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Military pilot and political scientist Jorik ter Veer: ‘I work with the invisible heroes of society’ 17 April 2024
Not your typical student life but training that demands sheer hard work: that was the choice Jorik ter Veer (now 45) made when he signed up for the Ro...
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Atherosclerosis resembles an autoimmune disease. Marie Depuydt graduated on this topic, with honours 17 April 2024
In addition to cholesterol and high blood pressure as risk factors for atherosclerosis, we may need to address our own immune system to prevent a hear...
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Erwin Muller appointed Vice-Rector of Organisational Development 17 April 2024
Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed Erwin Muller as Vice Rector of Organisational Development. In this role, he will help further profes...
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’ 16 April 2024
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, t...
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How these young researchers are preparing for their first scientific conference 16 April 2024
Three Psychology students will present a poster of their thesis research on Alzheimer’s and dementia at the international conference AAIC Neuroscience...
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Call for statements of interest: MARS staff exchange programme "Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective" 16 April 2024
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a researc...
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Leiden’s poo can help rid patients of resistant gut bacteria 16 April 2024
Transferring poo from healthy donors to the intestines of chronically ill people has beneficial effects on these recipients’ gut bacteria, also in the...
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Calling on universities and funders: make research information open 16 April 2024
Crucial information about research, funding or how university rankings are created is often not freely accessible. The Barcelona Declaration on Open R...
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Jason Rudall publishes book on responsibility for environmental damage 16 April 2024
Jason Rudall, Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, has published a monograph entitle...
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Miranda van Eck new Scientific Director of the LACDR institute 16 April 2024
As of 1 September Miranda van Eck will be the new Scientific Director of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research. She succeeds Hubertus Irth, who...
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Sophie Starrenburg organises workshop on climate change and cultural heritage 16 April 2024
On 11 April 2024, Sophie Starrenburg, Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, organised a workshop on ‘Climate Chan...
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Scientists discover the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way 16 April 2024
A European team of astronomers has discovered the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way. It is more than thirty times as massive as our sun and ...
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’ 16 April 2024
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Dieg...
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Reportage: training anxious children should help prevent disorders and depression 16 April 2024
Scared to read aloud, put your hand up, answer a question or make a mistake at all: many primary school children suffer from anxiety and their numbers...
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Panoramic: The Leiden Art Review 15 April 2024
For twenty years, the Art History study programme had its own journal, the highly successful Decorum, which was written and edited by students. When t...