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Villum Synergy: Interdisciplinary research

Although solutions to major challenges usually require cross-disciplinary collaboration, researchers seldom cross disciplinary boundaries in their research. The Synergy programme from the Velux Foundation, however,…

3 EU ITN projects on Aquaculture met in Vienna

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) consortiums RASOPTA, EATFISH, and EASYTRAIN held a joint event on September 22nd in Vienna, Austria.

Colliding neutron stars provide a new way to measure the expansion of the Universe

In recent years, astronomy has seen itself in a bit of crisis: Although we know that the Universe expands, and although we know approximately how fast, the two primary ways to measure this expansion do not agree. Now…

Ethicists commentary on navigating client confidentiality and veterinary integrity in the context of a medical records request

Ethical question of the month, July 2023 You are an equine practitioner who receives a request for medical records for a show horse whose owners are prominent clients of your practice. The requesting veterinarian, a…

Strong at LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA in Japan

Scientists from around the world gather in Toyama, Japan, for the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration meeting September 11-14, 2023. The focus of the meeting was discussing the progress of the ongoing fourth observing run…

Follow-up on the refurbishment of breeding unit 10-4 in the Panum Building

This letter provides an update on the upcoming renovation as well as a status on the comprehensive plan for the development of the department with topics i.e. management, finances, needs and services as well as the…

Seminar on Nordic Mastitis Research in Uppsala

Research from the udder health epidemiology subgroup was presented at the 5th Seminar on Nordic Mastitis Research in Uppsala, Sweden, September 2023. Maya Gussmann presented a mechanistic simulation model for milking…

Best oral presentation

PhD student Melodie Schneider wins the best oral abstract presentation at the Norwegian Atrial Fibrillation conference.

Martin Malmsten part of new Center of Excellence

The new international Center of Excellence, COMMONS - Commonalities in Membrane Molecular Interactions, is based at Lund University and has been funded by Swedish Research Council with 27 MSEK.

Large Danish food infrastructure collaboration bears fruit

Companies and research communities have achieved new standards of collaboration through the shared state-of-the-art laboratory center, FOODHAY, setting the stage for the development of cutting-edge knowledge and…

Sara Schjødt Kjær

Title: Implementation and optimisation of a Graph Neural Network-based track reconstruction pipeline on Intel FPGAs for the ATLAS TDAQ system for HL-LHC Supervisor: Alessandra Camplani

New ethnographic framework identifies dog sledding in archaeological record

A new study, just published in Journal of Archaeological Science, introduces a pioneering framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record. Authored by PhD student Emma Vitale and colleagues, the…

New ethnographic framework identifies dog sledding in archaeological record

A new study, just published in Journal of Archaeological Science, introduces a framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record. Authored by PhD student Emma Vitale and colleagues, the research offers…

Revolutionary guidelines redefine analysis of bacterial shotgun metagenomic data

In an effort towards optimising the study of microbial ecosystems, a review article titled "Field and laboratory guidelines for reliable bioinformatic and statistical analysis of bacterial shotgun metagenomic data"…

Seeing the benefits, but not taking advantage of them: Dog and cat owners’ beliefs about veterinary telemedicine

Using a questionnaire, this study investigated dog and cat owners’ (N = 2117) use of and beliefs about telemedicine and whether beliefs impact past and expected future use.

Earth Beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

In Science Advances by Richardson, K., Steffen, W., Rockström, J., et al. (2023)

Jellyfish are smarter than you think

Jellyfish are more advanced than once thought. A new study from the University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that Caribbean box jellyfish can learn at a much more complex level than ever imagined – despite only having…

The unorthodox research ideas still have golden days at the Department of Biology

This year's 49 Villum Experiment grant recipients have been selected from a strong field of over 400 applicants. 11 of the grants went to researchers from SCIENCE, and of these, BIO accounts for an impressive 5: Deyon…

Toward an Inter-Machine Sociology - DISTRACT talk with Christian Borch & Nicholas Skar-Gislinge

On Friday the 15th of September, 2023, professor Christian Borch & postdoc Nicholas Skar-Gislinge presented their work entitled ”Toward an Inter-Machine Sociology” in a DISTRACT talk. Abstract: Sociology has…

Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created.

Researchers Secure Villum Experiment Grants to Explore New Boundaries

The Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics is celebrating that two of our researchers, Emilio Mármol Sánchez and Antton Alberdi, have been awarded the prestigious Villum Experiment Grant, each receiving 1.99 million Danis…

Simon Christian Debes

Title: Determining Detector Efficiency And Timing Through Muon Tomography And Simulation Calibration Using Graph Neural Networks On IceCube Data Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Is Danish research ready for data-driven interdisciplinarity?

Data-driven research is rushing forward with enormous potential, but is easily drowned in practice.

New Ph.D.: Plugging numbers into a formula isn't physics 

When students view physics formulas only as mathematical tools, they fail to understand physics in a meaningful way. We need to teach students to ask why, says new Ph.D.