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Who are the winners of the Psychology Prizes of 2025?End of Year Celebration 17 December 2025Psychology teacher of the year is Laura Nawijn. The Master Thesis Awards are for Max Kalisvaart and David Hof. Lee Aldar wins the PhD Paper Prize. The...
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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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'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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How should we deal with global warming? Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg answers this question on the “Beste-ID” platformGlobal warming 04 December 2025At the end of 2024, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency stated that it is “highly unlikely that the Netherlands will achieve its statutory...
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International community convenes in Pisa to advance coordinated reform in publishing and research assessmentWorkshop 03 December 2025On 14 November 2025, representatives from several organizations across the publishing reform and research assessment reform communities gathered in Pi...
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Proceeds from Ameland children’s book support new research into the microbiota–gut–brain axisGut–brain axis 03 December 2025Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology Laura Steenbergen has received a donation from the Klei & Zand Foundation to conduct research into the micr...
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Professor Judi Mesman's portrait festively unveiled in Senate ChamberNews 03 December 2025A truly special moment in the Senate Chamber of the Academy Building: the portrait of Professor Judi Mesman has been unveiled. 'Leiden University only...
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Everyone has the right to good end-of-life care, but what exactly does that entail?Social Sciences Connect 01 December 2025Over the past five years, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels has studied palliative care in different parts of the world. Over the next five yea...
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Anthropologist Anna Notsu co-creates children’s book together with Biate communityDonate and help publish the first-ever Biate picture book 27 November 2025In collaboration with the Biate community of Meghalaya (Noth East India), I am co-creating the first-ever bilingual picture book in the Biate language...
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Sarah de Rijcke appointed Rector Magnificus of Leiden UniversityExecutive Board 24 November 2025Professor Sarah de Rijcke will become the new Rector Magnificus on the Executive Board of Leiden University on 15 January 2026. She will succeed Profe...
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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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Anne Urai wins Rising Stars of Neuroscience Award 202520 November 2025Neuroscientist Anne Urai is one of 25 early-career researchers recognised with the Rising Stars of Neuroscience Award for outstanding achievements. Kn...
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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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Leiden University Global Seed Fund for Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz17 November 2025Congratulations to Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz, who have just won a Leiden University Global Seed Fund. Their proposed project entails 'Climate Talks...
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How adolescents can become resilient to digital misinformationMisinformation 14 November 2025Young people are particularly susceptible to misleading information on social media. Yet insights from developmental psychology show that they also ha...