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Leiden students build smart antibodies with protein 'Velcro'iGEM-competition 18 September 2025Nine students dove into a challenging iGEM project this summer. With their idea, they aim to make antibodies more efficient - and in the meantime lear...
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Archaeologist at Binnenhof: ‘Even the staff ate heron’Alumnus interview 18 September 2025An Iron Age skull, a unicorn for cleaning your ear and thousands of beer jugs. Alumnus and archaeologist Chris Muysson has made remarkable discoveries...
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Olga Ceran co-convenes a session at the European Rule of Law Conference 202517 September 2025The European Rule of Law Conference 2025, hosted by re:constitution at the Berlin Social Science Center (15-16 September), brought together scholars, ...
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Amanda Henry appointed Full Professor in Evolution of Hominin Diets17 September 2025As of 1 September, archaeologist Amanda Henry has been appointed Full Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, where she will hold the chair in Evolut...
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Providing information in palliative care: what if patients don’t want to know everything?Palliative care 17 September 2025How do you behave towards patients with life-threatening conditions who do not want to know all the details of the state of their health? This questio...
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Sarah de Lange, new professor of Dutch Politics: ‘We should not take our democratic constitutional state for granted’17 September 2025‘Dutch politics are changing, but they also are characterised by stability; that tension fascinates me.’ Sarah de Lange studies, among other things, t...
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Juan Masullo receives APSA Alexander George Best Article Award16 September 2025Assistant Professor Juan Masullo of the Institute of Political Science has been awarded the 2025 Alexander George Best Article Award for his work on i...
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Leiden as a Meeting Place for Social Rights Research15 September 2025On 4 and 5 September, Leiden Law School hosted a special conference that brought together around sixty participants from the Netherlands and abroad to...
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Student exhibition: unearthing the story of the VOC ship Amsterdam15 September 2025A new student-curated exhibition in the F1-corridor of the Van Steenis building brings history to life through remarkable finds from the Amsterdam, a ...
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Podcast: Self-Love Beyond the Social Media Hype15 September 2025Bubble baths and face masks: that’s what we often see on social media when discussing self-love. However, is this a true reflection of what self-love ...
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Toddlers, apes and Japanese people helped reveal how we expressEmotions 14 September 2025An orangutan will rarely burst out in laughter when watching a video of another orangutan doing the same. A toddler will do so more than an adult, whi...
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Understanding far-right communities on alternative platforms: Jonathan Collins on his PhD researchPhD dissertation 12 September 2025On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Jonathan Collins will defend his dissertation A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the ...
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Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbersPhD dissertation 11 September 2025On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt ...
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How do we experience music? Vocational students to explore this at a festival11 September 2025Many of us love music, but we don’t understand why exactly that is – or how our individual experiences of music can differ. Rebecca Schaefer will rese...
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‘Never stop trying’: Barz sees his polymers enter clinical trialsDrug discovery 11 September 2025A new class of polymers has been used in patients for the first time. The compound is the first new drug solubilising agent in decades. Introduced in...