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Olga Ceran and Vasiliki Kosta present the Academic Freedom Monitor 2024 to European Parliament01 July 2025On 24 June, Olga Ceran and Vasiliki Kosta, together with Peter Maassen from the University of Oslo, presented the Academic Freedom Monitor 2024 to the...
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China's new heroes: ‘Sacrificing yourself for the community gives you status’Chinese politics 01 July 2025Sacrificing yourself for the greater good: in China, martyrdom and hero worship have been strongly encouraged by the Communist Party for the past deca...
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‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’Backroom politics 01 July 2025The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture wer...
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How AI could give doctors more time at the patient’s bedsideInaugural lecture 01 July 2025The rise of AI will transform the role of doctors, says Professor of Intensive Care Medicine Sesmu Arbous. Her academic chair focuses on integrating t...
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Luijten appointed as Professor of Human-Relevant Risk Assessment of Chemical SubstancesReliable method 01 July 2025As of 1 July, toxicologist Mirjam Luijten from the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) starts as professor by specia...
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New partnership aims to enhance public sector leadership30 June 2025The newly launched Public Leadership in Collaboration partnership has been designed to enhance leadership within and across public sector organisation...
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Leideners find more than 2,000 species in urban biodiversity inventoryBiodiversity 30 June 2025Around 1,300 Leideners found 2,265 species during the Expeditie Stadsnutuur urban biodiversity inventory. ‘It’s been a huge success’, says scientific ...
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What does ‘human’ really mean? When Philosophy and archaeology join forces30 June 2025Archaeology is the only science that allows us to study the material traces left by most of human evolution. But what happens when we bring philosophy...
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Personalised medicine? Then you’ll need to look beyond genetics30 June 2025Why does a medicine work well for one person, but cause side effects in another? Research by Laura de Jong shows that it’s not just our DNA that matte...
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Supermassive black holes: how do you study something that is invisible?Astronomy 30 June 2025How are supermassive black holes born? That is the question astronomer Elena Maria Rossi is trying to answer. But how do you investigate something you...
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EALCJ conference in Warsaw29 June 2025Gerrard Boot and Yvonne Erkens attended the annual conference of the European Association of Labour Court Judges (EALCJ) which was held from 12 to 14 ...
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Melanie Fink Presents on 'Good Administration in the Age of AI' at the European Ombudsman27 June 2025On 26 June 2025, Melanie Fink delivered a presentation titled 'Good Administration in the Age of AI: Explanation Rights and Human Oversight under EU L...
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CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and BeyondCall for papers for conference 29-30 October 2025 at Leiden University 27 June 2025
We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shap...
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Leiden physicists search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particlePHYSICS 27 June 2025Is it possible to measure subtle oscillations caused by dark matter moving through the earth? A Dutch-American physicist team have discovered a new ro...
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Martijn van den Brink participates in the EU Law Mountain Seminar in the Czech Republic26 June 2025From 10-13 June, Martijn van den Brink participated in the EU Law Mountain Seminar in the Czech Republic. This event is a regular gathering of scholar...