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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants14 July 2022Various researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. Nine social sciences and humanitie...
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Zoo visitors can watch research into orangutan emotions13 July 2022Researchers from Leiden University are working with Ouwehands Zoo to improve our understanding of emotions and intelligence in orangutans. Visitors to...
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers11 July 2022Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura...
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Antibiotic treatments make us more susceptible to negative emotions08 July 2022People who have taken antibiotics in the past three months pay more attention to negative facial expressions, according to research by postdoc Katerin...
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Publish Your Reviews: promoting openness in peer review07 July 2022Publish Your Reviews is an initiative encouraging peer reviewers to share their reviews and to contribute to open science and transparant research com...
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Marja Spierenburg about the importance of the EuroScience Open Forum07 July 2022From Wednesday 13 July 2022, for four days, Leiden is at the epicentre of European science, as it hosts Europe's largest interdisciplinary conference,...
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'The effect of the online world on adolescents'06 July 2022How do digital technologies affect adolescent mental health and resilience? How do we foster a secure online environment? How should we deal with incr...
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Major international study links genes to brain structural changes over time04 July 2022There seem to be genes that influence how our brains develop over time. A large international consortium has discovered this with an extensive study....
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Broadening the scope of the Social Resilience & Security programme28 June 2022The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The pr...
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Researchers still reluctant to embrace transdisciplinary collaboration23 June 2022Without scientific knowledge, we won’t be able to tackle the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change, energy transition, social inequalit...
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Grant for Shelley van der Veek to teach toddlers healthy eating habits21 June 2022Shelley van der Veek has received a LUF Gratama grant for a research project that aims to help parents teach their toddlers healthy eating habits by p...
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‘Build resilience in traumatised children and young people’21 June 2022Many children experience trauma and if they are unable to deal with it properly, it can have a huge personal and societal effect. Building resilience ...
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The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) embarks on its next five years of research on research20 June 2022
Today marks the start of RoRI’s Phase 2. With our international consortium of partners, we’re excited to launch another five years of generating, synt...
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Psychology Science Day 202220 June 2022‘Very interesting’ is what two bachelor students have to say about the stories by Liesbeth van Vliet and Niki Antypa during the Psychology Science Day...
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‘Europe actually listens’: three Leiden political scientists about the responsiveness and effectiveness of EU policy14 June 2022The image of the European Union (EU) as a remote law-making machine is widespread. Quite often journalists and politicians deliberately depict ‘Brusse...