan-liv-och-dod - 2025-06-25

Av anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - publicerad 26 januari 2023 Fångstpersonal på väg att fånga nattskärror för loggning. Foto: Aron Hejdström Olika fågelarter som migrerar har olika genetiskt programmerade rutiner som ger dem signaler när det är dags att ge sig av och återkomma. Det kan handla om faktorer som dagsljus, temperatur, väder och jordens magnetism. D

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/ai-fordjupar-forstaelse-flyttfaglars-inre-klocka-karta-och-kompass - 2025-06-25

Publicerad 27 januari 2023 Professor emeritus Thomas Alerstam får Wahlbergska minnesmedaljen i guld 2023. Foto: Inger Ekström Thomas Alerstam, professor emeritus i biologi, har tilldelats Wahlbergska minnesmedaljen i guld 2023 ”för hans innovation att med hjälp av radar spåra flyttfåglar i realtid och för att därmed ha tagit vår kunskap om flyttfåglarnas rutter och flyttmönster långt bortom den kl

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/guldmedalj-studier-av-flyttfaglar - 2025-06-25

Av anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - publicerad 30 januari 2023 Lövsångarnas flyttningsriktning styrs av två platser i arvsmassan. Foto: Harald Ris Fåglars flyttningsresor mellan kontinenter har fascinerat människan sedan antiken. Nu visar en ny studie från Lund att det är två platser i arvsmassan som bestämmer om en lövsångare flyttar över Iberiska halvön till

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/gener-styr-lovsangarens-flyttrutter - 2025-06-25

Av anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - publicerad 1 februari 2023 Många fågelarter i tropikerna fångar och äter flick- och trollsländor. Här är en Rufous-tailed Jacamar som har fångat en stor trollslända i Atlantskogen i Brasilien. Foto: Erik Svensson Kroppsstorleken hos trollsländor varierar över jordklotet. Insekterna är större i de tempererade områdena än i tro

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/rovdjur-och-temperatur-bestammer-kroppsstorleken-hos-insekter - 2025-06-25

By sylvia [dot] lysko [at] iac [dot] lu [dot] se (Sylvia Lysko) - published 7 November 2023 Interview with Karin Johansson (vice dean for research) and Hedvig Jalhed (interim director at the IAC) The Faculty Council recently adopted new guidelines and a new establishment period for the IAC. The new guidelines will apply from the turn of the year and for the next three years. Karin Johansson, Assoc

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/new-guidelines-inter-arts-center - 2025-06-25

Published 11 January 2024 Anja Cecilie Petersen, Responding Arches. At deadline 1 October 2023, Make Sound had received many interesting applications for a residency at the IAC. Two projects were successfully selected. Congratulations to Anja Cecilie Petersen and Xavier Bonfill!“Responding Arches” is an evolving sound installation, rooted in research into the interplay between sound and physical s

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/make-sound-artists-october-2023 - 2025-06-25

Published 30 May 2023 IAC has the great pleasure to announce that it has been granted SEK 250,000 by Sten K Johnson for the workshop series "Spatial Audio Workshop" which is planned to take place in 2024. The grant will be awarded at a ceremony on 20 June 2023 at the School of Economics and Management in Lund. With the funds granted, IAC wishes to implement a workshop series entitled "Spatial Audi

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/iac-project-funded-sten-k-johnson-foundation - 2025-06-25

Published 12 June 2023 At deadline 1 April 2023, Make Sound received many interesting applications for a residency at IAC. Three projects have now been selected. Congratulations to Jonas Olesen, Sóley Sigurjónsdóttir and Matthew Grouse! Jonas Olesen is a Danish composer and sound artist. Formerly lecturer in electronic composition and history at the Danish Institute for Electronic Music (DIEM), an

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/make-sound-artists-selected - 2025-06-25

Published 31 August 2023 Inter Arts Center is happy to announce the Call "1,2,3 Playtime" in collaboration with Region Skåne. Games constitute a multidisciplinary field which the workshop series reflects by exploring various methods and tools within game design in both digital and physical environments. The project offers an opportunity to transform and develop aspects of one’s own artistic practi

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/123-playtime-lecture-and-workshop-series-field-gamification - 2025-06-25

Published 19 September 2023 Open-call for composers and sound-artists affiliated with Inter Arts Center/Lund University (including alumni) Lithuanian Composers’ Union, together with Druskininkai Artists‘ residency and Culture Moves Europe programme, invites artists to apply for the international residency, gathering artists from Austria, Sweden, and Ukraine to compose new works for Jauna muzika co

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/one-month-residency-lithuania - 2025-06-25

Published 6 March 2024 Introducing EPI: Your robotic karaoke duet partner! No more stage fright – EPI mimics your performance, diverting attention from your singing skills. EPI was designed by Lund University Cognitive Science Robotics Group. Its approachable child-like appearance conveys friendliness and likeability. In a karaoke setting, EPI can foster a sense of connectedness and emotional reas

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/emotional-support-karaoke-bot - 2025-06-25

Published 27 November 2023 To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household surveys. But these are usually infrequent and cover limited locations.Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created a step change in how to measure poverty and other human development indicators. Our

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/conversation-how-ai-sees-world-what-happened-when-we-trained-deep-learning-model-identify-poverty - 2025-06-25

Published 25 April 2024 Every year, the Swedish Riksdag organises a research day. This year the theme was “artificial intelligence”. The aim is to give Members of Parliament the opportunity to gain new knowledge and to highlight the value of science for politics, democracy, and parliamentary decision-making. This year, Johan Axhamn, senior lecturer in Business Law here at LUSEM, was the sole repre

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/johan-axhamn-represented-lund-swedish-riksdags-seminar-ai - 2025-06-25

By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 5 September 2023 Eleven new competence centres in Sweden get funding from Vinnova – four of them reside in Lund, together with the already existing one.. Foto: Kennet Ruona Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova, will invest in eleven new competence centres starting in January 2024. Four of these are coordinated from Lund

https://www.sentio.lu.se/article/sentio-one-vinnovas-new-competence-centres - 2025-06-25

By anna-karin [dot] alm [at] ftf [dot] lth [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 12 January 2024 90 MSEK goes to Lund when research initiative WISE invests half a billion SEK in material science for increased sustainability – the largest investment in material science in Sweden. Photo: Kennet Ruona WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment

https://www.sentio.lu.se/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-06-25

By anna-karin [dot] alm [at] ftf [dot] lth [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 2 October 2023 Professor Anders Mikkelsen, here outside the Department of Physics, looks forward to starting work on the new centre of competence. Photo: Johan Joelsson. Professor Anders Mikkelsen, here outside the Department of Physics, is looking forward to starting work on the new centre of competence. Photo: Johan

https://www.sentio.lu.se/article/he-leads-new-centre-competence - 2025-06-25