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Research towards a more sustainable Arctic

Out of the ten impressive grants, two went to support interesting projects at the Department of Biology: Jing Tang received DKK 3,167,595 for the project: Arctic Cooling from Anthropogenic and Natural Emissions (ARCANE)…

Two new DFF grants on arctic research awarded to Globe researchers

Two new grants to explore the adaptations and use of ancient sled dogs in SW Greenland and recent demographic changes in Arctic whales

First peek at nuclear shape transitions

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.

Maarten van de Meent awarded ERC Synergy grant

Maarten van de Meent, current member of the Strong Group at NBI, is one of the four principal investigators of the GWSky project, which was awarded 12 million euros by the European Research Council to investigate…

Maarten van de Meent awarded ERC Synergy grant

Maarten van de Meent, current member of the Strong Group at NBI, is one of the four principal investigators of the GWSky project, which was awarded 12 million euros by the European Research Council to investigate…

Is moss the boss?

VOLT’s Kathrin Rousk just got over 3 million DKK from DFF (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond) for an exciting new project that will look into the interactions between moss and cyanobacteria. You can read the official summary…

Ethicists’ commentary on the veterinary-client-patient relationship

Ethical question of the month, August 2024 A veterinarian sees a cat with respiratory issues and prescribes appropriate support care. The cat’s condition declines over the next day (which is a holiday). The veterinarian…

Ivã Gurgel Guest Researcher from Brazil

Ivã Gurgel (University of São Paulo, Brazil) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from November 2024 to October 2025.

New article: ”EthNote gives qualitative research a new format”

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded by DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen and DISTRACT coordinator Karoline Husbond Andersen. The article is written…

Dance of electrons measured in the glow from exploding neutron-stars

The temperature of elementary particles have been observed in the radioactive afterglow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole, and for the first time, made it possible to measure the…

Social Partner Responses to AI in Denmark and Sweden

In a new article in ILR Review, Anna Ilsøe, Trine P. Larsen et al., shows how the social partners have responded to the increasing digitisation and the introduction of AI tools in Denmark and Sweden.

Bridging the rhetoric of science and activism in environmental crises

What is scientist activism? Frederik Appel Olsen who defended his PhD thesis in December 2023, conducted at the Section for Rhetoric at the Department of Communication, is deeply interested in how scientists navigate…

For the first time ever: A joint team of students from two universities win DM in AI

For the first time ever, a team of students from both the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has been crowned the winner of the Danish National Championship in AI for students…

Security in future energy systems: Researcher working on a more flexible security system

Ken Friis Larsen, Associate Professor of IT security and Deputy Head of Teaching at the Department of Computer Science, is working to develop more flexible IT solutions that can create the necessary security in the…

High school students promoted to real researchers

Besides helping to collect samples or spot butterflies for research projects — non-professionals can now conduct actual laboratory work alongside professional researchers. Together with Danish high schools, the…

PhD defence of Davide Barsotti

Development of plant and fungal communities in afforested agricultural soils effects of time, tree species, environment, and restoration

Seminar at the Green Solution Center

Seminar at the Green Solution Center: ”Grønne skove, grønne løsninger: Skovrejsning og grøn omstilling”

New grant to explore how microbes drive evolution in host organisms

A new research project seeks to investigate a critical question: Can microbes drive adaptive evolution of their host organism? This innovative study will explore the intricate relationship between animals and their…

AI can now be our eyes and ears in the forest and beneath the waves

Animal sounds combined with artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize biodiversity monitoring both on land and in aquatic settings according to researchers from the University of Copenhagen. By analyzing wildlife…

Free research funding for researchers at the Department of Biology

Independent research has amazing conditions at the Department of Biology! Ten excellent research projects can now see the light of day, due to support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Every year, DFF-Research…

Isaac Weldon: How societal systems shape global health outcomes

Meet Isaac Weldon, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

5 BARC papers at FOCS'24

BARC members and affiliates are presenting 5 papers at FOCS’24 held in Chicago, USA.

Study finds racism—and resistance to it—beneath the surface in high school physics

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen wanted to understand how high school students interacted with a physics learning game. However, the observations contained so many examples of problematic behavior that it…

Presentation and workshop with the Danish Coastal Authority

Anne Sofie Beer Nielsen and Kristoffer Albris visited the Danish Coastal Authority in Lemvig on the 21st of October. As part of the visit, Anne Sofie and Kristoffer gave a presentation of the research done in the Coasta…