According to ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in 2025, ecology is the most successful discipline at the University of Helsinki. Research in the field of ecology at the University ...

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A recent study has shown that annual songbird populations are shaped more by adult overwintering survival and less by the number of fledglings they produced in the previous summer. A study from the ...

The Steering Group started and got organised on the 11th September 2025, and the new Director will start at the beginning of 2026. We are also glad to inform you that Professor has been appointed by ...

19.12.2025 at 13.00–15.00 Helsingin yliopiston päärakennus, pieni juhlasali, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki The Faculty of Theology prepares students for duties requiring expertise in religions, worldviews ...

The renewed Single Cell and Spatial Omics Course provides an introduction to scRNA-seq and spatial omics principles and data analysis, covered by both lectures and hands-on sessions. Image credits: ...

Casey Lynch's book review is published in Urban Affairs Review on "The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly" by Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi (2024). The review discusses ...

An experimental study coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) showed, for the first time in the world, that the immune system of daycare children of three to five years improved ...

A new genetic study carried out at the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku demonstrates that, at the end of the Iron Age, Finland was inhabited by separate and differing populations, ...

In a collaborative study led by researchers at the University of Helsinki, analysis of 900 species over a 20-year period showed that biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard ...

Why do BMW and Audi owners often seem to drive like idiots? Is it the car that makes them behave aggressively behind the wheel, or are specific types of people drawn to such cars as well being more ...