@icelabumu
Integrated Science Lab, Umeå University, Sweden. Home of Stress Response Modeling at IceLab. Connecting researchers across disciplines for the love of launching and landing new ideas. https://icelab.se/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/icelab-umea/
We are hiring a PhD student at Umeå University to work on GHG dynamics in boreal streams and groundwater. See the following advertisement and reach out with any questions!
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@grocherros.bsky.social
**Join us!**
Two postdocs currently available in AI-driven marine biology at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, advancing understanding of ecosystem function, sustainability & conservation!
🔗 www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...
📆Applications considered from March 16 until filled
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#OSM26
@nickkamenos.bsky.social
Snökanonerna featuring two IceLab members receives third place overall.
IceLab Mighty Ducks team received third place in the battleship category.
IceLab Ski Terror receives second place in the battleship category
Another team with two IceLab members gets one of the Lucky Star prizes
A few more pictures of IceLab team members receiving prizes - all images courtesy of Anna Shevtsova.
Three teams of skiers, four to a pair of skis, prepare to start the race
IceLab Ski Terror team about the cross the finish line at the ski relay
A team from the Physics department in colorful outfits lift one of IceLab's PhD students
IceLab's Mighty Ducks team crosses the finish line and smiles for a photo
Icelabbers having fun at the annual ski relay race here @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, the KBC Stafetten! Our favorite category is the battleship, with four skiers on one pair of skis 🤣
Our next Lunch Pitch is March 11, with Amin Saremi, Anna Strandberg and Katharina Wulff: www.umu.se/en/events/ic...
Watch the full talks here: play.umu.se/media/t/0_6j...
Please share the recording with any you think might be interested!
Their talk abstracts can be found at this link:
lnkd.in/dUFcHYSV
Intimate partner violence and disability – Fredinah Namatovu is exploring collaborations on digital tools or AI to improve access to support services for people with disabilities.
Traveling waves in reaction–diffusion models – Fredrik Ohlsson is looking for biological, chemical, or physical systems where symmetry-based methods could reveal new wave solutions.
Arctic ecosystem mapping – Matthias Siewert is seeking partners in machine learning and spatial statistics to work with small, noisy environmental datasets and Arctic drone–satellite image analysis.
New ideas, new researchers seeking collaborations: 3 researchers shared open problems at the Feb 25 Lunch Pitch this week - maybe you are who they are looking for?
A thread... click through for more about each pitch!
IceLab affiliate Johan Henriksson was a speaker at our first Lunch Pitch of the season. He was interviewed about his experience and had great things to say about the collaborative potential - we hope he finds someone to help him with his millions of microbial genomes! www.umu.se/en/news/a-pi...
We would love to host a #postdoctoral fellow in Data-Driven Life Science!
If you have expertise in #microbiome analyses, #multi-omics studies and/or #machinelearning, please get in touch to discuss potential projects.
More infos:
www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
#bioinformatics #datascience
Students at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social turned bacterial math models into a playable game, BacMan, with IceLab researchers Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn & Eric Libby.
A fun way to explore microbial competition and cooperation!
🔗 www.umu.se/en/news/stud...
#scicomm
Our preprint was highlighted in prelights, selected by the biological community:
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a...
Thanks for that!
@siamsadoyle.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
New researchers in IceLab are often encouraged to become one with ice. Become little ice cubes. In the river.
Don't worry, it is entirely voluntary! Two new members took advantage of health on campus day to try it out today! Well done to Master's student June and PhD student Luis!
Our Lunch Pitch season is in full swing - if you are a researcher in Umeå and like interesting scientific problems and a free lunch, this is for you!
In 2026 Stress Reponse Modeling at IceLab will open a new course, Stress Responses and Mechanisms, within the graduate research school of the centre. The group leaders are working together to craft the new course, and a joint paper on the same theme.
Last week group leaders from our @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social centre of excellence Stress Response Modeling at IceLab met at a local cabin and sledding hill to plan the year of activities. Naturally, the snow provided a welcome break from work!
Exciting new project from IceLab affiliate Olivier Keech - harnessing heat to grow shrimp and fish up here in Umeå!
A greenhouse on top of a yellowish building with snow-covered trees and a snow mountain in front
🧪🌾The second issue of UPSC Insights is out now!
Bioinformatics is transforming plant science - and it is the focus of this edition. 💻 🧬
Discover research highlights, a new Master’s programme, alumni perspectives, community news and more.
Read it here: umu.bmc.nu/Modules/News...
This research points to gaps in how models represent wetlands and inland waters — and where climate science needs to sharpen its tools. www.umu.se/en/news/why-...
New @science.org paper shows early-2020s methane spike driven mostly by a temporary slowdown in the atmosphere’s methane removal and climate-boosted natural emissions. IceLab’s @grocherros.bsky.social helped quantify methane from running waters, improving understanding of the global methane budget.
New tutorial on the map equation from IceLab's @mrosvall.bsky.social 👍 see post below!
If you were interested in guest researcher Ana María Jaramillo's talk on citations in computer science you can see the slides and listen to her speak at the following link:
play.umu.se/media/t/0_ns...
@csh.ac.at #complexsystems #networkscience #scienceofscience
The first of our three 2026 IceLab multidisciplinary postdocs is here! Welcome Jérôme!
19–23 January 2026 we held the Arctic Meeting for Adaptive Mechanisms in Biological Systems and featured talks in physics, biology, math + ecology.
It was the close of a Swedish–Korean STINT collaboration but opens new research in the Stress Response Modelling center.
www.umu.se/en/icelab/ne...
We would be very happy to host a #bioinformatics #postdoc in this call! Please spread the word and/or reach out!
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@microsky.bsky.social
@metagenomics.bsky.social
www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
Have we been been thinking about biology in the best way? We read @philipcball.bsky.social's excellent book How Life Works last summer in our book club and it gave our stress response modelers some new perspectives. Here is our summary! www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-li... #complexsystems #booksky
The PALS Summer School in Omics is back!
Register now for the 2026 edition! 👇
