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Funding for Leiden projects that advance open scienceOpen science 06 January 2026Two Leiden projects have been awarded Open Science NL funding to make science more accessible to academia and the world outside. The projects will str...
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Podcast: What drives sixteen-year-olds to carry out attacks with explosives?Podcast announcement 05 January 2026Young people being deployed to carry out explosive attacks: how do they come into view, and what motivates them? The podcast 'Action/Reaction: From At...
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‘Military strikes alone unlikely to fatally undermine Venezuelan government’03 January 2026What will be the outcome of the US raid on Venezuela and capture of President Maduro? ‘History shows that people usually react to being bombed by a fo...
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New blog in the context of the Picturing Scholasticide project23 December 2025Nadia Sonneveld and Matthew Canfield and other researchers in the Picturing Scholasticide project have published a blog on their research on the websi...
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Human language inspired AI – and now we can use that AI to learn about languageAI and linguistics 18 December 2025PhD candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do – and find inspiration to improve AI along the way. She...
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Evolve: 3rd recruitment call open!18 December 2025The European Union has awarded a COFUND grant to a consortium of researchers from the universities of Groningen and Leiden for a collective PhD progra...
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Experience the future of technology: visit the Quantum Escape RoomPHYSICS 17 December 2025Science journalist Anna Gimbrère and physicist Julia Cramer will open the Quantum Escape Room in Eindhoven on Wednesday, 17th of December. Researchers...
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TikToking in the name of scienceMisinformation 17 December 2025What makes young people susceptible to misinformation? And how do their friends influence this? Psychologist Jiemiao Chen aims to find out by using ey...
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Leiden University awarded Institutional Audit certificate16 December 2025For the third time in a row, Leiden University has received a positive assessment in the Institutional Audit for the way it provides good teaching and...
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Grotius Centre brings academic expertise to Rome Statute Assembly16 December 2025At the 24th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, held in The Hague from 1 to 6 December, the Grotius Centre for Internationa...
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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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Leiden University supports Zuid-Holland Acceleration ProgrammeKnowledge transfer 16 December 2025Leiden University supports the new Zuid-Holland Acceleration Programme, which builds on the Growth Agenda for Zuid-Holland and focuses on accelerating...
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Leiden-Birmingham Strategic Collaboration Fund15 December 2025
The Leiden-Birmingham network initiative welcomes applications from colleagues from Leiden University and the University of Birmingham for a research ...
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Book Manuscript Conference welcomes eight international scholars to the Netherlands15 December 2025On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Prof.dr. Sarah Cramsey convened a book manuscript event at the beach of Wassenaar near Leiden to discuss her new boo...
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What a year: our most-read articles of 2025Year in review 15 December 2025The Russian threat to Europe, pro-Palestine protests, the passing of psychologist Andrea Evers and speculations on extraterrestrial life. These were a...