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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan desertsDecember 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in m...
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Spitting cobra leads to Science publicationSpitting cobra venom composition has been influenced by defensive behaviour according to an international research team. This may have originated from...
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorshipTen Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that ...
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The Mystery of the Pointy DropletsA certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories coul...
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Yvonne Erkens publishes article on innovation in the field of corporate social responsibilityWorldwide fundamental labour rights in supply chains are violated. Since the Rana Plaza disaster shook the world, we can no longer turn our heads.
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Felienne Hermans receives Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021The Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021 goes to Felienne Hermans, associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. She receives...
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Report: what does our urban mine have to offer?On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them...
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Call for Papers: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic EmpireEmbedding Conquest: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire, Leiden, 6-8 December 2021
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Call for papers: Expectations of justiceExpectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE). Leiden University, October 27-29, 2021
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Leiden archaeologists discover an early form of money from Prehistoric Central EuropePeople in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catali...
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Financial supervision in (juvenile) criminal lawMany adults and juveniles who are in prosecuted in criminal courts also have financial problems. This applies to almost one third of probation cases a...
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Ab de Jong new academic director of LIAS: ‘Feels like home’Ab de Jong, professor of Comparative Religion, was appointed as the new the academic director of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) with eff...
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Gitta Veldt wins Meijers prize and Van Wersch Springplank prizeThe Meijers prizes are awarded each year for the best published article from each faculty research programme. Veldt received the prize for her contrib...
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New classification for tropical plant group PhyllanthusThere is much wrong with the taxonomy of the plant genus Phyllanthus. Roderick Bouman of the Hortus botanicus Leiden has developed a new phylogeny for...
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Daan Pelt brings theory and practice together in the field of Deep LearningBringing the theoretical world of mathematics and computer science to more applied research areas. That is what Daan Pelt, assistant professor at the ...