Organic matter produced by marine algae holds up to ten times more persistent pollutants, such as PCBs, than organic matter that reaches the sea from land. This is shown in a new study led by researchers at the Department of Environmental Science published recently in Nature Communications.
At the beginning of September, Thomas Hierons joined the Department of Economics as a postdoctoral scholar. Most recently, Thomas spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University.
Dans un article publié dans The Conversation, Christophe Premat, directeur du Centre d’études canadiennes de l’Université de Stockholm, examine l’impact des décisions politiques sur la coopération internationale dans le domaine des études québécoises.
Three researchers at SOFI have been awarded project grants from Forte, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare. Their projects examine marital agreements, attitudes towards gender equality, and long-term trends in the gender wage gap in Sweden.
Many hours of everyday preschool life take place in the hallway, but the environment has long received limited attention in research. In her dissertation, Jessica Samsioe examines how getting dressed and undressed, moving around, and encounters in large preschool halls are organized, as well as what significance they have for children's learning and development.
Interactions between tropical oceans and Antarctica could help explain why Earth’s climate fluctuated over thousand-year timescales during the past 8,000 years. A new study combines a long climate simulation with palaeoclimate records to investigate how these slow fluctuations may be sustained within the climate system.
Julia Stina Skoglund holds lectures in Swedish at Stockholm University. But even she's worried she won't be able to prove that she meets the new Swedish language requirement for citizenship.
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Oscar Agertz (Lund University) and Angela Adamo at the Department of Astronomy have been awarded a research grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to find out how galaxies, such as our own Milky Way, formed. They will use the grant to make a joint study of extremely distant galaxies and stars with both telescopes and supercomputers.
Linda Laikre, Professor of Population Genetics at the Department of Zoology, was conferred an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Gothenburg on 23 October.
Although women with disabilities have the same fundamental right to become parents as other women, they may face both practical barriers and prejudice when they want to become mothers. A new study from Stockholm University and National Taiwan University explores the experiences of six women with physical disabilities in Taiwan. The study shows how motherhood can also become a way of challenging assumptions about what women with disabilities are capable of.
Over five weeks, international master's students from ten universities across Stockholm came together to learn more about the Swedish job market, career development and life in Sweden.
