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Ethicists’ commentary on appropriate use of pharmaceuticals

Ethical question of the month, June 2022 You are an equine veterinarian who relies on firocoxib as your “go to” for chronic arthritis pain. There was no equine-labelled product in Canada until recently, so you were…

Katharina Scheidt

Title: Modeling Paleotemperatures from Stable Nitrogen Isotopes with the Community Firn Model Supervisors:Dr. Vasileios Gkinis, Dr. Michael Döring & Dr. Guido Vettoretti

Documentary takes a behind the scenes look at AQRIFood

A new documentary by Danish TV2 focuses on plant-based foods that are more sustainable and will be able to nourish the growing global population in the future.

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

Listening is survival

ROCS postdoc Angela Rawlings is co-curator of SPHERE Festival which opens 2 September in Canada.

Biodiversity cradles and museums: New study on speciation-extinction dynamics

The distribution of old and young species brings new insight into the speciation-extinction dynamics operating in global hotspots of biodiversity.

Congratulations to Emy Alerskans

Congratulations to Emy Alerskans at DMI & Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 29 August 2022, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Biodiversity cradles and museums segregating within hotspots of endemism

In Proceedings of The Royal Society B by Sonne, J., Dalsgaard, B., Rahbek, C. et al. (2022)

Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns

In Science Advances by Pilowsky, J.A., Colwell, R.K., Rahbek, C., and Fordham, D.A. (2022)

Hologenomics viewed through a mathematical lens

A recent paper published by researchers from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) and collaborators on a strategic model of a host-microbe-microbe system not only reveals the importance of a joint host-microbe…

Compete or Cooperate with ‘Dr. Google’? Small Animal Veterinarians’ Attitudes towards Clients’ Use of Internet Resources

Using a questionnaire, we found that a majority of Austrian, Danish, and UK veterinarians (n = 641) surveyed were occasionally confronted with clients who question their medical advice based on information obtained from…

New revelations about an ancient fish: the secret to swimming upside down

An after-hours trip to Aarhus University Hospital Skejby’s radiology department has shed light on a mysterious and ancient fish, one that remains one of the world’s rarest – the Coelacanth. Researchers from the…

Popular research station reopens in Greenland: Danish zoologist recognized the greenhouse effect at same site in 1904

For more than a century, Arctic climate research has been collected and stored at the University of Copenhagen's northernmost research station – the Arctic Station. Now, after a thorough renovation and modernisation, th…

Hybrid Work Patterns: A Latent Class Analysis of Platform Workers in Denmark

This paper presents a novel approach for studying differences and similarities among platform workers, by taking into account the wider labour market position of platform workers. Analytically, we seek inspiration from…

ICCE 2022

SODAS professors appointed as members of government expert group

SODAS professors Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Sune Lehmann appointed as members of the Danish government’s newly established external expert group on the societal and democratic challenges linked to the rise of big tech.

Workshop in Accra

A CLIMACCESS workshop on the role of emergency response/responders during floods in Accra yielded new insight

Call for abstracts: Climate Change Related Mobility in the Nordic Region

The second workshop of the Nordic Network on Climate-Related Displacement and Mobility will take place on 8-9 December 2022 hosted at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund Sweden. Abstracts are due 20 September. Read…

SODAS part of organizing team bringing IC2S2 to Copenhagen

As part of the consortium bidding to host IC2S2 along with The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), SODAS will contribute to the organization of the 2023 edition of the…

Øyvind Andreas Winton

Title: Scientific machine learning for discovering basal dynamics of Greenland outlet glaciers Supervisors: Aslak Grindsted, Allan P. Engsig-Karup & Sebastian B. Simonsen

Marcela Grcic

Title: The eccentric evolution of circumbinary disks Supervisors: Daniel J. D’Orazio, Martin E. Pessah

Mette Birkedal Bruun speaks at the leadership retreat of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

On 22 June Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun gave a lecture in the session Privacy and Faith at the annual leadership retreat of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

New associate professor: We need to make physics more inclusive 

Everyone should have the opportunity to learn, enjoy and be moved by physics, without having to look a certain way to fit in, says new Associate Professor of Didactics of Physics Adrienne Traxler.