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Illustration: Mostphotos Despite creative efforts to tackle it, belief in conspiracy theories, alternative facts and fake news show no sign of abating. This is clearly a huge problem, as seen when it comes to climate change, vaccines and expertise in general – with anti-scientific attitudes increasingly influencing politics. So why can’t we stop such views from spreading? My opinion is that we hav

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/conspiracy-theories-how-belief-rooted-evolution-not-ignorance - 2025-09-17

Hervé Corvellec är mycket bekymrad över problemen kring Open Access. I vilka vetenskapliga tidskrifter ska man som forskare försöka få artiklar publicerade? Det gäller att se upp, eftersom det finns en del mindre nogräknade förlag på marknaden. De erbjuder publicering på webben – mot betalning, men utan ordentlig granskning. ”Ett allvarligt hot mot den vetenskapliga trovärdigheten”, menar professo

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/vissa-tidskrifter-hot-mot-vetenskaplig-trovardighet - 2025-09-17

Åsa Petersén, Wallenberg Clnical Scholar 2020: Foto: Rebecka Sjöberg Huntingtonforskaren Åsa Petersén är en av fyra forskare som utses till Wallenberg Clinical Scholar 2020. Hon får 15 miljoner kronor för att finna metoder som kan bromsa sjukdomsförloppet vid den neurodegenerativa sjukdomen Huntingtons. En ärftlig hjärnsjukdom som leder till för tidig död och för vilken det idag inte finns någon b

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/asa-petersen-utsedd-till-wallenberg-clinical-scholar - 2025-09-17

Professor i sociologi Anders Kjellberg. Foto av Karin Lindgren Strömbeck, Sekotidningen Professor i sociologi, Anders Kjellberg, har sammanställt en rapport som visar att allt färre utrikes födda är med i facket. Siffrorna har minskat stadigt sedan 2006. Samtidigt har Coronakrisen påverkat siffrorna. Rapporten Den svenska modellen i en oviss tid som visar ny statistik om facklig organisering har f

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/utrikes-fodda-valjer-bort-facket-corona-paverkar-siffror - 2025-09-17

Sebastian Palmqvist. The Bundy Academy’s 2022 major prize amounting to SEK 3 million is awarded to Sebastian Palmqvist, Associate Professor of Clinical Memory Research at Lund University and Senior Physician at the Memory Clinic at Skåne University Hospital, for his research on improved diagnostics of Alzheimer’s disease. RationaleSebastian Palmqvist has published a large number of research papers

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/awardees-2022-bundy-academy-major-prize - 2025-09-17

William Agace, Professor at Mucosal Immunology at Dep. of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University. Photo: Agata Garpenlind He was selling carpets on Mårtenstorget in Lund, applying for all kinds of jobs and answered an advert from the Department of Clinical Immunology, Lund University, for a lab technician job. He didn´t get the job. Instead he was asked if he wanted to start a Ph.D. A few

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/carpets-market-academy-professor - 2025-09-17

The trio Anabella Aguilera, Wojciech Potrzebowski, Sophie Hellstrand coordinate SciLifeLab in Lund. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist As SciLifeLab continues to grow as a hub for cutting-edge life science research, collaboration and coordination are more important than ever. At SciLifeLab Lund, the coordinators play a vital role in connecting researchers, infrastructure units, and strategic initiatives acr

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/enhancing-research-and-partnerships-new-coordinators-step-scilifelab-lund - 2025-09-17

The Development Research Day is an inter-disciplinary arrangement that was initiated in order to form a meeting ground for all researchers and students at Lund University who share an interest in development issues. About Development Research Day, DRD The first DRD The event was launched in 2002 by the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Since then the responsibility for hosting th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/development-research-day-2020 - 2025-09-17

Konsumtionsforskaren Jon Bertilsson menar att det finns en cynism i hur vi människor kan ha kunskap om en sak, men ändå agerar på tvärs med den vetskapen. ”Det blir en slags överlevnadsstrategi – det jag gör spelar ändå ingen roll”, säger han. Den här veckan uppmärksammar svensk handel ”Black Week” med ”Black Friday” i spetsen, dagar då reapriser ska dra kunder till butikerna. Men hur går det här

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/marknadsforingsforskaren-om-black-friday-forundrande - 2025-09-17

London is a top-ranked destination for shopping, offering a mix of high-street shopping, luxury stores, and independent boutiques. The city is traditionally known for being at the forefront of the latest trends in fashion and retailing. In line with this, several retail areas in London have recently undergone extensive redevelopments to offer shopping beyond the ordinary. Places such as Coal drops

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/exploring-shopping-trends-london - 2025-09-15

Foto: Raphael Nogueira/Unsplash SWEAH PhD student Pernilla Alencar Siljehag has received an invitation from Latin America's leading and largest institution in public health, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. – The research group I am going to visit is running a gigantic population study involving six major federal universities. It is reminiscent of the SNAC study, which I am using data from h

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-learning-about-vulnerability-violence-and-grassroots-activism - 2025-09-17

Swedish Journal "Aktuell Hållbarhet" has listed young talents that in one way or another already have made an imprint in the area of sustainability. The list contains activists, lawyers, researchers, engineers and others. Congratulations, Steven! Where does your engagement come from and what made you choose a career in sustainability? Thanks! I am really honoured to be recognised, and included amo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/steven-curtis-listed-one-33-most-influential-sustainability-profiles-under-33-sweden - 2025-09-17

The researchers move around the virtual room, with their avatars, analysing what is written on enormous sheets of paper appearing like works of art in an exhibition. Few people look forward to digital meetings, but the researchers at Design Sciences do just that. They have found meeting places that give them energy and smart structure. He is holding a virtual cup of coffee and looks a little like

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-fun-meet-avatars - 2025-09-17

Mozhgan Zachrisson, head of The Department of Strategic Communication, and Ulrika Holgersson, head of the Department of Communication and Media. In January the two departments will merge. Photo: Jan Olsson Several faculties have merged different departments or are about to do so. The Faculty of Engineering (LTH) merged two departments at the turn of the year, the Facult of Social Sciences has deci

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/concern-when-departments-are-merged - 2025-09-16

The conference took place in the house of The Academic Society in Lund, AF-borgen. CCT, Consumer Culture Theory, annually arrange an international conference on consumer culture. This year it was organized on 27-30 June by the School of Economics and Management at Lund University. The conference was attended by 317 participants from 25 different countries. Four researchers from Service Studies con

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/fashion-textile-care-cryptocurrency-and-seaweed-cct-conference - 2025-09-17

The image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows a high-resolution view of the innermost parts of the Milky Way. In the new study, the researchers examined the dense nuclear star cluster shown in detail here. (Photo: ESO) Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in generating new knowledge

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/astronomers-determine-age-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-09-15

CEC starts 2021 with a new name, a new Director, and a new leadership organisation. Yet, CEC will continue its work with research, education and collaboration, across subject boundaries, to promote sustainable development. The new organisation with separate Director and Chair of the Board will strengthen CEC. The Director will be supported by four Assistant Directors focusing on undergraduate educ

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-year-new-name-new-director-and-new-organisation-cec - 2025-09-17

Dive into the exciting world of physics here in Lund – from the tiniest building blocks of matter to the mysteries of the cosmos. Join us for fun experiments and demonstrations, where you can, among other things, try out a scanning electron microscope or slow down time with a high-speed camera. This year’s event also features research presentations (in English or Swedish), the chance to visit Lund

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quantum-physics-and-double-anniversary-kulturnatten - 2025-09-17

Mikael Akke, Lund University, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, University of Copenhagen, and Eike-Christian Schulz, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Photo: Giulio Tesei The interactions between molecules are the foundation of life and how we treat diseases using medicinal drugs. But what does it actually look like when a protein meets another molecule and binds to it? A new research project th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-synergy-grant-research-dynamic-interactions-between-molecules - 2025-09-17

Sebastian Lindeborg och Eric Stussare. Kapitalförvaltaren Fidelity sköter fonder över hela världen och står på många finansstudenters önskelista över framtida arbetsgivare. Därför ser LINC, finansföreningen vid Lunds universitet, med stolthet att föreningens medlemmar under flera år i rad har valts ut att göra internship hos Fidelity i London under sommaren. Sebastian Lindeborg läser Ekonomie kand

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/toppinternship-inom-finans-gar-arligen-till-oxford-cambridge-och-lund - 2025-09-17