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Consensus, bias and polarisation: How mathematicians study opinionsCOMPLEX NETWORKS 25 November 2025How do opinions form and change in large groups of people? That's not just a sociological question, it's a mathematical one. PhD candidate Federico Ca...
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants25 November 2025The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 February 202...
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Taiwan’s public diplomacy, from the ground upPhD defence 24 November 2025Citizens can shape diplomacy, not just governments. Yung Lin investigates how people in Taiwan and Southeast Asia build trust, negotiate identity, and...
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Three Leiden researchers receive NWO Open Competition grant for innovative scienceRESEACH GRANTS 24 November 2025Sustainable biotechnology, new insights into genome evolution and combining forces in mathematics. The NWO has awarded grants to these three innovativ...
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Lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' launches with opening by Professor Christine Moser24 November 2025The lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' held its inaugural session on 20 November 2025, at Leiden Law School, featuring Professor Christi...
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One step closer to understanding planet-formation: Julia Santos refutes a 20 year standing paradigmASTROCHEMISTRY 24 November 2025How do atoms and molecules end up forming planets? That's what astrochemist Julia Santos studied during her PhD. She discovered the dominant process b...
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Mariska Kret receives Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2025Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 20 November 2025Professor of Cognitive Psychology Mariska Kret has been awarded the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNA...
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Conference A legal assessment of EU integration in the Western Balkans20 November 2025Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dramatically changed the geopolitical situation in the European continent. Former EU High Representative for Foreign Affa...
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‘Being healthy isn’t an individual choice – it depends on your circumstances’Inaugural lecture 20 November 2025‘Fighting for health’ is the title of Professor of General Practice Hedwig Vos’s inaugural lecture – and for good reason. Public interest is at the he...
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Inequality in medical science: ‘We need to better understand the flexibility of the female brain’Hormones 19 November 2025During a well-attended Studium Generale lecture at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Professor Ellen de Bruijn demonstrated how hormonal fluctuations influence t...
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'Children are too seldom seen as victims of femicide'Interview 19 November 2025What do we know about the children left behind after (ex-)partner homicide? Director Sara Kolster and professor Marieke Liem joined forces to bring th...
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Which algorithm solves which problem? Diederick Vermetten developed methods to find outDOCTORAL RESEARCH 19 November 2025Algorithms solve problems. But which algorithm is best suited to which problem? During his doctoral research, Diederick Vermetten developed methods to...
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Balancing freedom of expression and non-discrimination19 November 2025Can politicians say whatever they want? What is the limit and when can the Public Prosecution Service act? PhD candidate Jip Stam examined the limits ...
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The colonial contacts of the firm De Heyder & Co: ‘Completely intertwined with the colonial market’Student research 17 November 2025The Lakenhal depot houses three nineteenth-century sample books in which the cotton company De Heyder & Co kept precise records of who placed which or...
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Municipalities too eager to digitalise, professor warnsInaugural lecture 17 November 2025Dutch municipalities are racing to digitalise, introducing virtual services, fraud-detection algorithms and more. The digital city may not always serv...