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'Transdisciplinary work is fantastic, but requires dedicated efforts from all sides to understand each other’Mental health & data science 16 December 2025Eiko Fried has been appointed professor of Mental Health & Data Science. This combined chair neatly fits the view that understanding complex mental he...
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Anke Klein appointed as faculty lead of the Leiden Healthy Society Center05 December 2025Dr. Anke Klein, head of the Knowledge Center for Anxiety and Stress in Youth (KAS) and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sc...
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How should we deal with global warming? Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg answers this question on the “Beste-ID” platformGlobal warming 04 December 2025At the end of 2024, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency stated that it is “highly unlikely that the Netherlands will achieve its statutory...
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International community convenes in Pisa to advance coordinated reform in publishing and research assessmentWorkshop 03 December 2025On 14 November 2025, representatives from several organizations across the publishing reform and research assessment reform communities gathered in Pi...
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Proceeds from Ameland children’s book support new research into the microbiota–gut–brain axisGut–brain axis 03 December 2025Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology Laura Steenbergen has received a donation from the Klei & Zand Foundation to conduct research into the micr...
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Everyone has the right to good end-of-life care, but what exactly does that entail?Social Sciences Connect 01 December 2025Over the past five years, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels has studied palliative care in different parts of the world. Over the next five yea...
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Anthropologist Anna Notsu co-creates children’s book together with Biate communityDonate and help publish the first-ever Biate picture book 27 November 2025In collaboration with the Biate community of Meghalaya (Noth East India), I am co-creating the first-ever bilingual picture book in the Biate language...
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Looking back on the Research Day 2025: It Takes a Village – Shaping Interdisciplinary FuturesCollaboration between FSW and FGGA 26 November 2025'Let's make this a twice-yearly tradition!'– a feeling shared by many after the vibrant Research Day. Engagement started early, with participants conn...
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Mariska Kret receives Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2025Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 20 November 2025Professor of Cognitive Psychology Mariska Kret has been awarded the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNA...
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Inequality in medical science: ‘We need to better understand the flexibility of the female brain’Hormones 19 November 2025During a well-attended Studium Generale lecture at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Professor Ellen de Bruijn demonstrated how hormonal fluctuations influence t...
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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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Congratulations, Dr. Eleonora Dagienė!PHD DEFENCE 07 November 2025On 30 October 2025, Eleonora Dagienė successfully defended her PhD thesis at Leiden University, titled ‘Quantitative Research Assessment and its Unint...
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Why there is plenty of hope for the brainLIBC Publieksdag 06 November 2025From historical understandings to new treatments: during the Public Day of the Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition, curious visitors learned how ra...
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Who would be in the House of Representatives if only preferential votes counted?Opinion 05 November 2025‘Men must make way. GroenLinks–PvdA voters are sending at least three additional women into the House of Representatives through preferential votes,’ ...
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Aïsha MacDougall wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 202505 November 2025Writing a master’s thesis in Political Science is a demanding yet rewarding journey. Every year, students deliver impressive research that showcases t...