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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...
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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative researchThe origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...
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Correcting each other’s mistakes - why cells stuck together in early evolutionThe transition from single cells to multicellular organisms was a key step in evolution. Researchers from Leiden and Amsterdam developed a mathematica...
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Using the placebo effect for your healthEven if you have a healthy lifestyle, there's a lot to experience and learn during the Healthy University Week, from 26 to 30 October. Health psycholo...
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Global citizenship research launched in cooperation with NCDOAt the initiative of the National Commission for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO), Leiden University has commenced researc...
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Rescuing ancient rock art in Pakistan with a Prince Claus Heritage Emergency GrantPakistani archaeologist Abdul Ghani Khan (MPhil) and Dr Marike van Aerde (Leiden University) have been awarded the Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Gra...