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Micro boat makes world tourWorld wide press attention for the article and specifically the image of the 30 micrometer long micro boat 3DBenchy by Rachel Doherty, Daniela Kraft a...
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Maribel FierroThis fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cie...
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Call for Papers JLGC 09: Reinventing Boundaries in Times of CrisisCFP : Journal of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society Graduate Conference Issue 9 (forthcoming –Spring 2021) In these confusing time...
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic impact parents’ and adolescents’ well-being?The COVID-19 pandemic and associated measures during the first lockdown in the Netherlands in March 2020 caused major changes in daily life. Parents w...
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Victims’ rights: do they work?Crime victims cannot always fully exercise their rights, said Maarten Kunst, Professor of Criminology, in his inaugural lecture on 26 October. His mis...
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Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica writes youth novel about RwandaWriting a story from the perspective of a Rwandan girl set in Africa is not an easy task. Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica did it. Her debut no...
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Journalists, online media professionals and researchers come together for second edition of MISDOOMWith over 200 participants, the first day of the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) was a grea...
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Fungi add flavour to vanillaFungi living in vanilla plants play a role in the development of the taste and smell of vanilla, according to Shahnoo Khoyratty of the Institute of Bi...
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The Golden Dawn verdict and the inescapable element of languageOn 7 October, a court in Athens, Greece, convicted leaders of the far-right Golden Dawn party as directing a criminal organization. Marina Terkourafi,...
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Aleydis Nissen publishes a feature article on the Kenyan floriculture industryAleydis Nissen, one of our colleagues from Belgium, created a feature article with photos for Knack magazine (Roularta Media Group). The Pascal Decroo...
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Mirror on the wall, who's the best at mirroring?The better you mirror each other's behavior, the better you appear to work together. In her PhD research at the unit Cognitive Psychology in Leiden, F...
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‘Safety of Journalism – more urgent than ever’Register now for the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 digital edition (9 – 10 December 2020)!
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Peter Burger: 'I investigate where a strange story comes from.'Peter Burger is a university lecturer at the master in Journalism and New Media and co-founder of Nieuwscheckers. He now teaches the course Factchecke...
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Becoming friends with algebraic formulasPeter Kop, secondary school teacher, PhD, and teacher educator at ICLON, studied how sketching a graph of an algebraic formula could promote students’...
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Corona measures in student housing: ‘Visitors are ony allowed when everyone agrees’In many student cities, the number of corona infections grows, and in Leiden we can also see rising figures. Especially in student housing, it is some...