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What would it take for people living 100 000 years from now to be able to understand a message from people living today? Language historian and exegete Ola Wikander has, on behalf of the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), outlined some of the linguistic challenges. The question of how to warn people in the future was raised in connection with the decision made in January this

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-language-eternity - 2026-05-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air travel is the biggest CO2 villain. The number of flights booked between April and October 2020 fell by 97 p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2026-05-23

The University’s call for applications concerning positions for 15 assistant professors (associate senior lecturers) and 10 visiting professors has now ended. The call attracted interest far beyond expectations and I am very pleased to note that several world-leading researchers are among the applicants for the visiting professorships. In total, 968 people from all over the world applied for the 1

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/over-1300-people-all-over-world-applied-assistant-professor-and-visiting-professor-positions - 2026-05-24

Emma Kritzberg took the train to a meeting on Mallorca. A journey that took 54 hours and cost double what it would have to fly a couple of hours to the Mediterranean island. Yet, flying was never an option. She has not flown once for work or privately in the last six years, a conscious decision she took to reduce her carbon footprint. Emma Kritzberg, professor at the Department of Biology, stepped

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/54-hours-one-way-join-job-meeting-mallorca - 2026-05-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS Four sessions:1. Tuesday 20 Sept, 14.30–16.302. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.003. Wednesday 21 Sept, 15.30–17.304. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Konsertsalen, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundChairs: Ravinder Kaur, Rajni Palriwala & Sonalde DesaiScheduleDay 1   20 September (Sessi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-6-youthful-modernities-negotiating-past-present-and-future - 2026-05-23

Impaired insulin secretion is closely associated with type 2 diabetes, but the process is not yet fully understood. A new study by researchers at Lund University shows that the Piezo1 ion channel regulates insulin secretion, which means it may be an important target for new diabetes treatments. Type 2 diabetes often occurs because the pancreatic beta cells are unable to produce enough effective in

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-shows-piezo1-ion-channel-plays-important-role-insulin-secretion - 2026-05-23

Impaired insulin secretion is closely associated with type 2 diabetes, but the process is not yet fully understood. A new study by researchers at Lund University shows that the Piezo1 ion channel regulates insulin secretion, which means it may be an important target for new diabetes treatments. Type 2 diabetes often occurs because the pancreatic beta cells are unable to produce enough effective in

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-shows-piezo1-ion-channel-plays-important-role-insulin-secretion - 2026-05-23

Site-selected crystal material synthesis at the atomic scale has been a long-standing challenge. NanoLundians Rainer Timm and Yi Liu use nanowire crystal phase heterostructures as templates for self-selective growth of one- and two-dimensional GaBi nanostructures, which allows a versatile design with atomic-scale precision. Scaling down material synthesis to crystalline structures only a few atoms

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/novel-nanostructure-formation-atomic-scale-precision - 2026-05-23

Site-selected crystal material synthesis at the atomic scale has been a long-standing challenge. NanoLundians Rainer Timm and Yi Liu use nanowire crystal phase heterostructures as templates for self-selective growth of one- and two-dimensional GaBi nanostructures, which allows a versatile design with atomic-scale precision. Scaling down material synthesis to crystalline structures only a few atoms

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/novel-nanostructure-formation-atomic-scale-precision - 2026-05-23

With the Research Data Office, the University is working to improve support for researchers in the management of research data. Each faculty now has a data steward to assist researchers in their work with research data. Thomas Tengelin Nyström and Kurt Mattsson share the role of data steward at the Faculty of Science. The new Research Data Office will better support researchers in managing their r

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/new-research-data-office-data-stewards-each-faculty - 2026-05-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Finlay MacGregor, LUCID PhD candidate at LUCSUS was one of the participants at our first International Women’s Day event. Finlay reflects on why it is important to highlight gender and diversity in sustainability science – and discuss how to achieve equality in academia.Gender and Diversity in Sustainability ScienceTo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflection-gender-and-diversity-sustainability-science-and-academia - 2026-05-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Frans Libertson, doctoral student at the IIIEE, has published a new article in Energy, Sustainability and Society. The focus of the article is to decipher the ongoing media discourse in Sweden concerning the electricity shortage and its proposed solutions, and thereby also discerning the related pathways for Sweden’s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-competing-socio-technical-narratives-swedens-energy-future - 2026-05-23

On June 12, the three-day international conference Beyond Site/Sight, organised by the interdisciplinary network CROCUS at Lund University, in collaboration with the City of Helsingborg and Region Skåne, started. The theme is cultural spaces and the conditions of creativity based on placemaking. Around 70 participants will take part in a fully stocked programme at the old fire station in Gåsebäck

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/beyond-sitesight-international-conference-cultural-spaces-and-conditions-creativity - 2026-05-23

Do you want to influence who becomes Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Lund University? Then make sure to nominate a representative to the Electoral College. They are the ones who make sure that staff and students are heard in the election process. The Electoral College also appoints three teachers to the University Board through elections and is responsible for any by-elections.  On b

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/time-nominate-electoral-college - 2026-05-23

A recent review article in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems proposed a new conceptual model on nitrogen (N) cycle responses to elevated CO2: gross N mineralization is stimulated in N-limited ecosystems only, but not in phosphorus limited ones. Authors are BECC researchers Tobias Rütting and Louise C. Andresen. The researchers have conducted a meta-analysis on gross N transformations in free air

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-about-climate-change-effects-soil-nitrogen-dynamics - 2026-05-23

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-16-december-2020 - 2026-05-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The present article by CMES Orwa Ajjoub provides a thematic analysis of Hadid’s essay titled “Between Chechnya and al-Sham … Lessons and Examples: A Brief Political Study of the Chechen Experience and the Future of al-Sham,” which was published on the AQ-affiliated website Bayan in July 2020. In his recent article for

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/reading-kadyrov-al-sham-adnan-hadid-chechnya-syria-and-al-qaidas-strategic-failure - 2026-05-23

Thomas Hickmann in a new multi-authored open access article in Nature Sustainability co-led with Frank Biermann and Carole-Anne Sénit. Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals as the central normative framework for sustainable development worldwide. The effectiveness of governing by such

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/analysis-political-impact-sdgs - 2026-05-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How is population control embedded in bio-political rationales that affect women’s social, physical, and psychological wellbeing? Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates these complex dynamics in the article “The Bio-Politics of Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India”, Feminis

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-eklund-bio-politics-population-control - 2026-05-23

This week at the IIIEE is quite ordinary! It marks the 30th anniversary of the IIIEE foundation and its legacy Masters program. We are proud to mark the 30th anniversary of the IIIEE along with our flagship Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy. Since its official inauguration by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf in 1995, the IIIEE has been at the forefront of interdisciplinary

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-celebrates-30-years-research-and-education-advance-sustainability - 2026-05-23