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Nattskärran flyttar tusentals kilometer, men samma vingar ska också hjälpa den att fånga insekter i låg fart. En ny studie från Lunds universitet visar hur de olika kraven har format fågelns flygförmåga. Nattskärran (Caprimulgus europaeus) är en nattaktiv flyttfågel som varje år tar sig mellan Europa och södra Afrika. Men vingarna används inte bara för långa förflyttningar. När nattskärran jagar i

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nattskarrans-vingar-avslojar-en-kompromiss-att-jaga-langsamt-och-flytta-langt - 2026-10-09

How is North Africa’s renewable energy transition reshaping local communities, landscapes, and power relations? Bringing together researchers from across disciplines and regions, an international workshop at Lund University explored the social, political, and environmental implications of large-scale renewable energy projects, with a particular focus on extractivism, environmental justice, and loc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/international-workshop-towards-research-agenda-expansion-renewable-energy-frontiers-and-local - 2026-10-09

At a CMES seminar on 8 October, Fredrik Meiton of the Swedish Institute for Foreign Affairs (UI) presented a tentative analysis of an emerging regional order in the Middle East, shaped less by ideology than by economic competition, security interests and control over strategic infrastructure. In the seminar, The New Middle East: Bloc Politics and Geoeconomics, Meiton argued that the region is incr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-regional-blocs-reshape-power-politics-middle-east - 2026-10-09

The COMPUTE autumn meeting 2026 "Agentic AI for Science" is scheduled for the 18th of November.   For more information and access to registration, please visit the event page.Event page for the COMPUTE autumn meeting 2026

https://www.compute.lu.se/article/registration-open-compute-autumn-meeting-agentic-ai-science-18th-november - 2026-10-09

We congratulate this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine – Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth – on their groundbreaking discoveries that laid the foundations for optogenetics. Here at Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine, we are particularly delighted: Karl Deisseroth holds an honorary doctorate from our Faculty of Medicine and has long-standing research collaborations w

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-doctor-awarded-nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine - 2026-10-09

Mohamad Hariri studerar på Ekonomie kandidatprogrammet på Ekonomihögskolan, och under de senaste tio veckorna har han gjort praktik på Nordea i Malmö. Ekonomihögskolans karriärcenter fick möjlighet att besöka honom på Nordea för att få en inblick i hur en typisk dag som praktikant kan se ut. Vad har du gjort under din praktik?“Jag har främst arbetat med att skriva rapporter om kunder som har lämna

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/erfarenheter-av-praktik-pa-nordea - 2026-10-09

Mohamad Hariri is studying a bachelor’s in Business and Economics and the past 10 weeks he has done an internship at Nordea in Malmö. LUSEM Career Services had the opportunity to visit him at Nordea to learn more about what a typical day as an intern looks like. What have you been doing during your internship?”I’ve mainly been writing a report on customers who have left the bank, and why they deci

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/internship-experience-nordea - 2026-10-09

Which natural areas should be protected, and which can be developed? Biodiversity indicators can help companies make more sustainable decisions. But only nine per cent of the world’s largest companies in sectors with a major impact on nature use such indicators, according to a new study from Lund University and BECC member William Sidemo Holm. The researchers also provide seven recommendations for

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/companies-risk-misjudging-their-impact-biodiversity - 2026-10-09

Den 9 oktober försvarade Katja Garson framgångsrikt sin doktorsavhandling i statsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet. Stort grattis till vår nyaste doktor! Hennes avhandling, "Boreal Forest Temporalities: Temporal Politics in Finland and Sweden", lyfter fram röster, relationer och berättelser som ofta förbises eller utelämnas i politiska och offentliga diskussioner om skogen. Sammanfattning av Boreal

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/katja-garson-har-framgangsrikt-forsvarat-sin-avhandling - 2026-10-09

Genom att mäta flöden av växthusgaser i atmosfären och ekosystem kan forskare få ny kunskap om våra utsläpp, kolsänkor och hur naturen reagerar på ett varmare klimat. Över 500 forskare samlades i Lund för att diskutera hur dessa mätningar kan förbättra länders utsläppsdata och vår förståelse av framtidens ekosystem. Idag kan vi följa atmosfärens förändring tack vare mätstationer världen över. Det

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/matningarna-som-ger-nya-svar-om-utslapp-och-framtidens-klimat - 2026-10-09

On 9 October, Katja Garson successfully defended her doctoral thesis in Political Science at Lund University. Congratulations to our newest Doctor! Her dissertation, "Boreal Forest Temporalities: Temporal Politics in Finland and Sweden", highlights voices, relationships and narratives that are often overlooked or excluded from political and public discussions about forests. Summary of Boreal fores

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/katja-garson-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-10-09

We are currently experiencing file system issues on COSMOS-SENS. We are working to resolve the issue. We hope we can resolve it shortly. System access will be limited until we resolve this. Update 261009 - Work is progressing, and we aim to restore full service on Monday.

https://www.lunarc.lu.se/article/cosmos-sens-file-system-issues-update-261009 - 2026-10-09

På några månader har två startups med rötter i Lunds universitet antagits till Y Combinator, ett av världens mest eftertraktade acceleratorprogram. Halmos Labs utvecklar AI som designar experiment åt biotechföretag. Zaplar bygger ett AI-baserat system för hotelldrift. Det är svårt att komma in. Uppskattningsvis 10 000–20 000 startups söker till acceleratorn i San Francisco varje kvartal, och bara

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/tva-startups-fran-lund-antagna-till-y-combinator-i-san-francisco - 2026-10-09

The student-led podcast 'Sustainably Speaking: Beyond the Classroom' is back with a new season, bringing together sustainability researchers, practitioners and change-agents for conversations about the challenges and opportunities in our work towards a more sustainable future. For Season 4, five students at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund Universi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/student-led-podcast-sustainably-speaking-returns-season-4 - 2026-10-09

Within a few months, two startups with founders from Lund University have been accepted into Y Combinator, one of the world's most selective accelerators. Getting in is no small feat. An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 startups apply to the San Francisco accelerator every quarter, and only about one in a hundred is accepted. Founded in 2005, Y Combinator counts Airbnb, Stripe and Coinbase among its alu

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-y-combinator-first-zaplar-now-halmos-labs - 2026-10-09