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Why early detection of bone disorders mattersInaugural lecture Natasha Appelman-Dijkstra 09 September 2025As a professor, Natasha Appelman-Dijkstra understands better than anyone how important it is to recognise bone and mineral conditions at an early stag...
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CfP: Human Development and Its OutliersCall for papers for workshop 26-27 March 2026 at Leiden University 09 September 2025We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop organized as part of the project 'Human Development and Its Outliers', taking place on 26–...
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80 Years of Peace in Europe?08 September 2025On 15 May 2025, a roundtable '80 Years of Peace in Europe?' was convened with students and staff at Leiden University to reflect on the anniversary of...
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‘Louisiana wanted to restart the transatlantic slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century’08 September 2025In 1808, the United States banned the transatlantic slave trade. Not everyone was happy about this, as Marcella Schute discovered. In her thesis, she ...
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Managing chronic pain? ‘With a data driven approach you can tailor treatment to the individual’Chronic pain 05 September 2025Exercising less, skipping parties and struggling at work: the expectation of chronic pain and itching can lead to avoidance behaviour. But this is by ...
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Participatory governance: new publication by Malgieri & Kaminski in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology04 September 2025Associate Professor Gianclaudio Malgieri (eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies) and Professor Margot E. Kaminski (University of Colorado Law...
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New publication - Desire in Code: Legal Perspectives on Sex Robots and Consent04 September 2025Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies, has published a new article, Desire in Code: Legal Perspe...
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New book by Timo Slootweg, Tragedy in Ethics and Law: Other Voices of Dionysus04 September 2025In a world where law and morality strive for clarity, order, and control, this book challenges us to confront what has long been forgotten: the tragic...
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Two Leiden teams granted precious research time on ALMA telescopeastronomy 04 September 2025Leiden Observatory has achieved a rare feat: two of its research teams have been awarded prestigious ALMA Large Programmes, allowing them to study how...
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Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore appointed new Cleveringa ProfessorCleveringa Lecture 04 September 2025The French political theorist Hélène Landemore, known for her critical perspective on modern democracies, has been appointed as the new Cleveringa Pro...
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Leiden University to study the rise and persistence of income inequalityResearch project 04 September 2025Income inequality in the Netherlands is an upward trend. Leiden University will examine the causes behind this increasing inequality and why income in...
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For the first time, scientists map brain activity across the entire mouse brainBrain research 03 September 2025Over a period of seven years, researchers from the International Brain Laboratory mapped 279 brain regions at the cellular level. Their findings are n...
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100 Years of Spin and Lorentz Medal Award CeremonyPHYSICS 03 September 2025In 1925, two young physicists from Leiden University, George Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit, proposed a radical idea: spin. Their bold hypothesis quick...
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Two young researchers win Krijn Rietveld Award for innovative research on blood donation and colorectal cancerKrijn Rietveld Award 03 September 2025One used 3D cell models to study colorectal cancer, while the other used machine learning for more efficient blood donation. For these achievements, M...
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant02 September 2025Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers t...