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Managing chronic pain? ‘With a data driven approach you can tailor treatment to the individual’Chronic pain 05 September 2025Exercising less, skipping parties and struggling at work: the expectation of chronic pain and itching can lead to avoidance behaviour. But this is by ...
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For the first time, scientists map brain activity across the entire mouse brainBrain research 03 September 2025Over a period of seven years, researchers from the International Brain Laboratory mapped 279 brain regions at the cellular level. Their findings are n...
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'Childhood maltreatment can leave young people more sensitive to other people's anger signals later in life'Resilience 01 September 2025Bullying, abuse or a difficult divorce: many young people struggle with mental health problems after traumatic experiences. But why do some suffer muc...
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A better understanding of democracy across cultures and contextsPolitical Theorist Tom Theuns’ new collaborative monograph The Sciences of the Democracies 26 August 2025A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of ...
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Katharina Natter receives IMR Book Review Award26 August 2025Katharina Natter of the Institute of Political Science has been awarded the 2025 IMR Book Review Award for her book on migration politics in Morocco a...
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Too old for a job interview? 'Age discrimination is everywhere, but we’re often unaware of it'Ageism 31 July 2025How can we hack prejudice about age and ageing out of the recruitment process? That was the question data scientists, psychologists and HR professiona...
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Anthropologist Sander Hölsgens on The Conversation on what schools can learn from skate cultureThe Conversation 29 July 2025Skateboarding philosophy can transform education in numerous ways. Together with colleagues, Sander researched the value of skateboarding in education...
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Translating medical anthropological academic insights to policy recommendations24 July 2025How do we balance policy critique with constructive policy recommendations? How do we navigate power relations between policy makers and (disadvantage...
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Does your smartwatch say you’re stressed? It may often be wrong23 July 2025Consumer grade smartwatches may not be as accurate as promised when measuring tiredness or stress. That is the conclusion of researchers Björn Siepe a...
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LDE GMD Seed Grant for research on diasporic aid and care in crises21 July 2025Cultural Anthropologists of Leiden University and Development studies researchers of ISS-EUR have been awarded funding to explore how diaspora communi...
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Anthropology students win Speckmann Prize for LGBTQ+ community care researchSpeckmann Prize 16 July 2025Second-year Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology students Sonja Weckroth, Leonardo Costa, and Ilse Zwart have been awarded the prestigious ...
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Student protests in Serbia: Evolution, prospects and lessons10 July 2025On June 16, 2025, the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University hosted a panel debate about the ongoing mass student-led protests in Serbia....
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Strengthening Integrity in Science and Data: CWTS and EDI Announce Strategic PartnershipCOLLABORATION 07 July 2025The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the Ethical Data Initiative (EDI) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Unde...
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Spring for everyone: KCPEG symposium on existence insecurity shows both urgency and solutionsPolicy, science and practice come together in the former orphanage during the Spring symposium 2025. 23 June 2025On a sunny afternoon in early June, the KCPEB Spring symposium ‘Spring for everyone’ was held in Leiden’s former orphanage, organised by the Expertise...
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Time to attend to the itch in psychology23 June 2025Patients with chronic itching often cannot focus their attention on anything else. Psychologists want to help them, but they need more knowledge about...