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About 540 million years ago, our planet suddenly erupted with life, filling our oceans with a diversity of complex life. This is known as the Cambrian explosion, and for a long time scientists agreed it was triggered by a rise in oxygen levels in the atmosphere. But new research from Emma Hammarlund at Lund University is turning the tables completely on what scientists thought they knew to be true

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-animal-life-exploded-earth - 2026-06-21

What are opinions, what are facts and what are outright lies? The latest PISA assessment clearly shows that children and young adults have difficulties navigating the fast flow of information in society today. When anyone at all can make their voice heard it also becomes more difficult to recognise misleading information and fake news. Together, actors, performing arts teachers and researchers are

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-and-performers-teaching-children-question-fake-news - 2026-06-21

This three-week event will feature 35 different interactive webinars with recruitment staff, programme staff, and current students. You can join our recruitment officers for a presentation and Q&A about how to apply, subject area sessions with an open Q&A with programme staff and students from each faculty, and several live chat events with current students and alumni! Be sure to stop by and join

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/join-us-lund-university-applicant-weeks-28-november-16-december-2022 - 2026-06-21

Inflammatory responses in the brain have long been suspected of playing a role in Alzheimer’s disease, but are challenging to monitor in the living human brain. An international collaboration including researchers at MultiPark, Lund University has made it possible to detect elevated levels of Galectin-3, a protein expressed in the immune cells inside the brain. The results were published in Acta N

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/biomarker-reveals-inflammatory-changes-brain-alzheimers-disease - 2026-06-21

Vi är glada att kunna presentera institutionens seminarieserie för våren 2025, som kommer att bjuda på en spännande rad talare från hela världen. Seminarierna äger rum varje torsdag kl. 13.15 i Blå hallen i Ekologibyggnaden. Efter föreläsningarna finns det möjlighet för fika och mingel.Nedan hittar du det fullständiga schemat för våren 2025:Alla länkar, utom den till BLAM, leder till personliga we

https://www.biologi.lu.se/internt/artikel/seminarieserien-varen-2025-klar - 2026-06-23

Ett nytt större EU-finansierat forskningsprojekt ska undersöka arbetsvillkoren för så kallade ”care workers”. Projektet CARE4CARE ska undersöka arbetsvillkoren för "care workers", vilket omfattar ett urval av arbetstagare i vård och omsorg som sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor, och hur dessa arbetstagare själva ser på sin arbetssituation. Projektet ska också resultera i förslag på hur man kan frä

https://www.jur.lu.se/artikel/arbetsvillkoren-inom-vard-och-omsorg-ska-studeras-i-eu - 2026-06-23

Every year Agora, the Helsingborg section of the Social Science Union, organises a job fair at Campus Helsingborg, where students have the opportunity to network and make contact with future employers. This year's edition will take place on 5 February. Inspiring, interactive and worthwhile - three words that sum up the upcoming event Agora Day at Campus Helsingborg, according to this year's projec

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/inspiring-opportunities-students-and-companies-agora-day - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At this year's Almedalen, LUCSUS researchers will discuss climate variability and its impact on water, sustainable land use, flying, and the Greta effect on today's youth. Here is the full list of LUCSUS related events taking place in Visby, Gotland. Almedalen is a week long democratic meeting place for seminars and d

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-almedalen - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The expression “Sweden’s green gold” has a new meaning. Forests are now not only to provide timber and paper – but also save the climate. Chemical engineering researcher Christian Hulteberg has managed to transform a residual product from pulp manufacturing into a liquid that is chemically identical to petrol. The pla

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-pumps-petrol-trees - 2026-06-21

From 5–6 February, Lund conference centre The Loop will host Sweden’s most important gathering for gender equality. Lund University is co-organiser, and it is the first time a higher education institution has been involved in organising this national conference. Local hosts, besides Lund University, are the City of Lund, Region Skåne and Skåne County Administrative Board. Equality Forum is Sweden’

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-co-organiser-equality-forum-2025 - 2026-06-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. From despair to transformation: evidence-backed ways to think and act on the nature crisis. Looking at the bigger pictureThe UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just published a global assessment of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people. Compi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2026-06-21

Celebrate Culture Night with Lund University! Browse among all our activities for young and old, which extend from morning to late evening. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme.Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-20-september - 2026-06-22

Ouyang Yuan defends her Ph.D. thesis on 14 October 2022. As a medical student with a longstanding interest in blood malignancies, her research has focused on better understanding the development of a specific type of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The hope is that these findings will help lead to a better understanding of AML and future treatments that can one day prevent, delay, or c

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/placing-acute-myeloid-leukemia-under-microscope-phd-interview-ouyang-yuan - 2026-06-21

Apply to become a post-doctoral fellow at CMES in earth observations of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East before 20 November 2023! For assessment criteria, terms of employment, instructions on how to apply and other information, please see the job listing. Type of employment: Temporary position Employment expires: 2025-12-31 Contract type: Full time First day of employment: 202

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-cmes-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-observations-middle-east - 2026-06-21

On November 21-22, SWEAH's research conference is arranged for everyone who is active in the research school at the 13 affiliated universities – a big event and the first major event for most of the future researchers in the conference committee. Chairman Mahwish Naseer and the other junior researchers on the committee have busy days. For several months, they have planned this year's SWEAH confere

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-create-years-sweah-conference-chance-you-have-take - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Applications are now open for 2 postdoctoral fellowships in China’s, Japan’s, and/or Korea’s contemporary society at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Starting date 1 October 2020, or by agreement. DutiesThe person employed is expected to work independently but should also cooperate wi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-2-postdoctoral-fellowships - 2026-06-21

Principal Investigator Christopher Douse and the Epigenetics and Chromatin Dynamics research group join Lund Stem Cell Center, where they will explore the control and influence of ‘genomic dark matter’ in human brain development. Motivated by fundamental questions about mechanisms underpinning human disease, Christopher Douse’s research interests have gradually shifted from the natural sciences to

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-research-group-led-christopher-douse-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2026-06-21

Controlling smartphones by a simple swipe of your hand is the latest innovation to be introduced to phone owners. However, radar sensors with higher accuracy would take the concept from gimmick to practical usefulness, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have developed a method that could detect much finer gestures – while also using a lot less power – opening up to new app

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-unique-technology-will-make-gesture-control-more-accurate - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers now believe that epigenetic changes, determining which genes are active and which are not, are involved in a number of conditions. These include everything from addiction and depression to cancer and blood disorders. David Bryder. “The research community has long focused on DNA alone. But the genome in its

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/epigenetic-disorder-can-be-eliminated - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University in Sweden has received major funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation – operational support worth SEK 150 million plus SEK 68 million for recruitment packages in data-driven life science. During the period 2014–2015, the foundation granted SE

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/knut-and-alice-wallenberg-foundation-funds-molecular-medicine-research - 2026-06-21