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The distribution of vertebrate animals redefines temperate and cold climate regions
The distribution of vertebrate animals redefines temperate and cold climate regions The distribution of vegetation is routinely used to classify climate regions worldwide, yet whether these regions are relevant to other [...]
How long does it take a protein to find a target on our DNA?
How long does it take a protein to find a target on our DNA? The problem To get many different processes started in our nucleus, we [...]
4 questions for new Icelab Affiliate Professor Joacim Rocklöv
A look behind a new COVID-19 project with Joacim Rocklöv Joacim Rocklöv is hiring a new postdoctoral fellow and joining the Integrated Science Lab (Icelab) as an affiliate professor, cementing casual discussions [...]
SPPAT: Spatial point pattern analysis of traces
SPPAT: Spatial point pattern analysis of traces Site-selectivity patterns of drilling predators revealed by spatial point pattern analysis Trace fossils left by predators on skeletons of their prey, [...]
Book Club: The Formula
The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success Author: Albert-Laszlo Barabási This book aims to summarize success in a single formula containing a set of five rules that catch “the complex but reproducible [...]
IceLab invites applications for multidisciplinary fellowships
Announcing the IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships With financial support from the Kempe Foundations, IceLab now invites applications from multidisciplinary research teams for three multidisciplinary research projects [...]
Science that speaks plainly
We believe anyone should be able to grasp the findings of any scientist’s research studies. To that end, we feature summaries of IceLab work on this page that is accessible and interesting.
Spatial distribution of ancient marine faunas
Spatial distribution of ancient marine faunas The problem Organisms living in [...]
Zero-crossing statistics: keep the bridge from falling down
Zero-crossing statistics for non-Markovian time series The problem A bridge subjected [...]
The Problem with Scientific Journal Ranking
There's a Problem With The Way We Rank Scientific Journals by Ludvig Bohlin [...]
Different pressures in different places
Different pressures in different places: a new method to track evolution across variable environments [...]
Memory in Network Flows
Memory in network flows and its effects on spreading dynamics and community detection [...]
IceLab Collaborative Event Experiments
IceLab is here to help other scientists reach across disciplines to find new ideas and collaborations. We experiment wildly with different event formats to help make this happen.
Lunch Pitches with Anton Eriksson and Esteban Guerrero
Visualizing Change and Intelligent Companions November 12, 2019 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Do you have data that you want to find your story in? Is there any [...]
Lunch Pitches with Domenique André, Marcus Klaus and Olena Rzhepishevska
Acoustics, Flowering time and Small molecules April 2, 2019 Watch Lunch Pitches Video First Pitcher: Marcus Klaus,Postdoctor at Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University Title: How acoustics can advance [...]
Lunch Pitches with Raoul Theler, Jing Helmersson and Madelen Bodin
Life satisfaction, science communication, and unobserved variables March 19, 2019 Watch Lunch Pitches Video First Pitcher: Raoul Theler, Visiting researcher at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE) Title: How [...]
Radical Focus
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objective and Key Results Author: Christina R. Wodtke This book shows a method for how you can organise your work and focus you [...]
Hive Talk: The minimum set cover problem in bipartite graphs with Jelena Smiljanic
The minimum set cover problem in bipartite graphs Hive Talk Snippet Jelena talked about the application of the minimum set cover problem in real systems that can be mapped onto [...]
Hive Talk: Shortcuts in modeling carbon and nutrient dynamics at the sediment-water interface with Sebastian Diehl
Shortcuts in modeling carbon and nutrient dynamics at the sediment-water interface with Sebastian Diehl Hive Talk Snippet Sebastian talked about how to better model the flux of nutrients in the [...]
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