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Staying a step ahead of infections that threaten safe transfusion and transplantationInaugural lecture 30 March 2026Preventing viral infections from being transmitted through blood transfusion and organ transplantation lies at the heart of the work of medical microb...
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Why parents play a key role in depression in adolescentsDepression 27 March 2026Depression in young people is often treated as an individual problem. But looking only at the child means that an important part of the story is misse...
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Alive or not? Tiny 3D printed robots that swim and navigate just like animalsPHYSICS 27 March 2026They are only a few tens of micrometres long — far smaller than the width of a human hair – yet these robots can swim, sense, navigate and adapt in wa...
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Belle Beems contributes to meeting of the Digital Markets Act High-Level Group in BrusselsResearch 26 March 2026Belle Beems, Assistant Professor at the Europa Institute, joined the sixth meeting of the DMA High-Level Group in Brussels. She shared her insights on...
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New start-up company: Leiden astronomers develop a technology to detect gas leaksSOCIETAL IMPACT 26 March 2026Helping industry to spot dangerous and climate-harming gas leaks faster, cheaper, and more reliably than today’s tools: that's what Leiden University ...
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Congratulations, Dr. Verena Weimer!phd defence 25 March 2026On 19 March 2026, Verena Weimer successfully defended her PhD thesis at Leiden University, titled 'Operationalisation of Higher Education Teaching Per...
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How false consensus biases AI against vulnerable stakeholders25 March 2026The lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' continued on 19 March 2026 at Leiden Law School with Dr Mengchen Dong from the Center for Humans ...
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New Collection Policy Plan Leiden University Libraries25 March 2026Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently issued a new collection policy plan, containing priorities for the coming years regarding the formation, ma...
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Max van Duijn, new chair of The Young Academy: ‘We need to be more resilient to ideological pressure’The Young Academy 25 March 2026Assistant professor Max van Duijn is the new chair of The Young Academy. He aims to support young academics, bring research closer to society and make...
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Open Science at FGGA: from extra task to a natural way of workingAcademia in motion 25 March 2026What does it take to ensure that Open Science does not feel like an additional task, but instead becomes a natural part of good academic practice? Dur...
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Paper versus practice: border control is in human handsPhD defence 25 March 2026Even when a border has officially disappeared, it is still people who decide whether others may cross freely. This was also true for the Polish-German...
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Revolution in Archaeology: Virtual Excavation with AI iDigArtificial intelligence 24 March 2026The days of an archaeologist studying soil traces with a shovel in hand seem to be numbered. Digital archaeologists will soon launch the first version...
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Two planets-in-formation discovered around young star WISPIT 2Astronomy 24 March 2026In the disk surrounding the young star WISPIT 2, not one but two planets are taking shape. Leiden PhD candidate Richelle van Capelleveen played a key ...
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“Between the River and the Sea”: An Evening of Theatre and Dialogue at Leiden University24 March 2026How can we sustain dialogue on a deeply divisive issue within our university community? On 16 February 2026, Leiden University hosted "Between the Riv...
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What does a cell eat? This new tool makes it visiblePhd defence 24 March 2026What if you could watch a single cell eat in real time? This could answer questions about diseases such as cancer. PhD candidate Yixuan Wang has devel...