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Dehumanising: how students reject candidate housemates 08 February 2024
Being rejected always hurts, but so does having to reject someone. Social psychologists have discovered that at interviews to select suitable housemat...
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you' 08 February 2024
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, ...
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How oak seedlings teach us more on dune restoration 08 February 2024
What is the best way to restore dune ecosystems? The project TERRA-Dunes researches the role of soil microbes in the development of natural dune areas...
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Margot Kaminski presenting at eLaw on 6 March 08 February 2024
On Wednesday 6 March, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies will be hosting Professor Margot Kaminski, an eminent scholar from Colorado Law...
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Plant-based diet can help unlock technology to harness huge CO2 removal 07 February 2024
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a promising method for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and simultaneously gener...
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Helping people live healthier lives? A game may be the answer 07 February 2024
The LUMC, Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences want to help health professionals support behaviour change in the population....
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Simone van der Hof and Ton Liefaard collaborate on UNICEF Safer Internet Day symposium 07 February 2024
On Safer Internet Day (Tuesday 6 February), UNICEF Netherlands organised a symposium on the theme of 'Children's rights in the digital world' in colla...
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The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation’s Inaugural Conference 2024 07 February 2024
The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation (The Hague CAA) successfully marked its official debut conference with the support of partners, which incl...
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Science on Insta: are influencers helping get young women (back) into reading? 07 February 2024
Dutch influencers like Romy Boomsma and Nina Pierson have a huge following on Instagram and are increasingly sharing book tips there. Researcher Aafje...
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Call for Papers: H2OLAW Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law 06 February 2024
We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference ‘H2OLAW – Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law’ hosted by the Gr...
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‘During an internship, you get to know a lot of people and build up a network’ 06 February 2024
Xander studies Public Administration and did an internship at the Marine Corps Training Centre. During his internship, he worked on automating the sys...
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Traces of 3 October: 450 years of the Relief of Leiden 06 February 2024
This year Leiden will be celebrating the 450th Relief of Leiden, and the city is doing this in style. The long history of this period is still visible...
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Workshop ‘Disinformation and Human Rights in Context’ 06 February 2024
On 24 January an interdisciplinary workshop organised by Anna Smulders, PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, and Tarla...
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Your old smartphone is indispensable for the energy transition 06 February 2024
By 2050, we can obtain 40 per cent of our demand for scarce earth metals from old smartphones, batteries, and wind turbines. This is crucial because o...
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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2023: Rachel Dubale 06 February 2024
The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2023 is Rachel Dubale, a graduate from the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University, with her the...