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Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs. Using a uniquely well-preserved fossil, the team has also created the scientifically most up-to-date reconstruction of an ichthyosaur currently available. Fish lizards, or ichthyosaurs, were a very successful group of animals that, much like today's whales, migrated f

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-reconstruct-ancient-fish-lizard - 2026-07-03

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-searching-creativity-outside-academy - 2026-07-03

Each year the Faculty of Social Sciences announces a number of recurring grants that are available to apply for certain categories of faculty staff. Also, please note the deadlines concerning appointments and courses for teaching in higher education. GrantsFaculty travel and research grantsResearchers, doctoral students, lecturers or readers at Lund University can apply for the faculties’ travel a

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/important-application-dates-2026 - 2026-07-03

A course administrator is a little bit like an octopus. We have one arm in the current day, one arm in tomorrow, another arm later in the week, one arm a few weeks ahead, one arm at the end of the semester and a pair of arms in the next semester. This is how Kathryn Wellbaum, course administrator at the faculty, explains her job. What does an course administrator do?"The role of the course adminis

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/course-administrator-octopus-organisation - 2026-07-03

Jonathan Jayes is one of our PhD students in Economic History. He is preparing to defend his dissertation, but before that, we had a chance to ask him a few questions. His thesis is titled Like Moths to a Flame – An Individual-Level Approach to Technological Change in 20th Century Sweden. Could you tell us a little about yourself, your academic background, and in simple terms what your thesis is a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-thesis-three-questions-jonathan-jayes - 2026-07-04

An international team of researchers has identified 13 biomarkers that significantly improve the ability to accurately predict cardiovascular disease risk in people with type 2 diabetes. The analysis was led by Lund University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The study was published in Communications Medicine. Although people with type 2 diabetes are two times mo

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-biomarkers-improve-prediction-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes-2 - 2026-07-03

Contrary to popular belief, women played a prominent role in IS recruitment - especially in bringing in other women. A new study from Lund University shows that Swedish women joined the Islamic State as part of a religiously motivated gendered counterculture against Swedish values of gender equality, modern gender roles and gender norms. Online, Swedish IS women propagandise sharia law, gender seg

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/aggressively-patriarchal-worldviews-attracted-swedish-women-islamic-state - 2026-07-03

On 6-8 October, the MERGE autumn meeting of 2014 was held in Kalmar. The three interesting days focused on the future possibilities of research within MERGE and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we have collected the presentations from the meeting here. MERGE is now at the end of

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-autumn-meeting-presentations-and-summary - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. No one can explain this strange phenomenon. The majority of type 2 diabetics who undergo metabolic surgery recover from diabetes only a few days after the procedure, long before any weight loss has occurred. Now researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre plan to find out what is happening by studying both patients

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/how-can-metabolic-surgery-cure-diabetes-so-fast - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This week, Kim Nicholas and Ann Åkerman of LUCSUS, led a workshop on how start-up businesses in Somalia can meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a roadmap agreed by nearly 200 countries for achieving a world of zero poverty, zero hunger, and zero greenhouse gas emissions.– We wanted to encoura

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rebuilding-somalia-lucsus-leads-workshop - 2026-07-03

The metal recycling industry is growing, not least due to the use of metals in green energy electronic components. Researchers at Lund University have examined the inhaled air of workers at 13 recycling companies in Sweden. Among the results, high levels of lead in air and elevated levels of multiple metals were detected in the blood of those who work in recycling. Different forms of metals are in

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/harmful-exposure-metal-recycling - 2026-07-03

The history of Swedish day-care is examined in a new study that provides insight into Sweden's day-care system during the early 20th century. Together with Luciana Quaranta, Annika Elwert has looked at which factors influenced enrolment in day-care centres in southern Sweden for children born between 1900 and 1935. The study shows that at the beginning of the 20th century it was unusual for childr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/who-was-swedish-day-care-meant - 2026-07-03

A sudden bang. The hand grenade has caused me severe shrapnel injuries: a punctured lung, my liver is bleeding and the wound on my leg is causing rapid blood loss. The medics decide that this requires an intervention from the trauma squad. I am loaded onto a stretcher and driven to the surgery tent. It is Monday morning, and the Aurora 23 military exercise is in full swing in southern Sweden. I am

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medical-doctor-both-war-and-peace - 2026-07-04

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After climate change, biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental challenge facing the world today. The loss of plant and animal species also means a loss of the resources that humans obtain from well-functioning ecosystems. At Lund University, a project is underway in which researchers are studying how work to cou

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/green-infrastructure-planning-and-designing-functioning-nature - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For 13 years, Sociology of Law Professor Per Wickenberg ran a training programme implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in schools and education in 16 countries around the world. The effort enrolled more than 500 people from 29 countries, who initiated hundreds of local projects to better the lives

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/looking-back-and-forward-furthering-rights-children - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The course “Climate Change: a question of justice?” will be held just in time for the UN climate summit in Paris in December and is open to all with no registration fee. The Department of Political Science is collaborating with the Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Programme in Environmental Sciences (infernum) at H

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/un-climate-summit-paris-focus-interactive-open-online-course - 2026-07-03

In collaboration with the Pufendorf IAS, the LMK Foundation invites to an annual Idea Forum for young researchers. Last autumn, Maya Kylén and Magnus Dustler Medfak participated, and this is what it was like for them. Deadline to nominate for participation this year is April 15. Maya Kylén: "It was exciting and rewarding! The moderators (Göran Bexell, Sven Strömqvist and Susanne Åkesson) did a fan

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/nominate-ideforum-2024-unexpected-outside-perspectives-can-be-more-important-world-leading-experts - 2026-07-03

How do you build a strong publishing profile in an increasingly competitive academic landscape? What does it take to ensure that your research actually reaches the people who need it? And how do you become visible in the research community – even if you don’t have the most outgoing personality? LTH senior lecturer Enrico Ronchi shares his best tips. Don’t be afraid to throw yourself into internati

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/how-increase-your-academic-publishing - 2026-07-03

Primitive stoves and diesel engines produce soot particles, besides being bad for your health, have a negative effect on the climate. By affecting the atmosphere’s ability to form cloud droplets and ice particles, soot can dislodge the radiation balance. This according to doctoral student John Falk, who is currently working on his dissertation about cloud droplet and ice particle formation in clou

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/iceparticles-clouds-can-affect-climate - 2026-07-03

I meet Catarina Lindén on a rainy October morning at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. When we meet, she is still juggling two roles: her current position as acting Administrative Manager at the Department of Physics and her new role as Administrative Manager at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. In November, she will step into the new position full-time, ready to take on the task with full

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/catarina-linden-takes-her-position-new-administrative-manager-centre-mathematical-sciences - 2026-07-03