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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.

The modern dog fights a lonely battle

Separation anxiety and behavioral problems. Veterinary care and malnutrition are no longer the main problems for Danish dogs, as was the case a hundred years ago. On the other hand, our sky-high expectations of them are…

The modern dog fights a lonely battle

Separation anxiety and behavioral problems. Veterinary care and malnutrition are no longer the main problems for Danish dogs, as was the case a hundred years ago. On the other hand, our sky-high expectations of them are…

Daisy 6.32 out on all platforms

See NEWS for a list of changes. Main caveats for existing users when upgrading is that the 'Surface' module is now a component, meaning if you made changes it will suggest you to add an 'original' keywords, and that you…

Shiwen Yang - new PhD student

Transporter identification and characterization

Aske Luja Lehmann Rosted

Title: Energy regression at ATLAS using graph neural networks Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Time to harvest the crops that will make vegan beef better

Ten varieties of oat, peas and faba beans for the AQRIFood project are thriving as the harvest time draws near. The following analysis and processing might reveal qualities in each crop that translate into better taste…

Wildfires affect the greenhouse gas balance of tundra heath ecosystem

New CENPERM study on impact of wildfires published in Global Change Biology

Ethicists’ commentary on obtaining hormones from pregnant mares

Ethical question of the month, May 2022 Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin (PMSG) is used in farmed animal agriculture for the induction and synchronization of ovulation in cattle, pigs and sheep, superovulation in cattle…

Han Lei

Molecular Gas in a Massive Main-sequence Galaxy at z = 3 Supervisors: Georgios Magdis & Francesco Valentino

New Paper on Flood Risk Vulnerability

New scientific paper out on flood risk vulnerability

Shelter use by horses during summer in relation to weather conditions and horsefly (Tabanidae) prevalence

This study investigated use of artificial shelters by 10 horse groups continuously for eight summer week to understand how horses use shelters to provide shade and a refuge from biting insects during summer.

Hanne Rabe - DAAD intern

3 months internship working on beneficial bacteria