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This CMES Regional Outlook by Pinar Dinc focuses on the recent political developments in Turkey. Recent events over the past week have dramatically shaken the political landscape in Turkey. The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, a prominent political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was stripped of his university degree for alleged irregularities. The next morning he was detained at his ho

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-rising-tide-dissent-turkey-call-democracy-and-justice - 2026-10-09

Do your students (and yourself) think that your lecture is too long and tedious in the online classroom? Don´t worry - you can now easily add interactivity through the voting/poll tool Mentimeter. The long wait is over and now employees and students can log in to Mentimeter with their LU credentials. With Mentimeter you can add a layer of interactivity in your lecture, both in the classroom as wel

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/time-vote-now-we-have-mentimeter - 2026-10-09

This year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research maps out mechanisms in the adipose tissue, which has increased the understanding of why some people with obesity develop type 2 diabetes. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at University of Gothenburg is spurred to find new answers when observations in the lab do not agree with the general view. Justification for awarding"I

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-receives-leif-c-groop-award-research-adipose-tissue - 2026-10-09

In a recent research paper, Talina Sondershaus and her co-authors investigate how shadow banks, which are bank-like institutions that are only lightly regulated, behave in the context of climate change. They find that when society pays high attention to climate change, shadow banks start buying “brown loans”, i.e. loans from borrowers that have a large carbon footprint, while prices for these loan

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/shadow-banks-and-climate-change-ally-or-obstacle - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, researchers have determined that major collisions in the asteroid belt have not generally affected the number of impacts with Earth to any gre

https://www.science.lu.se/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Extreme differences in flight altitude between day and night may have been an undetected pattern amongst migratory birds – until now. The observation was made by researchers at Lund University in Sweden in a study of great snipes, where they also measured a new altitude record for migratory birds, irrespective of the

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astonishing-altitude-changes-marathon-flights-migratory-birds - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, researchers have determined that major collisions in the asteroid belt have not generally affected the number of impacts with Earth to any gre

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. DPP-4 inhibitors are a group of drugs used to treat type 1 diabetes that lower high blood usgar levels by stimulating insulin production in the body. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that DPP-4 inhibitors are also effective against low blood sugar levels. The study, which was carried out on

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-drug-could-protect-against-low-blood-sugar - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In recent years, researchers have discovered around 70 genetic risk variants for diabetes, but still TCF7L2, known as the diabetes gene, is the gene that carries with it the largest risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Using a new method called exon skipping, Ola Hansson at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) wants

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/method-which-repairs-damaged-genes - 2026-10-09

Extreme differences in flight altitude between day and night may have been an undetected pattern amongst migratory birds – until now. The observation was made by researchers at Lund University in Sweden in a study of great snipes, where they also measured a new altitude record for migratory birds, irrespective of the species, reaching 8 700 metres. Great snipes are shorebirds that breed in Sweden,

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/astonishing-altitude-changes-marathon-flights-migratory-birds - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European Research Council today announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition: 301 top scientists and scholars across Europe. Funding for these researchers, part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, is worth in total EUR 600 million. Filipe Pereira at Lund University in Swede

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grant-innovative-immunotherapy-research - 2026-10-09

How are queer lives and worlds shaped through everyday storytelling? In a new doctoral thesis in Gender Studies, Sunny Gurumayum examines how queer worldmaking takes form through everyday language, culture and lived experience in Manipur, Northeast India. Today, Monday 15 June, Sunny Gurumayum has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in gender studies, Stories Telling Worlds: Queer Worldmakin

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/stories-telling-worlds-new-thesis-explores-queer-worldmaking-through-storytelling - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Better drugs, new smart materials, more jobs and increased visibility for the region. The expectations and challenges for MAX IV and ESS are manifold, but so are the opportunities. The research project Exploring Challenges with New Big Science which studied the realisation of Lund’s new research facilities from an int

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/feminist-perspective-male-dominated-facilities - 2026-10-09

Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2026-10-10

Welcome to the first "WCMM fireside chat" article. This is a new series is dedicated to highlighting the work of researchers within and around the WCMM in Lund to promote collaboration and communication. We start today with Jacob Vogel, a Data-Driven Life Sciences (DDLS) fellow with a focus on neurodegenerative disease. Although not a member of the WCMM, Jacob is working closely with some of our r

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-jacob-vogel - 2026-10-09

Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment", says Tadeusz Wieloch, senior professor at Lund University who led

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2026-10-09

Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment", says Tadeusz Wieloch, senior professor at Lund University who led

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2026-10-09

Diabetes researcher Joao Duarte specialices in studying what happens in the brain in diabetes. In his research, he is also investigating how diet changes can improve brain function in connection with diabetes. He will be awarded this year's Medeon stipend on the World Diabetes Day Skåne event in Malmö on November 14. "I hope that my research can contribute to an increased awareness of the importan

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/praised-research-diabetes-and-dementia - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In 2019, the number of flights for business travel decreased by nearly 10 per cent at the University. At the same time, train travel increased by 20 per cent.   “There are many deliberate individual decisions behind this. We are on the right track!” says the head of sustainability Claes Nilén. When you look at the num

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fewer-flights-lund-university-staff-2019 - 2026-10-09

Diabetes researcher Joao Duarte specialices in studying what happens in the brain in diabetes. In his research, he is also investigating how diet changes can improve brain function in connection with diabetes. He will be awarded this year's Medeon stipend on the World Diabetes Day Skåne event in Malmö on November 14. "I hope that my research can contribute to an increased awareness of the importan

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/praised-research-diabetes-and-dementia - 2026-10-09