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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’ 02 September 2024Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Var...
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The Dutch government wants to declare an asylum crisis, but what does that mean? 29 August 2024More people seeking asylum, overcrowded asylum accommodation and asylum procedures that take years because of a lack of capacity. The current governme...
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Satellites reveal: these ecosystems are the most vulnerable to drought 26 August 2024More severe droughts that will also last longer: this will primarily be a problem for irrigated croplands, as discovered by environmental scientist Qi...
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Leiden technology research receives funding from NWO and businesses 09 July 2024A CT scanner to treat eye cancer, energy-efficient software for the future and a test to identify male chick eggs. Three projects by researchers from ...
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Touring exhibition 'Presenting with the city' opened at Lipsius 19 April 2024The touring exhibition 'Presenting with the city' has touched down in the Lipsius Building. In the presentation, students and researchers show how the...
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Reportage: training anxious children should help prevent disorders and depression 16 April 2024Scared to read aloud, put your hand up, answer a question or make a mistake at all: many primary school children suffer from anxiety and their numbers...
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Joop van Holsteyn appointed as member of the Dutch Electoral Council 26 March 2024Joop van Holsteyn has been appointed as member of the Dutch Electoral Council (Kiesraad). As of 1 april 2024 the Professor in Political Behaviour and ...
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Liselore Tissen appointed ambassador for network of congress ambassadors 08 March 2024External PhD candidate Liselore Tissen has been appointed ambassador for Leiden City of Science. As the youngest member and the only non-professor in ...
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Shaping the future with stories from the past 27 February 2024You can see an archaeologist as a modern-day shaman, someone who builds bridges to the past and can offer profound insights. This is the unexpected co...
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections 26 January 2024How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with rese...
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Climate and elections: these were your top stories from 2023 18 December 2023The year 2023 saw the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Wagner Group rebellion and wildfires and floods as all the weather records were smashed. Our...
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Human noise makes cod inactive. When it gets quiet again, they take off 07 December 2023She narrowly defied bureaucracy and spent days angling for cod. In the North Sea, marine biologist Inge van der Knaap discovered that noise significan...
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Illusions as the key: how spatial technology can help patients 23 November 2023Spatial technology such as virtual reality can help patients who have difficulty with spatial cognition, for instance if they keep on losing their way...
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New social media pilot at Archaeology: from Wes Anderson to community archaeology 20 November 2023Anyone who follows the Faculty of Archaeology on social media must have noticed that something changed in September. Videos on research projects, inte...
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Kind, clever and hardworking: school reports are not without bias 16 November 2023White girls receive significantly more positive comments from their teachers in their primary school reports than white boys and children from migrant...