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Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast

A traditional Chinese medicinal plant has huge potential as a weight loss drug. However, due to the plant’s notorious toxicity, no one has yet succeeded in exploiting it effectively. Researchers from the University of…

Morten Axel Pedersen gave talk at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

In the beginning of December, Morten Axel Pedersen gave a talk on the potentials and pitfalls of working quantitatively in anthropology at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position

A tenure-track assistant professor position available at the department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

Ethnote test-event held at SODAS

Last week a test-event exploring new users' first meeting with digital fieldnote appe app Ethnote was held at SODAS

New Faces 2023

BARC and the AC-section welcomed lots of PhD's and Postdocs in 2023!

Researchers invent "methane cleaner": Could become a permanent fixture in cattle and pig barns

In a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and chlorine to eradicate low-concentration methane from air. The result gets us closer to being able to remove greenhouse gases…

Anthropologist to explore “out of the way” places’ dreams of becoming tech landscapes

What does it mean for “out of the way” places to build technological futures, and how can these futures reproduce or reconfigure social and economic inequalities? This is what Samantha Dawn Breslin will explore thanks t…

Student creates green investment tool

A student at University of Copenhagen has developed a method for optimizing profit relative to risk while also including sustainability and social responsibility concerns. The tool is relevant to both professional and…

Communication transforms surveillance into quality control

Students at University of Copenhagen analysed the adoption of an AI-backed tracking system recently installed by university hospital Rigshospitalet.

BARC welcomes two new Faculty in 2023

BARC has had a great year - partly because we got to welcome terrific new researchers to the team. Read more about two of them here.

New article: "Exposure to urban and rural contexts shapes smartphone usage behavior"

DISTRACT Researchers Anna Sapienza, Sune Lehmann, and DTU researchers Laura Alessandretti and Marita Lítlá has recently published an article in PNAS Nexus

New CMS Report: Military Data Translation and Digital Transformation

The rapid development of digital technology such as big data, AI, and the Internet of Things is becoming increasingly significant for Danish security and defense policy.

The patient is always right

You can easily convince the chatbot ChatGPT to agree with incorrect and garbled information. That can be a health threat, especially for vulnerable groups, according to researchers.

25 Students Join Forces to Reshape Tech Policy

The CPH Tech Policy Youth Committee has now been formed – with 25 students ready to engage in the field of tech policy.

Axel Christfort and Tijs Slaats won the Process Discovery Contest

Process discovery algorithms analyse event logs to produce human-readable models that describe the behaviour captured in the log, for example how people order the activities of their work. The Process Discovery Contest,…

Clean Sweep: Department of Computer Science takes home three Business Awards

Two researchers and two students from the Department of Computer Science were presented with this year's business and innovation awards from the Faculty of Science.

Commemorative Lecture by Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun

Mette Birkedal Bruun gave the lecture entitled: From Monks to GDPR

5 presentations at FOCS '23 by BARC members and affiliates

FOCS 2023, the 64th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, takes place this week in Santa Cruz, and BARC members as well as affiliates ensure we are well represented.

New study finds hidden trees across Europe: A billion tons of biomass is overlooked today

Through satellite imaging a new AI driven mapping of biomass and CO2 storage from the University of Copenhagen shows that a huge number of trees are overlooked in Europe’s urban, rural, and agricultural areas. Across…

Seminar on Automated Genotyping

Seminar Details: Date: Thursday, October 26 Time 12:45-14:00 (start 13:00) Location: Dam Auditorium, Panum, Blegdamsvej 3b, 2200 Copenhagen N Speakers: Daniel Gercke, Inside Account Specialist - Europe David…

The increasing carbon footprint of AI is a challenge. Here is what we can do about it

Smart AI solutions have plenty of advantages, but they do not come free of cost for the environment. Luckily, t is possible to adjust the resource consumption of AI methods and make them more climate-friendly.

Newsletter no 35 is out

Read about the latest updates in Daisy, progress in the AgroHPM project, recent articles using Daisy, and more. All in the latest version of the quarterly Daisy newsletter, Newsletter no 35.

Combining AI Models Improves Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

Study from the University of Copenhagen shows that combining artificial intelligence (AI) systems for short- and long-term breast cancer risk results in an improved cancer risk assessment.

BARC Retreat 2023

This year our annual BARC retreat took us to KolleKolle by Furesø for a couple of interesting days