By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 6 September 2023 The ERC Starting Grant is aimed at younger researchers. Milda Pucetaite and Colin Olito were two of four researchers from Lund who received the starting grant. Photo: private. The biology researchers from Lund, Milda Pucetaite and Colin Olito, have been awarded starting grants from the European Rese

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/two-biology-researchers-receive-generous-starting-grants-european-research-council - 2025-01-09

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 7 September 2023 Even mild ailments and short disease spans can have far-reaching consequences for animals, not least because it affects their everyday life. Photo: Hermann Kneuwer. When humans are ill, we tend to be less active. This also applies to wild animals, but so far, it has not been known how long the reduc

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/disease-affects-blackbirds-more-previously-thought - 2025-01-09

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 25 September 2023 The Pied Flycatchers were transported by car from The Netherlands to Lund. Photo: Viiru Pesonen/Wikimedia Commons. One result of climate change is that spring is arriving earlier. However, migratory birds are not keeping up with these developments and arrive too late for the peak in food availabili

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/migratory-birds-can-be-taught-adjust-climate-change - 2025-01-09

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 25 October 2023 Plastic waste is a huge global problem, as large amounts of micro- and nanoplastics end up in our soils. Photo: Flockine/Pixabay. Using micro-engineered soil models, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the effect of tiny polystyrene particles on bacteria and fungi. While these

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-01-09

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 17 November 2023 Pictured is the male, blue variant of the bluetail damselfly. Photo: Erik Svensson. For over 20 years, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied the common bluetail damselfly. Females occur in three different colour forms – one with a male-like appearance, something that protects the

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/scientists-have-solved-damselfly-colour-mystery - 2025-01-09

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 30 November 2023 Bumblebees are a key wild and commercial pollinator. Yet commonly used farmland pesticides continue to harm bumblebee colonies. Photo: Maj Rundlöf. A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across 8 European countries

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-bees - 2025-01-09

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 8 March 2024 "Our medium is open source," says Stina Oredsson, the researcher behind the breakthrough who chose to give away the "recipe" so that more researchers can work with more scientifically accurate and animal-free methods. Photo: Private. It is now possible to test chemicals and makeup without using products

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/she-has-developed-animal-free-preparation-cell-culture-and-giving-away-recipe - 2025-01-09

Published 11 June 2024 The large-eyed bristle worm Vanadis has long been of interest to the world’s vision researchers. But the worm has been difficult to study since it lives in the open sea and is active at night. Now, a research team has succeeded in locating an Italian worm colony and is able to confirm that the worm has a completely unique vision. Bristle worms are a group of annelid worms th

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/marine-worm-outstanding-vision-fascinates-researchers - 2025-01-09

Published 11 June 2024 The Hulk-like lizard. Photo: Javier Abalos. Body shape, colour and behaviour often evolve together as species adapt to their environment. Researchers from Lund University have studied this phenomenon in a specific type of large, bright green and aggressive common wall lizard found near the Mediterranean. They discovered that a unique cell type might have played a key role in

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/incredible-hulk-lizard-provides-clues-understanding-evolution - 2025-01-09

Published 10 July 2020 Narratives and futures was the theme of the latest episode of the podcast Esplanad, hosted by Caroline Ljungberg Toulson at Trivector. In Swedish. See description and link below. Vad är en berättelse och varför är de viktiga? Kan olika typer av berättelser hjälpa oss att förstå klimatförändringar och framtiden? Och hur ska man göra om man vill använda berättelser proaktivt f

https://www.climatefutures.lu.se/article/narrating-climate-futures-esplanad - 2025-01-09

By amanda [dot] pettersson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Amanda Pettersson) - published 15 May 2023 ALL MY RELATIONS 2 is a 3-days transdisciplinary workshop that explores the ecological potential of performance, performativity and eco-pedagogy. Extended deadline to apply, 9 august. For the second time we now arrange this three-day workshop in Gylleboverket, a center for ecological art located in th

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/all-my-relations-2 - 2025-01-09

Published 31 August 2023 The new international Master’s programme in Performing Arts with a specialisation in Critical Practice and a social focus is a two-year, full-time study. The programme brings together innovative performing arts practices with critical reflection, and promotes expertise in initiating and building new alliances and arenas both within and outside existing structures. It aims

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/get-know-our-masters-programme-students - 2025-01-09

Published 8 September 2023 © Ulrik Trojaborg During the Gallery Weekend at the Inter Arts Center, the short documentary "Voinha's Backyard" will be premiered and Iury will talk about her artistic work with C. Grace Chang. "In December 2022 I went back to my maternal grandmother Voinha’s first address in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, the same place where we had last met in September 2018, when I rec

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/our-phd-student-iury-salustiano-trojaborg-participates-malmo-gallery-weekend-inter-arts-center - 2025-01-09

By amanda [dot] pettersson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Amanda Pettersson) - published 21 September 2023 Welcome to an open lecture with Edit Kaldor, head of the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice. Edit will present her doctoral research project The Many and the Form. During the PhD she explored in various artistic contexts how lived knowledges can be articulated in and through live performanc

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/open-lecture-edit-kaldor-many-and-form - 2025-01-09

Published 4 October 2023 In this research event, professor Shannon Jackson and curator Milena Högsberg discuss curatorial and performance methods that create critical dialogues with a specific landscape. The discussion is facilitated by Gigi Argyropoulou, curator, writer, practitioner and post doc researcher at Malmö Theatre Academy. Welcome to Inter Arts Center, Friday 13 October 17.30-19.00. No

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/research-event-performance-and-politics-landscapes - 2025-01-09

Published 12 October 2023 "Transformative Encounters" is a podcast series dedicated to the exploration and unpacking of the concept "performative encounters" within the realm of contemporary performance, how it can be understood and what its affordances are. This series forms an integral part of the knowledge dissemination deriving from the artistic research project How Little is Enough? that is c

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/new-podcast-series-transformative-encounter - 2025-01-09

Published 6 November 2023 This public lecture and conversation explore the specificities and possibilities of using forensic approaches in contemporary live performance. It is the first in a series on Critical Performance Practices, and it’s organized by the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy. With Stefanos Levidis – Forensic Architecture and choreographer Arkadi Zaid

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/forensic-approaches-live-performance - 2025-01-09

Published 13 November 2023 PlaySpace (PS) is a new international online Open Access and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to critical perspectives on artistic research. In this essay, Iury analyzes how the artefacts of questioning and listening became resourceful in the procedure of excavating the personal and political reasons behind the migration journey her maternal grandmother Voinha embarked on

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/phd-student-iury-salustiano-trojaborg-published-playspace-ps-vol-2-no-1-2023-decolonizing-art - 2025-01-09

Published 15 November 2023 Photo: Laura Stasane. Students from our international master’s programme and acting programme year 1 and 2 will participate in this years edition of Malmö Community Biennal. The Malmö Community Biennal return for its third time to shine a light on creative projects, productions and ideas that are being generated by and with local communities – challenging the division be

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/our-students-participate-malmo-community-biennal-2023 - 2025-01-09

Published 30 November 2023 Welcome to us the 18 December for a research event that focuses on how the individual and collective body becomes a politized body when partaking in demonstrations, riots, or activist art. We have invited visual artist Maj Hasager, performing artist Linn Hilda Lamberg and professor at Department of Gender Studies Helle Rydstrom to discuss how to approach the politicized

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/thinking-together-politicized-body - 2025-01-09