Podcast appearances and mentions of marianne gullberg

Seeing a black hole's magnetic personalityScientists using the Event Horizon Telescope have produced a new image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. And this image is a little different: it captures the powerful magnetic fields that are acting as the cosmic cutlery feeding mass into the singularity. Avery Broderick is part of the Event Horizon Telescope team, he's also a professor at the University of Waterloo's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and associate faculty at the Perimeter Institute for theoretical physics.Decoding how chickadees maintain a mental map of their food cachesChickadees have an uncanny ability to recall thousands of secret stashes of food with a centimetre-scale precision. Salmaan Chettih, a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience at Columbia University, investigated how chickadees encode their internal treasure maps. In his study in the journal Cell, he found the chickadee brains produce a unique pattern of activity — akin to a neural “barcode” — that marks the X on its mental treasure map. Italians don't just speak more with their hands, they speak differentlyResearchers comparing Swedish speakers with Italian speakers have found that the gestures they commonly use to accompany spoken language are quite different in kind. Lund University scientists Maria Graziano and Marianne Gullberg recorded the hand gestures study participants used when describing a children's cartoon to their friends. According to the results published in a Frontiers in Communication journal, Swedish speakers used gestures that concretely represented the subjects of their speech, while Italian speakers used abstract gestures more related to emphasis. What came first, the drumstick or the omelette?New archaeological work along the famous Silk Road trade route between Asia and Europe has added to the picture of how the chicken was brought from its southeast Asian homeland to the rest of Eurasia. An international team of researchers, including archaeobotanist Robert Spengler, analyzed tiny eggshell fragments from the soil of multiple sites in Central Asia. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest that the motivation for domesticating the fowl was not the chicken, but their eggs. LED lighting is bright, efficient, and perhaps a problemThe global transition to LED lighting seems to be having some concerning impacts on the natural world and human health. These energy efficient artificial lights produce different spectra than older incandescent technology, or the natural light of the Sun that life on Earth evolved with over billions of years. LED lighting is brighter, bluer, and more widely used than incandescent lighting. Glen Jeffery, a professor of neuroscience from University College London, said that as a result, we may be paying the price with our health due to being oversaturated with blue light and starved of red and infrared light. In a new study in the Journal of Biophotonics, he found that exposing people to red and infrared light lowered their blood glucose levels by “charging up” our cells' energy production.Artificial light at night is also having “a profound impact” on our environment in how it affects plants and wildlife and the ecosystems they're in, according to Kevin Gaston, a professor of biodiversity and conservation at the University of Exeter. He said for nocturnal animals, the challenge they face from light pollution is the equivalent to humans losing daylight during the daytime. His review was published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 

Som en del av firandet av Vetenskapssocieteten i Lunds 100-årsjubileum och Humaniora 2020 har Vetenskapssocieteten spelat in fyra utforskande samtal med kända lundaforskare kring ämnet ”Vad är en människa?”. Programledare för inspelningarna är Hannes Sapiens Sjöblad. 3: Om språkets betydelse och mycket mer. Samtal med psykolingvisten Marianne Gullberg och djurekologen Dennis Hasselquist. Läs mer om Vetenskapssocieteten här: https://projekt.ht.lu.se/vetenskapssocieteten

Extrema språkgenier är nästan alltid män. De lär sig på egen hand och kan behärska upp till 50 språk. De kallas polyglotter. Ingmar Söhrman talar tolv språk och lär sig nu maori och hawaiianska. Han är polyglott och lär sig snabbt nya språk. Gemensamt för polyglotterna är att de lär sig på egen hand och att  språk är en passion. Men även om man saknar polyglotternas begåvning är det aldrig för sent att lära sig ett nytt språk, visar forskning. I programmet medverkar Kenneth Hyltenstam, professor emeritus i tvåspråkighetsforskning vid Stockholms universitet, Ingmar Söhrman, professor romanska språk, Göteborgs universitet, och Marianne Gullberg som är professor i lingvistik, Lunds universitet. Programmet är en repris från den 9 november 2017. Lotta Nylander vet@sverigesradio.se

Hur ser humanisters och teologers relation till teknik ut? Är forskare inom humaniora bakvända ludditer som skyr moderna hjälpmedel och helst arbetar med gåspenna och pergament i skenet av ett stearinljus? Eller är det dags att göra upp med den bilden? Martin Degrell i samtal med Marianne Gullberg, professor i psykolingvistik och föreståndare för Humanistlaboratoriet, Jutta Haider, docent i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap vid Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, och Björn Nilsson, forskare i arkeologi vid Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia. Producent Martin Degrell. Tekniker Peter Roslund. Musik Graham Bole. Läs mer om forskningen på Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna vid Lunds universitet på www.ht.lu.se.

I japansk er det både ydmyke verb og verb som opphøyer den du snakker med. Sosial status avgjør hvilket du velger, forteller japanskforsker Harry Solvang ved Universitetet i Bergen. Sist høst ga han ut den første japanske grammatikken på norsk, et verk på over 1000 sider. Vi mennesker gestikulerer omtrent like mye, men språket vi snakker påvirker hvordan gestene ser ut, sier språkprofessor Marianne Gullberg ved Lunds universitet i Sverige. Hun har sammenlignet gester hos svensker og franskmenn. I forrige sending fortalte hun hvordan kultur kan ha innvirkning på gester. Hva kommer dialektordet "passarygg" av? Tor Erik Jenstad svarer på dette og andre lytterspørsmål. Programleder er Ann Jones.

Vi mennesker gestikulerer omtrent like mye, men kulturen påvirker hvordan gestene våre ser ut, sier språkprofessor Marianne Gullberg ved Lunds universitet i Sverige. Hun har sammenlignet gester hos svensker og franskmenn. Rundt 1000 norske gårdsnavn slutter på -heim. Men også byer kan ha denne endelsen. Trondheim betyr 'trøndernes område', forteller språkprofessor og navnegransker Inge Særheim ved Universitetet i Stavanger. Hva er bakgrunnen for ordet "forfjamset"? Språkforsker Toril Opsahl svarer på dette og andre lytterspørsmål. Programleder er Ann Jones.