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How Adolescents Can Become Resilient to Digital MisinformationMisinformation 14 November 2025Young people are particularly susceptible to misleading information on social media. Yet insights from developmental psychology show that they also ha...
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Higher CO2 levels are making our food more calorific and less nutritiousFood crops 14 November 2025More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more calorific, less nutritious and potentially more toxic. If we do not intervene, this could cause m...
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Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking14 November 2025Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic...
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Craig Crews awarded the Havinga Medal 202514 November 2025Professor Craig M. Crews of Yale University (USA) is the recipient of the 2025 Havinga Medal.
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Lotte Sophie Groenendijk speaks about her presentation and experience of the "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference14 November 2025In September 2025 Leiden University hosted a greatly successful academic conference "Care and the Jewish Experience" organized by the Leiden Jewish St...
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Call for papers: Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)14 November 2025
We invite proposals for the conference entitled ‘Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)’ to be held in Leiden betwe...
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Working past 60 while staying healthy: grant awarded for Leiden research13 November 2025Many people work less after turning 60 which is not helping the economy. Egbert Jongen, Professor of Economics, will explore with his team how employe...
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How sound and light act alike – and not – at the smallest scalePHYSICS 13 November 2025A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in Leiden has produced new in...
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Listening to the deep sea: NWO Roadmap funding for the highly successful KM3NeT telescopePHYSICS 13 November 2025The highly successful deep-sea telescope KM3NeT can now expand both its size and scope. Using a new type of microphone for underwater use, the telesco...
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Evidence of a massive stellar storm on a nearby starRADIO ASTRONOMY 12 November 2025Astronomer Joseph Callingham and his team have observed for the first time a clear signal from a giant burst from a star outside our solar system. Thi...
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Risks of radical changes to some of the GDPR pillars12 November 2025EUobserver has published an article on the European Commission’s leaked 'Digital Omnibus' draft, featuring comments by Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate...
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Bridging Disciplines: A Dead Sea Scrolls Study Day with Mladen Popović11 November 2025When asked about the mission of the Leiden Jewish Studies network, Jürgen Zangenberg, Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity at Leiden Un...
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Using AI to track greenhouse gas emissionsCOMPUTER SCIENCE & SPACE RESEARCH 11 November 2025PhD candidate Julia Wąsala searches for greenhouse gas emissions in satellite data. As a computer scientist, she bridges the gap between computer scie...
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International collaboration on environmental research with appointment Arnold Tukker at Nanjing UniversitySPECIAL APPOINTMENT 11 November 2025Arnold Tukker has been appointed as distinguished visiting professor at Nanjing University, one of China’s top research universities. ‘I am delighted ...
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'The Pieterskerk has always defined Leiden's identity'PhD Defence 11 November 2025Ward Hoskens started ten years ago as an intern at one of Leiden's most iconic buildings: the Pieterskerk. Now he is doing his PhD on the question of ...