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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to GuadalajaraNWO grant 14 October 2025In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done wel...
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From market-driven thinking to ‘Build, build, build’: Leiden experts on the housing crisisPARLIAMENTARY ELECTION 14 October 2025The housing crisis is affecting a substantial group of Dutch citizens and is one of the main election themes this year. How did things get this far an...
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Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’14 October 2025His Surinamese neighbours in Amsterdam gave Russia expert and economic historian Isaac Scarborough an idea: a re-evaluation of the Surinamese economy ...
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Leiden ‘super antibiotic’ keeps dangerous gut bacterium under control with a low doseDrug development 13 October 2025The antibiotic EVG7, developed in Leiden, has proven capable of fighting the dangerous gut bacterium C. difficile with only a minimal dose. What’s mor...
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Flooded polder helps fight mosquito-borne diseasesField research 13 October 2025One and a half hectares of polder, a large volume of water, and a group of curious researchers from various universities and scientific backgrounds le...
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Join the Pre-PhD Programme and discover if doing PhD research is for you13 October 2025The Pre-PhD Programme offers master’s students the chance to gain research experience. ‘The programme helps you discover if doing research is somethin...
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The Dutch ‘just in time’ mentality won’t work in a war situationDutch general election 13 October 2025Modern warfare knows no boundaries. Threats are increasingly digital. PhD candidate Annelies van Vark claims that Scandinavia is better prepared to de...
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Greedy black hole feeds via two spiral armsAstronomy research 13 October 2025The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gas by two spiral arms. This is what PhD candidate Wout Goesaert di...
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New model explains extreme jet streams on all giant planetsAstronomy 13 October 2025For the first time, an international team of scientists led by Leiden Observatory and SRON can explain the extreme jet streams observed around the equ...
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‘Don’t let algorithms determine what happens in class’Inaugural lecture 10 October 2025From TikTok to ChatGPT: digital technology is permeating our whole existence. What does that mean for education and upbringing? It’s not about screen ...
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Tracing mobility and connection to place in the world’s first farming villages09 October 2025How did people move and form communities when human societies first shifted from hunting and gathering to farming? A new study of the Neolithic period...
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Vincent Delhomme speaks on contemporary internal market challenges in Prague08 October 2025The newly created European Law Unbound Society (ELU-S) held its inaugural conference on 25-26 September 2025, at the Charles University in Prague. Vin...
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Strategic Litigation workshop unlocks new collaboration options for young researchersInterdisciplinary research 07 October 2025Researchers Rowie Stolk and Caelesta Braun’s ‘Litigation in the name of public interest’ Kiem project included an interdisciplinary workshop on the sa...
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The power of citizen scienceInaugural lecture 07 October 2025From monitoring pollution to tracking rainfall, citizen science comes in different shapes and sizes. But at its heart, it’s about the relationships be...
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How should the next Dutch government approach national defence?National elections 07 October 2025What defence strategy should the Dutch government adopt for the next four years? Our experts advise investing in social resilience, strengthening ‘sof...