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Joop van Holsteyn appointed as member of the Dutch Electoral Council26 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 ambassadors08 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 past27 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 collections26 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 202318 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 off07 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 patients23 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 archaeology20 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 bias16 November 2023White girls receive significantly more positive comments from their teachers in their primary school reports than white boys and children from migrant...
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Marco Beijersbergen fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering13 November 2023Cosine Marco Beijersbergen has been appointed as one of the distinguished 62 fellows of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). With these fello...
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Algorithms descend into our sewers to improve inspections01 November 2023They never cross our minds until, that is, they become damaged and then they’re a huge problem: our sewers. Their maintenance could be much faster and...
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From fat bikes to paper bags: assessing their total environmental impact is becoming even more important27 October 2023A paper bag is less environmentally friendly than it seems. Life cycle assessment (LCA) reveals the total environmental impact of products or producti...
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Ionica Smeets wins Iris Medal 202304 October 2023The winner of this year’s Iris Medal for Excellent Science Communication is Professor of Science Communication Ionica Smeets. ‘If there is anyone who ...
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Depressed teens appear to be extra sensitive to parental criticism07 September 2023‘You’re so messy! Tidy up your room.’ ‘Why are you so lazy today? Go and do your homework’: criticism is never nice to hear. But for some teens it hit...
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How polluting are the clothes in your closet?05 September 2023Cotton is the most widely used natural fibre for clothes. But how polluting are our jeans and shirts actually? Environmental scientist Laura Scherer c...