The loss of land ice, sea ice, snow cover and permafrost poses major long-term risks to the planet, its ecosystems and human societies. This is shown by a new study in Science , presented on 13 November at the COP31 climate summit in Türkiye.
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Lit-Future celebró en Lovaina su III Seminario Internacional y una nueva reunión de trabajo del consorcio
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Annika Høeg will publicly defend her thesis in Scandinavian Languages: Stød beyond the lexicon. Behavioral evidence from the distribution of stød in nonce words . The defence is free of charge and will be held in English. Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism at Stockholm University.
Horng Chern Wong, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, recently published a paper in American Economic Review, which highlights the importance of workers’ bargaining power in a market economy.
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As Sweden's population ages, fewer people of working age will be supporting a growing number of older people. In a report for the Expert Group on Public Economics (ESO), Professor Emeritus of Economics Eskil Wadensjö examines measures that could help more people work and remain active in the labour market for a larger part of their lives.
Geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty and shifting political priorities have put the European Green Deal under growing strain. A new Sieps analysis by four researchers at the Stockholm Center on Global Governance shows that key parts of EU climate and sustainability policy have been delayed or watered down – even though the overall framework still stands.
Anders Wästfelt, Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Human Geography, has been appointed as the new Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
Stockholm University will update the security certificate for the eduroam wireless network. As part of this change, we will also switch to a new certificate authority. To continue connecting to eduroam, in most cases you will need to accept the new certificate or reconnect to the network.
The Department of Physics at Stockholm University is one of the larger departments within the Faculty of Science with broad basic research activities, both experimental and theoretical. The department has about 250 employees, including 95 PhD students, and it has an international character. This news is continuously updated with more vacancies!
Generative AI is transforming the conditions for authors, publishers and other rightholders. A new international report by Prof. Eleonora Rosati examines these developments, while her research is also cited in the first AI copyright case before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Although women make up a majority of top-performing students in many countries, they remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
A state’s intentions can ultimately be traced to the small circle of people who make its foreign policy. That is the argument of a new article in the journal International Theory by Marcel Jahn, a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Stockholm University affiliated with the Stockholm Center on Global Governance, and Moritz S. Graefrath, an assistant professor of international security at the University of Oklahoma.
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Researchers from Karolinska Institutet, KTH and Stockholm University will work together to address the connections between climate change and human health at the new research centre Spira, awarded SEK 50 million by Formas.
On October 27th NASA announced its commitment to launch UVEX, the UltraViolet EXplorer, a new space telescope that will survey the sky in ultraviolet light. The project is led by Caltech in the United States, and the launch is planned before 2031. At the Department of Astronomy assistant professor Ylva Götberg is involved in the project and plans to use the data to look at hot and massive stars.
Marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent and more intense in the Baltic Sea. This affects some organisms directly, but also the ecosystem as a whole, for example by amplifying the effects of eutrophication. In a new policy brief, researchers within the collaboration CoastClim call for societal measures to increase ecosystem resilience to heatwaves.
A new research project examines what drives families’ school choices. Do they choose schools based on quality, or on the types of pupils who already attend them? Jonas Vlachos, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, and Helena Svaleryd, Professor at Uppsala University, have been awarded funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Light trapped inside an optical cavity can switch abruptly between two very different states – one bright, the other almost dark. In a new theoretical study, Th. K. Mavrogordatos at the Department of Physics, Stockholm University, proposes a method for probing the quantum coherence behind these remarkable jumps.
When fridges and freezers in several European countries were hacked, food worth millions was destroyed. How can attackers get into these systems? And what will happen next? We asked cybersecurity researcher Fredrik Blix.
Our lifestyle choices form a bundle reflecting our political orientations, according to a new PhD thesis in sociology by Elida Ibrahim.
The UN climate summit COP31 takes place on 9–20 November in Antalya, Turkey. Turkey is the host country and chairs the summit, while Australia, represented by Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, leads the negotiations themselves.
Expectations for COP31 are low, and frustration is high that emissions aren’t falling fast enough. But the international climate negotiations have delivered more than many realize, say two researchers at Stockholm University. The big problem, they argue, isn’t lobbyists but states whose economies run on oil.
Where are people most likely to reject populist initiatives like Brexit, and why? A new study by Katy Morris from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, and the University of Leeds, highlights the importance of long-term changes in the occupational structure for understanding the geography of Brexit support.
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The 2027 winners of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology have been announced. Anthony A. Braga and David M. Kennedy will be awarded for their influential work on focused deterrence strategies to prevent lethal violence.
We are now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position. The selected candidate will be nominated for Handelsbanken's Wallander Scholarship.
El pasado 29 de octubre tuvo lugar un conversatorio con la escritora mexicana Cristina Rivera Garza y el hispanista Juan Carlos Cruz Suárez en la Embajada de México de Estocolmo.
El lunes 26 de octubre se presentó en el Instituto Cervantes de Estocolmo "Flores raras: [escondido país] poesía de mujeres uruguayas", compilado por Silvia Guerra y Jesse Lee Kercheval.
The 2026 Sir Israel Gollancz Prize is awarded to the late Professor Nils-Lennart Johannesson and Doctor Andrew Cooper for their joint directorship of the Ormulum Project.
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In case you missed the first GGRCC Talk – "Bounded Ambition: China as a Multilateral Actor in World Politics" – with Rosemary Foot of the University of Oxford, you can now watch the recording here.
Young people treated with psychotropic drugs and whose medication decreases after losing a parent may still face an elevated risk of suicide. A nationwide study in Public Health Sciences from Stockholm University highlights the importance of looking beyond changes in medication use when assessing mental health following bereavement.
Over the past few decades, housing wealth in Sweden has more than quadrupled. The sharp increase is primarily due to a prolonged decline in real interest rates and the financial crisis of the 1990s, says Roine Vestman, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, in the financial news outlet EFN.
